Google News has added an advanced search page. Search for articles from specific news sources; search for articles from news sources located in a specific state or country; and perhaps most useful, search for articles published within a certain ranges of dates. [via CyberJournalist]
Category Archives: Gadgets & Apps
Jakob Nielsen on PDF
Usability expert Jakob Nielsen on PDF: “PDF is great for one thing and one thing only: printing documents. Paper is superior to computer screens in many ways, and users often prefer to print documents that are too long to easily read online. For online reading, however, PDF is the monster from the Black Lagoon. It puts its clammy hands all over people with a cruel grip that doesn’t let go.”
WordPress adds audio playlists
MSN Direct on your watch
Beginning this fall, Microsoft plans to offer a new wireless information and messaging service that will run on evolving smart watch devices. The software company’s MSN Direct division says the service, which costs $9.95 a month, is geared to deliver customized information to a new category of watches. MSN Direct said the service would provide consumers with information including news, weather, sports scores, stock quotes, movies, dining, and games. Microsoft is expected to leverage some of its original content and existing media licensing arrangements in order to provide the data for the wireless watch information service. [InternetNews.com]
Fast Forward.
TiVo president Martin Yudkovitz, speaking at the Interactive Media conference in San Diego says TiVo engineers are exploring the possibility of having an actual message appear as TiVo users fast-forward past commercials. The idea is that instead of them watching a video blur, users might see a still advertising message as the unit advances the video. [Steve Outing on E-Media Tidbits]