READABILITY The single best tech idea of 2009, though, the real
life-changer, has got to be Readability. Itbs a free button for your
Web browserbs toolbar (get it at
lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability). When you click it, Readability
eliminates everything from the Web page youbre reading except the text
and photos. No ads, blinking, links, banners, promos or anything else.
Times Square just goes away.
You wind up with a simple, magazine-like layout, presented in a
beautiful font and size (your choice) against a white or off-white
background with none of this red-text-against-black business.
You occasionally run into a Web page that Readability doesnbt handle
right b no big deal, just refresh the page to see the original. But
most of the time, Readability makes the world online a calmer,
cleaner, more beautiful place.