Nov
8
2009

Managing my gadget life without Windows

Having decided to ditch my expensive and bloated M$ Vista operating system I slowly realised how many of gadgets still need to be managed through Windoze applications. Where possible I have strived to maintain my gadgets using linux

Devices that happily play under linux
  • HP Photosmart C6380 Printer/Scanner as discussed here
  • Sony Reader ebook Reader

Devices that I manage inside a virtual machine running XP
  • iPod
  • Tom Tom


Sony Reader linux support
Calibre is a one stop solution to all your e-book needs. It is free, open source and cross-platform in design and works well on Linux, OS X and Windows. calibre is meant to be a complete e-library solution and thus includes library management, format conversion, news feeds to ebook conversion, as well as e-book reader sync features and an integrated e-book viewer.
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