The Future Of Publishing Blog by Thad McIlroy
July 31st, 2007
Many of you will have by now heard of Adobe’s great gaffe in the Acrobat 8.1 of licensing FedEx/Kinko’s to add a little button to the Acrobat toolbar making in a no-brainer for users to send their output files to that large and well-respected chain of, dare I say it, “quick printers” The button can…
June 25th, 2007
My current section on e-books (from way back on May 1) expresses many of my misgivings over their genesis and development. I also took note of their apparent impending return. Since then there’s a ton of data (mostly press releases of course) to suggest that a more important comeback is afoot, greater than I had…
May 31st, 2007
Is there a full moon? For some reason tonight’s news is packed with fascinating technology developments. I subscribe to the TED website, which very generously allows mere mortals who can’t find the time (or afford the price of admission) to experience much of what takes place at this extraordinary conference. Tonight an email from the…
May 18th, 2007
Well, after wasting a whole lot of time following the automated advice from Sony, I Googled the error message and found a solution on the Microsoft Web site. It involved making changes to the registry (which, as we are always advised, is as dangerous as playing with a neutron bomb). But they worked. The optical…
May 6th, 2007
One of my clients is doing some work with Microsoft Vista. (I can’t figure it out: is it Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista, or just Microsoft Vista?) So I bought a new Sony VAIO computer with Vista Business Edition pre-installed, knowing that if I tried to install Vista over Windows XP I would probably destroy…