Archive for March, 2010
TidyRead brings reading to mobile web
TidyRead is a fantastic service, which converts web pages into fast-loading, minimalist yet eye-pleasing versions, so that you can read them on your iPhone, Android or any other smartphone with a browser. How it works? You paste an url address of a page, click “Read” button and in a moment you’ll have it mobilized. The [...]
Mobile web is more popular than reading [report]
A recent study by the European Interactive Advertising Association (EIAA) has found that browsing the mobile web is more popular than reading newspapers or magazines. The study found that on average 71 million Europeans use the internet on their mobile each week – for an average time of almost one hour every day. EIAA’s Mediascope [...]
iPad vs iPhone – size comparison [picture]
If you ever wanted to see what “giant iPhone” means, here is a size comparison. E-reading applications are visualized on purpose. In my opinion the best thing about iPhone and iPad is their ability to bring coolness of reading to a digital world.
Mobile world: mobile fiction: eBooks
E-books have happily gone through the desktop phase. Now their destinations are eReaders, tablets and mobile phones. There is a place in this world for fiction books. Please read this great guest post about it. His author is a fellow mobile fiction writer – Small Stories. You can subscribe to Small Stories at Posterous. Please [...]
iPhone apps for book lovers
Smart phone apps are pretty great for the most part. I read the Tribune app on the train en route to work, share links and keep in touch via the Tweetdeck and Facebook apps. I use my bank’s app to manage my accounts, double-check and test my sign language with an American Sign Language app, [...]
What if your book really knew what you’re gazing at? [video]
Inspiring AND scary.
All what you need to know about e-books
Here is a great all-in-one guide to e-books, written by P. Bradley Robb from Fiction Matters. The term “eBook” has been a hot-button topic in the publishing world on and off for the better part of twenty years – from the CD-Rom debacle of the early nineties, through the first generation of dedicated readers at [...]
Tim Carmody: Why books on the iPad just might work
In the past month or so, since Apple’s iPad was announced, there’s been an increasing pushback against the idea that the tablet will be a meaningful stand-in for a dedicated e-reader. In particular, it seems to have really disappointed folks in the e-reading/publishing/new media community, many of whom expected a lot from the Jesus tablet [...]
Will your future e-reader be a phone?
By Geoffrey A. Fowler On Tuesday, Hearst Corp. e-reading company Skiff announced that it signed a deal with Samsung’s mobile phone division to become its “preferred e-reading service partner.” That means that future Samsung smart phones, like the Galaxy S it unveiled at CTIA Show in Las Vegas on Tuesday, will have built-in Skiff software [...]
New cover of Hashtagstories Vol.1 – what do you think?
As I’ve almost finished a second set of hashtagstories, I decided to change a cover. There was something I didn’t like about the original one. It was pure, simple – and didn’t show how versatile can be the world of Twitter hashtags. And yes, I wanted to make it dirty. For those who want to [...]
Tydzień E-Booka 2010: konkurs – ogłoszenie wyników
Przedstawiam oficjalne wyniki konkursu, który ogłosiłem w ramach Tygodnia E-Booka. Przypominam, zadaniem konkursowym było pozostawienie w komentarzach odnośnika do jakiejkolwiek aktywności internetowej, mającej na celu popularyzację idei Tygodnia E-Booka. Do wygrania były komplety e-książek z moimi opowiadaniami absurdalnymi. W skład jednego kompletu wchodzą cztery tomy: Człowiek zwany Biurkiem, Małe bure skakadło, Pijany zagajnik oraz Rosół [...]
One Picture Stories: Where to Find Them
Now you can find One Picture Stories in many sites across the internet as I did a perfectly insane job of autoposting with a help of Mobypicture and Posterous. They are the two services, where I send an original, freshly made story from an iPhone. Please choose below your favourite source of One Picture Stories:
Ul Fas Spe Rea Course
Blanka and Edmundo inhaled books by the truckload and even that was not enough. So they participated in an ultra-fast speed-reading course based on the Hi-Re method. After three days of intensive training they completed the course with honors. As a special prize, they received the longest novel published in the last three years, which [...]
The future of publishing [video]
This is a simply amazing video by the Dorling Kindersley Books on the future of publishing – showing the true power of words. It’s all in our minds and how we perceive the world. Just read it – this way or another.
Selected quotes on technology
Read also: Thoughts on Human +/- Technology »»» Technology is a word that describes something that doesn’t work yet. — Douglas Adams Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless. – Thomas Edison The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, [...]
Konkurs na opowiadanie fantasy
Wczoraj dostałem maila z informacją o ciekawym konkursie. Sam się raczej nie kwalifikuję, wyżywam się w “techtasy”, ale zachęcam do wzięcia w nim udziału. Nagrodą główną jest wydanie e-książki, domyślam się że chodzi o książkę ze zwycięskim opowiadaniem. Poniżej regulamin. Oficjalna strona konkursu tutaj. Regulamin konkursu “Wampiry w polskiej rzeczywistości” 1. Organizatorem konkursu jest Apeiron [...]
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