The Sony Reader Daily Edition Is In

If you like eReaders and you prefer your gear to have the Sony name the Sony Reader Daily Edition is now online and in stores for your to buy. The reader has WiFi and an AT&T 3G connection for downloading books wherever you happen to be.

The eReader has an optical touchscreen that makes it easy to use measuring in at 7-inches giving you lots of room to read. The device can get books from the Sony Reader Store. The Reader Daily Edition can also surf the web with basic functionality with reading-based URLs like Google and Wikipedia.

The device can also access Twitter, Facebook, cnbc and CNET. The reader has a zoom to get closer to specific sections of content and has a collections feature to group content by author, favorites, and more. The reader has 2GB of internal storage and can be expanded to 32GB with a SD card. It can be purchased right now for $299.

Via Geeky Gadget

PDF Reader can Write PDF Files

If all you want to do is read PDF files on your desktop, your existing copy of Adobe Reader is just perfect for the job. The software lets you view and print PDFs but you’ll have to upgrade to Adobe Acrobat in case you would like to have the ability to create PDF files offline.

There are some excellent alternatives, like Bullzip and doPDF, that don’t cost anything and can create PDF files but they only do half the job – you’ll still need a separate program, like Adobe Reader, for viewing those PDF files locally.

Nitro Reader gives you the best of both worlds. It’s a PDF Reader for Windows that you may also use for creating PDFs from Office documents, web pages and virtually any other Windows application that has the print button.

If you would to convert a batch of files into PDFs, simply drag them all to the Nitro Reader icon on your desktop and they’ll be converted into PDFs almost instantly. It can’t get any easier than this.

Other than PDF generation, Nitro Reader offers some other useful features as well. For instance, you can import an image of your signature into Nitro and turn it into a stamp. The next time you want to sign a PDF file, simply add that stamp using Nitro Reader itself.

The software has a useful “Extract Images” feature that you may use to extract and export all images from a PDF into individual files. This is handy if you want to re-use any of the images from that PDF but don’t have access to the document from which that PDF file was originally created.

Nitro PDF Reader is available for Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 (x86 and x64 editions).

Via Labnol

BlackBerry PlayBook Features Pre-Loaded Kobo Reader

RIM recently announced their first tablet computer, the BlackBerry PlayBook, Amazon also announced that they would be launching a version of the Kindle Reader app for the PlayBook.

Now it seems the the PlayBook will come with a built in e-book reader, the Kobo Reader, which should end up giving the Kindle reader a run for its money on the new RIM tablet.

The PlayBook features a 7 inch LCD display with a resolution of 1024 x 600, the PlayBook measures 5.1 inches by 7.6 inches by 0.4 inches thick and it ways in at just 400 grams, processing is in the form of a 1GHz processor and there is also 1GB of RAM.

The BlackBerry PlayBook features a mutli touch capacitive LCD display, integrated 802.11 a/b/g/n WiFi and a microUSB connector, and it comes with full support for Adobe Flash 10.1 and HTML 5, something that RIM are keen to point out.

The PlayBook features a new BlackBerry Tablet OS which is based on QNX technology, and it features what RIM calls ‘true multi tasking’ there is also an on screen keyboard a HDMI port, Bluetooth and it will come in 16GB and 32GB sizes.

The BlackBerry PlayBook is capable of playing back Full HD video in 1080p via the HDMI port. Another feature on the PlayBook is video conferencing, there are dual HD cameras built in a 3 megapixel camera on the front and a 5 megapixel camera on the back.

via Tech Fever