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- Altova StyleVision Professional Edition 2010 (Windows)
- Altova StyleVision 2010 Professional Edition is a powerful visual XSLT stylesheet designer for graphically designing templates that render eye-catching HTML and RTF output from XML or database data and create intuitive Authentic electronic forms. StyleVision is fully standards-compliant and supports XSLT 1.0, XSLT 2.0, CSS, JavaScript, and all major databases....
- Software downloads 2009-11-17
- Goodbye, Works!
- GoodThis will also make more people shift to Open Office and Google Documents at home: there are few things as loathsome as applications that contain ads. :-)Untill...They see that Open Office breaks the format in .doc files and that Google Docs are a nightmare to convert to .doc files...(PS: I...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-09
- Hey, Princeton! You should have waited for Sony
- Had a quick question for you?I use a lot of pdf files. Are you satisfied with the way the Sony device renders the pdf files?RE: Hey, Princeton! You should have waited for SonyOr at least wait for that new one I saw on the news yesterday. The Irex?Either way, they...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-29
- Paper Killer 2009.25.31 (Windows)
- Develop a manual, an HTML Help, an hypertext, an online help for your software or even a personal CDROM with your stuff, quickly. Manage electronic documents, edit pages with font, styles, tables and pictures like a wordprocessor, and place links and image hot-spots with ease. Save your output in all...
- Software downloads 2009-08-08
- Microsoft admits the obvious but not the truth
- Microsoft admits the obvious but not the truthObviousMicrosoft reminds me is so many ways of General Motors of the 1970's. I suspect that the end result will be much the same. Companies, like countries and people have life cycles.Still not convinced about open sourceAs a consultant dealing with...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-05
- Chip industry's boom/bust cycles and the failure of business intelligence
- The chip industry appears to be recovering from its bust cycle and beginning to enter into its boom cycle - it's a repetitive cycle of around four years in length. The Semiconductor Industry Association reports a 20 percent drop to $51.7 billion for the second...
- Blog posts 2009-08-03
- While I'm away...Kindlenomics and OLPC revisited
- Since my wife is 6 months pregnant and my mom is visiting from Seattle, we've decided to take a night away while said mom watches the kids. As a result, you get one more repost. I'll be back tomorrow, recharged after a bed and breakfast getaway; it will...
- Blog posts 2009-07-30
- The American Textbook Accessibility Act
- The American Textbook Accessibility ActChris, you're dreamingThe only way this is going to get a Federal charter is if someone with enough muscle gets to skim rents.None of the players have enough concentrated political pull to overcome the others who would gang up to block the monopoly play, so it's...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-29
- The American Textbook Accessibility Act
- Yesterday, I posted some thoughts about Arizona State University's use of the Kindle in a pilot program and the heat the school was taking over the inability of blind students to use the devices. While the controversy seemed overblown to me, it sparked an interesting conversation with fellow blogger,...
- Blog posts 2009-07-28
- The Apple tablet is a non-starter in Ed without content
- The Apple tablet is a non-starter in Ed without contentEVDO Internet connectivity??EV-DO really?With that only it's a pretty restricted market...there are not many countries were it will work...Better GSM+EDGE+HSPA&HSPA+ /WCDMA (2G -> 2.5G -> 3G -> 3.5G etc. support).CDMA has no longer term future on this planet... RE: The Apple...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-27
- Amazon CEO apology: 'Stupid,' 'thoughtless' to remove e-books from Kindle readers
- Amazon CEO apology: 'Stupid,' 'thoughtless' to remove e-books from Kindle readersAnyone else think e-readers are a good idea?Whether amazon or anyone else, the ability to edit content remotely or to remove content outright should be disturbing.You can argue an e-textbook could benefit from on-the-fly edits and revisions, but it is...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-24
- Al-Mawrid Al-Qareeb Arabic-English and English-Arabic Dictionary for Windows Mobile (Mobile)
- Dar El Ilm Lilmalayin is the oldest and largest leading privately owned publishing and distribution house of Arabic books and educational materials in the Arab world. It is also the first and major Arabic electronic multimedia producer company in the Arab world. Dar El Ilm Lilmalayin published the first best...
- Software downloads 2009-07-03
- MAPublisher 8.1 (Mac)
- Powerful suite of plug-ins for Adobe Illustrator that bridges the gap between Geographic Information Systems GIS and high-end graphic design for high quality creation, high resolution printing and electronic publishing of maps. Cartographic quality map production is now faster, easier and better. Avenza understands that completing GIS graphics tasks is...
- Software downloads 2009-06-15
- VocMac 2009-03 (Mac)
- The trilingual electronic dictionary for linguists and computer freaks... Now that almost everybody has yielded to the charms of a graphical interface, an electronic dictionary like VocMac has become a must-have not only for Macintosh addicts. VocMac's current trilingual edition presents more than 25,000 entries dealing with over 500 subject-matter...
- Software downloads 2009-06-13
- Anyone care to publish some textbooks on Scribd?
- The recent headlines about Simon and Schuster's publication of 5000 ebooks on Scribd grabbed my attention, since I had previously and unfairly put a look at the new service on the back burner. I'm glad I took the time to check it out since, assuming their business model is...
- Blog posts 2009-06-12
- Cut. Scan. Read.
- Cut. Scan. Read.i dunno man.there's something about destroying books that makes me queasy. i know you're not destroying the information... but it's a visceral response, i guess.My biggest issueRight now when I fly, or when the power goes out, I have a book in my lap, reading comfortably by natural...
- Discussion threads 2009-06-08
- Symbolic Composer 6.0 (Windows)
- Symbolic Composer is the most advanced and largest music composition language available with over 1000 music algorithms, suitable for modern, dance, classic, electronic, ambient, and experimental styles.Version 6.0 adds compatibility with SCOM 6 Mac and SCOM 5 releases. The update includes support for MRAC contemporary library, that is now released...
- Software downloads 2009-06-04
- If a color Kindle is years away, where does that leave e-textbooks?
- An old mentor of mine used to lecture to his classes and peers using 35mm slides. He created them in WordPerfect (this was along about 1996) and they consisted of black text on a white background. The didn't need images, color, or fancy transitions. He was a...
- Blog posts 2009-05-29
- National Archives: What, Me Worry?
- National Archives: What, Me Worry?Legitimately do us harm??wtf do u mean"Granular levels of Access" - probably notFor the record so to speak, there is no "National Security Administration". There is the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA - the National Archives) and the National Security Agency (NSA - the communications...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-26
- The Groundswell of Social Media Backlash
- There appears to be a fully fledged backlash against 'social media' marketing emerging, with commentary in both areas you'd expect and in places you might not. This is tough on the people who have solid foundations for what marketing messaging is all about,...
- Blog posts 2009-05-23
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