Jeffrey Rice's blog

Kindle+Briss for PDFs

Submitted by Jeffrey Rice on Wed, 07/13/2011 - 17:37

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While the Kindle does support PDFs natively, readability has been a problem for me. I generally have to rotate the Kindle 90 degrees to get the text large enough to read.

Briss is a cleverly named PDF cropping program. Briss can crop away the page numbers and headers/footers of your PDF eBooks before you run them through a conversion program to create an ePub or Mobi book. That's great by itself.

iTunes organization for Classical Music

Submitted by Jeffrey Rice on Mon, 08/16/2010 - 10:15

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I'm not the first to comment on it by any means (1,2,3,4, and too many others to list) but I'm still struggling with iTunes to get my collection of classical music into meaningful genres. I'm using primarily the method outlined by Stan Brown in his article Taming iTunes for Classical Music, with some tweaks I've added based on my listening habits and problems I encountered as I was organizing my collection.

Prop 8: A Civics Lesson

Submitted by Jeffrey Rice on Fri, 08/13/2010 - 09:50

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In all the outcry over the recent court ruling on California's Prop 8, we have heard many supporters of the ban on gay marriage lamenting how this is an example of 'democracy undone' and how wrong it is that the judicial branch can overrule the will of the voters. This demonstrates a fundamental lack of understand of how the process works, and one of the basic tenets of our system.