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Microsoft cancels its Reader e-book app

August 16, 2011
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Microsoft has quietly announced that it is to discontinue support of its e-book app. There will be no new content for the app after November 8, and the company will end support by 2012. Users will continue to have indefinite access to their purchased content housed on their device, but Microsoft has no plans to [...]

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British Library offers e-classics app

August 2, 2011
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The British Library is making digital copies of more than 40,000 classic books available for the iPad. Texts appear in fully digitised form, complete with original page markings and drawings, as opposed to the plain formatting associated with other types of e-books. All of the works date from the 18th and 19th centuries and include [...]

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The Doctor is In

December 10, 2005

Oooh… I’m a bit excited about this one. I was part of the beta testing phase for Microsoft Expression, the new vector and bitmap app. Unfortunately, work commitments meant that I didn’t get to particpate nearly as much as I should’ve. but I was asked to create an image for the Customer Spotlight section. Which [...]

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Vapourised

July 29, 2005

This week I have been mostly knackered. The above image was part of a few I messed around with as part of the beta testing group for Microsoft’s new ‘Acrylic’; a vector andpixel graphics programme built around the foundation of Expression 3. Despite my misgivings about the almighty Micro$oft outputting a graphics package I was [...]

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