The rabble rousers at the World Wildlife Fund (they renamed fake wrestling!) have created a new, PDF-type file format called WWF. It’s a file format that CANNOT be printed out. The idea: save as WWF, save a tree. More »
PadNotes, an upcoming iPad app, offers a very simple, very useful function that the iPad seems to lack: You can type and draw on any PDF. Watch the video and you’ll understand, the possibilities are quite impressive. [9to5Mac]
A new exploit allows PDFs attached to emails to take over Blackberries. Luckily, a fix is already out for Enterprise Server and Professional software, available here. [RIM via The Register] More »
Amazon claims that all it took was a six-month firmware improvement test to get the Kindle 2 to run 85 per cent longer than before, which is a pretty damn impressive feat of engineering. More »
While it’s not the grand opening of the Kindle app store or anything, a developer decided to write an app for Kindle 2 that converts .pdf and .epub docs to Kindle’s beloved .mobi format.
I’ve always found PDFs to be supremely annoying thanks to Acrobat Reader’s slow, crashy behaviour. Now, Gmail is allowing users to skip the Reader altogether.
