But it's difficult to guarantee the way a document will look if you write it as a web page . . . cross-browser testing is a much greater task than just seeing testing in Acrobat Reader. The web was designed for hypertext, PDFs are just for professional looking static documents.

Idiocy:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/01/ipad_gaelic/

sort your browser out then. doesn't freeze on my computer.

what's good? it's free to read, what you see is what you print, universally readable across different platforms, free software to produce pdf files, everyone knows how to read/open the files, renders equally across platforms.

I know, but what use are they to anyone? It's such an outdated idea that ignores the usefulness of the device it's being viewed on, most peole just print them out I guess.

I got an ebook reader for christmas, and I kind of like it, but the limitations of the PDF format it uses infuriate me. Why can't it jump between the notes and the text? why can't I do a search? It seems such a simple concept.

what day is it again?

First of April ...

It doens't kill it, it's just that irritating processor hog as the bloated reader opens.

PDF format is an ISO standard and there are many lightweight readers available that can start faster. also you can speed up adobe reader a lot be disabling the plugins on startup.

Tell that to my system administrator.

I have a real bugger with this at the moment, a specific file downloaded from IEEE Explore freezes Opera

Indeed . . .

Here's another IT one:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7541455/Ferrets-key-to-bridging-the-digital-divide-between-cities-and-rural-areas.html

That's not as daft as it seems. We used our cats to lay cables under our floorboards when we lived in the UK.

The cats pulled through lengths of string and we attached the cables to those.

Were they CAT cables?

Ah, geek jokes, you've got to love 'em...

I just can't believe the coolest potential portable media center fro the home doesn't have flash capabilities.

actually, the ethernet cables are numbered by the grading of the cat required to pull them through the gaps. e.g. standard ethernet (CAT5) requires a level 5 cat, whereas the newer cables for gig-e require an enhanced strength 5 cat (CAT5e cable)

That and Adobe Reader is extremely insecure. Adobe doesn't give a rat's a** about security - they patch their holes weeks after they've started to get actively exploited.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/seealso/2...ples_ipad.html

Some fresh reviews

I'm honestly not impressed with the iPad but then again I wasn't impressed with the first generation of the iPhone too. Initial reviews online show it to be glitchy and lacking in structure.

I would personally wait for the second generation of this thing to buy it as Apple will probably bring a lot of improvements to it. That's what I'm doing with the iPhone 4G.

What do you mean exactly?

Now that they are for sale, has anyone taken the plunge? If so, initial thoughts?

They aren't available in Europe until the end of April. At least thats what I thought. Unless you meant has anyone ordered it yet? D'oh!!

I'll be buying the missus one as a gift. Might get myself one as well