Thursday, September 30, 2010

IT News HeadLines (bit-tech.net) 29/09/2010


bit-tech.net
Planescape: Torment released on GOG
Planescape: Torment has been re-released on Good Old Games.
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World of Tanks Preview
Take control of your own steel beast in this upcoming free to play MMO. About tanks.
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No Firefox for iOS
The Mozilla Foundation has officially confirmed that Firefox Mobile won't be coming to iOS.
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OpenOffice.org splits from Oracle
OpenOffice.org has forked, forming LibreOffice to escape the effects of Oracle's Sun purchase.
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Asus VG236H Review
The latest 3D screen has a high brightness to shine through those shutter glasses.
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Thoughts On Digital Magazines
I warn you now: this post isn't going to be entirely about the iPad, but it will be featured, so look away now if you're squeamish. Or skip straight to the comments to bash Steve Jobs!

That said, I don't come specifically to praise the iPad either, or even to focus on it. What I want to talk about is the stuff that's on the iPad: particularly the bundle of words, pictures, videos and ideas we call a magazine. There's a lot of great magazine stuff happening on the iPad, from straightforward digital facsimiles (essentially PDFs) of paper mags such as our own Custom PC Zinio edition, through to Apps with video and software features such as 360 degree rotatable images (the ones that, if you're particularly viciously disposed towards the English language, you might call 'magapps').

They're solely iPad Apps at the moment because it's taking the rest of the industry a long time to catch up, but as soon as Android tablets, WebOS tablets and the BlackBerry tablet appear and start selling in numbers you'll see similar offerings on them as well.

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