Keep your netbook files in sync with Syncables

When you’re using your netbook as a companion to your primary PC, you need software to keep everything in sync. One solution is Syncables, a software solution that comes standard on the HP Mini 110 line, with support for syncing to any other PC. Here’ s a video demo of how Syncables works.

Keep in mind you don’t need to have an HP Mini to use Syncables. You can also download Syncables and use it with any combination of two or more computers.

Back-to-school Notebooks and Laptops from HP

As you shop for a new laptop to take to school this fall, check out the new lineup of notebook computers from HP. From the ultra-portable Mini 110 Netbook, to the small but powerful HP dv2, or the full-featured dv6, there’s something in the HP lineup of notebook computers to meet any of your computing needs

HP dv2 Review

Want to watch Blu-ray movies on the go? Want to take your entire home media experience anywhere and connect to an HDTV via HDMI? Read my HP dv2 review to find out why it might be the perfect solution.

Twilight Saga Audiobooks

I keep meaning to read the books from the Twilight Saga before watching the Twilight movie on DVD. So far I haven’t made the time. I’m leaning toward listening to the Twilight Saga Audiobooks as part of my morning walk. With approximately 64 1/2 hours of total audio book run time, all read by Ilyana Kadushin, 30 minutes each morning might not be enough time to get through the entire Twilight Saga anytime soon. Whatever my strategy may be for getting through all four books, be sure to check out the audiobook version of the Twilight Saga.

Fax Apps and Services for Mac

If you’re looking for a Fax app to receive faxes on your Mac, here’s a round up of 4 popular options, including the pros and cons of each Mac Fax Service.

3 Audio Books by Philippa Gregory

Philippa Gregory is an English historical novelist. She is a frequent contributor to magazines and newspapers, with short stories, features and reviews. Some of her novels have won awards and have been adapted into television dramas. The most successful of her novels has been The Other Boleyn Girl, which was published in 2002 and adapted for BBC television in 2003. In the year of its publication, The Other Boleyn Girl also won the Parker Romantic Novel of the Year and it has subsequently spawned sequels. Miramax bought the film rights to The Other Boleyn Girl and produced a film of the same name released in February 2008.

The Boleyn Inheritance
It is 1539, and with only a baby in the cradle for an heir, Henry VIII has to take another wife. The dangerous prize of the crown of England is won by Anne of Cleves, who has her own reasons for agreeing to marry a man old enough to be her father. Although fascinated by the glamour of her new surroundings, Anne senses a trap closing around her.

The Constant Princess
Raised on the battlefield and in the most beautiful Moorish palace in the world, sent to England alone at the age of 16 to take her place in a court where she couldn’t speak the language, and abandoned and forced to endure poverty after the death of her husband, Katherine remained a woman of indomitable spirit, unwavering faith, and extraordinary strength.

The Virgin’s Lover
Elizabeth I has acceded to the throne of England, and she feels that she can rely on just one man: her oldest friend, Robert Dudley. It is soon plain that he is more than merely a friend. However, Robert’s wife sits and waits at home for him to return. when the pressure to marry begins to affect Elizabeth, her preference is clear. But with Robert unavailable, what will she do?

The audio versions of these books are great for our busy lives and since most people have an MP3 player attached to them at all times, it’s great for you too. Plus, if you sign up for the free trial of the AudibleListener Platinum plan, you get 2 audio books for free!

6 Audio Books by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Fyodor Dostoyevsky was a Russian fiction writer, essayist, and philosopher whose works include Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov. Dostoyevsky’s literary output explores human psychology in the troubled political, social and spiritual context of 19th-century Russian society. Considered by many as a founder or precursor of 20th century existentialism, his Notes from Underground, written in the embittered voice of the anonymous “underground man”, was called by Walter Kaufmann the “best overture for existentialism ever written.” Dostoyevsky is widely recognized as one of the greatest and most influential writers of all time.

Crime and Punishment
Raskolnikov, a student in St. Petersburg, murders an old woman, a money-lender, to prove his theory that violence purifies the strong. But no sooner is the deed done than Raskolnikov begins to feel remorse. What follows is one of the greatest psychological studies in world literature.

Notes from the Underground
By the time Dostoevsky was 40, he had spent four years in prison and a further four years in the army as punishment for his part in a political conspiracy. His health was broken. He was gaunt, fervid, anxiety-ridden, and close to bankruptcy. It was in this state he wrote Notes from the Underground, a masterpiece of the psychology of the outsider.

Poor People
Written as a series of letters, Poor People tells the tragic tale of a petty clerk and his impossible love for a young girl. Longing to help her and her family, he sells everything he can, but his kindness leads him only into more desperate poverty, and ultimately into debauchery.

The Brothers Karamazov
Crazed landowner Fyodor Karamazov’s murder sets the stage for a complex tangle of moral and ethical struggles that involve patricide, betrayal, sacrifice, and glory. A profound psychological study and a penetrating analysis of the search for faith, The Brothers Karamazov explores the most fundamental questions of human nature.

The Gambler
This dark and compelling short novel tells the story of Alexey Ivanovitch, a young tutor working in the household of an imperious Russian general. Alexey tries to break through the wall of the established order in Russia, but instead becomes mired in the endless downward spiral of betting and loss.

The Idiot
a saintly man, Prince Myshkin, is thrust into the heart of a society more concerned with wealth, power, and sexual conquest than the ideals of Christianity. Myshkin soon finds himself at the center of a violent love triangle in which extortion, scandal, and murder follow, testing the wreckage left by human misery to find “man in man.”

The audio versions of these books are great for our busy lives and since most people have an MP3 player attached to them at all times, it’s great for you too. Plus, if you sign up for the free trial of the AudibleListener Platinum plan, you get 2 audio books for free!

4 Audio Books by Zane Grey

Zane Grey was an American author best known for his popular adventure novels and stories that presented an idealized image of the rugged Old West.

Betty Zane
Betty Zane is the story of the first settlers in the Ohio Valley, and their fight for survival during the Revolutionary war. Inspired by the life and adventures of Zane’s own great-great grandmother.

Desert Gold
Richard Gale travels to Mexico to prove himself after failing in every business opportunity that his father handed him. When he arrives at an Arizona border town, a chance meeting with an old friend launches him into an adventure to save a woman from a Mexican bandit.

Riders of the Purple Sage (Dramatized)
Aroused by the distant thunder of rifles, the few riders that are loyal to the lady break for their horses. A stranger mounts his horse too, and becomes one of the riders heading toward the sound of the guns.

The Border Legion
Jim Cleve has been deemed a good guy all of his life and it agitates him to no end. Dejected and hurt, Jim abandons the life he has known for the gold mining camps along Alder Gulch in southern Montana. With Jim’s search for a new identity this thrilling story portrays the epic theme of man’s continual struggle between good and evil.

The audio versions of these books are great for our busy lives and since most people have an MP3 player attached to them at all times, it’s great for you too. Plus, if you sign up for the free trial of the AudibleListener Platinum plan, you get 2 audio books for free!

7 Audio Books by Agatha Christie

Agatha Mary Clarissa, Lady Mallowan, DBE, commonly known as Agatha Christie, was an English crime writer of novels, short stories and plays.

4:50 From Paddington
In a frozen moment when two trains ran together, Elspeth witnessed a murder. Then the other train drew away. But who would take her story seriously? After all, there were no suspects, no other witnesses…and no corpse.

A Carribean Mystery: A Miss Marple Mystery
Recovering from a bout of pneumonia, Miss Marple is basking in the warm sunshine of the West Indies, where every day seems distressingly the same. Until Major Palgrave dies, thrusting Miss Marple into a murder investigation of a most exotic nature.

A Murder is Announced
The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn are agog with curiosity over an advertisement in the local gazette which reads: “A murder is announced and will take place on Friday October 29th, at Little Paddocks at 6.30 p.m.” Unable to resist the mysterious invitation, a crowd begins to gather at Little Paddocks at the appointed time when, without warning, the lights go out.

A Pocket Full of Rye
Rex Fortescue was sipping tea in his “counting house” when he suffered a sudden death and his pockets were found to contain traces of cereals. This confirmed Jane Marple’s suspicion that here she was looking at a case of crime by rhyme.

After the Funeral
When Cora is savagely murdered with a hatchet, the extraordinary remark she made the previous day at her brother Richard’s funeral suddenly takes on a chilling significance. In desperation, the family solicitor turns to Hercule Poirot to unravel the mystery.

And Then There Were None
Ten strangers are lured to an island mansion off the coast of Devon by the mysterious U.N. Owen. That evening Tony Marston is found murdered by a deadly dose of cyanide. The tension escalates as the survivors realize the killer is not only among them but is preparing to strike again.

By the Pricking of My Thumbs
When Tommy and Tuppence visit an elderly aunt in her gothic nursing home, they think nothing of her mistrust of the doctors; after all, Ada is a very difficult old lady. But when someone mentions a poisoned mushroom stew, and “something behind the fireplace”, they find themselves caught up in an unexpected adventure involving possible black magic.

The audio versions of these books are great for our busy lives and since most people have an MP3 player attached to them at all times, it’s great for you too. Plus, if you sign up for the free trial of the AudibleListener Platinum plan, you get 2 audio books for free!

Webinars for Distance Learning

Some time ago I came to the realization that I run a distance learning company. I educate people around the world on solutions to their computer problems. I largely do this on a one-to-one basis where people seek out a solution to their specific problem and I deliver it to them in the form of a web page on their terms on demand. I do have a one-to-many component in the form of an email newsletter, but I’m trying to work my head around how to better deliver solutions on a one-to-many basis. Webinars seem like an obvious solution because they allow for more active engagement of all parties. To that end, I’ve compiled a list of key features of webinar software those of us who educate shouldn’t be without.