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Homo Africanus: Time To Admit That We're ALL Africans?
How humans left Africa and populated our world. Map reproduced from The Human Story© 2004 by James C. Davis (published by Harper Collins)In the course of all the research I have done into "Reading", it...
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What Does Amazon Have Against Europe? Or Is Kindle Just A Digital...
...but not in Europe!There's something strange going on with Amazon's Kindle eBook Reader - and also with the Kindle app for Apple's iPhone...It's going on for two years now since Amazon first launched...
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In 2007, it became clear to me that access to technology - especially computers and Internet connectivity - is critical to the future of reading.There's no question now that if reading does have a...
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iPad: Apple Upsets The eBook Apple-cart...
iPad: Will truly upset the Apple-cart...It's been a while since I posted a blog here. I've been pretty busy with other projects - but that wasn't the reason. At least two blogs I had in draft form for...
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iPad: Dodging The "Doonesbury Bullet"...
Doonesbury cartoons flayed the Newton to death for its (dreadful) handwriting recognition...Here's a little story I'd like to share on why I believe Apple's iPad will succeed where Microsoft...
View ArticleChanging How You Comment, To Defeat Spam...
Over recent months, I've seen a big increase in the number of spam comments submitted to this blog by people selling everything from Viagra to cheap software. I've been catching them during comment...
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Indian company shows off impressive iPad competitor built with Google's...
Notion Ink's Adam, an Android-based iPad competitorI'm indebted to friends in India - and to the Technoholik technology blog of Abhimanyu Radhakrishnan of the Economic Times there, for this sneak...
View ArticleOne Ocean
Now you'll realize why the blog's been pretty inactive:) I've been learning to film and edit video.When the BP Gulf Oil Disaster happened, I wanted to do something to raise people's awareness of what...
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Some readers of this blog have complained in the past about the white text/black background template I used. So I've changed it. Blogger provided an expanded range of templates, and I like this one....
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iPad Reading Leap Marginalizes Kindle Hardware - But Not Kindle Reader...
Around 20 years ago, I set my personal bar for an onscreen reading experience which would tell me when eBooks had finally surpassed paper books. I would be able to read one of the many books...
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iPad Blows Kindle Out Of The Water - But Amazon's Kindle App Is Best iPad...
A tale of two eBooks: A quick side-by-side photo of Kindle and iPad in the same lighting conditions - quite acceptable light for reading a paper book or on the iPad, but a real strain for Kindle...
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iPad Magazines - Beautiful Castles, But A Future Built On Sand...
Fig. 1 - The cover of the iPad edition of Wired.If you were one of the defenders of the Amazon Kindle reading device to jump into the comments fray after my last post - in which I stated that the iPad...
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Voice Recognition: Blogging With My Eyes Closed - And No Keyboard!
This blog entry is an experiment. I'm going to try speaking it instead of typing it, using Dragon Dictate voice recognition software for the Mac. I don't expect it to be perfect, but if it gets even...
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Barnes & Noble's Nook Goes LCD - While Amazon and NYT Go iPad...
The new Nook, announced yesterday, with an LCD screen: B&N claim 8-hour battery life.I forecast quite some time ago that when the first LCD screen-based eBook reader with acceptable battery life...
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iPad eMagazines: HTML5 Takes Us Another Step Forward...
Esquire: Using HTML5 instead of JPEG and Flash. Beautiful layout and typography. Pity the content's so targeted to rich, self-indulgent males...Three posts ago, I showed a collection of different...
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Flipboard: Your Own Magazine For News And Social Networking On The iPad
The Flipboard front page(s). You can add as many sources as you like; Flipboard creates new pages to hold them.Forgive me if this blog is starting to look like it's all about the iPad; that's where all...
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Kindle: From "Library Of The 21st Century" to "Landfill" In One Easy Lesson...
One dead Kindle eInk display. You can see a fragment of the old "screensaver" display at the bottom right.I've hardly used my (Version 2) Kindle at all since I got my iPad. The larger, brighter iPad...
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eBook Design and Authoring: Back to Hammer and Chisel...
Font embedding in an iBookBeen a while since I posted anything here, because I've been pretty busy for the past few months...First, I had a two-month full-time contract, working on a project I can't...
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Publishing for iPad: My iBooks Workspace...
My MacBookPro screen set up for iBook workI've found this a great setup for working on iBooks on my 17" MacBook Pro, and I decided to share it in case it's of use to anyone else.One of the problems...
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Should Apple and Amazon REALLY Control eBook Design?
Who's in control of your book design? You - or Amazon and Apple?This post is not meant as a criticism of either Amazon or Apple. Each has done more to push forward the adoption and availability of...
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