In early December (2010), I used a file from the Australian Project Gutenberg to create an EPUB of most of Lovecraft’s works. It wasn’t a comprehensive file and while it’s been popular (just having hit 1,000 downloads this morning, in under 3 months), it isn’t what I want for my own use or what the […]
It goes without saying that just as in real life our time spent on the Web will involve dealing with some pretty scummy people who will try to con you out of your information or personal information whIch they then will use for all kinds of things – none of… via The Top Internet Scams […]
Oh yes, the Xoom supports Adobe Flash and the “Full” Internet…. Oh yes… Just not now. After all, it can’t even view it’s own web site…. Due to the lack of Flash support.
This is just scary, especially since your legally responsible for the contents of your luggage…. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf-DGKUNffI]
It’s hard to believe nowadays, but in a simpler time, cellphones really were called “cell phones,” not dumbphones, smartphones, feature phones, or superphones. They bulged in your pocket — if they fit in your pocket at all, that is — and they made calls. That’s it. None of this social networking, messaging, browsing, Instagramming, Flash […]
This serves two strategic purposes for Google. First, it advances a codec that’s de facto controlled by Google at the expense of a codec that is a legitimate open standard controlled by a multi-vendor governance process managed by reputable international standards bodies. (“Open source” != “open standard”.) And second, it will slow the transition […]
Shark-finning gangsters assault celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay: “If you’ve ever watched shows like Hell’s Kitchen or Kitchen Nightmares, you’d know not to cross incendiary celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay. Well, maybe his shows don’t air in Taiwan, because a crew of Taiwanese shark-fin smugglers wasn’t too impressed by Ramsay’s reputation, holding the TV host at gunpoint […]