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XPS: Sense Of Something Coming
Guest contributor, Nick De Roeck, has written a very detailed article over at 4xPDF on the topic of XPS and how it fits into the world of electronic documents (and also, quite a bit about how it stacks up against PDF).
We are living in economic turbulent times, and everybody is into Web 2.0 (2.5?), social networking, [...]
The Kindle 2.0 Roundup
According to a Brad Stone blog post at the New York Times Bits blog, Amazon will introduce the next generation of its popular Kindle reader in New York City on February 9. It’s great to see that the release of the new Kindle, and other electronic reading devices, are getting so much attention at the [...]
First Video Of The Foxit eSlick e-Reading Device
Previously we’ve covered the announcement of the Foxit eSlick, a competitor to Sony Reader and and Amazon’s Kindle — now we have footage of the first prototype of the Foxit eSlick to share with you.
Foxit Software has also posted a video on YouTube demonstrating the hotly anticipated reflow feature in the eSlick.
The reflow functionality is [...]
A Closer Look At The XPS Viewer In Windows 7
The evolution of the XPS format continues. With the release of Windows Vista users were able to view XPS documents in a viewer that was hosted within Internet Explorer 7. A separate independent viewer was also available for download as part of the XPS Essentials Pack (supported on XP and Vista), however, this independent viewer [...]
Plastic Logic Reader Prototype 2 Demo’d At CES 2009
Patience makes the heart grow fonder, as they say. Perhaps that’s why I’m longing after the Plastic Logic Reader. We first got to see a short demo of this nifty electronic reading device back in September of last year and now a few more videos of the new prototype have shown up.
These videos are from [...]
Everyone’s Going Paperless These Days
I get daily Google Alerts sent to me for the keywords “paperless” and “paperless office”, as you might have noticed, it’s a topic I’m interested in.
Through this I have noticed a strong trend towards people embracing the concept of a paperless office; people openly acknowledging that paper is inefficient and costly and that a move [...]
Panasonic To Launch World’s First Fully Paperless Fax Machine, But Why?
According to a report on CrunchGear, Panasonic intend to launch the world’s first fully paperless fax machine in Japan on January 23, 2009.
Just like sending emails on a cell phone, users can use the built-in keypad to type messages.
Alternatively, it’s possible to send documents saved in Word or other formats without having to use a [...]
The Makers Of Foxit Reader Enter eBook Reader Race
Foxit Software, famous for their Adobe Reader alternative Foxit Reader, has entered the eBook Reader race with the release of Foxit eSlick. A competively priced (US$229.99 direct, US$259.99 rrp) alternative to the Kindle and Sony Reader, eSlick uses Foxit’s PDF viewer technology to let users read PDFs on the electronic reading device.
All-in-all the specs for [...]
Jon Stewart: What’s Black And White And Completely Over?
As Trevor Cook pointed out today in his Crikey blog, it wasn’t so long ago that people were predicating newspapers would only last another few decades — now of course that predication looks rather generous. On top of all the gloomy talk on blogs and in the media about the decline of newspapers, Jon Stewart [...]
User Feedback On The Xerox Travel Scanner 100
We covered the Xerox Travel Scanner a couple of months ago, but since we hadn’t actually tried it ourselves yet, we weren’t able any details on how usable it is. Luckily a visitor has been kind enough to share their experience with this compact scanner:
Comment by Floris on November 29, 2008 @ 10:14 am
I bought [...]
The Eee PC Is Better With XP
I have been an Eee PC owner for almost a year now. For most of that time I used the default Linux operating system, Xandros, before switching to Ubuntu, and then to Windows. What I discovered after making that final switch is that for me personally, Windows makes the Eee PC a lot more usable. [...]
