The past few months has seen the emergence of a large number of ebook readers which comply with the .epub standard. epub is a completely free and open standard which combines existing elements, including XHTML for the contents, XML for the description, CSS for formatting and .zip for the container. This makes it easy for publishers to create .epub books and for programmers to produce readers.
There are already many free and commercial ebooks available in the .epub format, including:
- Sony and Google have released more than 500,000 .epub public domain books (written before 1923). They are available through Sony’s free eBook Library which is here.
- Project Gutenberg has already converted most of the 28,000 books in its core catalogue of free books, available here.
- Munseys is converting its 18,000 free books. Many are already available here.
- Feedbooks has about 3,000 free epub books, here.
Demo Table
| Heading 1 | Heading 2 | Heading 3 | Heading D | HEADING E |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Item 1 | Item 2.1 | Item 3.1 | Item d.1 | ITEM 5 |
| Another Entry | And Another | And Another | And Another | And Another |
| Entry with a link | Entry with a link | Entry with a link | Entry with a link | Entry with a link |
| And a bit longer entry for the final row | Another longer entry for the final row | Another longer entry for the final row | Another longer entry for the final row | And a really loooong entry for the last column in the final row of the demonstration table. |
This pages demonstrates how Flickr photo sets can be displayed.
(Click on any photo to see it in a lightbox/slideshow)
Here’s a couple of photos taken in Glebe:
These are some of my photos of birds:
And these are plants:
Why pay for software when there are great, free programs (for Windows) like these?
Tags: open source, Software
“Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.”
- Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949
“I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.” - Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
“I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won’t last out the year.”
-The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957
“But what … is it good for?”
-Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip.
“There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.”
–Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
Tags: predictions
Every service business can benefit from blog technology. Few other marketing strategies provide the quick immediacy that blogging provides. But how do you begin to blog?
Here are 10 simple steps get you started:
Tags: blogs
Getting the top spot in search results is easy. All you have to do is use a peculiar phrase - like “electromagnetic bumblepuppies” - a couple of times on a web page and you’ll get top billing if anyone ever searches for “electromagnetic bumblepuppies”. But that’s probably not what you really want.
What you really want is to attract lots of visitors to your web site. Again, that’s easy. Throwing in a couple of “free naked”s should do the trick. But if you site is promoting your services as a children’s tutor, that mightn’t get you the visitors that you want. And it’s no use having the most visited site in Tajikistan if you service is only available in Sydney.
What you really, really want is visitors who want the product or service that you are promoting. But even that might not be quite right.
What you really, really, really want is visitors who want the product or service that you are promoting and will keep coming back to you for it - and maybe even recommend your site to their friends and colleagues.
The thing that’s going to achieve that for you is the content of your site - not any kind of “search engine optimization” (SEO). The best that you can hope for from SEO is to make sure that the content of your site will be accessible to the search engines.
Tags: optimization, search engine, SEO