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Month: January 2013

Amazon Prime—is it worth it?

Amazon Prime—is it worth it?

Allured by the promises of belonging to Amazon Prime, I just signed up for my free trial. They tell you: Free Two-Day Shipping Free borrowing from their Kindle Library Free Streaming of Videos The last item is the least important because I don’t think we have a computer beefy enough to be able to stream effectively. But I do borrow eBooks from the library, so the free Kindle loan was tempting. At the moment, I’m really into the Discworld books…

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Using Google as a Forum Search

Using Google as a Forum Search

I belong to a lot of forums, and I’m always really frustrated at their search functionality. Sometimes I want search for a word in just the title, but they don’t offer that as a choice, even in the advanced setting. Sometimes I want to search for something, but it tells me that the word is too common and won’t let me. (That might be true if I’m searching in any post content, but there shouldn’t be that many instances in…

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