Google has developed their book search functionality one step further and now provide magazines in the site at http://www.books.google.com. There is a wide variety of magazines featured including everything from science journals to lifestyle magazines. The choice is currently reasonably limited but Google are planning to increase the inventory considerably over the next few months, with back catalogues from a number of publishers.
The magazine functionality is quite fully featured allowing browsing of the magazine covers, selection of the magazine to read and then browsing of scanned pages, with options to read both single pages and in double page spread mode.
The functionality of magazine search really extends the book search and opens up a whole genre of published material to the search indexes. It could be very useful online resource when an extensive inventory of titles is in place.
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The latest version of the Opera browser was announced yesterday. The browser Opera 10.0 named Peregrine, with its new Presto 2.2 rendering engine, was released in Alpha format for initial testing by its community of users. Opera traditionally doesn’t have much market share in comparison with Microsoft Internet Explorer and Firefox. Now with the launch of Google Chrome it faces even more competition. However, the browser does have a loyal following and with its variety of market leading features it has led the field in terms of browser functionality for some time. Many of the features of the major browsers that have been launched with much fanfare over the last few years were in place sometime before in Opera.
The latest version of the Opera browser has been launched with a performance boost, 100/100 on the Acid3 test, and a variety of improvements to its built in Opera mail client.
Opera mail is a relatively unknown mail client, which boast some impressive features and is in many ways much quicker and easier to use than its Microsoft competitors.
It is unlikely to make much of a ripple in the Internet Explorer and Firefox pond, but is well worth a look if you are interested in alternative browser features.
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