Alice's Adventures Under Ground

Later known as Alice in Wonderland, this is the original manuscript given by Lewis Carroll to Alice Liddell for Christmas 1864. The manuscript is illustrated throughout by Dodgson and even includes a small photograph of Alice on the last page.

One summer’s day in 1862, he took Alice and her sisters on a boat trip on the Thames by Oxford, where he taught as a mathematician. Along the way he entertained them with a fabulous story of Alice’s adventures in a magical world entered through a rabbit hole. Ten year-old Alice begged him to write it down, and eventually he did, giving her this meticulous manuscript of the tale for Christmas.

Lewis Carroll (the pen name for Charles Dodgson) was only later encouraged to rewrite the story and seek publication. It has gone on to become one of the best-loved children’s stories ever written and been filmed many times.

The manuscript is illustrated throughout by Dodgson, who later commissioned John Tenniel to come up with the drawings we are more familiar with, and even includes a small photograph of Alice on the last page.

This eBookTreasures version has transcription throughout as well as superb narration by Miriam Margoyles.

The British Library has launched a new e-book on Apple’s iBooks store: Alice’s Adventures Under Ground by Lewis Carroll.

Title sounds a bit wrong? It refers to the original handwritten and illustrated manuscript, which went on to become Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland when it was published properly. The British Library has been the manuscript’s owner since 1948.

The e-book version includes those illustrations alongside the text, with additional voice narration from actress Miriam Margoyles. It’s taking advantages of the multimedia features that Apple added to iBooks after its initial release.

The e-book is free for two weeks, and will cost £6.99 after that point.

“The British Library’s manuscript of Alice is one of our most precious and best-loved treasures, and is the key to understanding fully the origins of Dodgson’s Alice and her Adventures under ground,” says Jamie Andrews, head of english and drama at the British Library.

Posted: September 19th, 2011 under News, Tech news.
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Microsoft Apps in Nokia

Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia is planning to put free Microsoft apps on its Symbian powered Belle smartphones. The productivity apps, which will be released as an update called Microsoft Apps, will be launched sometime during this year.

The Microsoft productivity applications that will come to Symbian include Microsoft Lync, which will allow users to conduct IM chats and set-up web meetings on the move and Microsoft PowerPoint Broadcast, which will let users beam PowerPoint presentations from their PCs to mobile phones.

The free app offering will also include Microsoft OneNote, which will let users take notes with images on their mobile phones. The app will also be able to sync with Microsoft SkyDrive. Nokia will also be offering the Microsoft Document Connection app, which allows users to access documents that are stored on the mobile device and in email attachments.

Nokia also plans an update in 2012, which will bring Microsoft OneNote with SharePoint and also bring Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint as native apps for Symbian powered Nokia devices.

“If you use your Nokia smartphone for work as well as leisure these apps will transform even the stylish, mass market smartphones we recently launched into a mobile office,” the company said in a blog post.

“These updates are yet another confirmation that Nokia has not done making investments and introducing innovation into the Symbian platform,” it added.

Posted: September 9th, 2011 under Mobile-Phones, News, Tech news.
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Microsoft or more specifically Steve Ballmer shows out of touch they seem in today’s mobile market with our favourite quote from this CNN video being “I wouldn’t do what Google’s doing, I don’t think it makes any sense.”

WAKE UP MICROSOFT – Google are doing everything right at the moment with various tech blogs agreeing with us that the Google Android OS and it’s upcoming update to 2.2 even beats the iPhone OS and also highlighting how Microsoft are going backwards in various areas.

Check out the video here and let us know your thoughts…

Posted: May 22nd, 2010 under Tech news.
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Have you heard about Microsoft’s latest search engine called Bing?

If not then you will do soon as Microsoft are going to launch a massive advertising campaign to tempt you to use it as your default search engine in their attempt to break Googles dominance in the search engine arena.

Well a new site called Symplyfy that already makes searching the web simpler by allowing you to enter your search term at the top and see your Google.com, Yahoo.com, Ask.com results in handy tabs has just added Bing.com to the search engines it uses

Check out the following search for ‘bing’ on all the leading search engines here: Compare ‘Bing’ search results

Wanting to know what people are saying about Bing in the news and Twitter? Try the news area of Symplyfy here: Compare bing news search results

Posted: June 4th, 2009 under Tech news.
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