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Today in NZ history
- 28/01/1827 - D'Urville sails through 'French Pass'In a feat of navigational daring – and after several attempts – the French explorer Jules Sébastien César Dumont d’Urville sailed the Astrolabe from Tasman Bay through the narrow ‘French Pass’ into Admiralty Bay in the Marlborough Sounds.
- 28/01/1901 - Hardham wins Victoria Cross in South AfricaWellington blacksmith William Hardham served in South Africa with the fourth New Zealand contingent. He was the only New Zealander awarded a Victoria Cross during the South African War.
- 29/01/1842 - Auckland's first Anniversary Day RegattaAuckland’s Anniversary Day commemorates the arrival of Lieutenant-Governor William Hobson in the Bay of Islands in 1840.
- 30/01/1911 - Bookies take last bets on New Zealand racecoursesA 1910 amendment to the Gaming Act banned bookmakers from New Zealand racecourses, other public places and hotels.
- 28/01/1827 - D'Urville sails through 'French Pass'
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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