Found a decent list of sites with free e-books. Ripped the list from Aximsite Forums. Thanks e-powersellers. List after the jump.

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I do most of my reading on my various handhelds and recently acquired some new hardware. E-book reading ont hese devices is a real pain. I really like Microsoft's LIT format but the reader really sucks. It does nto support anything else besides LIT books and requires activation (that sometimes doesn't work) to read DRM'd book (DRM sucks anyway -- but its the world we live in). So I have moved over to uBook Reader (much nicer and support lots of formats). Only problem is I have ton of .LIT e-books. I used a command-line program a while back called convertlit. It was pretty good... but it was command line and a little cludgy to use. Since then a guy made a GUI for it which looks pretty good. I also stumbled across another free converter that ALSO looks pretty good and seems to have more flexibility and export formats. Heres the links to both:

http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html
http://dukelupus.pri.ee/convertlit.php

So how do you code an AJAX Web page? See hands-on examples for creating lighter, faster interactive sites. Check it out here:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyId=18&articleId=9002170

Disable the "ding" sound when initiating a call and ending a call.
hkey_current_user\controlpanel\soundcategories\incall
change the initvol to 0. do the same for hkey_current_user\controlpanel\soundcategories\incallfeedback
The sound is dpadctl.mid

Disable SMS message sent notification:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Inbox
3. Next, click on Inbox (make sure the Inbox is highlighted) and select Edit, New Key
4. Name the New Key as "Settings"
5. Click on "Settings" (make sure the Settings is highlighted) and select Edit, New String Value
6. On "Value name:", key in SMSNoSentMsg and in "Value data", key in 1

Credit for these: they were found on the TreoCentral forums -- usually from Hobbes

A very nice FREE mail server for windows. I am working on a paperless system and need a way to deal with email. This is a nice free application that includes COM AP for accessing mail objects. Very nice.

Its called hMailServer 4.2. In addition to being free and open-source, it's easy to set up and use. It has the standard windows GUI configuration dialogs and just plain works.

http://www.hmailserver.com/

One of my favorite pieces of software, until I installed the beta 1 and smoked my OneNote files. In any case I am still eager to play with the official version. As usual Chris Pratley has good tips and info...

http://blogs.msdn.com/chris_pratley/archive/2006/06/07/621692.aspx

10,000 Monkeys has a nice overview of two slightly obscure things in web development: multiple buttons on a form triggered by the enter key and forms without tables. Check here for the info:
Multiple enter key buttons
Forms without tables
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A very nice page on mobile application development. I like this guy's approach. He has two sections labeled as "things that were easy" and "things that were hard." He had some problems I was able to avoid with the Web Application Project (below)... in any case, Check it out here:
http://tonesnotes.org/2006/01/29/first-effort-smart-device-development

I am beginning to work on a research project that involves windows mobile and other things. Here are some good references on writing communications related stuff for windows Mobile

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnnetcomp/html/netcfSendSMS.asp

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnnetcomp/html/httpcomm.asp?frame=true

Writing is often seen as an ardourous task I have to write quite a bit for my work and research and frankly I don't care to do it. I feel that I am much happier when I can actually make or fix something.... the statisfaction is higher there and I think I get whatever satisfaction bio-chemicals out of accomplishment. My issue is that with writing that satisfaction is often too far between projects. In any case I could use some motivation for writing and heres a decent article with some tips: http://www.52projects.com/52_projects/2006/05/simple_things_y.html