Today in NZ history- 19/04/1884 - First royal honour for New Zealand womanThe Royal Red Cross was awarded to Miss Annie Alice Crisp, Lady Superintendent of Auckland Hospital, in a ceremony at Government House, Auckland.
- 19/04/1884 - First royal honour for New Zealand womanThe Royal Red Cross was awarded to Miss Annie Alice Crisp, Lady Superintendent of Auckland Hospital, in a ceremony at Government House, Auckland.
- 19/04/1884 - First royal honour for New Zealand womanThe Royal Red Cross was awarded to Miss Annie Alice Crisp, Lady Superintendent of Auckland Hospital, in a ceremony at Government House, Auckland.
- 19/04/1893 - State buys Cheviot EstateIn the 1890s the Liberal government, and especially Minister of Lands John McKenzie, was determined to ‘burst up’ large landholdings for settlement by prospective small farmers, who were among its key supporters. The first property purchased under this policy was the 34,300-ha Cheviot Estate in North Canterbury.
- 19/04/1884 - First royal honour for New Zealand woman
Tag Archives: iPad
Sometimes Apple drives me up the wall
I love my iPad but sometimes I despair of it – and Apple. I have a particular spreadsheet file I use daily that I store in my marvellous Dropbox folder. That sends my file to the computing cloud, so I … Continue reading
A convert to the Kindle eReader
I’m a convert to the Kindle eReader. But I’m not a convert from ink and paper. No, I converted from the iPad, much touted by Apple as giving the ultimate ereading experience. For about a year, nearly all my personal … Continue reading
Posted in ebooks, iBooks, iPad, Kindle, Tablets
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eBooks and the iPad – implications for publishers
There’s much talk overseas about the new Apple iPad taking over from established e-readers like the Amazon Kindle, and finally persuading the masses to read books on an electronic tablet instead of paper. This may or may not be correct, … Continue reading
Posted in Computers, e-publishing, iPad, publishing, Tablets
Tagged e-book, e-publishing, iBooks, iPad
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This decade’s epochal event?
The epochal event of the decade happened last weekend. That’s right – the iPad tablet computer emerged from Steve Jobs’s reality distortion field. Correction: the iPad is still in that field, so is Jobs and so are gadget freaks the … Continue reading
Posted in 50s nostalgia, Computers, Gadgets, Scrabble, Tablets
Tagged geeks, iPad, Scrabble
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