February 2010Humour : La zone de restriction Apple bit.ly (from @plosson)
January 2010Ce matin on regardait un match de foot (hé oui) avec Thomas. Le commentateur TV parle de "l'attaquant Sud-Coréen" Park Thomas (6 ans et demi) me dit: " Ca je connaissais pas encore comme pays : la Sudcorie". :-)))  Thomas me fait rire avec la "Sudcorie", le pays du foot levant bit.ly
7 people queuing before me at the frietkot. Long live mobile internet.
Electronic prescriptions and certificates on ePaper in 2011 in Belgium ? bit.ly
Million Kindles sold ? natesebooknews.com
The Belgian Minister for Simplification, Vincent Van Quickenborne, wants to eliminate the requirements of drugs to pharmacists, the certificates for mutual care and medical certificates to employers. For 2011, Minister Van Quickenborne (Open VLD) plans to introduce electronic prescriptions and certificates, to avoid paper documents, says he in De Standaard and Het Nieuwsblad. "The electronification comprehensive health care represents a saving of 1, 5 billion," said the minister. Why not carrying your prescriptions and cerificates with you on a eReader, within a secured your patient file ? Source:  I had to laugh when I saw this picture here : http://lifehacker.com/5458690/the-problem-with-the-apple-ipad  And when I compare it with my Appe "logo" I draw just for the fun...   Today, I would like to point you to a real ePaper application : the eFlyBook.  "eFlyBook is a portable electronic device that contains all of the U.S. digitized terminal procedures, IFR high and low altitude enroute charts, U.S. airport facility directory, the FAR/AIM, and can accommodate other user installed eDocs such as books, newspapers, magazines, pictures, and many others. eFlyBook brings revolutionary technology right to your fingertips with impressive features such as an ample 8.1 inch display in a 1/2 inch thick, 13.7 oz device, with very low power consumption providing days of interaction, incredible document viewing capability, and so much more." It uses the iRex technology (I think the illiad). http://www.eflybook.com/  When you search on ePaper, you will find some really outdated websites. Look for example at http://www.epaper.org.uk/. It seems that some people had than jumped on their board to surf an ePaper wave that lasted too long to arrive. I'm conscious that this market might take years before really taking off, but I'm confident it will eventually fly. Yesterday, Apple released the iPad but I'm confident that ePaper will provide solutions with much lower energy consumption which will allow a competitive advantage. ePaper should provide a more stable and cheaper technology for long term consultation of eContent. But it might take time : I'm ready to spend many years doing this on the side even if I'd prefer to have ePaper as primary activity :
  First feelings on Apple's iPad : bit.ly
Yesterday, Apple announced the iPad and this morning I had a look at the video on ZDNet. It is a really cool device ! Let's comment on Steve Jobs's demonstration:
  Read books on your PC or Mac with Blio bit.ly
Oops, I forgot the lasagne in the oven. Hopefully it was not too late...
Jean-David décu après avoir testé un eReader... Mon commentaire : bit.ly
Yesterday we went to see avatar. I liked it (7/10) but Mireille not so much...
Make an eBook with your Twitts with Tweetbook (generates a PDF) bit.ly
RT @actudesebooks: Le Kindle accueille son premier manga : ow.ly
ePaper Formats war forces iRex to choose between Mobipocket and ePub for their eReaders : bit.ly
With Blio you don't need a special hardware device like an ePaper based reader to read eBooks, you just use your PC... Engadget.com : "...knfb's Blio [comes] with Mac and PC compatible software saying you don't need new fancy hardware to read the the printed page on a screen....or may be you do. Regardless, of where the Blio software ends up we really dig it and it approaches digital reading in a whole new way. In case you didn't know the Blio software aims to preserve the traditional book or magazine format by keeping its layout, fonts, images, but also to meld it with digital interactivity..." Sources : Links: Find this article on AppePaper.com : http://www.appepaper.com/ereaders/other-readers/blio-ereader  RT @joonaslehtinen Larry Ellison unveils Oracle+Sun Strategy on Jan 27th bit.ly Jobs unveils Apple tablet at the same da
@vbsteven bug was windows list applet of at least 30 pixels placed right of the screen + 7 windows opened => freezing completely Gnome-panel
A tentative to list eBook Readers - more than 50 models including ePaper, LCD, Prototypes and Rumors - bit.ly
On January 20th 2010, Amazon announced its new deal proposal: If you format your eBook for the Amazon Digital Text Platform - so people can read it on their Kindle - Amazon will give you upto 70% of the sale if you satisfy some conditions. You can read about those conditions in the press release. Any (United States) citizen can sign up for an account, upload and sell eBooks through Amazon. Links Sources  Last week, I published the links of 3 lists of eReaders. I took the time to aggregate them in an attempt to compile a complete list of eReaders. There are more than 50 models of "eReaders". In this list there are ePaper eBook readers, LCD readers, prototypes and Rumors (Apple Tablet). You can find the list here: List of eReaders.  |