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Blurb announces PDF to book service

Posted: June 24, 2009 in internet, media, miscellany
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Blurberati Blog » The Secret’s Out: PDF to Book is Here!.

I’ve been a big fan of the Blurb internet publishing service for some time and have used it to produce several very professional-looking books for family and friends. The only drawback with Blurb in the past was that you had to use their proprietary software which, while free and easy to use, was a bit limiting design-wise. Now Blurb has announced a PDF-to-book service which allows you to design using programmes like Adobe InDesign using native file formats, giving you much more creative control over the end product.

microsoft in promising product shock

Posted: June 17, 2009 in internet, Technology
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bingHadn’t got around to playing around with Bing, Microsoft’s new search engine, until today. As a Google/Mac guy I really wasn’t expecting much but I have to say I was impressed.

The search function doesn’t yet quite return as many pages as Google, but many of the searches I tried seemed much more targeted. The related searches were generally useful and I liked the way you could preview the pages by running your mouse down the right hand side of the results to bring up pop-up excerpts. The video search results – such as this one for our Premier Dr. Ewart Brown – are impressive: hover over the thumbnails and the video instantly starts playing. Very cool. It’s not often a Microsoft product earns a place on my Toolbar but this one’s worth it, even with a stupid name like Bing (But It’s Not Google!)

Apple goes overboard: new iPhone, upgraded MacBooks

Posted: June 8, 2009 in internet, Mac, Technology
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Lots to like in today’s Apple announcements from WWDC: an iPhone with many of the features (video, voice dialling, cut and paste) it should have had a version or two ago, and souped up MacBooks for a start, with Snow Leopard OS due in September. With the release of the new iPhone 3GS (the S is for speed), Apple is dropping the price of the old iPhone 3G to just $99 with a two year contract.

Those $900 Bermuda iPhones now seem even more of a sick joke. Unlocking an overseas device seems even more tempting now – even Kit and Caboodle offers an iPhone unlock service for just $45 these days!

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