Month: May 2013

13.3-inch Sony tablet is like Etch A Sketch on steroids

Sony’s 13.3-inch Digital Paper tablet is based on durable plastic TFT technology. (Credit: Sony) If you love doodling with a pen but hate accumulating paper, Sony and E Ink are coming out with a tablet/digital notepad that’s large and relatively light for its size compared to big e-readers.

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AT&T to open mobile video chat for all customers

AT&T customers should be able to use any mobile video chat app before too much longer. Preloaded video-chat apps will work over AT&T’s cellular network for all customers, regardless of device or data plan, by the end of 2013, according to a statement from AT&T. Customers with unlimited data and an LTE device should expect to be able to use video chat apps from Apple, Samsung, and BlackBerry over the AT&T network by mid-June

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How to create custom PDF compression filters in OS X

Apple’s Preview program is the default PDF viewer in OS X, and has a number of options for annotating and otherwise managing PDF files. One of its features is support for Quartz filters, which can be applied to PDFs and image files to convert them, for example into sepia, black-and-white, or gray scale. A Quartz filter can be used to reduce the PDF’s file size, but while it’s effective at doing so, you may find images in the resulting PDF too grainy to use.

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