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Welcome to my personal blog. I tend to post random thoughts, links, videos, pictures, and sometimes stories. My wiki is more for professional use, so you can find information about cloud computing, mobility, business strategy, and other topics.

Root a Nook Tablet Using a Memory Card – Super Easy

Cloud-in-a-box

Cloud-in-a-box by thinkingChuck
Cloud-in-a-box, a photo by thinkingChuck on Flickr.

This is my test cloud running OpenStack. Looks can be deceiving – its actually an 8 core rig with 24GB FBDIMM RAM. I call it Ghetto Cloud.

Free Book Catalogs

Here’s a list of catalogs you can add to ereaders…

Work in stanza:
Feedbooks: http://www.feedbooks.com/catalog.atom
Baen Books: http://www.webscriptions.net/stanza.aspx
Project Gutenberg: http://m.gutenberg.org/
Smashwords: http://www.smashwords.com/atom
Smashwords2: http://www.smashwords.com/lexcycle/
Internet Archive: http://bookserver.archive.org/catalog/ (had to use user agent faker)
O’reilly: http://catalog.oreilly.com/stanza/main.xml
All Romance: http://allromanceebooks.com/epub-feed.xml
Book Glutton: http://bookglutton.com/api/stanza
PragPub Magazine: http://pragprog.com/magazines.opds
Beam eBooks – Der eBook Shop: http://stanza.beam-ebooks.de (German)
EBooks libres et gratuits: http://www.ebooksgratuits.com/opds/ (French)

Other useful links:
personalbookspace: http://personalbookspace.com/​home/​/
Calibre2Opds: http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Calibre2opds

Don’t work in stanza:
Munseys: http://www.munseys.com/mobi/
Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog.opds/search

Sources of above:
http://getsatisfaction.com…free_catalogues…stanza
http://www.quickreader.net/faq/

Merry Christmas

Photo Card
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Developing for a Jailbroken iPhone A to Z (iOS 4.0.1)

gonna give this a shot to load my lamo apps onto my iphone without the fees.

Developing for a Jailbroken iPhone A to Z (iOS 4.0.1) « alexwhittemore.com.

OSX Lion Apache – 403 Forbidden Error

I had to chmod 755 /Users/myusername to get the user websharing to stop displaying the 403 message.

osx – 403 Forbidden Error on Mac OS X Localhost – Super User.

Where is MainWindow.xib in Xcode 4.2?

In case you are learning to program IOS with Xcode 4.2 and like me reading books written for Xcode 4.0 this might help.

Where is MainWindow.xib in Xcode 4.2 ? – Make Better Things.

OSX Lion Remove duplicates in “open with”

Original Source of Info

Type these commands into a terminal, worked for me under Lion 10.7.2:


$ cd /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support
$ ./lsregister -kill -domain local -domain system -domain user

How To Write an iPhone App in 14 Days