E-book readers like the Kindle may be getting better, but still fall short of the usability of paper books. You can’t turn or flip through pages, or compare different documents as you would with paper. A new prototype with two displays can do all that.

If you can't see the video, click here.It was developed by researchers at Maryland and Berkeley Universities, both US. It's very early days but they report that initial user reactions were positive. One downside mentioned by the testers…

youre tuning in late to the Canadian copyright reform debate, the Appropriation Art Coalition has created a free comic book that it says will get you up to speed on the issue

As for the IT angle on this issue, shortly after the introduction of Bill C-61, IT security professionals began expressing their concerns over anti-TPM circumvention legislation and its impact security research projects. Brian OHiggins,…

In a recent article in The Atlantic, Nick Carr suggests that our increasing reliance on web technologies like Google may actually be “making us stupid,” arguing that “As we use…'intellectual technologies'…we inevitably begin to take on the qualities of those technologies.” Are we losing our ability to think instead of simply process? …More

When the Net absorbs a medium, that medium is recreated in the Net's image. It injects the medium's content with hyperlinks, blinking ads, and other digital gewgaws, and it surrounds the content with the content of other media it has…

This extraordinary book explains the engine that has catapulted the Internet from backwater to ubiquity'and reveals that it is sputtering precisely because of its runaway success. With the unwitting help of its users, the generative Internet is on a path to a lockdown, ending its cycle of innovation'and facilitating unsettling new kinds of control.

It looked clunky, yet it could be at home on someones desk. Instead of puzzling over bits of hardware or typing up punch cards to feed into someone elses mainframe, Apple owners faced only the hurdle of a cryptic blinking cursor in the upper…

A flash simulation of a XP desktop that has books in the style of powerpoint presentations. You can read Animal Farm while it looks like a sales presentation.

Please click here to download the latest version for free.

A flash simulation of a XP desktop that has books in the style of powerpoint presentations. You can read Animal Farm while it looks like a sales presentation.

Please click here to download the latest version for free.

The complete PDF of Corrie Haffly's book “The Photoshop Anthology” is available to download for free for 30 days. The book teaches Photoshop for web design, and contains 101 problems and solutions.

It’s brimming with tried and tested real-world Photoshop solutions that will add impact to your next web design project. If you’ve ever been stuck for inspiration, have puzzled over just how to create a shiny aqua-style…

This book of articles on modern graphics programming techniques, particularly for games, has just been released freely online. An invaluable resource for both beginners and experienced hands in games and graphics programming.

The first effects of fast, programmable GPUs are subtle. Previously difficult graphics problems become much more tractable through the application of one thousand-fold performance increases. Offline rendering techniques become more practical…

While the quality of its technical books declines, O'Reilly has found a new source of income: The corporate shill. The latest book from O'Reilly Media is a book called Subject to Change, ostensibly covering innovative business processes. The problem? It's nothing more than a vapid, boring, 170-page ad for the authors' consulting business.

It makes my stomach turn to see that one of my heroes and idols — Tim O'Reilly — personally approved of Subject to Change and called it a “terrific book” on the inside cover. (However, there were many quotes…

Design is concerned with seeking visual solutions to problems, and planning how to correctly arrange elements. An artist has the same search for the best way to express an idea. Although there may be no rules in art, here are a set of 27 guidelines to help in the creation of some visually successful work.

12. Emphasis We are constantly barraged with images from advertisements, TV, books, magazines, newspapers and the Internet. We take the abundance for granted and this makes the designer/artists job that much more difficult to get the attention of…

MIT reinvents the Sticky Note in the digital age.

? The Quickies graphical user interface (Credit: MIT) Once the entire 'sticky' database is stored in the user's PC, the user can order the software to remind him of important notes at predefined times. For example, he can…

If you need something to store books anyway, why not choose something that makes a statement or serves two purposes like a bookcase that doubles as a secret door or even a bed? Some of these shelving systems are virtually invisible while others are virtual works of art in their own right.

Bookcase Door to Hidden Room: We’ve all seen it in the movies: you pull the book from the shelf and the mysterious door opens into a secret room to the side. Well, this isn’t a mansion in a murder mystery - just…

What would it really be like to know what Jobs is thinking at any given moment? Maybe he has plans for world domination. Maybe he really does want Apple to be like Microsoft - monopolistic — heck it’s kinda going that way.

This goes beyond the UI that has to maintain some consistency for the platform and moves into assuring the software and drivers that go into a machine are first reviewed and validated by the OEM to make sure they won?t break your hardware….

There was a time when big-budget science fiction wasnt completely brainless. In fact, some of it was good, even brilliant, and a source of inspiration for generations of researchers. From 2001: A Space Odyssey to The Terminator, the promise (and the apocalyptic threat) of technology was sometimes presented with a surprising level of authority.

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