In an effort to “pull back the curtain” on the process of making (writing for, photographing for, designing for, producing) magazines, Wired has decided to go meta on their Charlie Kaufman story, and experiment by putting the entire story online as they product it.
Internal emails, rough drafts, edit memos, PDFs of layouts, marked-up page proofs; it’s all there for the world to see, and for you to follow along as the article comes together.
Apparently the web world is fed up with PDFs, because alternatives are popping up left and right.
The latest entry into this world is iPaper, which aims to entirely replace the PDF.
The basic idea is that, like a YouTube video, iPaper documents can be embedded into any existing web page through a Flash widget, and can display PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and other document formats without the need for separate readers.
Features include viewing documents without downloading any additional software, monetizing documents with integrated advertisements, social aspects with a built in share functionality, enhanced security, and easy integration.
Edit: Box.net, a free online storage and file sharing site, is one of the first sites to embrace the iPaper technology. You can now view any of your PDF, Word, Excel, or Power Point documents that you have stored on Box.net using iPaper.
This Ecto 1 is impressive not for its attention to detail, but because it’s made entirely out of paper! Part of Paper Inside, a paper model blog, the Ecto 1 model is just one of the extremely intricate paper models that are featured. Other notable models include the Back to the Future DeLorean, the General Lee, the Mach-5, and the Mad Max Interceptor. Each one comes with finalized photos to give you an idea of the end result, and pdf printouts if you want to try it yourself. Small hand and large patience are definitely required for assembly.
There are a few minor things on my computer (PowerBook G4) that have been bothering me for a while now, so I finally decided to sit down and figure out what needed to be done to fix them. If you share my annoyances, here’s what to do:
First, when you install Adobe Acrobat Professional, it puts [...]
