Google Books for iPad adds in-book search and landscape mode
Google has updated its Books app for iOS today, and the new version brings a handful of bug fixes, performance improvements, and a couple of new features. One of these is iPad-specific: reading books in the landscape orientation on Apple tablets is now possible. The second is the addition of a Find feature which shows you all the matches for a particular query as you scroll.
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Firefox's text-finding abilities (Ctrl+F) have long been a bone of contention for Download Squad. Barely a day goes by without Lee strolling over to my wing of the bunker and exclaiming expletively about it. Erez even ranted about it back in July! Fortunately, Mozilla Labs' latest add-on, the latest in the Prospector series, will make things a little better: Find Suggest.
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So I don't like Firefox's native Find functionality; and it turns out I'm not the only one. There have been lots of comments on my post; the one I found most entertaining was the one calling me to "stop acting like a tabloid" – gotta love those comments!
The most useful comment, however, came from reader Ken Saunders. Ken pointed me towards Find All, which is an add-on that goes a long way ...
digg_url = "http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2008/01/21/flipping-the-linux-switch-misplace-a-file-find-it-quick/";It happens to the best of us. We forget where we put things. Car keys. Flash drives. Yes, sometimes we even forget where certain files are on our computers. We can't really help you with the car keys and flash drives (although we inexplicably find things like that in the refrigerator ...
Showcased at demofall 2006 this year, Imaginistics has created the world's first shape-based search engine, 3d-seek. Designers, architects, and 3D data consultants will benefit from the technology, allowing you to draw a a rough sketch of the part you are looking for or use an existing 3D model you have, and it will fetch results based on what you draw. You can also add text to your query, which ...





