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Everyone has a favorite style or format that they prefer to read webpages in. For those who want something more than the default “look” you can choose the one that best suits your needs with the TidyRead extension for Firefox. Note: A bookmarklet version is available at the TidyRead Homepage for use in Firefox & non-Firefox browsers. Before As an example we chose one of the webpages here at the site to show what can be done using TidyRead. The “Before Look”… After As soon as you have installed the extension you will see a vast difference in the appearance of online articles.

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Forget about traditional touchscreen displays, laser keyboards, and gesture-based controls. None of those have the same wacky sci-fi appeal as “Skinput,” the new self-touch input method Carnegie Mellon University and Microsoft are tag teaming . Skinput is essentially a touchscreen interface for your flesh, but don’t worry, it doesn’t require any surgery or limb replacements.

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The e-Reader market has taken a turn, headed toward more expensive multi-purpose devices (e.g., Apple’s iPad, Amazon’s expected full-color multi-touch Kindle). This puts existing single-function e-Readers, which are priced relatively high, in some jeopardy. To keep the ‘pure’ e-Reader market alive and healthy, something cheaper and faster is going to be needed, and Freescale has obliged with a new chip, the i.MX508 . The i.MX508 strips all pretenses about function and focuses exclusively on e-reading.

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Fans of distraction-free writing are well catered for on the Mac. Full-screen editor WriteRoom is excellent, and the superb Scrivener offers a similar mode, as does Pages and the idiosyncratic ‘writing environment’ OmmWriter. myTexts snow is another option in this field, although one perhaps even more unconventional than OmmWriter. In a way, myTexts snow feels more like an iPhone app than a desktop one – it abstracts file management, aiming to be an all-inclusive environment

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The founder of Bare Bones Software calls Yojimbo a ‘digital junk drawer’. It’s an honest description of a tool that won’t transform your Mac life, but helps you rationalise and keep track of odd documents that inevitably accumulate on your hard drive. You can copy files to Yojimbo in many text and image formats, as well as PDF and HTML, and tag them with descriptive keywords if you wish, then dump the originals in the Trash. Importing documents is easy, via either drag and drop or a dialog, and if you want to import a non-supported file type (such as a spreadsheet), you can print a PDF directly to Yojimbo from an app that does support it

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Do you dislike having to save “temporary interest/need” links as bookmarks or saving the whole webpage to your computer for later reference? Now you can save those links as small clickable files with the SaveLink extension. SaveLink in Action Once you have installed the extension you are ready to start saving links as files. You will not have to worry with any options… There are two different ways to access the extension…the first is using the “File Menu” to save the webpage you are currently viewing as a “.url file”

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Photoshop has come a long way. 20 years ago today it debuted as a basic – but still pretty amazing – image editor. It’s now pretty much impossible to find an image that hasn’t benefited from its magic touch. From whitening teeth in billboard ads to foisting yet more lolcats on the world, its influence is enormous

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ARM was demonstrating some of the tech goodies it’s enabled recently, and one of the stars was the dual-screened Entourage Edge device. Packing Android on one side and an ebook reader on the other, this is a laptop-style device designed to make paper textbooks a thing of the past. You can look books or web pages or applications up on the Android screen, and with the touch of a button port that over the ebook reader to check it out without draining the battery. The Android section holds a wealth of ebooks, a shopping portal to buy more, and all the applications you’re used to from the Android Market.

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For those who can’t make up their mind: netbook or eReader, enTourage has you covered: the eDGe, a clamshell device that is half netbook, half eReader. But it looks like you’ll have a to wait a bit longer for the eDGe to make an appearance, and pay a bit more for the privilege of owing one. It’s not a bad little device.

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Google’s dominance of the internet is worryingly reminiscent of Microsoft’s command of the desktop market, and with Chrome being a big component of the Chrome operating system, it’s clear this app is more than just a browser. However, if 2012 sees us with Google chips implanted in our skulls, things won’t be so bad as long as the company takes the same level of care as it has with Chrome for Mac. Google claims the browser’s been built from the ground up, which explains why it’s taken so long to arrive. There’s still the occasional iffy design decision – tabs have close boxes at the right and become small and fiddly when many are open, for example, and the toolbar drag area above the tabs is too small. Elsewhere, though, it’s clear this isn’t a lazy Firefox-style port – Chrome utilises Mac OS X’s Dictionary and Keychain; it also offers subtle Mac-like animations when opening tabs and panels

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