tofu on osX -- changed my view of reading ebooks
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tofu is an oddly named, but extremely useful text reader for osX. It breaks the text into columns exactly as tall as the window. To navigate, you simply shift columns. Far better than vertical scrolling. I've read several books on my powerbook, and I've found that I prefer it to paper when reading in bed at night (no need to have a light on being the primary benefit)
I have nothing to do with this software. I chanced across it, and I'm surprised at how useful it has proved to be.
I have these in white and they go rather nicely with the ipod. I've also found the MDR-EX71SL to be comfortable, but as far as I can tell, the white version is not sold in the States.
1. Download a text: (say Alice's Adventures in Wonderland). The new site has a vastly improved interface; listing books in available formats (always plain text, sometimes pdf, palm doc, tex)
2. Have at it in you text reader of choice. If you are on the mac, I highly recommend the free
tofu. It breaks the text into columns that are high as the window. Navigate by shifting columns or pages of text. This simple change makes a huge difference when reading large amounts of text. It makes reading books on my laptop pleasant rather than an ordeal.
What about on other platforms? What are the best programs for reading etexts?
Crop your photos!! Many a bad photo can be made much better after some judicious cropping. Yes, you are discarding precious pixels, but I'd rather have a well composed picture than all the pixels. ("Well it sure looks like this photo has all it's pixels! whew!")
It's all well and good to "crop in camera". If you get to that point where your framing is impeccable, good for you! Until then crop, crop, crop. It's the same idea of "take many pictures, and toss the ones that don't work" applied to a single picture. You are simply throwing what doesn't work in the photo.
The great thing about this is that you can apply it to pictures you have already taken. And it's easy to do -- in iPhoto for example, it is simple to make a cropping pass over all your images.
Instead of going to the states, buying the laptop, and trying to sneak it back in (against protections for exactly that type of behavior), what about having a friend from states come visit you to show you the laptop they just purchased? Say, split the cost of the ticket?
What are the equivalent protections agaist that? It seems that the case where a US citizen went to the UK with a US laptop but did not return with one would be much harder to track. What am I missing?
and without this service, that same $100 will buy you 7 cd's (at 14.29 per cd)
everyone who thinks they'll be able to get their top 100 favorite tracks by buying only 7 cd's please raise your hands... anyone... anyone... bueller...
that's an excellent point -- this service works great for picking and choosing a small number of favorites, though I find it amusing to think of filling an ipod in this manner:
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tofu is an oddly named, but extremely useful text reader for osX. It breaks the text into columns exactly as tall as the window. To navigate, you simply shift columns. Far better than vertical scrolling. I've read several books on my powerbook, and I've found that I prefer it to paper when reading in bed at night (no need to have a light on being the primary benefit)
I have nothing to do with this software. I chanced across it, and I'm surprised at how useful it has proved to be.
I have these in white and they go rather nicely with the ipod. I've also found the MDR-EX71SL to be comfortable, but as far as I can tell, the white version is not sold in the States.
if not, give it a try:
1. Download a text: (say Alice's Adventures in Wonderland). The new site has a vastly improved interface; listing books in available formats (always plain text, sometimes pdf, palm doc, tex)
2. Have at it in you text reader of choice. If you are on the mac, I highly recommend the free tofu. It breaks the text into columns that are high as the window. Navigate by shifting columns or pages of text. This simple change makes a huge difference when reading large amounts of text. It makes reading books on my laptop pleasant rather than an ordeal.
What about on other platforms? What are the best programs for reading etexts?
Crop your photos!! Many a bad photo can be made much better after some judicious cropping. Yes, you are discarding precious pixels, but I'd rather have a well composed picture than all the pixels. ("Well it sure looks like this photo has all it's pixels! whew!")
It's all well and good to "crop in camera". If you get to that point where your framing is impeccable, good for you! Until then crop, crop, crop. It's the same idea of "take many pictures, and toss the ones that don't work" applied to a single picture. You are simply throwing what doesn't work in the photo.
The great thing about this is that you can apply it to pictures you have already taken. And it's easy to do -- in iPhoto for example, it is simple to make a cropping pass over all your images.
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Instead of going to the states, buying the laptop, and trying to sneak it back in (against protections for exactly that type of behavior), what about having a friend from states come visit you to show you the laptop they just purchased? Say, split the cost of the ticket?
What are the equivalent protections agaist that? It seems that the case where a US citizen went to the UK with a US laptop but did not return with one would be much harder to track. What am I missing?
and without this service, that same $100 will buy you 7 cd's (at 14.29 per cd)
everyone who thinks they'll be able to get their top 100 favorite tracks by buying only 7 cd's please raise your hands... anyone... anyone... bueller...
that's an excellent point -- this service works great for picking and choosing a small number of favorites, though I find it amusing to think of filling an ipod in this manner:
"My ipod holds $7500 worth of music!"
I was able to buy atok for palm for my japanese palm pilot. It supports direct kanji input (though it is a little slow on the older models)
I think that the newer japanese clie come with this preinstalled
there is also NEOS GOGOPen for Palm though I have no used it.