Modify Websites For Better Reading & Printing | MakeUseOf.co. Many of us are into blogs and news these days. A lot of these sites are professionally designed and easy to read, but a majority of the sites are designed keeping in mind ‘the required exposure to advertisements’. As a result, readability suffers at times. If you come across such a site or you would like a consistent look and feel across all the articles that you read so that you can scan them faster, here are some ways to make reading articles easier on the eyes and (thus easier to print as well). So, how to print a web page the way you want it? Subscribe to RSS feeds Number one on the list and an absolute must do if you are into serious reading. Readability Readability is a simple yet wonderfully useful idea. Now whenever you visit a site you would like to spend some time reading upon, just click the bookmarklet to view it according to your selected settings. Firefox – Aardvark One of my favorite extensions for Firefox, Aardvark lets you play with the structure of a webpage.
Google & the Future of Books - The New York Review of Books. How can we navigate through the information landscape that is only beginning to come into view? The question is more urgent than ever following the recent settlement between Google and the authors and publishers who were suing it for alleged breach of copyright. For the last four years, Google has been digitizing millions of books, including many covered by copyright, from the collections of major research libraries, and making the texts searchable online. The authors and publishers objected that digitizing constituted a violation of their copyrights. After lengthy negotiations, the plaintiffs and Google agreed on a settlement, which will have a profound effect on the way books reach readers for the foreseeable future.
What will that future be? No one knows, because the settlement is so complex that it is difficult to perceive the legal and economic contours in the new lay of the land. I especially enjoy the exchange of letters between Jefferson and Madison. Tumbarumba. 100 top sites for the year ahead: our latest selection finds tha. The online world has changed dramatically even since we last drew up a list of 100 useful sites in December 2006. In the interim, there has been a revival of the browser wars - with Google's Chrome and Apple's Safari making surprising inroads into the Windows monopoly, and offering a new vision of what browsing can be like. Many of the sites listed here were not available when we did our last list; although longevity is a mark of pride online, it is difficult for companies set up in the 1990s to reinvent themselves quickly enough to take advantage of new technologies.
Although of course rapid change brings casualties too: it's possible that with all the economic turbulence going on that some of the sites here won't be around in a year from now, or that their now free services will have become paid-for. That doesn't diminish their usefulness, though; it just underlines their determination to survive. Video, of course, is now everywhere. Blogging Browsers Cartoons Create/collaborate Gaming Maps. Technology | The revolution of paperless paper. How the 'paperless paper' works I love reading newspapers. Really I do. But whenever I read one on the train to work or on the bus, I always seem to end up sparking complete chaos. Either the passenger sitting next to me gets it in the face with my elbow, or half the pages of my daily collapse onto the floor into an embarrassing heap which, in rush hour, is rather difficult to clear up. But soon my problems with paper could be over.
At Plastic Logic's factory in Dresden, British engineer Dean Baker shows me a new kind of newspaper. What's new about it? The device looks just like a table mat, it's as light as a magazine. But onto it you can download hundreds of newspapers and - at the touch of a button - browse through them quite safely, without elbowing anyone ever again. "It's very robust," says Mr Baker. To prove it he whacks the screen with his fist. That's why the electronic newspaper is so light, flexible and revolutionary.
"There's a huge amount of waste," says Mr Baker. British origins.