Monthly Archives: October 2011

Kindle for Mac app gets even better

Posted on Saturday, October 29, 2011 by Rex Hammock

Recently,  I blogged that the Kindle for Mac application (app) is the best way to read a book in the context of research (for example, if  you’re a student or author doing research). Today, Amazon updated the software with more features … Continue reading →

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Let them occupy

Posted on Friday, October 28, 2011 by Rex Hammock

[Note: It goes without saying, the following post is a personal opinion -- like everything else on this blog.] While I’ve made fun of some of the political theater and in-articulate nature of the people I call occupyists, let me … Continue reading →

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The book that launched a thousand spoilers

Posted on Sunday, October 23, 2011 by Rex Hammock

Sometime during the next few hours, readers will be able to start downloading the biography, Steve Jobs, by Walter Issacson, the most anticipated new book since, well, whatever the name of the last Harry Potter book was. While I didn’t … Continue reading →

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Saturday-afternoon project: Server-rack standup desk

Posted on Saturday, October 22, 2011 by Rex Hammock

I’ve been wanting a stand-up desk at work and have been keeping my eye out for a drafting table like one I have at home — a beautiful old  piece I found, and my incredibly talented wood-working and artist father-in-law … Continue reading →

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Flying cars and next year

Posted on Monday, October 17, 2011 by Rex Hammock

About 10 percent of the 12 readers of this blog read it because they keep thinking I’ll one day start blogging again about flying cars the way I did as a one-year experiment in 2008. One of the reasons I … Continue reading →

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Redundant redundancy in UI design

Posted on Thursday, October 13, 2011 by Rex Hammock

I’m all for ease-of-use and intuitive user-interface (UI) design. Usability is my middle name. Well, actually, Rex is my middle name, but whatever. However, my desktop is getting confusing, now that we’ve started the journey from browser-based interactions with the … Continue reading →

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Occupyism

Posted on Thursday, October 13, 2011 by Rex Hammock

I was going to write a post about the Occupy movement. Then, I remembered: I wrote one on March 1, 2009. I still have a potential post or two about this topic, however. One will be related to how occupyism … Continue reading →

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These Kindle Fire children’s books are not just ebooks, they’re apps

Posted on Tuesday, October 11, 2011 by Rex Hammock

When the Hammock children, both now over two-decades old, were brand new, they were never more than a few inches away from an Eric Carle book. (The Very Hungry Caterpillar* is likely the book I have read out-loud more times … Continue reading →

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Steve: An appreciation

Posted on Wednesday, October 5, 2011 by Rex Hammock

My son called me from his college dorm earlier this evening to ask how I was doing. As I was out to  dinner, I said, what do you mean?. “Oh, I’m sorry,” he said. “Steve Jobs died.” Moments later, my … Continue reading →

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Hammock marks its 20th anniversary

Posted on Tuesday, October 4, 2011 by Rex Hammock

This week is the 20th anniversary of Hammock, the company I named in honor of a rope-swing napping device hanging from some trees in my backyard (and not, as some have suggested, because it’s an eponym).* It started out being … Continue reading →

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The best Kindle Reader for students and researchers is, what, a Mac?

Posted on Monday, October 3, 2011 by Rex Hammock

If, like me, you do lots of highlighting and note-taking while reading a book, or if book-reading and note-taking are a part of your professional work-flow (students and researchers of any kind, for example), the frustration of not being able … Continue reading →

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Chief Executive magazine spurs a RexBlog Sally Fields moment

Posted on Sunday, October 2, 2011 by Rex Hammock

So, excuse this interruption for some shameless self-promotion, but I’m honored (baffled a bit, yet honored) that this 11-year-old blog is included in the current issue of Chief Executive magazine, on a list their editors have selected as the Top … Continue reading →

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