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In the 1990s, the internet was a hard-to-explain concept to people. Even though it’s commonplace now, the idea of electronic mail and being able to surf endless amounts of information without using an encyclopedia was quite foreign. Many books, videos and images were created to help explain the Internet, some helpful, others not so much. Let’s relive those early attempts at educating the masses about the relatively new concept of a connected digital world. Surfing the web One of the most common ways the internet was depicted in the 1990s was people quite literally surfing it. The book pictured above by Scholastic was…
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Judging from Twitter chatter and TNW staff based in the UK, Amazon is down for some European users. The service distruption has hit at least the UK, Germany and Denmark. In addition to the ecommerce site, Amazon’s Instant Video service also seems to be suffering from an outage. AMAZON IS DOWN its basically the apocalypse — Will Kail (@Will_Kail) February 16, 2015 Amazon ist schon wieder down. wtf? — Michael Mittwich (@FlashMueller) February 16, 2015 Developing
Completely revamped iAnnotate finally brings its full PDF tool set to Android
Feb16
on February 16, 2015
at 6:35 pm
Working with PDF documents on an Android device can be a frustrating experience if you’re trying to make edits while on the move. To tap into that market and potentially alleviate some of those frustrations, Branchfire has today announced the launch of its iAnnotate app on Android devices. As a new listing and 1.0 release in the Play Store, this version is a clean break from its predecessor which was released a little over two years ago. The new app no longer holds the $9.99 price tag of previous versions and is available for free. iAnnotate for Android allows users…
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Short’s developers believe that you can put all that time you waste waiting in line to better use. When you’ve got a moment to spare, the app offers up articles that you can read in a couple of minutes or less. Short for iPhone and iPad pulls in articles you’ve saved to Pocket, Instapaper, Readability and Readingpack, and tells you how long they’ll take to read. The focus is on speed, so you’ll only get a selection of pieces that take less than 10 minutes to finish, based on the average adult reading speed of 200 words per minute. You can choose…
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