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Kindle Just Turned Into An Instapaper For Files

7:30AM January 13, 2012 | Kyle Wagner

I like using my ereader for things other than books, but aside from Instapaper, converting regular files into ereader format is more hassle than it’s worth. Now Amazon’s making it easier to send non-book files to your Kindle. More »


Science

Now You Can Download The Original Lunar Rover Manual

10:20AM November 18, 2011 | Andrew Liszewski

Before you apply to NASA, you might want to take some time to peruse the original Lunar Rover Operations Handbook. Even though it dates back to April 19, 1971, a working knowledge of Apollo equipment couldn’t hurt your chances. More »


Online

Google-Powered Dead Sea Scrolls Are A History Buff’s Dream

12:00AM September 27, 2011 | Mario Aguilar

Five of the Dead Sea Scrolls — the world’s oldest biblical documents — are now viewable online as searchable, high-resolution images thanks to Google. Talk about some priceless Google Docs. More »


Mobile

iPhone 5 October Launch And Preorder Docs Unearthed

3:00AM September 5, 2011 | Jack Loftus

The folks at BGR have stumbled upon some documents that allegedly detail basic first steps and prep work for a iPhone 5 launch in the first week of October at US electronics retailer Best Buy. We’ll add this evidence to the growing pile. More »


News

Man Gets Hard Drive Full Of Secret Apple Documents

6:40AM September 3, 2011 | Jesus Diaz

You knew about the one about a man who walks into a bar and finds a lost iPhone. Well, this one is about a man who walks into an Apple Store and walks out with a hard drive full of Apple secrets. More »


Online

LulzSec Leaks Classified Documents In Attack Against Border Patrol

9:07AM June 24, 2011 | Sam Biddle

Lashing out against the “racial profiling anti-immigrant police state that is Arizona”, LulzSec has released their newest data dump: “hundreds of private intelligence bulletins, training manuals, personal email correspondence, names, phone numbers, addresses and passwords belonging to Arizona law enforcement”. More »


News

8 Bizarre, Intriguing Documents The NSA Just Declassified

6:00AM June 15, 2011 | Sam Biddle

It was spring-cleaning time at the NSA, who dropped a staggering 50,000 pages of declassified documents into the hands of the National Archives. A lot’s on the mundane side – so here are the best looking eight: More »


Online

Google Docs Levels Up: Unlocks Pivot Table Powers

8:05AM May 18, 2011 | Andrew Tarantola

Google Docs went Ding! today and gained some additional functionality, rolling out natively supported pivot tables. The pivot table, as any A/R Coordinator worth his salt can tell you, allows data from one workbook to be summarized in another, saving huge amounts of time and brainpower. This function been available on Excel since 1997 but has been only available to Docs users to this point through the Panorama add-on. [Google Docs Blog via Business Insider]


Software

Google Docs For Android

4:51AM April 28, 2011 | Sam Biddle

You know Google Docs, it’s the fantastic text editing, word processing web app from the Google. And cruising Google Docs via the mobile browser has long been fine! But nothing beats a dedicated app – which is now an option for Android users. More »


Online

I Can’t Believe Google Docs Has Only Just Added Page Breaks Now

5:55PM April 13, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

It’s one of the small features in word-publishing software that we take for granted – pagination. But it’s taken Google up until now to add page breaks to its Docs offering. The new update also adds native printing; the ability to print right from the browser in a WYSIWYG-stylee. [Google Docs Blog]