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Updated txtr app allows Adobe protected eBooks onto iPads
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iPad owners looking to read existing Adobe DRM protected books – including those bought from UK retailers such as Waterstones, WH Smiths and Foyles – on their iPad can now do so thanks to an updated version of the txtr app.
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Amazon announces new Kindle models & UK store
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Online retailer Amazon has confirmed UK customers will be able to buy two new versions of its Kindle eBook reader from the UK site as of August 27th. The new Kindle has a 6″ e-ink screen which the retailer claims offers “50 percent better contrast than any other e-reader” and is both smaller and lighter…
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Brighton film season marks Picturehouse's centenury
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A season of films showcasing Brighton’s cinematic history has been announced to mark the 100th anniversary of the seaside town’s Duke of York’s Picturehouse on September 22nd. The season, which is supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund and runs from August 15th and throughout the centenary month of September, includes crime, comedy and horror films,…
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Mongrels: Episode 6 preview
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We’ve got a great new clip for episode 6 of BBC Three’s ‘multi-species’ comedy Mongrels which features five urban animals who hang out together in the back yard of an inner city pub. The line-up of characters features Nelson, a metrosexual fox; Destiny, a pretentious pedigree It-bitch Afghan hound; Marion, a freshly-neutered wannabe tomcat; Kali,…
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Why does the BBC have an iPad news app but no Android one?
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Smartphones are great devices but – no matter how much manufacturers say otherwise – their smallish screens aren’t ideal for prolonged web browsing of the sort many people do when reading news. So of course it makes sense to develop apps where they can make the maximum use of the device’s screen and any native…
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BBC One's Sherlock – captivating, high class drama
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After his fairly lacklustre Doctor Who season 5 I’d started to wonder if Steve Moffat had lost his mojo – thankfully last night’s Sherlock (BBC One) proves that’s not the case. Witty, fast-paced, well directed and emotionally charged, Sherlock was everything Moffat’s debut Who series failed to be. It does however have one thing in…