Having an e-reader implied that one also purchase one or more books to actually give it something to do, but it appears this is no longer the case, for Amazon's Kindle at least.
Amazon decided that it just wasn't doing enough for its customers, or figured that free books will do wonders in the PR and Kind... |
3 November 2011
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The Google Books project faces a lot of hurdles. Some are technical, some are legal, but cataloguing, scanning and making all of the world’s books searchable is a daunting task to say the least. While the legal issues are still being resolved, Google has given us an insight in its attempt to actually count the ... |
6 August 2010
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A cryptography expert and reverse engineer known as Sean O'Neil has released a C library, which he claims replicates the encryption scheme used by Skype in its communication protocol. There are reasons to believe that this code is already being abused to spam Skype users.To protect the communication between its ... |
8 July 2010
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Developed by Brian Webster (Fat Cat Software), iPhoto Library Manager enables Mac users enjoying the benefits of iPhoto to have multiple libraries and, best of all, have them placed where they choose. “Apple's iPhoto is great and all, but when using it, one can't help but feel that there were some fe... |
21 September 2009
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iSkysoft has announced a beta release of DVD-Library for Mac, the software application that enables users to build their own DVD libraries, as well as back up, convert, share and playback their favorite DVDs. iSkysoft points out that DVD-Library for Mac Beta is “a legal DVD-backup application for Mac OS X,&rdq... |
25 May 2009
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Libraries are a Windows 7 specific feature, designed to enable end users to easily centralize their content, and streamline access, independent of where the actual files and folders are located. And fact is that Libraries in Windows 7 stretch well beyond the local machine, also including content in remote storage. Th... |
8 April 2009
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Karelia Software has updated its freeware media browser for users of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Among the changes in iMedia Browser 1.1.2 are live updating of media libraries, and improved parsing of iPhoto and Lightroom libraries.iMedia Browser adds its familiar UI across most applications in Mac... |
30 October 2008
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Apple's Mac vs. PC ads just got a whole new meaning. This Powerbook Start up Sound Prank video I stumbled across features two students that have embraced both traditional and electronic studying means - books, but also a laptop. While Windows can definitely turn a few heads, a Mac's startup sound will "own"... |
5 June 2008
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By means of a mass digitization program, the British Library has planned to make available online thousands of old books previously unavailable to the public. This program is aimed at helping teachers by giving them access to 19th Century books that haven't been reprinted after their first edition and thus being... |
30 September 2007
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Intel just announced the release of the development suite Threading Building Blocks 2.0 as both an open source application and as a commercial product. Threading Building Blocks 2.0 should allow application programmers to write threaded code in fewer lines and to achieve parallelism in an easier way than other thread... |
24 July 2007
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The Mountain View company managed to lure 10 more partners for the Book Search technology in a move meant to bring more digitized content for the product. The Committee on Institutional Collaboration brings 10 big schools and the University of Chicago to the Google content providers, raising the total number of agree... |
8 June 2007
16:11 GMT |
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Google Book Search is continuously growing up, more and more users being attracted by its innovative functions able to provide useful results. Although the company periodically improves the solution, the most impressive updating campaign started by Google is represented by the numerous partnerships made between Book ... |
7 March 2007
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