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  • Apple Watch could get a camera on the end of a watch band's strap

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    I’m increasingly convinced that the smart phone as the chief personal device is a passing phenomenon. Wearables. 
    watto_cobra

  • Microsoft should have been Apple's challenger in mobile, says Bill Gates

    gebloomgebloom
    The world is worse off for getting stuck with Android instead of Windows Mobile. 
    Perhaps not. Because their hardware failed,  MS has become a successful services company. 
    gatorguytmay

  • How to use your Mac to become a paperback writer: Part 2

    gebloomgebloom
    There’s no solution here for non-fiction print, which requires an index. The only (Mac) apps that will produce an index are Word, Nisus, Mellel, and (not an app, a technology) LaTeX. 

    I tried them all, but only LaTeX creates a professional-looking document. For that, you need InDesign or Quark–a good investment if you’re going to produce lots of books, but too expensive for just a couple. I didn’t like any of the Vellum formats, but i didn’t test it with an index. 

    LaTeX works if you don’t need to exchange DocX files with an editor or other contributor. It’s difficult if you’re not a programmer, which I’m not. You have to think like one, in terms of scope, akin to CSS or style sheets in word processors. 

    Anyway, good solutions for fiction, but non-fiction print is still difficult. 
    aplnub