Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Linux by Knight Post 046 Steve Jobs on Text Books and Backpacks


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Apple Introduces Technology that Makes School Textbooks Obsolete by Switching to the iPad January 25th, 2012 Posted in Steve Jobs Blog Posts.

Apple wants students to stop lugging around backpacks full of heavy textbooks and to switch to the iPad instead.

On Thursday the company introduced three free pieces of software revolving around education. It released iBooks 2, a new version of its electronic bookstore, where students can now download textbooks; iBooks Author, a Macintosh program for creating textbooks and other books; and iTunes U, an app for instructors to create digital curriculums and share course materials with students.



From:  http://stevejobsnow.net





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     WOZ  has a Different Take on BackPacks...
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Just Wow: Steve Wozniak's Backpack Crammed Full of Gadgets





This is what Steve Wozniak carries around in his 50 pound backpack that's reportedly made him shorter over the years.







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Thursday, July 12, 2012

Linux by Knight Post 045 Plextor Launches Affordable SSDs with Non-Declining Performance.








From:   http://www.xbitlabs.com



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Thursday, July 5, 2012

Linux by Knight Post 044 Convert MS Word Docs to e-Books for Free






The Smashwords e-book-publishing service transforms Word's DOC files into the EPUB, MOBI, and other e-book formats, but only if  you shun text boxes, tables, and other common formatting elements in the file, as the handy Smashwords guide explains.   





From:  http://howto.cnet.com








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Getting More INFO On:   How to Use Microsoft Word to 
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