Useful Web sites
Finding WiFi in motels and hotels
When I travel, an in important criterion for choosing lodging is the availability of a high-speed Internet connection. Practices vary widely among motels and hotels. Room WiFi may be free or it may cost $15/night. Or WiFi may be in the lobby only. An interesting phenomenon is that you are more likely to get free [...]
Repair manuals online
Want to know how to fix something? There are various how-to sites and video clips on how to fix many things. Now the site iFixit aims to put up repair manuals for almost everything. Ars Technica reports:
iFixit’s staff has written repair manuals for nearly every Apple product, but volunteers testing iFixit’s new platform since September [...]
Online reference source
Wikipedia is all well and fine for looking up many things but sometimes you want something more authoritative. Oxford University Press has a new site called Oxford Bibliographies Online. It is described at Ars Technica:
It turns out that for certain topics, the crowds just aren’t very wise, and algorithms even less so—in these situations there’s [...]
