Amazon's Kindle forums recently had good instructions on how to convert Microsoft Reader (.lit) files to Kindle's .prc format.

You can also simply email your Kindle a Microsoft Word doc and it'll convert it for you for $0.10 (pays for the Sprint wireless airtime I suspect.) I use this feature whenever I have a long technical document or user manual to read. It's much easier to get through a full document like that when you can do it a little at a time as you have time (and not always have to carry the specific book around with you.)

The one piece of utility software I need to find is a good .PDF to .PRC converter. There's a couple I've seen like PDFRead (Windows) that would probably work, but I'd love something simpler.

I use del.icio.us as my main bookmark store these days so that I can share the the links across machines and tag them. Since I moved to using Safari as my main browser both on the Mac and my work PC, I've been very frustrated by Safari's inability to have plug-in support for del.icio.us.

Fortunately, the "Gooracle" (the Oracle that is Google) was there to help. Here's a real easy trick using the Safari Bookmarks Bar to both post pages to del.icio.us and to easily get access to your bookmarks.

Testing out an upcoming Redfin feature, I stumbled across this home in the West Hollywood Hills. It's a pretty modern decor, but if parking ones car in the living room is modern decor, I'll stick with my current place. :)

Take a look at pictures #6 and then look at picture #5 to see where that car is parked. Crazy.

Side note: The dining room table is pretty cool. Play the virtual tour to see it as a silver/grey counter in one photo and then expand into a dining table and seating in another. Where does one find a table like that? Let me know if you know!

The transformation is complete. WIth the addition of our new Tivo HD, I'm finally able to download the Tivo shows to my Mac for viewing in my office or on the road. With some creative Automator scripting, I've got it converting from .Tivo files to .MPG so that they can be played on other devices.

I have officially retired the last Windows Vista PC in my possession. The Media Center box has been decommissioned thanks to the new Tivo.

I was excited to see a hint on Mac OS X Hints to get your Exchange address book into the Mac's native Address Book application. Unfortunately I struck out trying to get it to work.

I did read somewhere else about AddressX, an address sync engine for Exchange and Mac's Address Book. I tried it out and voila! My first 25 corporate global address list contacts are now in the Address Book under Exchange Contacts. I forked out the $19.95 for the full version and it allowed me to quickly download the full global address list from Exchange into my Address Book.

A quick connect of my Blackberry and sync with Missing Sync, and I am all set. My work contacts, phone numbers and email addresses are all in my Blackberry now. Mission accomplished. Follow-up: Address X and Missing Sync didn't do duplicate detection, so the address I had manually created before had two copies now in my Address Book and Blackberry. Not a huge deal since I only had a view manually created ones. Also, the Company field got strangely filled in with company and city, but again, something I can live it.

Had a rough Mac week a little while ago. OSX would randomly crash or just lock up on me for no apparent reason. After one of the reboots, I was created with a lovely flashing ? icon meaning the Mac couldn't find the startup disk.

After a repair from the Leopard install DVDs, things were back to normal, but a pain in the butt to deal with and cost me at least half a day to get around this issue.

Still no idea on the root cause.