Christmas books: 1913

Australian publications in time for Christmas 1913

While browsing through an historic newspaper on Trove, I found this advertisement for new book titles to be published in time for Christmas 1913.

1913 'BOOKS By AUSTRALIAN AUTHORS.', Kapunda Herald(SA : 1878 - 1951), 29 August, p. 4, viewed 11 December, 2013, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article108275603

BOOKS BY AUSTRALIAN AUTHORS.

During the forthcoming Christmas book season, Messrs. Ward, Lock & Co. announce that they will publish the following:-(1) "Norah of Billabong," by Mary Grant Bruce, author of "A Little Bush Maid," etc. ; (2) "Stairways to the Stars", by Lilian Turner, author of "Three New Chum Girls," etc. ; (3) "The Childhood of Helen," by Evelyn Goode (Mrs. Crawford Vaughan), a companion story to "Days that Speak" ; (4 ) "With Beating Wings," by Vera Dwyer (of Sydney-her first book); and (5) "Maori Land Fairy Tales," by Edith Howes (of New Zealand) author of "'The Sun's Babies," etc.

The Billabong series by Mary Grant Bruce were favourite titles of mine in younger years. Norah of Billabong was the third title in a series of 15. The titles are listed in sequence here on Goodreads.
I wonder if the books on many Christmas lists this year, will still be available to read in another hundred years time.

Haikudeck and Snapguide, Thanks

At last

Owning an original iPad has been fun, stimulating and has provided endless opportunities for learning and communicating over the past 3 years. Sadly now I have more than 60 apps crying out for updates but  many updates only cause it to crash. 

So many great ideas have been implemented in the form of apps for mobile devices and now I delight when some of those app makers recognise that their tool is also useful for desktop and notebook users. 

Recently both Haikudeck and Snapguide have made their excellent products available via the desktop.

Thank you developers, now I'm empowered once more.

Gmail and images

Image size in Gmail

 Modern cameras and phones are capable of producing high resolution images which result in large file sizes. Images attached to gmail retain their original size. Whilst gmail generously allow attachments up to 5 mb this is a burden for the both the sender and receiver and can quickly use up one's allocated storage quota.

Inserting images into the body of the message instead of sending an image as an attachment, provides a quick method for reducing the image size.

1. Click the "Compose Mail" button or reply.

2. Locate the image you want to include from your computer. 

3. Drag the image and drop it into the body of your Gmail message window. You must add the image to the message body; if you use attach file, you will not be able to reduce the image size.

4. Click the image in the email message body to select it. Underneath the image you get to choose small, medium, large or original.

Now where was that huge image I needed to send?