Stanza Makes Wired’s ‘Best of’ iPhone Apps for 2008
Stanza (iTunes Store) the application that turns the iPhone and iPod Touch into an excellent book reading device, has turned up at number 10 in Wired’s end of year roundup for iPhone applications (via Lifehacker). I’ve read several books this way so far and recommend the experience. It’s surprisingly comfortable and easy. It’s the time [...]
Publishers target iPhone, Nintendo DS for ebooks
Karen Templer continues what she calls her ‘near-constant ravings’ about iPhone reading apps with the news that Random House is now offering free books to iPhone readers through the Stanza download channel. But the iPhone isn’t the only more-useful-than-you-might-think device in town. Earlier today the BubbleCow twittered about HarperCollins offering books on the Nintendo DS. [...]
People prefer the pre-installed web browser
Yesterday something unusual happened on this blog. I posted a piece about reading books to my daughter on my iPod Touch and it was picked up by the Mac news site Macsurfer. Now usually the number of visitors on this site bounces along at around 40-50 unique visitors each day (I love you all) and [...]
Accidentally Great: Apple’s Answer to the Kindle
On Sunday mornings my daughter and I like to read together for an hour or so. She’s still small enough to sit on my knee while I read to her, but as she grows it gets more difficult to juggle book, child and coffee cup in ways that make the experience relaxing. Enter the iPod [...]
The Inheritors
The New Scientist reports that Neanderthals may have been driven to extinction by modern humans throwing rocks and spears. Apparently the fossilised shoulder bones of ancient humans show similar signs of wear as those of modern-day baseball players. Who’d have thought it? Well, William Golding actually, in his novel The Inheritors (1955) which is told [...]
Imperial Good Companion Model T
As every four year-old knows, up there in the loft space, in the dark underneath the tiles, hiding in the shadows, are monsters. Monsters you couldn’t imagine in a lifetime of bad dreams. Monsters just waiting to come down into the light and terrorize your daydreams as well.
I have only a vague idea where this [...]
Random Excuse Generator
For those of us with a professional interest in procrastination theory the news from Australia that Henry Hoke’s Random Excuse Generator has been recreated brings a welcome injection of optimism amid falling financial markets, slipped deadlines, and stumbling projects. This short film produced by Mark Thomson, Research Director at the Institute for Backyard Studies, explains:
Google’s New Web Browser–Chrome
I admit it, I find web browsers interesting. Installed on the MacBook I’m using to write this are Firefox 3, my browser of choice, its flirtatous cousin, Flock, Apple’s default browser, Safari, for those ‘no messing around’ moments, Camino, which is like Safari but without the corporate sponsorship deal, and Opera, which I’ve been checking [...]
Big History Show Paper is Done
It wasn’t easy, but I finally finished the paper for the Liverpool conference on Friday. The main trouble was the presentation software, but I finally settled on Apple’s Keynote, from the new iWork 08 suite. It’s superb. I started this morning never having used it before and by 4.30 this afternoon I’d finished the paper–and [...]
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