Interesting links for 2009-08-04

'A short post on the Google News blog today revealed a big number: Google recently quadrupled the number of newspaper articles in its News Archive Search.'

'In this A-Z of free Photoshop plugins and filters you will find a few plugins that are (almost) as old as time itself, do not fear, they will work perfectly on all versions of Photoshop and the effect they produce are just as useful now as they were then.'

'… with this neat little R2-D2 translator, you can speak R2's language, or at least get a good audio file of it.'

'A Cambridge-based company is months away from launching the world’s first flexible electronic screen.'

'Although not completely analogous to today's tussle between the newspapers and the Web, the media battle in the 1920s and 1930s echoes its points of contention.'