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Nice! I like the idea of rebooting your iPad by holding it upside down and shaking.
The striking difference between the iPad LCD screen and the Kindle’s e-ink at 400x magnification.
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The Scott Pilgrim books for reading on your iPhone or iPad. I’d downloaded some pirate CBRs into Comic Zeal, so it’s nice to actually pay for them!
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A moment’s hearty hurrah for the fine, forward-thinking folks of O’Reilly Media
While catching up on a chum’s splendid bloggish-thang, I noticed that the new book by Rands is now available. On the Amazon page, the dead-tree hardcopy was still on pre-order, but the Kindle version was available straight away.
Normally, at this point, I would have hit that tempting, orange, A/B-tested-to-within-an-inch-of-its-life “Buy Now with 1-Click®” button and been on my merry way. But then I noticed that the book was published by O’Reilly.
O’Reilly (and can I just interject here to show off that I’m old-skool-geek enough that I still hit their website by typing ora.com into my browser, because that’s what their domain was when I bought my first animal-woodcut-covered book, dammit. Also: Get off my lawn!) have a smart attitude to eBooks purchased from their own website. You can download your eBooks in various DRM-free formats: PDF is almost always available, but often so too are ePub and mobi, and occasionally something called “Android”. (I believe that’s some sort of Chinese iPhone knockoff)
Because of this, by purchasing eBooks directly from O’Reilly, I can carry them around and read them in a variety of fashions. If it’s a mainly wordy book, then the soothing-to-the-eyes e-ink screen of my Kindle is just dandy. The reflowable ePub format works a treat in iBooks on my always-in-my-pocket iPhone and increasingly-always-in-my-bag iPad. And with Apple’s recent iBooks update, I can quickly switch to and from the designed-and-laid-out-by-a-professional view of the PDF which perfectly mimics the physical original.
So thank you O’Reilly and Associates Media for your top-notch splendiferousness. I hope more publishers start taking this approach too.
This might upset some folks, but I think it’s beautiful. “If iPad were a dish, there are no problem”
Beautiful social news gathering tool for iPad. Feeds are “curated” using Twitter lists, giving buttloads of flexibility. (Sadly the social part is buggered at the moment, as they didn’t account for all the iPad users out there)
Unrelated: New goal in life: Create a product that is cool, then get Adam Lisagor to make the promo video.
Super-simple typeface designer for iPad. Touch interface to sketch your font, then it uploads it to a website for sharing.
iBooks highlighting
Jeez, even the text highlighting is gorgeous and magical! (Quote from Richard Herring's How Not to Grow Up)
Looking forward to this. Reeder on iPhone is the reason I switched back to using Google Reader for my RSS collation needs.
Bruce Tognazzini on Apple & Steve Jobs: “His harsh treatment of both the ideas of, as well as the people of, the original Mac team led them to buy Steve a special red rubber stamp that said, “THIS IS S___!” so he could just stamp each page of their design submissions, instead of having to wear out his hand writing.”
The content of the $175 hardcover books that I’ve been coveting for years are available as a $20 iPad app? Sold!
The perfect wallpaper for your new iPad.
My window to Fenway Park
Thank you Apple, NESN and MLB.TV.
One of the things that most excites me about the iPad is getting to read magazines without that deadtree cluttering up our house. BERG have worked with Popular Science to create the first compelling iPad magazine. Can’t wait to see what other publishers do.
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