Beyond Messaging

How To Make Your Kindle Into an Automatic Instapaper

First, get yourself an Instapaper account. This is free, and allows you to clip entire web pages to read later by simply clicking a bookmarklet in your browser. The article is then stripped of ads and other junk leaving only beautifully formatted text that can be read on your iPhone or Kindle, or even printed onto (gasp) paper. Once set up, go to your own Instapaper page and you’ll see this:

via www.wired.com

This is a tutorial for using Instapaper and the Mac Automator program to program your Kindle to automatically download articles of interest to you.

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Snow Leopard Now Has Native Support For Exchange

MacWorld has a slideshow of some of the more subtle new features in Snow Leopard.  Of course from a messaging administrator's point of view one of the biggest new features in the new Mac OS is native support for access to Exchange accounts. 

But as for the smaller changes, sometimes a picture is worth a 1000 words, right?  So MacWorld's slideshow is a nice way to get a glimpse of the new OS without having to wade through a bunch of description.