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Adobe Digital Editions eBook reader released
by Brad Linder Jun 19th 2007 at 5:30PM
While Adobe's new Digital Editions eBook reader doesn't solve the latter problem, it is a slick new solution for reading PDF, Flash, and XML files. It has a much smaller footprint than Adobe Reader and is designed specifically for reading books.
You can make bookmarks, add text notes, and change font sizes with ease. There also seem to be about a dozen ways to flip pages (with the up and down, right or left keys on your keyboard, the scrollwheel on your mouse, or the scrollbar on the side of the page).
Digital Editions is currently available for Mac and PC, with a Linux beta due out later this year. It'd be nice to see Adobe make a mobile version for Windows Mobile and Palm devices. While there's an Adobe Reader client for Windows Mobile it's clunky and slow.
[via Gizmodo]
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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chanio said 10:10PM on 6-19-2007
An alternative for reading your Guttemberg books and any other txt, rtf, pdb, prc and html books is uBook [ http://www.gowerpoint.com/ ] freeware/shareware.
It was dessigned specifically to read books, taking care of typography, appearance of the cover, etc.
It might look very similar to the upper picture.
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verycheeky said 7:45AM on 6-20-2007
I was taking a look at the source code for the swf link trying to manually download so I can install on other computers and found a reference to "Yahoo! Games - Texas Hold-em Poker Installer"
Left overs?
button 130
on (release)
{
titlebar_txt.text = "Yahoo! Games - Texas Hold-em Poker Installer";
_global.passedSecurity = true;
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