Today in NZ history- 09/12/1867 - First passengers traverse Lyttelton rail tunnel After 6½ years of construction, it took just 6½ minutes for the first trainload of passengers to speed through the 2.6- km tunnel linking the Canterbury plains to the port of Lyttelton.
- 10/12/1908 - Rutherford wins Nobel PrizeErnest Rutherford’s discoveries about the nature of atoms shaped modern science and paved the way for nuclear physics. Albert Einstein called him a ‘second Newton’ who had ‘tunnelled into the very material of God’.
- 10/12/1908 - Rutherford wins Nobel PrizeErnest Rutherford’s discoveries about the nature of atoms shaped modern science and paved the way for nuclear physics. Albert Einstein called him a ‘second Newton’ who had ‘tunnelled into the very material of God’.
- 10/12/1918 - Anzac troops take revenge on Arab civilians at Surafend40 male Arab civilians were killed by Anzac troops in revenge for the killing of New Zealand Trooper Leslie Lowry
- 09/12/1867 - First passengers traverse Lyttelton rail tunnel
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
Tagged convert from ipad to kindle, iBooks, iPad, kindle. ebook
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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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