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Quote: Originally Posted by Dlux The software may be quite capable, but the installers from Adobe are horrible. First, they use that god-awful VICE installer nonsense, and they smear their support files everywhere like a baby with a jar of chocol…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dlux Whatever disk space we might reclaim as a result of Apple's diligence will be used right up again when the next Adobe installer dumps its truckload of elephant shit. Oh well. Then Don't use Adobe products and y…
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Quote: Originally Posted by PXT That was exactly the final straw that broke me away from Windows. After years of issues with windows, I ended up with a new laptop with vista, could not print and also could not connect to the Internet. I desperate…
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Quote: Originally Posted by teckstud Does it display pages in color for magazines- like Zinnio reader? No but the Zinio Reader is for computer only, they don't offer any handheld device. There is no comparison between the two at all.
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Quote: Originally Posted by quinney I think his motivation can be deduced from some of his other posts: It appears to me he is bitter about buying AAPL stock near the top of the market. His exceptional level of bitterness in today's thread gi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by hill60 I've found that in Stanza you can adjust the text size to be larger than that found in a book. You also don't need an external light source. And as has been pointed out before iPhone applications can save …
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Quote: Originally Posted by vinea Too bad this isn't true. I've read a dozen books on my iPod from Webscriptions. For one thing, it doesn't keep my wife up if i decide to read a chapter with the lights off. For another, it takes very little en…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism Do you actually believe the stuff you write or are being paid to come on this site to push FUD? Not allowing 3rd-party apps to run in the background does not mean that apps can't save information regarding yo…
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Quote: Originally Posted by paxman Exactly - there may or may not be a netbook, you may or may not be able to read e-books on the iPhone / iTouch, but it will be a far cry from a dedicated device because the screen is different. Period. You wi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by DavidCarnicelli Except I've never bought a device specifically to read books. I had a Palm Pilot. Now I have an iPhone. I bought these devices for other reasons. The fact that I could read on them was a huge bonus. If …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Slewis Already have, one other forum before this one, but I'll keep it here whenever I finish my custom DVORAK-based keyboard layout in Ukelele. TypeIt4Me just doesn't cut it, sadly. Þe þorn shall rise þenceforþ! …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Slewis No, þe net just consists of pretty pictures & video wiþ no closed captioning, text is just there as filler so þere's not so much white space or someþing like þat. Sebastian What? Text is there as fill…
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Quote from an AppleInsider article referring to the Kindle. "It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people don’t read anymore," he said. "Forty percent of the people in the U.S. read one book or less last year. The who…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Halvri Please go elsewhere with your vile, no one here is claiming Apple came up with everything it does. The difference is that Apple typically either buys the company doing what it wants to integrate or it licenses t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by John French This Win7 dock-ish feature actually looks to be an improvement over the previous taskbar. I will probably end up pirating Win7 Ultimate, unless somebody near me actually shells out $$$ for it. I real…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross Voice dialing doesn't help you avoid an accident either, as using a phone in the car, hands-free or not, has been shown to result in as many accidents as being drunk. He was trying to make a point that it w…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ThePixelDoc I see this tech as being sorely needed, and another "green" initiative from Apple. Imagine if batteries were "required" sometime into the future by law, to be reusable, or at the very least, be recharge…
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Quote: Originally Posted by delreyjones Wow! Sounds like you bought on iPhone largely because of what Apple suggested it could do in the future, as opposed to what it was capable of doing at the time you bought it. Is that right? I buy things …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Virgil-TB2 After reading your posts over the last year or so I'm starting to wonder if there is ever anything you are NOT pissed about. I'm guessing you hate puppy dogs, sunshine and smiling children as well? T…
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Quote: Originally Posted by nagromme I like Apple's original solution--clean and efficient. I hope they complete that plan. For future, faster devices, "true" multitasking would be fine. But on current handhelds, I like an app in the backgroun…