As frankps sees the world!

The big news yesterday was that Amazon acquired Lexcycle, a market leading company when it comes to the open ebook format ePub. I love Lexcycles Stanza applications for Windows and Macs, that can convert documents to more or less any ebook format and read the very same formats.  I am also a frequent user of Stanza for iPhone, one of the most downloaded applications for that platform. I am sure that Amazon will combine the knowledge it has from Mobipocket and Stanza to create market leading […] Continue reading →

I thought I should post a short blog entry about the upcoming release candidate for Windows 7. The Windows 7 RC will indeed be available publicly on May 5. TechNet/MSDN will get it April 30. The release dates are now confirmed by Microsoft, and means that I will get access to build on Thursday.  Sadly the build is already leaked on various Bittorrent networks, and I would strongly recommend that you don’t download any software from torrent network. The risks are big, as you might […] Continue reading →

Yesterday I learned about an application for the iPhone, that I think will help me a lot. I love NetNewsWire for the iPhone. It keeps track of all the news sites and blogs that I regularly read. But what about those articles that you come over on sites that you are not a frequent reader of? That’s where Instapaper comes to resque! Instapaper comes in both a standard and pro edition for the iPhone. The standard edition is free and the pro edition costs 55 NOK. And how does Instapaper […] Continue reading →

Rocketboom has long been one of my favorite video shows on the net. One of the main reasons for that has been Joanne Colan. She had the ability to make news fun! […] Continue reading →

On Thursday I came back to Norway after having been two weeks in Mindszent, Hungary. Two weeks with beautiful spring and temperatures as high as 26-27 degrees most of the time. It was also two weeks spent with family and friends. Lots of photos were taken, and they are now all available on my Flickr account as two photo sets: Julia and Mindszent 2009. As you can see from this blog entry, I spent some time on getting to know my SLR camera and Lightroom. Home in Oslo I yesterday visited […] Continue reading →