Free EBooks?

Can I Find Free Ebooks?
YES!
Readers such as the Amazon Kindle, Sony's eReader and other ebook readers, you have a whole library of books without breaking your back. However, paying for all those ebook downloads at $10 a pop can still break the bank.
Here are a few places to get free books...
Gutenberg
There are over 28,000 ebook titles available, with a total of 100,000 through their partners and affiliates. Their catalogue includes an advanced search feature, a nightly updating and the top 100 books and authors.
If you have a Kindle, you can use the built-in browser to download TXT (plain text) files from Gutenberg, or download ebooks to your PC then transfer them to the reader device via a USB cable.
Bartebly
This has to be the best source for students, researchers or any other readers who need reference material. There are indexes by authors, titles or subject and access to both contemporary and classic works. You can download for Microsoft E-book Reader, Adobe Acrobat Book Reader for Windows or Mac, or AportisDoc Mobile Edition for handhelds for free on Amazon.
Feedbooks
This will let you download freebies directly to your device. It is available in most formats because they have a universal platform. This is an outstanding source for owners of handhelds and phones with e-book capability. Choose from favorites, featured, or take a chance on a random pick. Share your favorites with others and if you are a writer, it’s a good place to upload your own work.
Free Kindle Books at Amazon
If you own a Kindle, the best place look is Amazon.com. There are several thousand titles available at no cost. Head for the Kindle section at the Amazon store, sort by "price: low to high", click the one you want and it be sent wirelessly to your Kindle. Next time you use your Kindle, the new title will appear on your home screen.

Online Faxing

eFax is a service that lets you send and receive faxes as email attachments. You simply use the recipient's fax number and eFax's address. The 30-day free trial lets you send up to 30 pages. You can also use eFax to receive by email, up to 130 pages during the trial. Be careful, if you don't cancel during the initial month, you will be charged.
MyFax is a popular commercial fax. After signing up, you can send a fax by composing an email which contains the text you want to send, or an attached document. You can try MyFax free for 30 days, after which you can send 100 fax pages for US$10 per month.
UFAX is another commercial service that allows you to send fax by email. Similar to MyFax, it's a paid service with a free trial. UFAX let you send free faxes for a month, from your PC or mobile PDA device. If you go for the free one-month trial, you will have to remember to cancel before the trial period ends, or your credit card will be charged.
InterFAX is a great option for email faxing. InterFAX doesn't have a free trial option, but you can subscribe for as little as US$10, allowing you to send about 90 faxes for 11 cents per page. Enter your fax message in the body of the outgoing email, or attach a file to be faxed.

What is MiFi

Create Your Own Mobile WiFi Hotspot
The key advantages of cellular Internet access are coverage and mobility. You don't need to be near a fixed WiFi access point, like your local library or Starbucks. MiFi lets get on the Net from any place your cellular signal reaches: a park bench, a beach, high in the mountains, etc. Also, you can be traveling while connected. If you are a rock star on a tour bus, you need cellular Internet access to Tweet and do Facebook with all your fans. But what if the whole band wants to get online at once?
Then you need the Novatel MiFi™ Intelligent Mobile Hotspot. A sleek, slim, silvery device about the size of three stacked credit cards, the MiFi connects to a cellular carrier's high-speed data network and then connects to your laptop, netbook, or other WiFi-enabled device via WiFi. There are different models of MiFi devices for various 3G cellular data network types: CDMA 1xEVDO RevA; HSPA for Europe; and another for HSPA in North America. Of course, you need to subscribe to a cellular carrier's data service and buy the compatible MiFi card from the carrier.
Don't worry about the buzzwords -- here are details on which mobile providers support the MiFi device:
• Sprint offers a starting MiFi package consisting of a MiFi card for $99.99 (after $50 mail-in rebate) and a subscription rate of $59.99 per month.
• Verizon offers several plans, including one that doesn't require a service subscription. If you pay the MiFi device's full retail price of $269.99 you can buy a “day pass" to Verizon's data service only when you need it, for just $15 per day.
• AT&T, slow as ever to respond to the marketplace, has not announced a MiFi plan as of this writing. AT&T is probably trying to figure out how MiFi will affect its iPhone monopoly. However, a MiFi device compatible with AT&T's HSPA network is ready whenever the carrier is. It's rather slick, too, with a slot for a memory card that all users can share and built-in GPS. Novatel says the MiFi's battery is good for 40 hours of standby time or up to 4 hours of active use.

MiFi is Cool, But is it Practical?
Up to five users can share a MiFi connection simultaneously, but that won't be comfortable. On an EVDO connection, they'll be splitting about 1 Mbps five ways while downloading, and 500 Kbps when uploading. Cellular connections are tedious compared to "hardwired" WiFi, and splitting a cellular connection among several users is pushing the lower limit of usefulness. Heck, I get frustrated trying to surf the web on my phone when I'm NOT sharing the signal.
There are monthly data transfer limits to consider, as well. Sprint and Verizon both cap data transfers at 5 GB per month, quite sufficient for the occasional mobile usage they envision at their price points. But you won't be running a 24/7 peer-to-peer file-sharing node off a MiFi connection, or playing multiplayer HD games all week long.
Don't forget that most mobile phones can be "tethered" to a laptop with a USB cable, providing cellular Internet access to the laptop. And of course there are mobile broadband adapters you can plug right into your laptop. So MiFi is cool, but is it worth its cost? Very few users need the ability to connect multiple users simultaneously on the go, which is the only unique feature of MiFi. The rock band on the tour bus, business travelers, and maybe households with no other Internet access options will find it useful. MiFi may find uses with meaningful, broad applicability; we'll see.

Netbook Or Laptop?
A netbook is a mobile computer designed to take advantage of the Internet and wireless communications. WiFi is built in, of course, but it’s more than just a nice-to-have option. A netbook is deliberately built with a minimum of computing resources, and relies on the Internet to make up for what it lacks in storage and computing power.
The RAM memory is small. The CPU is slow. The hard drive is tiny, barely big enough for an operating system and a few applications. A netbook is built cheaply. Netbook prices are in the $200-$300 range. Check out the Asus EEE PC, the Acer Apsire One or Dell Mini series for some examples.
So what good is a netbook, if it's such a wimpy computer? Plenty, actually.
Netbooks are good for cloud computing, a buzzword that means accessing computing resources out on the Internet. A netbook doesn’t need hard disk space for lots of data and bloated applications. It can store your data on a server out there on the Internet. Through a Web browser, it runs applications online that would take up gigabytes of disk space and RAM on the netbook itself. So if a netbook has enough resources to run a Web browser, it can do a lot. See my related articles Free Online Word Processors and Online Photo Editing for some cool examples.
It's No Biggie...
Peace of mind is one reason to use a netbook. If you lose a netbook or it's stolen, most of your personal data is not on it. It's out there on the Internet where you can reclaim it from any other computer.
Mobility is another advantage of a netbook. Netbooks are much smaller and lighter than laptops. But netbooks are bigger and better for Web browsing, email, and typing than smartphones. Have you ever tried to do any serious web browsing on a 2-inch screen? Oh, and you can use a netbook as a phone, with Skype or some other Voice over IP (VoIP) service and a portable headset.
Cost is another attraction of netbooks versus laptops. Many netbooks run some version of the Linux operating system, shaving at least $100 off a netbook's cost versus using Windows. The applications that come with a netbook are often free, open-source substitutes for commercial packages. OpenOffice and other free office software packages can serve very well in place of Microsoft Office.
The very small size of a netbook's keyboard and monitor are probably its biggest concerns. You should test drive a netbook thoroughly to make sure your fingers will work with its keyboard and you won't go blind reading its screen.
A netbook is a good choice as a second, mobile computer that will be used primarily for email, Web browsing, and reading. It's great for entertainment or light work while commuting. It's not good for HD movies or heavy number-crunching work such as graphic design and editing, CAD, simulations, 3D games, etc. A netbook is also a good first computer for a young person, or a starving college student.

All the hubub about Windows 7

Windows 7 is going to be really strong, trust me. If you HAVE to get a computer now, okay. You can upgrade to 7 in October and the upgrade will be pretty smooth.
If you are an XP user and want to upgrade, it will be more complicated but Frankie On Call can help.

What are your thoughts or questions!!