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More and more of OpinionJournal goes behind the paywall. Personally I think it’s the right move, because what’s there to lose? If we won’t pay, the business was over anyway. And my bet is we will.
Macworld Expo 2010 Best of Show.
Russell Beattie: What we really wanted was a MacPad not an iPad.
Sikuli, ingenious GUI scripting. Definitely going to try it.
This video of a tablet mockup makes me horny at last for a tablet computer. I’m excited for tomorrow’s Apple announcement. Guess I’ll be standing in line to buy one as well.
A Little Less Conversation, says Joel Spolsy.
Fake Steve Jobs pens the most insightful piece I’ve read on Google’s complaints vis-a-vis China.
Hypercritical by John Siracusa, or, The Tao of Editing.
A test of input device speed for a 221-word passage.
o you’re a wise and savvy modern human and you’ve discovered the benefits of Take Control Ebooks. You want to take advantage of “the extra features you won’t get from a normal book,” as one of their taglines goes. You click on the “updates” link within your ebook. You are taken to a web page.
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Updates screen for the Take Control of Easy Backups in Leopard ebook
This page must detect which version of which ebook you have, and indeed that you are actually coming from the link within the ebook. Then it must provide you with any free and/or paid updates as well as specially-priced bundles with other books.
It must also link to news items and errata pertinent to that version of that ebook, with the news items pertaining to a range of versions of the book but the errors appearing only for this particular version.
Implementing this functionality was the latest phase in the ongoing job of converting takecontrolbooks.com to the ExpressionEngine content management system. “Wonderful,” wrote co-manager Tonya Engst regarding the new system’s features.
Thanks again, Adam and Tonya, for the opportunity to work on this site and the pleasure of viewing, if only from afar, your smooth operation. Next up for Take Control: account management.