Charlie Sorrel of gaget lab, talks of the dream of Wired Editor Leander Kahney –who yet in turn comments on the 9to5Mac’s rumor on the “The Brick”.
Kahney wishes for two touch-screen iPod Touches joined at the hip — useful for ebooking, notebooking, or sharing with another person (not so sure about this one…).
Both Leander and Sorrel think it’s a slim chance, but it’s something they’d both love to see.

WindJack Solutions, long known within the industry as being one of the foremost experts when it comes to Acrobat and PDF JavaScript…

You love PDF — but you’re hankering for even more info about what’s going on in the digital documents world?

The days of paper textbooks in School classrooms are numbered. The prospect of being able to carry around all of your schools books on one electronic device — with the data backed up on the web, of course — will be too great for many to resist. How long will it take? Who knows, but 5-10 years is a reasonable guess.
With the release of the Kindle, Sony Reader, iRex Digital Reader and Plastic Logic Reader, among others, we are seeing the future home of textbooks taking shape. While some of the …

Connecticut Law Tribune reports on a recent workshop that looked at ways to develop a new version of law school course books.
Professors and publishing executives met earlier this month in Seattle to discuss how legal casebooks could be made available electronically on a widespread basis, particularly on new instruments such as Amazon’s Kindle and the Sony Reader.
And:
Much of the push for electronic casebooks is coming from law professors who want more control over the materials they use in their classrooms. Ayres already is moving in this direction by going paperless …

billbennettnz has republished an article he originally wrote in 1987 about the myth of the so-called paperless office. While the article was written over twenty years ago, unfortunately much of the sentiment holds true, even today.
One of the greatest myths of the computer era is the so-called paperless office. A few years ago, the phrase was all the rage, but you hardly hear of it these days. The reality is that despite years of office automation, human beings still have a love affair with the printed word. That is a word …

Then head on over to Download.com and do a search for “pdf” and browse through the search results to see how many times each program has been downloaded.

Legal Technology have published a review of Acrobat 9 that looks at the new features and enhancements from a lawyers perspective.

Solid Documents have written a short post on their blog discussing their work with the PDF/A Competence Center and the benefits of using PDF/A.

PDFTron Systems and Adlib Software have signed a new OEM agreement which will see PDFTron’s PDF library, PDFnet SDK, used in Adlibe Sofware’s core applications.

Microsoft has released an Office 2007 to PDF add-on that allows you save files directly to PDF from Office 2007 applications. They also supply a similar add-in for the XPS format.

AccountingWEB.co.uk and accountsIQ have teamed up for a Great Debate about the Paperless Office. The arguments from both sides are presented very well and provide great insight. Definitely worth reading if you’re at all interested in the concept of The Paperless Office.
The Great Debate: The Paperless Office
“This house believes that the paperless office is a myth.”
First proposer:
Rob Lewis, practice editor, AccountingWEB.co.uk
From its very start, the notion of the paperless office was used by the technology sector to sell stuff. The term itself was the creation of a seventies publicist and in 1975 …

Drumlin Security, the UK-based PDF security specialist, has released a new lightweight and low memory usage PDF reader.

Streamingmedia.com have published a review of Adobe Acrobat 9 focusing on the tight integration of Flash, Portfolio and the new multimedia tools.

I’m a big fan of using metadata to organize files because it means I don’t have to use an inefficient hierarchical folder tree. Unfortunately for some of us, this idea seems to be gaining more traction on the Mac OS X platform, than it is on the Windows platform. In a series of posts last year, theAppleBlog looked at how to effectively use metadata to organize files in Mac OS X.

Using Metadata Effectively in OS X
Metadata in OS X: Part Two

The Metadata Screencast: Part Three
Answering Metadata Screencast Questions
Essential Metadata Tips