Popular Science puts its entire 130 Year archive on the internet for free

Wow,  now that’s a nice gift to the users of the internet
http://www.popsci.com/archives

Tech news today

Some interesting articles for your perusal.  I scan many tech news sites and here are just a few of the articles I have read today.

Sub $200 tablets arrive,  competition for the iPad?
Linux is doing fine on servers
How much does google know about you?
Don’t press F1 in Windows XP or easy to read notes

Grand Projects

Mankind has come a long way in the last 100 years or so from steam powered engines to car and the Jet powered plane.  The television and the internet,  the nuclear reactor and the PET scanner.
There are few inventions that have directly affected pretty much everyone in the same way as the internal combustion engine.  [...]

Sony PRS-505 VS The Kindle

The kindle has finally come to the UK and has already failed for me.
I was looking at getting a Kindle a long time ago and finally gave up waiting and went out and bought the Sony.  Boy am I relieved I did.
There are more than 4 reasons why I am glad I got the Sony [...]

1 PetaByte of storage for $117,000

Very nice system…  From BackBlaze I am not going to repeat what is on that page go have a look it’s impressive.

eBooks sales explode

Just looking around for more ebooks to download and found this (Another Quarter of Triple-Digit Growth for E-Books)
But on the downside I found Random Books the UK’s biggest Publisher has its own ebook site at http://rbooks.co.uk.  Thats not bad news until you see that they are charging £17.08 for the new Dan Brown book The [...]

Sony go with ePUB. Close to a standard now?

I know this is old news but it is starting to get interesting now.  With google taking on the ePUB format, Barnes and Noble already using it and now Sony moving to it there are Rumours that Apple will go with it also.
What this means is that everyone that matters except Amazon will be using [...]

BBC website broken. Apologies to firefox

I apologise wholeheartedly for jumping to conclusion.  The broken BBC website is not the fault of FireFox.
I have just installed Internet Explorer (yuk) and that has the same problems.  I also note that MS installed a bunch of updates on my computer last night and that the BBC website has changed somewhat.
So is it the [...]

Firefox 3.5.3 Update Breaks BBC website

Since the update which didn’t give me an option as far as I can see. The BBC website can no longer be customised. I have clicked the close icon on the sport box and it keeps coming back. I enter my postcode and it keeps resetting it to London. I am [...]

What is holding back ebooks?

I have had my Sony eBook for some time now and am getting more and more frustrated.  Pretty much all the books I want to download are either not available or they are charging rediculous sums for.
For instance how can publishers justify £16.38 for Gone tomorrow by Lee Childs This is as much as a [...]