Software: New Microsoft mobile browser, DOS games on JVM-capable browsers, and free gems for e-publishers and authors
Microsoft’s new Deepfish browser is supposed to show Web sites well—or at least better than before—on little mobile phones even if the sites weren’t designed for them. See link list from Microsoft, including a preview for prospective beta users.
DOS fun on JVM-capable browsers
In other software news, check out Garson O’Toole’s interesting little comment on a way to run DOS on a browser using Java. “Classic DOS games such as Space Invaders, Lemmings. Commander Keen, and Prince of Persia can be played,” Garson notes. “This means that DOS programs will be executable on even weakly-powered e-books in the future.” Remember, as Bill Janssen would be quick to point out, most any machine with a browser can display e-books.
Free gems for e-publishers and e-authors
Finally, cash-strapped e-authors and e-publishers might investigate CNET-recommended free alternatives to Adobe’s $2,500 Creative Suite 3. Among the recs: Paint.NET, The GIMP, Inkscape, the Foxit PDF Reader, which I use, PrimoPDF, letting you create PDF from Firefox and a bunch other programs, and a Dreamweaver Web editor replacement called KompoZer. Don’t forget to check out the second part of the rec list.
(Deepfish info spotted via MobileRead.)
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