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Review: Stanza for iPhone

I do not have a Kindle, and if I can sell your blood and faster, I’m not about to buy a new style soon. Even if I pre-ordered a Kindle today 2, I understand that my daughter has come before school before they could ship Amazon.

So instead, I will be content to continue to read to the former: In my iPhone.

I keep saying that e-books in hand and never completely replace traditional books. But with the iPhone, I have a refined taste in my RSS reader, lover of Instapaper (and rediscover some of the classics of the classics ().

As indicated earlier, Classics is a great application with a nice interface. But are limited to securities that developers and format of the cargo, which for the moment, 16 books are very slim. Most importantly for the purposes of this review, we can not add their own books. More »

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Speeding Up Login By Slowing Things Down

The title sounds like an oxymoron, but in theory, this method can increase the speed of access. A logon process usually follows these lines to enter your password, you will be authenticated. You will then begin to load items such as the Finder, Dock and other key processes. The last step is to load all the applications you have made the charge for the connection. This is where you can slow down the computer, the other measures that you can not do much. If you have 10 applications that you want to boot your Mac can access numbness, simply because they really highlight the hard drive. If you can time when you want to run applications that can accelerate the entry into a whole.

In fact, this method is very simple. Instead of having all elements of your connection to your account in setting the System Preferences to be replaced by a Autormator Script. Here you can adjust the time of release. The first, as you guessed in May, is to launch Automator.
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Softbank offers 8GB iPhone for free under a 2 year contract

IPhone Japanese operator Softbank Mobile has introduced a new program for customers that free 8GB iPhone by a two-year contract. Disappointment looms just surrender over $ 235 (or about 22,782 yen) with the plan Friday.

Although it is not clear, Softbank may employ the philosophy that whenever the price of the iPhone has fallen, demand has increased. This possibility has been observed in recent months salary conference Tim Cook, Apple’s COO. Sales of the iPhone in Japan has been slower than anticipated in this plan Softbank to create the perfect springboard for iPhone on the market. Softbank began the campaign for the iPhone with the motive offered by the Corporation through price reductions by reducing the rate of monthly pension maximum data plan (from $ 62 to $ 45.60) with free texts and voice calls to other customers in the Softbank 3G network. More »

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Safari 4 Public Beta first impressions

I play with the new public beta of Safari 4, both on Leopard and Windows 7 for hours. Here are my first impressions:

1. It is a bit slower on Windows in general. You do not know if it is in the final version, but it is remarkable.

2. The biggest difference you will notice that the chips have been displaced upwards. I am not a little, but I do not think it would take too long. This has the effect of signals from the Opera and Chrome. I wonder if each tab is its own process of chromium.

3. The Windows version actually looks like a Windows application … not like you dragged from Safari on a Mac to a Windows desktop Safari 3 and paste buttons on the window above.

4. The installation went well for me, but there are reports on the Internet that have problems. May you have to do with the plugins installed third. If this poses a problem for you, try removing and reinstalling Safari plugins. More »

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Mariner Software Storymill 3.2.1

A familiar interface will help you organize your writing.

Many people entertain fantasies about writing the Great American Novel. The number of people who really have this great novel written or otherwise, it is far less. Besides the talent, creativity and motivation to keep it for thousands and thousands of words, not having the right tools in hand can be difficult. There is no doubt that already has a word processor on your Mac, but a specialized application for writing the novel in May that offer features of word processors can not match. And while the supplements alone will not make a new one magically appears on your screen, with the right tool for the job makes the drafting process of the expansion project much easier, not to mention better organized.

Mariner’s StoryMill presents a paned, like the iTunes interface that is familiar to all Mac users. The left edge contains the sources, organized into different groups. You can use the list to access hierarchical source chapters or scenes StoryMill the most basic building blocks. You can also use this list to rearrange scenes or entire chapters of their text. In addition, you can skip to the note you have entered in some players (characters), or sites, in addition to data for the monitoring of communications, research and challenges. More »

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