Japanese Instant Messaging Service LINE is Trialing Paid Music Service

Line Free Calls & Messages is one of the most popular apps on Android and the Japanese company boasts 205 million active users. In order to further cement themselves as the definitive messaging app the company is trailing a $2.00 a month music streaming service. Thailand is the second largest market for Line users, next to Japan. This is where Line Music is starting its pilot project. Will 30 million users embrace a paid music service that comprises of over 100,000 songs from major record labels such as RS Music? Line is betting that they will. The main factor is that there is no international music streaming services in Thailand, other than Deezer. This gives Line the advantage of being able to offer a huge catalog of music by Thai artists. The Thai market is not used to paying for digital content. Line will have an upward battle training their users to pay the $2.00 a month for unlimited music. The overall timing of Line Music couldn’t be better. Last year Line purchased MixRadio Music from Microsoft for an undisclosed sum. The service just went live this week on Android and iOS devices. Line has confirmed that the two music services are being independently run from each other, but you have to figure that there will be crossover synergy on the business level. Japanese Instant Messaging Service LINE is Trialing Paid Music Service is a post from: Good e-Reader

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Adobe Discontinues Photoshop Touch

Adobe has announced that they are discontinuing Photoshop Touch for Android and iOS.  The app will only be available until May 28, whereupon Adobe will yank it from the market. Copies of the software installed on devices will continue to work “for the foreseeable future.” Photoshop Touch came out in early 2011, which was about the same time that the post-PC era began. The app has been considered the kitchen sink of software, with a ton of features jam packed into a single paid app. Adobe is piviting from one app to rule them all, to a series of specialized apps.  In the last few years they pushed out  Photoshop Mix (which specializes in compositing), Photoshop Sketch (drawing), and Adobe Shape (which lets you snap a photo and convert it for editing), and a myriad of others. These are iOS apps at the moment, but Adobe says it’s working on Android versions. Adobe is quietly developing a new photo retouching app, that will be released sometime this year. The video below shows the new app in action, and you can see a number of Photoshop features. Adobe Discontinues Photoshop Touch is a post from: Good e-Reader

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New Adult Edition of eHighlights for August and September are out!

The Collection Development team has scouted the best titles for August and September in the newest edition of the Adult eHighlights catalog! With new books from Jonathan Franzen, Alice Hoffman, James Patterson, Kim Harrison, Sue Grafton, Christopher Moore, Haruki Murakami, Edward St. Aubyn, John Scalzi, and, Margaret Atwood – there is something for everyone. I'm especially excited for the new Lisbeth Salander novel by David Lagercrantz, The Girl in the Spider's Web. This Blockbuster lineup cannot be missed so make sure you stock up on titles for your patrons! Stay tuned for the August & September edition of eHighlights for Kids and Teens coming soon.

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Is Digital Publishing Broken?

It’s been eight long years since Amazon rocked the reading world with the introduction of the Kindle. It was certainly not the first e-reader device on the market, but it was the first one with the power of Amazon’s PR team to put it in consumers’ hands in a big way, and it was the first one that came with the world’s largest online bookseller to feed it. And the industry hasn’t stopped changing since then. But one of the more dynamic areas of digital publishing that has brought with it tremendous change is in the abundance of companies who offer some for of publishing solution. Whether it’s for individual authors with a dream of finally publishing their books or major powerhouses in the content field who wanted to digitize their catalog, there was no shortage of startups–both great and fairly evil–who came out to offer their services for a fee. By now, many of the original players–primarily those who saw instant dollars signs instead of a long-haul industry option–have moved on, leaving behind a few steadfast game changers. Some of them, unfortunately, such as Author Solutions just won’t take the hint and go away, while others like Vook have shifted and adapted many times over the years to keep up with a changing market. Vook, which recently announced its acquisition of both Byliner and Booklr, has rebranded itself as Pronoun and has shifted focus to working directly with authors with an unheard of free model that gives 100% of the royalties to authors. This emerging new concept is intended to fix a broken publishing industry, but just how broken is it? “Though the publishing industry is filled with people who care deeply about books, it always privileges someone above the author — whether it's the retailer, the distributor, or the publisher. When there's a conflict of interest, the author loses. When margins increase, the author is the last to benefit,” they stated in an announcement this week. The post highlights a crucial issue facing the digital publishing industry, whether it starts with traditional or self-publishing: we still don’t have a way to use technology to make a book more visible. We can blame the glut of content out there, but that’s a pretty easy target. There were books than any consumer could ever read long before self-published authors filled Amazon’s catalog with vampire-dinosaur-Big Foot-erotica. But despite the promises from the industry, no one has found a foolproof way to take an ebook file and put it directly in front of its ideal customer. That will be the next wave of revolutionary startup in digital publishing, the powerhouses that find a way to fully address book discovery. Where players like Amazon, Goodreads, and other recommendation engines have failed to help either authors or readers with the issue, the next winner in publishing will have the technology to help books rise above. Is Digital Publishing Broken? is a post from: Good e-Reader

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Getting started with the Internet of Things

By 2020 there will be twelvety gigajillion of Internet Things all shouting at each other and sulking – Alice Bevel The Internet of Things had been around for a while (since 1982 apparently) but it's still a bit of a mystery to many. The concept of hooking up physical devices and letting them talk to each other is great, but how do you get started? How do you get useful data from them? A Thing I've been playing around with IoT this week and came across this great starter IoT project for the Pi, a people counting project by Agustin Pelaez. It's an oldie but goodie and worth a mention because it's as simple as it gets in terms of IoT—a sensor sends data to a server, which then presents the data in a nice, human-friendly form. A £2 PIR connected directly to the Pi with just three wires ( Photo: Agustin Pelaez) It's also as cheap as chips—apart from a Pi you only need a passive infra-red sensor (PIR) as used in several of our resources. We love PIRs: they cost a couple of quid, connect directly to the Pi GPIO pins and they can be used for all sorts of useful and/or mad projects. The basic Ubidots account that stores and analyses the data is free. So this is an ideal IoT beginners' project— cheap, straightforward and can be adapted to other projects. (Note that there is a bug in the code, peopleev = 0 should read peoplecount = 0.) Node-RED on Thingbox, controlling LEDs on the Pi via the web (Photo: thethingbox.io) If you want to dig further without too much pain, the ThingBox has an SD card image for the Pi that allows you to "Install Internet of Things technologies on a Raspberry Pi without any technical knowledge" and has a number of basic projects to get you started. It works with Ubidots out of the box and has a number of tutorials that will help you learn common IoT tools like Node-RED on the Pi (including a PIR counter project which is a nice compare-and-contrast  to the Python based one above.) I like the ThingBox a lot. It lowers the activation energy needed to get started with IoT on the Pi (actually, it makes it easy) and it allows all Pi owners access to what appears at first glance to be an arcane … Thing. The Internet of Things is fun, useful and empowering, and a natural extension to physical computing using the GPIO pins on the Pi. Hook up some Things today and have play. Another Thing The post Getting started with the Internet of Things appeared first on Raspberry Pi.

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Top 7 E-reading Apps for the Sony Z3

Once upon a time, the dilemma facing bibliophiles was where to store their latest page-turner so they could sneak in a read on the go. Then came e-readers, which let bookworms carry all their favorite reads on one device the size of a small paperback. Just when you thought reading couldn’t get any more portable than a Kindle or Nook, e-reading apps debuted, transforming cell phones into uber-portable mini libraries. While almost all smartphones have e-reader capabilities, you’d be hard-pressed to find one that delivers a better reading experience than the Sony Xperia Z3. With its Android platform, the Xperia offers an endless selection of the latest and greatest e-reading apps. The only question is which of these apps can do the powerful Z3 justice while also giving you an immersive e-reading experience. Read on to find out which e-reading apps are best suited to the Sony Z3. Google Play Books One of the coolest features of the Sony Xperia Z3 is its waterproof design, which makes it the perfect beach or poolside reader with the right app and the right network. The only problem is that most e-reader apps are backlit, making them almost impossible to see in direct sunlight. Fortunately, Google Play Books is the answer to all your beach reading woes. In addition to its impressive selection, the Google Play Books app comes with a brightness option that will automatically adjust based on the amount of available light. Cool Reader The Xperia Z3 comes equipped with Google’s latest operating system, Android 4.4 Kitkat. This OS has a long list of new features, one of which is full-screen immersion. This means that the top notification bar is transparent and the bottom menu bar disappears in full-screen mode. With your whole screen to play with, you want an e-reader app with a visually striking appearance. Cool Reader is that app, with a dizzying array of theme and text options. FBReader The screen of the Z3 is incredibly vivid and clear thanks to its 5.2 inch HD display. With resolution like that, you owe it to yourself to choose an e-reading app that’s as easy on the eyes as your phone screen is. FBReader offers theme options specially designed to minimize eye strain, such as wood and sepia. Aldiko If you have a voluminous e-library, you can put the Z3’s massive 3 GB RAM and 32 GB ROM memory to good use. Aldiko is a great e-reading app if you have a lot of books you want to import on your phone. It has advanced library management features and even lets you import your own PDF and EPUB files. Moon + Reader Pro Everyone has had one of those moments when you want to read but your screen-weary eyes aren’t cooperating. That’s when it’s time to channel your inner child and let someone else read to you, even if it’s just a robot. The Xperia Z3 delivers booming, crystal-clear sound with its dual front-facing speakers, making it an ideal medium for e-reading apps capable of text-to-speech (TTS). One of the best such apps is Moon + Reader Pro, which offers TTS within the paid version. Kobo It would be a shame not to experience the power of the Z3’s state-of-the-art keyboard, which boasts lightning-quick response times as well as gesture-based typing. With Kobo, you can make use of this sophisticated tool even when you’re lost in a book. Kobo lets you actively comment on your book while you’re reading it. Nook Nook is one of the best reading apps out there for any phone, including the Sony Z3. With the Nook app, the biggest selling point is access to Barnes & Noble’s staggering selection. Another impressive yet underappreciated feature of the Nook app is its dazzling page-turning animations, perfect for the crystal resolution of the Z3. When you have a phone with the power and features of the Z3, it’s hard to go wrong with an e-reading app. Still, some are better suited for this phone than others. Z3 owners won’t be disappointed with any of these seven apps. Top 7 E-reading Apps for the Sony Z3 is a post from: Good e-Reader

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How to Load e-books on the Kobo Glo HD

Whenever a new e-reader hits the market, many users are purchasing one for the first time. Inevitably people will want to load their own EPUB or PDF files on it, whether they were bought from other retailers or downloaded from random websites. Today, I will teach you how to load e-books on the Kobo Glo HD using Calibre, Adobe Digital Editions and Windows Explorer. It is important to note that in order to load e-books on the Kobo Glo HD they have to be in EPUB or PDF format. Kindle books bought from Amazon are totally incompatible. If you have a book that does not have DRM, that is in a different format, you can convert it from one format to another using Calibre. In the video below you will receive a step by step guide on how to load e-books. If you have any questions or concerns, please comment below. How to Load e-books on the Kobo Glo HD is a post from: Good e-Reader

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15,000 Free e-books Now Available on Entry Level Samsung Phones

Samsung is trying to make their entry level smartphones viable in Africa. The South Korean company has ironed out a partnership with Worldreader and Jumia to offer over 15,000 free e-books. Worldreader is well known in the e-book world with providing African schools with e-readers that are full of great free content. The non-profit has been doing it for years and has finally caught the attention of smartphone makers in order to expand their brand, but also get their e-books in front of more users. In the last year, Worldreader has received a massive amount of support.  CEO of Amazon,Jeff Bezos contributed $500,000 and received an undisclosed sum from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The Worldreader Android app will be pre-installed on the Samsung Ace 4 Lite, Ace 3, Trend Lite, J1, Star 2 Plus and Ace 4 Neo. Samsung has promised that the app will be regularly updated in order to provide the best experience. Incidentally, the phones will be available only on Jumia. 15,000 Free e-books Now Available on Entry Level Samsung Phones is a post from: Good e-Reader

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Scribd Brings Bestselling eBooks to Australia

Australia has proven itself a major growth market for Scribd. Subscriptions have more than tripled in the country in less than a year. This has prompted Scribd to negotiate with their publishing partners to bring modern bestsellers to Australia in a bid to appeal to serious readers. Scribd has just added more than 200 front-list e-books to the catalog available to Australian readers, including best-selling titles from Simon & Schuster, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Harlequin Australia. According to a Scribd spokesperson, the company is focused on taking a targeted approach to international growth, "and one of the main ways we're accomplishing that is through localization." That strategy operates in two ways. Not only is Scribd working with the large, global trade publishers it's already partnered with in order to make more of the titles in its catalog available in more territories, it's also striking deals with local publishers and divisions to bring exclusive content to readers in key markets. "Testing the success of front-list books in key markets internationally is a great sign for the future of even more front-list everywhere" Scribd operates, the spokesperson added, describing the cooperation of some of its biggest publishing partners as proof of their "growing faith in the model." Scribd Brings Bestselling eBooks to Australia is a post from: Good e-Reader

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Reader’s Advisory Project collections are live!

The Reader's Advisory project collections, Book Club Picks and Fantastical Fairy Tales, are ready to Publish in the curation interface in OverDrive Marketplace! Boost circulation and reader engagement by publishing the collections to your site today. Public your curated collection: • In Marketplace, select the Shop drop-down menu and choose Switch to curate.* The curated collections landing page is displayed and, in the Draft collections section, you'll find Book Club Picks and Fantastical Fairy Tales. • Click on the collection title to open the draft, or put a check next to the draft, and select Publish Draft. Note: The first time you publish a collection, you'll be asked for your "curator details" (your name and title). You can always change your curator details by clicking the Update your Curator information link in the upper-right corner of the site. • In the popup that opens, select where you'd like the collection to be published on your public-facing site. • Once you've selected your location, select Publish to publish your collection. Note: You may need to refresh your public-facing site after you publish a collection in order to see it added on your site. Don't forget to visit our Recommended Lists page for inspiration and take a look at the Marketplace User Guide for information on creating additional curated collections. If you have any questions, please reach out to your OverDrive team (you can find the team members and their contact information in OverDrive Marketplace > Support tab in the right column)." *"Library Site Admin" permission is required for Marketplace users to access the curation interface. For consortia, the curation interface is available at the consortium level only.

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Google Introduces New Literata eBook Font for Google Play Books

This week Google announced on Twitter that they’ve introduced a new font type called Literata for their Play Books app that was designed specifically for ebooks. Literata is now the default font for Google Play Books, replacing Droid Serif. Google claims that their new font is perfect for long reads on all devices, and that […]

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Huateng Flag D1 Dual Screen E Ink Smartphone (Video)

It looks 2015 is going to be the year of the dual screen E Ink smartphone, as this is the third dual screen E Ink phone article this week. The Yotaphone 2 was the first dual screen E Ink phone to hit the market early this year; it’s expected to come to the U.S. in […]

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Pocket PiGRRL: is that an emulator in your pocket?

Huge, city-destroying robot for scale (Photo: Adafruit/ Ruiz Brothers) Last year we went into full retronerd dribble mode over the PiGRRL, a Pi-powered Gameboy. Our friends at Adafruit have brought the project up to date with the Pocket PiGRRL. It has a 3D printed case and uses the smaller Raspberry model A+ plus a 2.4″ PiTFT HAT to bring the size down. Emulation is handled by RetroPie. Adafruit say that "it's easier than our previous PiGRRL build" and the use of components such as the amplifier and charger means that it's suitable for a confident beginner—at the very least you'll earn your soldering skills badge. The post Pocket PiGRRL: is that an emulator in your pocket? appeared first on Raspberry Pi.

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Would you buy an e-Book from a Hotel or Airport?

Would you buy an e-book from an airport, museum or hotel? Big five publisher Simon & Schuster hopes you will. Simon & Schuster has partnered with mobile content delivery service Foli to offer customers complimentary access to a selection of full-text e-books in airports, museums and hotels in the United States. Foli specializes in Geo-targeting, which basically allows the delivery of a single digital e-Book, or group of titles, to a specific geographic location. In order to access the e-books in the program you need to download the official Foli app for Android or iOS. If you visit  the National Air & Space Museum a free digital edition entitledd “The Wright Brothers” will be available to read for free. You have three days from visiting the venue to read it, then you have to buy it. S&S has also ironed out agreements with a number of airport lounges for another 18 titles. Will customers buy single editions on their smartphone or tablet? Obviously you will not easily be able to load it on your Kobo or Nook and these DRM e-books are not compatible with the Kindle. Would you buy an e-Book from a Hotel or Airport? is a post from: Good e-Reader

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Overdrive Audiobooks can Now be Played on a Web Browser

Overdrive has been quite progressive about having content displayed within an internet browser. Whenever a patron borrows an e-book from the local library, they have the option to read it within a dedicated app on their smartphone or tablet, or their favorite browser. Today, Overdrive has just announced that they now have support to listen to audiobooks in a web browser too. The new platform is called OverDrive Listen and requires no software to play an audiobook, other than your internet browser. You can now browse, checkout and listen in a singular experience, without the need to lean on a dedicated app. Libraries can rest assured that Overdrive Listen feature has automatically been added to any audiobook that is available in the MP3 format. Nothing else has to be done on an individual branches part, other than just build awareness that patrons now have the ability to listen to audio content on their PC, MAC, smartphone or tablet. Overdrive Audiobooks can Now be Played on a Web Browser is a post from: Good e-Reader

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Margaret Atwood Will Time Capsule a New Book May 26th on Periscope

Margaret Atwood is the first author that will be participating in the Future Library time capsule project, which was announced last year. The official ceremony will begin next Tuesday, May 26 and the historic moment will be captured on Periscope. Her work will remain unpublished – and unread – until 2114. Margaret posted a short essay in her involvement in the project on Wattpad. The key takeaway is that she loves digging in the dirt and finding things. “As a child, I was one of those who buried treasures in jars, with the idea that someone, some day, might come along and dig them up. I found similar things while digging in the various gardens I have made: old nails, old medicine bottles, fragments of china plates… That is what the Future Library is like, in part: it will contain fragments of lives that were once lived, and that are now the past. But all writing is a method of preserving and transmitting the human voice.” What is the Future Library Project all about? Well, a thousand trees have been planted in Nordmarka, a forest just outside Oslo, which will supply paper for a special anthology of books to be printed in one hundred years time. Between now and then, one writer every year will contribute a text, with the writings held in trust, unpublished, until 2114. Tending the forest and ensuring its preservation for the 100-year duration of the artwork finds a conceptual counterpoint in the invitation extended to each writer: to conceive and produce a work in the hopes of finding a receptive reader in an unknown future. Margaret Atwood Will Time Capsule a New Book May 26th on Periscope is a post from: Good e-Reader

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Viz Manga Hires Dreamworks’ Brad Woods

Manga distribution company Viz Media announced on Monday that they will be making a big staff change. Brad Woods, previously the Senior Vice President of Dreamworks Animation, has been named as the Chief Marketing Officer at Viz. What this means is Woods will be in charge of marketing all the titles Viz holds. Woods has had experience marketing successful film franchises, notably 'Madagascar' and 'How To Train Your Dragon.' This is also not his first, or even second, company rodeo. Woods worked at Mattel and Warner Bros. before Dreamworks. While hiring a man with a successful marketing background may seem like a very good idea, it has some wondering. How much does Woods know about manga, anime, and the world he is entering into? Will he hep put manga 'on the map,' so to speak? Or will he end up mis-marketing the titles? How will this affect Viz Manga in the long run? It is interesting to note that Woods is coming from Dreamworks Animation, the offshoot to Dreamworks, and the company responsible for the upcoming 'Ghost in The Shell' movie. Could bringing in a man with such a Hollywood background mean we may get more of a Westernised, Hollywood feel to Viz Manga? And if so, is that a good thing, or a bad thing? Only time will tell as Woods embarks into the world of manga. But we'll be watching to see if the changes he makes are good, or if he makes any change at all. Viz Manga Hires Dreamworks' Brad Woods is a post from: Good e-Reader

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Kobo Emerging Writer Prize Shortlist Announced

Kobo has just unveiled the shortlist for a new literary initiative that celebrates digital works by Canadian authors. The Emerging Writer Prize was created for debut authors in three categories: Literary Fiction, Genre Fiction, Mystery and Non-Fiction. Each winning author will be awarded a $10,000 CAD cash prize as well as promotional, marketing, and communications support. More than 140 entries were received from 40 different traditional publishers, as well as from more than 45 self-published authors. The shortlist, selected by Kobo's team of booksellers and taking into consideration book completion rates, customer ratings and reviews, comprises five books in each genre. The shortlist will now move on to the final selection process, led by top Canadian authors: Charlotte Gray for Non-Fiction, Miriam Toews for Literary Fiction, and Ian Hamilton for Genre Fiction (Mystery), with winners announced on July 7. Non-Fiction Know the Night: A Memoir of Survival in the Small Hours by Maria Mutch – Knopf Canada Irresponsible Government: The Decline of Parliamentary Democracy in Canada by Brent Rathgeber – Dundurn Crazy Town: The Rob Ford Story by Robyn Doolittle – Penguin Canada They Left Us Everything: A Memoir by Plum Johnson – Penguin Canada Laughing All the Way to the Mosque by Zarqa Nawaz – HarperCollins Canada Literary Fiction Based on a True Story by Elizabeth Renzetti – House of Anansi Press Family Business by Renny deGroot – Self-Published For Today I Am a Boy by Kim Fu – HarperCollins Canada Fire In The Unnameable Country by Ghalib Islam – Penguin Canada Circus by Claire Battershill  – McClelland & Stewart Fiction (Mystery) A Quiet Kill: A Forsyth and Hay Mystery by Janet Brons – Touchwood Editions The Monarch: A Thriller by Jack Soren – HarperCollins Cipher by John Jantunen – ECW Press A Siege of Bitterns: A Birder Murder Mystery by Steve Burrows – Dundurn Last of the Independents: Vancouver Noir by Sam Wiebe – Dundurn Kobo Emerging Writer Prize Shortlist Announced is a post from: Good e-Reader

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Kobo Glo HD PDF Review (Video)

People are always asking how each ebook reader handles PDF files, so I wanted to put together this dedicated PDF review for the Kobo Glo HD to show all the features available for PDFs. Like the Kobo Aura H2O and Kobo’s other ereaders, the Kobo Glo HD is designed primarily to display ebooks from Kobo […]

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The Inquirer Tech Hero Awards

This is not a flashy post with lots of pictures and farkles. It's a thank you note. In February 2012 we started selling the Raspberry Pi  (you may not have heard the story—it went pretty well ;)). A year later we moved into a small office. There were six of us. Our very first office. Aww, cute. Less than a year later we stormed the penthouse floor of the same building and have been there ever since. (We even have our own fridge now so we don't have to write our names on our pies with a Sharpie). And here we are three years later—things have gone swimmingly and we've picked up one or two awards (OK, lots) along the way. We love getting awards but not (just) in a big-headian way. They are a confirmation that we are doing something right and doing something good. Last night I travelled on the InterCity to London to attend the first ever Inquirer Tech Hero Awards (Liz and Eben are away and I was sent because I most resemble him physically). We were nominated in three categories: The Raspberry Pi 2 won 'Best Product' and Eben won 'Tech Champion'. We had a great night, chatted to a load of people and we brought back two impressive chunks of glass that say, "Keep doing your thing, it's good." The best photo I could manage – these things are shiny AND transparent So thanks to the Inquirer and to everyone who voted. But the biggest thank you goes to our amazing, unique and lovely community. We wouldn't be here without you. Cheers. The post The Inquirer Tech Hero Awards appeared first on Raspberry Pi.

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