Ergonomics

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• The end of single-purpose devices

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 655
  eWeek’s Jim Rapoza has a blog post suggesting single-purpose devices’ days are numbered. We have touched on the same points as the article a number of times, but it bears repeating: single-purpose devices, such as mp3 players or e-book readers, are less convenient than multi-purpose devices such as iPhones or ...
  12 hours ago

• Quick test drive: Kindle for PC looks promising—but is no match for Mobipocket in flexibility. And how about ePub?

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 655
  I’ve just test-driven a beta of Kindle for PC software (download here ). It’s very promising, but not nearly as usable for me as Mobipocket, which lets me tweak things just so . You can’t get a double-page view in KFPC, for instance, which would have been nice on my 25-inch monitor. And while you can ...
  1 day ago

• 2nd gen e-book machine dropped by OLPC—but group will do a paperlike 3rd gen device

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 655
  One Laptop Per Chlld has “ scrapped plans unveiled in May 2008 for an e-book-like second-generation XO laptop , instead focusing on an upgraded version of the current XO and designs for a ‘3.0’ version of the device that will be ‘more like a sheet of paper.’ So reports Xconomy . Photo shows the dropped ...
  4 days ago

• Freda program reads ePub, TXT and HTML on Windows Mobile 5 and 6 machines

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 655
  The new Freda program reads nonDRMed ePub, TXT and HTML and lets you customize fonts and colors. Check out the details and get the free download here .A special version exists for Windows Mobile 6 users who encounter stability problems.  (Via MobileRead ). Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook us. Twitter us. ...
  4 days ago

• E-book hardware bargains for the holidays: Share your finds, whenever you spot ‘em

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 655
  Tell other TeleRead community members when you spot e-book-related products steeply discounted. Some holiday bargains—although I didn’t spot an e-book one—are already online . Black Friday is officially the Friday after Thanksgiving, and Cyber Monday is the first Monday after BF. Related: Internetnews ...
  4 days ago

• eSlick Foxit reader gets new firmware with ePub and eReader

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 655
  eSlick’s Foxit reader will now be able to read at least nonDRMed ePub and eReader (PDB), not just PDF and TXT. I’m not sure about the ability in regard to DRMed books: perhaps someone can enlighten us. I’m skeptical. Beyond more formats, Foxit now includes the ability to organize your book into folders—and ...
  4 days ago

• Droid smartphone launch: Better for e-booking than the iPhone, especially as more apps show up?

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 655
  The Motorola Droid smartphone is out now, complete with a keyboard and a 3.7-inch touch screen, which is slightly bigger than the iPhone’s 3.5 incher and has much better resolution. Remember, Roger Sperberg is pretty excited about resolution in the new Android devices . But how about e-book software for ...
  4 days ago

• Bookless libraries?

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 655
  When does a library cease to be a library? This was the central point of a debate about the fate of educational institutions’ brick-and-mortar libraries at the 2009 Educause Conference in Denver, as reported by Inside Higher Ed . Despite the objections of “a minority of very loud faculty members,” (Suzanne ...
  5 days ago

• Technology News: Headphones and Headsets Phonak Audeo PFE

  
  Technology News and Happenings - Techpresso.org — Authority: 453
  Company Mycroft, the official distributor of products of the Swiss company Phonak Audeo in Russia, announced the release of the first line of high-quality headphones and headsets Audeo PFE. The company promises that the ergonomics ...
  5 days ago

• E-reader market no more than 25M units at current prices? Plus other stats—and Sony Readers vs. p-books as pick-up bait in bars

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 655
  The e-reader market will be no more than 25 million at present prices, according to Sarah Rotman Epps, a senior analyst at Forrester Research whom the Washington Post quotes today. Ah, but won’t costs drop a lot in the next year or so? So who typically buys dedicated e-readers right now? “…a 47-year-old ...
  6 days ago

• Rupert Murdoch knocks the Kindle as a news reader—even though the Wall Street Journal is now on the K machine

  
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  News Corporation gets only $6-%6.50 of the %15 that Kindle subscribers pay for the Wall Street Journal each month , and News CEO Rupert Murdoch is POed. He’s looking forward to “half a dozen readers” in time, with deals possible for them—presumably with Murdoch’s people enjoying full access to subscriber ...
  6 days ago

• Big monitor, big monitor, talk about eyestrain, my girls got er

  
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  Were a Mac office, and we rotate the computers around when we get new ones. So imagine my delight when I got my weird 15" G4 monitor magically replaced with my boss 24" iMac! w00t!... except that the giant size really spaces me out. Help! Ive seen this question , but I dont think thats the same thing. The computer ...
  1 week ago

• $89 e-reader can display zillions of books from Google, Feedbooks, Manybooks and Gutenberg—aided by Calibre

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 655
  Just in case you haven’t noticed, eBookwise is selling the model 1150 for just $89.95 and shipping (as little as $10 in the U.S.) . It includes 64Mb of internal memory. You don’t have as many DRMed commercial books to choose from as with more modern readers, and the display is an LCD, not E Ink. But thanks to ...
  1 week ago

• ‘Darn it, Santa, I want to watch my parents’ budget!’ A few words on teens, e-books and affordable prices and all that

  
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  Darn It, Santa, I said Leave a BOOK Under the Tree, NOT an E-Ebook is the catchy headline in Richard Curtis’s E-Reads blog . He quotes from a survey, What Do Teens Want? —the results of which appeared in Publishers Weekly : When we asked about their affection for a digital reading device for fun reading ...
  1 week ago

• Transforming a Workspace From Desktop to Laptop Computing

  
  WebWorkerDaily — Authority: 685
  Last spring, I bought my first Mac laptop to replace my aging Windows laptop. Mac fans may say the result was predictable: My shiny new MacBook quickly became my primary computer while my desktop PC gathered dust. That change left me with one problem I hadn’t anticipated, though. My office wouldn’t function as ...
  1 week ago

• Sony updates eBook Library software for PRS-300, PRS-505, PRS-600, Reader Touch Edition and Pocket Edition

  
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  Sony has updated eBook Library software to version 3.0.01 to provide for Windows 7 support for e-book management and transfer to Reader models PRS-300, PRS-505, PRS-600, the Reader Touch Edition and the Pocket Edition. The update is supposed to crash less often. EU users can download here , U.S. users here . ...
  1 week ago

• When Kindle e-reading apps show up on better handheld displays, will the iPhone seem quite so hot?

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 655
  The iPhone/iPod Touch have had the advantage of being the sole handheld devices with an e-reader that could access Amazon’s e-list. That will soon change. The Windows UMPC will be able to run the Kindle e-reader. Also, Amazon will move the software to new Android and Maemo devices with significantly higher ...
  1 week ago

• Lean and Ergonomics: A Good Match

  
  Lean Insider — Authority: 120
  In case you missed it (and I almost did), October was National Ergonomics Month. This designation was created six years ago by something called the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) with the stated purpose of focusing “on promoting human factors/ergonomics to corporate executives, ...
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• Two weeks with an Astak 5”: Ergonomic Factors

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 655
  I have spent the last two weeks reading e-books on the Astak, and am ready to give my first impressions. The Screen First of all, the 800×600-resolution screen. I love the screen. Of course, it is probably the same screen that any non-touch-sensitive e-ink reader has, but compared to the Sony I tested before ...
  1 week ago

• The 7500 LCD Arm by Innovative Office Products

  
  arezzo1.com — Authority: 142
  www.LCDarms.com The 7500 LCD Arm from Innovative Office Products is a height-adjustable mount for your flat panel monitor. This product suspends your screen weightlessly above your desk. Simply grab the screen and move to where it is needed. Free up desk space, improve your workspace ergonomics, and also increase the ...
  1 week ago

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