Have you ever run across a very interesting article as you sift through RSS headlines or surfing through the web and you just don't have the time to read it at the moment?  A recently launched web service called Instapaper may be just the tool you've been looking for.  This website provides you with a link you put on the Web Links toolbar of your choice of browser that sends that page to your article listings for later reading.  By providing access via either the computer later from your home or office or a cell phone mobile browser while you are at lunch, waiting at an office for an appointment or while commuting on public transportation.

So now, when you have one of those "just can't read it now" moments you can save it for later with a single click and move on.

just installed a nice little tool on this site called Snap Shots that enhances links with visual previews of the destination site, interactive excerpts of Wikipedia articles, MySpace profiles, IMDb profiles and Amazon products, display inline videos, RSS, MP3s, photos, stock charts and more. Sometimes Snap Shots bring you the information you need, without your having to leave the site, while other times it lets you "look ahead," before deciding if you want to follow a link or not. Should you decide this is not for you, just click the Options icon in the upper right corner of the Snap Shot and opt-out.

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I just installed a nice little tool on this site called Snap Shots that enhances links with visual previews of the destination site, interactive excerpts of Wikipedia articles, MySpace profiles, IMDb profiles and Amazon products, display inline videos, RSS, MP3s, photos, stock charts and more.

Sometimes Snap Shots bring you the information you need, without your having to leave the site, while other times it lets you "look ahead," before deciding if you want to follow a link or not.

Should you decide this is not for you, just click the Options icon in the upper right corner of the Snap Shot and opt-out.

Jerry Henderson, PT writes: I am aware of a basic tenet in writing, speech making, or casual conversation: The one sure fire way to bore your audience is to talk too much about yourself. Even though I’m aware of the danger of self absorbed writing, I would like to discuss a bit about my own professional journey. Not because my favorite subject is Me, but because I think my experiences closely parallel what has happened to our profession over the past twenty years.

Well after having spent the last three months using IE7, I've tired of its slowness, impractically slow integrated RSS reader and returned to Firefox.  I'm currently using the Firefox 3 beta 4 and am finding it amazingly stable, much faster than IE or previous versions of Firefox and no more memory leaks.  Unfortunately, some of my extensions don't work in this version, but frankly I haven't missed them that much and I can wait.  The new features in Firefox far outweigh the temporary loss of some of my extensions.

This article Supercharge Your Wireless Router With Open Firmware provides a method of getting just a little more juice and functionality out of your wireless router using open source software from Tomato.

From the Do It Yourself Department Johnny Lee demonstrates how to use a Wiimote to make an interactive Whiteboard for the fraction of the cost of using a dedicated system.

 

I can only imagine a myriad of uses for this DIY project.  Please visit Mr. Lee's project page for more information on this and other projects using the Wiimote.

A special thanks to Larry Benz, PT for bringing this to my attention at the Evidence in Motion Blog.

Google Inc. will begin storing the medical records of a few thousand people as it tests a long-awaited health service that's likely to raise more concerns about the volume of sensitive information entrusted to the Internet search leader.

The pilot project to be announced Thursday will involve 1,500 to 10,000 patients at the Cleveland Clinic who volunteered to an electronic transfer of their personal health records so they can be retrieved through Google's new service, which won't be open to the general public.

Each health profile, including information about prescriptions, allergies and medical histories, will be protected by a password that's also required to use other Google services such as e-mail and personalized search tools.

Google views its expansion into health records management as a logical extension because its search engine already processes millions of requests from people trying to find about more information about an injury, illness or recommended treatment.

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Interesting article in PC World today concerning IT and health care.

The U.S. Congress needs to pass health-care IT legislation before private companies develop multiple systems that don't talk to each other, two advocacy groups say.

Members of the Health IT Now Coalition and the Information Technology Industry Council (ITI) urged Congress to move ahead with health IT legislation such as the Promoting Health Information Technology Act. The bill would establish a public/private group to recommend health IT standards and certification and would budget US$163 million a year for health-care providers to adopt health IT products, such as electronic health records.

Health technologies can help improve health-care quality, reduce costs and encourage changes in treatment, said former U.S. Representative Nancy Johnson, co-chairwoman of the Health IT Now Coalition.

Health IT is "going to produce radical change," Johnson said at a news conference. "It's going to radically improve the quality of health care that Americans receive."

With health-care costs continuing to climb, moving to an electronic system that reduces paper and medical errors is the best hope to extend health care to U.S. residents who are uninsured, she added. "It is the only way that we guarantee to Americans of every age that our health-care system will continue to deliver the state-of-the-art medicine for which it has been known worldwide," Johnson said.

The Promoting Health Information Technology Act has stalled in the House of Representatives and a similar piece of legislation, the Wired for Health Care Quality Act, has stalled in the Senate.

You can read the rest of the article HERE