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Time Out!
Real Time Out for me, I will be away until Saturday for business trip/

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  11/29/2004

Noble Project
Brooklyn Digital
About the project
This project was produced by Brooklyn Public Library's Brooklyn Collection and funded by the Library and the Institute of Museum and Library Services, a federal agency that fosters innovation, leadership and a lifetime of learning.
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle was published from 1841 to 1955, then revived for a short time from 1960 to 1963.
Because of the enormity of the collection, the digitization of the historic Brooklyn Daily Eagle newspaper from reels of microfilm has been broken down into more than one phase. Phase I, which can at present be found on this site, covers the period from October 26, 1841 to December 31, 1902, representing half of the Eagle's years of publication. This period includes all of the years for which there is no index as well as the eleven years during which an index was published. Approximately 147,000 pages of newspaper in various digital formats are contained in this online repository. Access can be gained either by date of issue or by keyword searching.
How the repository was created
Through a special agreement, Brooklyn Public Library borrowed new second generation negative microfilm reels from the Library of Congress.
(Source: JWalk Blog)
These reels were sent to OCLC/Preservation Resources and were then imaged using Sunrise scanners creating Group IV Tiff images at 300 dpi. The images were then cleaned up and aligned.

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Copy Damn Right
Sample the Future
Rip, mix, burn. Swap till you drop. The music cops can't do a thing - it's 100 percent legal, licensed by the bands. Call it copyright for the 21st century.
By nature, musicians are thieves. Nicking a bit of this song and a lick from that one, shaping their style on the riffs of those who came before, musicians are experts in the art of acquisition. Woody Guthrie knew this; he pinched melodies from Leadbelly - and let anybody pinch him in return. The Sex Pistols knew this; they shamelessly lifted from the New York Dolls and ABBA (yes, ABBA) and set off a teenage riot. And James Brown knows this; he accrued a large debt to Little Richard - only to become the most sampled man in showbiz, with thousands of his grunts and bridges and beats pilfered by lesser men.

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Simply Wrong Prediction
Digital music a long way from displacing CDs
It's going to be a long time before digital music downloads challenge CD sales, even in the online world. That's the conclusion of a report by market watcher Informa Media Group (IMG), published this week.
Come 2010, IMG says, global online music sales will exceed $6bn. An impressive number, but still only 15.2 per cent of total spending on music worldwide.

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I Am One of Them
Survey: Some iPod fans dump PCs for Macs
The research found that 6 percent of iPod users have made the switch. An additional 7 percent said they are planning to dump their old PC for an Apple machine, according to the survey.
Gene Munster, Piper Jaffray senior research analyst, said the iPod halo effect will make a difference to Apple for a while to come.

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P2P4U
Music industry lashes out at Kazaa trial
Kazaa is an "engine of copyright piracy to a degree of magnitude never before seen," an attorney for the music industry said during Monday's start of the Australian trial against peer-to-peer software distributor Sharman Networks.

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  11/28/2004

Hidden Mobile Channels
New York Times
http://partners.nytimes.com/avantgo/main.html
NY Times Book Review
http://partners.nytimes.com/avantgo/books.html
NY Times Art
http://partners.nytimes.com/avantgo/arts.html
NY Times Business
http://partners.nytimes.com/avantgo/business.html
NY Times Technology
http://partners.nytimes.com/avantgo/technology.html
NY Times Frontpage
http://partners.nytimes.com/avantgo/pageone.html

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  11/27/2004

FreeGuide
No-Guilt Downloads: Free Books, Music, and Movies
"Information wants to be free," new-media gadfly Stewart Brand exclaimed famously in 1984. Brand has yet to start giving away his own books online, but others have, in the belief that word-of-mouth marketing will yield a bigger payoff in the long run. A few brave musicians similarly post free copies of their albums online and allow people to record and distribute their concerts for free. In most cases, the creators retain copyright to the books or recordings, but they permit fans to make copies for their own use.
Many other works--books, music, and even films--are in the public domain. This means that you can download them, upload them, package and sell them--whatever. They're free, period.

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P2P4ever
P2P users move to TV-Series downloading?
So lets see, first we were told the P2P craze was music as early as Napster, then we were told the pirates were turning to movies, threatening to cripple the multi-billion dollar studios. The Software Industry has long being complaining about the mass sharing of cracked software on P2P, but lawsuits haven’t come there yet. Oh yes there was also other claims made too like the RIAA's claims about P2P users spreading child pornography to try to blacken the name of P2P. So now we are being told the craze is to use evil BitTorrent to share TV episodes with each other. Let’s see what the entertainment industry has missed out on. One major thing they forgot is the spreading of educational material like Documentaries, which are very popular on sites like Suprnova.org. Also lets not forget the millions of eBooks available. So what will we hear next? That P2P is threatening the Education "Industry" by allowing users to share Documentaries and eBooks with each other? Would we actually be surprised?

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Time Out!
Commercial/Propaganda Comics
The following covers have been stolen / borrowed from numerous online sources, including e-bay and various personal home pages, and are grouped roughly according to subject. Longer reviews are available for some issues by clicking on their covers. Due to the large number of images on this site, it may take a while for the entire gallery to load.
Source Jwalk Blog

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DRM Watch
E-Books and DRM
Can e-books be saved from the curse of DRM? Or, perhaps better said, when will book publishers realize that loading their digital products down with rights restrictions is not in their own self interest?
There are many reasons why e-books have never really taken off, starting with the fact that many of us are quite fond of paper and print. And, judging by the gripes I've been hearing from e-book devotees, there's not going to be much reason to change our minds until book publishers cease their love affair with digital rights management.

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  11/26/2004

i4ever
King of Music Players
As Apple's iPod capitalizes on a shift in the way people enjoy entertainment, many believe its popularity will endure.
"With a lot of pop culture products, if something becomes so much of its time, then it becomes a parody of itself," said Robert Thompson, a professor of media and popular culture at Syracuse University. " 'Miami Vice' was so incredibly hip on TV and became so associated with the mid-80s, but three years later you couldn't watch it without bursting out in laughter."
BUT
Apple founder Steve Jobs said he wasn't worried that iPod might one day be considered the Rubik's Cube of the 21st century. Instead, he said, iPod is capitalizing on a fundamental shift in the way people buy and enjoy entertainment in the digital age.

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  11/25/2004

Loose'em or join'em
3 Music Companies Will Use Online File-Sharing Service
Three major recording companies have agreed to make their music available to be shared and sold over a new online file-swapping service that aims to lure music fans away from services where most of the trading is illegal.

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My Favorite Webcast
Inside Mac Radio
Scott Sheppard takes a lighthearted look at what's new and exciting in the world of the Macintosh computer in this two-hour weekly broadcast radio show. From the digital hub to the den of the Tiger operating system, Scott is always on top of what is happening in the world of Macintosh and has his finger on the pulse of the industry. With a tasty serving of news, reviews, information, and interviews, Inside Mac is all Mac, all the time, and one of the unique tech shows on radio today.

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Singing in the Rain
Music Industry Book to be Released
The new book “Music Business: It’s all about the Music.. Right?” by A.J. Grant and LoRene` will be available to 25,000+ booksellers worldwide including Barnes & Noble, Borders, etc. It will also be available online and as an ebook early 2005.

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  11/24/2004

HBR
Harvard Business Review eBooks
The Harvard Business Review Paperback Series is designed to bring today's managers and professionals the fundamental information they need to stay competitive in a fast-moving world. From the preeminent thinkers whose work has defined an entire field to the rising stars who will redefine the way we think about business, here are the leading minds and landmark ideas that have established the Harvard Business Review as required reading for ambitious businesspeople in organizations around the globe.

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Thousand Points of DRMs
A Kinder, Gentler Copyright Bill?
On Saturday, the Senate met and passed the Family Entertainment and Copyright Act of 2004, or SB3021 (.pdf), a revised version of the Intellectual Property Protection Act (HR2391), which had cobbled together a handful of copyright-related bills. Now the bill heads to the House of Representatives for consideration in early December.
The Senate passes a copyright bill that is not as bad as digital rights activists had feared. The bill drops language that would have banned tech that would have allowed people to skip commercials.

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Paradigm Shift
Newspapers Should Really Worry
Publishers of newspapers and magazines like to corral readers when they're young. If you can shape kids' info-seeking habits when they're in their teens or twenties, so the thinking goes, you'll nab them for life.
From the perspective of publishers, the 18- to 34-year-old demographic is highly prized by advertisers -- the people who make writing, editing and working at a newspaper or magazine a vocation, not just an avocation (like it is for most bloggers.) But there is trouble afoot. The seeds have been planted for a tremendous upheaval in the material world of publishing.
Young people just aren't interested in reading newspapers and print magazines. In fact, according to Washington City Paper, The Washington Post organized a series of six focus groups in September to determine why the paper was having so much trouble attracting younger readers. You see, daily circulation, which had been holding firm at 770,000 subscribers for the last few years, fell more than 6 percent to about 720,100 by June 2004, with the paper losing 4,000 paying subscribers every month.

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  11/23/2004

Parody
iPod vs. The Cassette
No Name No Slogan labs tests this years must-have device against one of the all time great audio formats..

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  11/21/2004

Cross Platform Pricing
Mobipocket Reader Pro: A Real Cross Platform Pricing
The steps of Mobipocket creating one pricing for ALL the reader pro, is one of the best pricing strategy in the industry. I got the register code when I got my Mobipocket Reader Pro for Pocket PC, and that code also works for my Mobipocket Reader Pro for Symbian (Nokia 9500). This fair pricing should be followed by ereader.com for its pro reader version. Currently ereader pro buyers should purchase for every platform pro version of its readers (palm, pocket pc, mac, and PC), which does not make sense in the age of Cross Platform. Two Thumbs UP for Mobipocket!!!

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  11/20/2004

Cross Platform
Well now I really need a cross platform ebook formats. I just realize it more day after day.
I use my Mac more each day, I use my Nokia 9500 (symbian) more than my Pocket PC now. Days of my PC and Pocket PC start diminish in my computing hours.
Most of my protected ebooks are 50% in Peanutpress format (yes, I prefer called ereader/palm reader as peanutpress), 40% in MS Reader, 5% in Adobe Reader, 4% (and growing fast) in Zinio.com (for emagazines), and 1% in Mobipocket.

The problem I have with Peanutpress is, the reader is not available for Symbian yet. So I can't read most of the ebooks that I purchased in this format with my Nokia 9500.

Mobipocket is available for Nokia 9500, but the ebooks can't be read with my iMac.

MS Readers are great for Pocket PC and PC, but that stuck only with these MS machines.

Adobe Reader is THE WORST ebook format, big, clumsy, and BAD for PDA reading. I tried it that with Pocket PC, with my Nokia 9500, and don't like it AT ALL.

Zinio, THE BEST EBOOK (emagazine) READER, only available for PC and MAC. While most of my reading habits are with my PDA: iPAQ 2210 or Nokia 9500.

So which one is really cross-platform for my NEXT purchase for secured eBook?

My answer is MS Reader. Because the DRM is easily broken with convertlit.com. Then I explode the secured lit file to .htm. Then I use Mobipocket Free Publisher to publish it to Mobipocket format, so I can read it on my Nokia 9500 and my Pocket PC, a DRM Free. Or I can convert them to PDF for archiving to be read with my MAC.

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  11/18/2004

Read This Before You Upgrade
iPodlounge: iPod Updater 2004-10-20
This update includes iPod mini software v1.2 and iPod software v3.0.2, for iPods with a Click Wheel. The updater includes the same software versions as iPod Updater 2004-10-20 for all other iPod models.
New features of iPod mini Software 1.2:
Compatibility with iTunes 4.7 and iTunes Music Store
Shuffle and play song library with one click (using the Shuffle Songs item in the main menu)
Create multiple On-The-Go playlists
Delete songs from On-The-Go playlists
Select reading playback speed for audiobooks
Hear Click Wheel clicker through headphones
Sync and go with improved disconnect performance
New features of iPod Software 3.0.2 provides:
Compatibility with iTunes 4.7 and iTunes Music Store
Improved USB 2.0 connectivity
...But "And it deleted IpodDownload functionability," mikemac

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Time Out!
The Worst Jobs in Science
Monitoring dumps, extracting worms, lobbying politicians: science's ugly side.

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BIG BIG BIG BUSINESS II: Barbarian at the Gates
Gates vs. Jobs: The Rematch
THE history of Apple Computer can be told through its advertisements as well as its products. There was, of course, the commercial that introduced the Macintosh. It was broadcast exactly once, during the 1984 Super Bowl, and signaled the company's bid to reclaim leadership in personal computers from I.B.M. and its tiny, little-known software partner, Microsoft.
For that to happen, however, Mr. Jobs must do what he failed to do last time: prevail over his old nemesis, Bill Gates, who sees entertainment as Microsoft's next great frontier. Microsoft is working hard to make sure that the iPod is less like the Walkman and more like the Betamax, Sony's videocassette format that was defeated in the marketplace by VHS.
A few days after Apple's U2 extravaganza, Mr. Gates, Microsoft's chairman, paced around his office overlooking the rolling hills of suburban Seattle and recalled another advertisement that Apple made 25 years ago. "When I.B.M. came out with their PC, Apple ran an ad saying, "Welcome,' " said Mr. Gates. "They haven't yet run the ad welcoming us into the music business.
"Apple should," he added.

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BIG BIG BIG GLOBAL BUSINESS
Microsoft Warns Asian Governments of Linux Suits
Linux violates more than 228 patents, according to a recent report from a research group, Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said at the company's Asian Government Leaders Forum in Singapore.
"Someday, for all countries that are entering the WTO (World Trade Organization), somebody will come and look for money owing to the rights for that intellectual property," he added.
Singapore's Ministry of Defense last month switched 20,000 personal computers to run on open-source software instead of the Microsoft operating platform.
Other governments in the region are also looking to use more open-source software. China, Japan and South Korea this year agreed to jointly develop applications running on Linux.
... The Chinese government, in particular, sees its reliance on Microsoft as a potential threat. Conspiracy buffs believe certain patches in the Windows code might give U.S. authorities the power to access Chinese networks and disable them, possibly during a war over Taiwan.
Ballmer said the security fears some governments had about using Microsoft software were overblown.

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Review
PocketMusic Bundle: A Powerful Package
You don’t need any fancy MP3 playing hardware if you’ve got PocketMind’s PocketMusic Player Bundle on your Pocket PC. This award-winning software will turn your Pocket PC into a serious music-playing machine, capable of playing MP3, WMA, OGG Vorbis, Audible Books, and HTTP streaming audio. Don’t take my word for it though, let’s look at the features!
The first thing you’ll see when you fire up PocketMusic is the wonderful, candy-like screen.

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  11/17/2004

Free eBooks
Diesel eBook's Free section
Diesel eBooks has good collection of Free eBooks, check 'em out.

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  11/16/2004

Godfather part IV
The Godfather Returns
The Missing Years from the Greatest Crime Saga of All Time! Thirty-five years ago, Mario Puzo's great American tale, The Godfather, was published, and popular culture was indelibly changed. Now, in The Godfather Returns, acclaimed novelist Mark Winegardner continues the story--the years not covered in Puzo's bestselling book or in Francis Ford Coppola's classic films. It is 1955. Michael Corleone has won a bloody victory in the war among New York's crime families. Now he wants to consolidate his power, save his marriage, and take his family into legitimate businesses. To do so, he must confront his most dangerous adversary yet, Nick Geraci, a former boxer who worked his way through law school as a Corleone street enforcer, and who is every bit as deadly and cunning as Michael. Their personal cold war will run from 1955 to 1962, exerting immense influence on the lives of America's most powerful criminals and their loved ones, including Tom Hagen, the Corleone Family's lawyer and consigliere, who embarks on a political career in Nevada while trying to protect his brother; Francesca Corleone, daughter of Michael's late brother Sonny, who is suddenly learning her family's true history and faces a difficult choice; Don Louie Russo, head of the Chicago mob, who plays dumb but has wily ambitions for muscling in on the Corleones' territory; Peter Clemenza, the stalwart Corleone underboss, who knows more Family secrets than almost anyone; Ambassador M. Corbett Shea, a former Prohibition-era bootlegger and business ally of the Corleones', who wants to get his son elected to the presidency--and needs some help from his old friends; Johnny Fontane, the world's greatest saloon singer, who ascends to new heights as a recording artist, cozying up to Washington's power elite and maintaining a precarious relationship with notorious underworld figures; Kay Adams Corleone, who finally discovers the truth about her husband, Michael--and must decide what it means for their marriage and their children and Fredo Corleone, whose death has never been fully explained until now, and whose betrayal of the Family was part of a larger and more sinister chain of events. Sweeping from New York and Washington to Las Vegas and Cuba, The Godfather Returns is the spellbinding story of America's criminal underworld at mid-century and its intersection with the political, legal, and entertainment empires. Mark Winegardner brings an original voice and vision to Mario Puzo's mythic characters while creating several equally unforgettable characters of his own. The Godfather Returns stands on its own as a triumph--in a tale about what we love, yearn for, and sometimes have reason to fear ... family.

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Survival of the shareware
The True Story of Audion
When we created Audion, our Mac-only, multipurpose MP3 application, Steven Frank and I had one goal: we wanted to listen to our music CDs on our computers while we worked, and we wanted to it be stylish. We had no indication that MP3s would one day turn the music industry upside down and have it running for cover. We certainly had no idea that something like the iPod would pop up and literally change Apple as a company. And even though we weren't really responsible for any revolutions per se — rather, we rode on the revolution-train with many others — everything that happened to Audion just fell into place, magically and unexpectedly, like so many beautiful moments in life.
But now, after many years of work, we've made the difficult decision to "retire" Audion from active development.

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My Nokia 9500 Photo Gallery
Please visit and sign the guest book, cheers Jerry

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  11/13/2004

Quest(ions)
Performance Quest
Performance Quest is an electronic publishing company that is focused on the PDA (Palm, Pocket PC, and Smartphone) or handheld computer marketplace.
featuring:
1. HandyDocs Service
We can convert any document to be viewed on your Palm, Pocket PC, or Smartphone Device. Distribute your documents to anyone immediately and with less expense than normal publishing ventures.
2. Mobile Database Service
We can help you create a truly paperless office by converting your information into a mobile database that will always be in the palm of your hand.
Imagine having all of Your Information in the Palm of Your Hand!
3. eBook Library
Download any of our 600+ eBook publications.
eBooks include:
Covey, Tracy, Clancy, Drucker, Shakespeare, Sports, Reference, Business, Success etc..

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DRBad
Turning back the copyright clock
DRM is all-but useless. Just about everyone agrees on that - except the people who are trying to get rich on it, of course, and the entertainment industry, which is trying to convince itself that it actually works as a form of product protection, and ....

But you know how it goes.

Sci-fi author Jim Kelly wondered if DRM schemes are hurting his career.

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5 Stars +++++ Program (Highest Recommendation)
Delicious Library

Run your very own library from your home or office using our impossibly simple interface. Delicious Library's digital shelves act as a visual card-catalog of your books, movies, music and video games. A scan of a barcode is all Delicious Library needs to add an item to your digital shelves, downloading tons of info from the internet like the author, release date, current value, description, and even a high-resolution picture of the cover. Import your entire library using our exclusive full-speed iSight video barcode scanner, our Flic® Wireless Laser Bar Code Scanner, or (the slow way) entering the titles by hand. Once you have all of your items in your Mac, you can browse though your digital shelves, check stuff out to friends using Apple's built-in Address Book and calendar, and find new items to read, watch, and play using Library's recommendations.
Actually I tried to input it by hand, which is takes very fast too. I entered the 11 digits bar code to the library, the library pick all the information, and also recommend similar items that we might have. The similar items are very accurate, it allows us to drag and drop the similar items very fast, which reduce the time of re-input the bar code manually. It is very AMAZING.
And for the final bang, all the library contents are synch to the iPod's notes, which include complete information of the CD, track list, retail price, current collector price, Amazon users' rating, UPC and Amazon code.
The only problem that you might have is, the program is only available for MAC. From its FAQ:
Q: Do you plan on making a Windows version of this app?
A: We don't have any plans for this, currently. It's very unlikely given that the application is very dependent on Mac OS X-only technologies. Porting the application to Windows would require a lot of effort and we simply do not have the resources. Also, we don't like Windows very much. ;)

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  11/11/2004

LonePod
Why iPod's tune won't change
So the question commentators ask is: how soon will Microsoft crush that market share to single digits, as happened with the personal computer market? A more interesting question, asked by software developers who see those six million iPods as an untapped market for a new breed of applications, is: when will Apple open up the iPod platform to other software? I think the answer to these two questions is interlinked: the sooner Apple does the second, the less likely the first will happen; but the longer it delays the second, the more likely the first becomes.
But Microsoft and rival digital music players aren't going to take the iPod's title anytime soon. First, iPods aren't PCs: they're consumer electronics items. Microsoft won the operating system "war" because in the 1980s companies buying PCs wanted IBM or compatible machines (because then buying IBM was the "keep your job even if it all goes wrong" option). Those PCs happened to run Microsoft's operating system. Apple never had a dominant share of the PC operating system market - at least not when there was one worth dominating.

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  11/10/2004

Time Out!
Popular Science: BEST OF WHAT'S NEW 2004
BEST OF WHAT'S NEW award winners, from deciding whether a shoe's cushioning is too soft or too firm, to comparing live video images of a target with recon photos in the world's most accurate cruise missile, to translating nerve signals into cursor commands in a brain implant. And the adjective — "algorithmic" — serves as an apt description of our effort to sort through thousands of inventions, wrap our brains around their implications, and whittle them down to a nice round 100.

And Guess What?, this POPULAR magazine is putting Microsoft's UNPOPULAR DRM 10 as the best of 2004 Duh. For honest customers, we know that Apple Fairplay and Palm's Reader DRM is much better system than the MS DRM 10.

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Fadigital
Even Digital Memories Can Fade
So dire and complex is the challenge of digital preservation in general that the Library of Congress has spent the last several years forming committees and issuing reports on the state of the nation's preparedness for digital preservation.
Jim Gallagher, director for information technology services at the Library of Congress, said the library, faced with "a deluge of digital information," had embarked on a multiyear, multimillion-dollar project, with an eye toward creating uniform standards for preserving digital material so that it can be read in the future regardless of the hardware or software being used. The assumption is that machines and software formats in use now will become obsolete sooner rather than later.

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Save the iPod
Students Fight Copyright Hoarders
College students around the country start groups to teach their peers about copyright law and how Hollywood and record companies abuse it. To fight vacant stares, they frame the issue like this: Save the iPod.

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Wow
Video iPod: Wrong Time, Wrong Place
Could Apple make a video iPod today? Sure. But just because the technology's there doesn't make this the right time to sell one.

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  11/09/2004

Glowing iPod
Merrill Lynch ups iPod sales estimates
Merrill Lynch analyst Steven Milunovich has raised his iPod sales estimates for Apple's December quarter from 3 million units to 3.5 million units based on stronger international sales and increased supply of drives. "December could be particularly strong as the new iPod Photo is getting glowing reviews, and the competition still lags in ease of use," Milunovich said in a research note obtained by iPodlounge.

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  11/08/2004

The UNPresident
When Presidents Lie: A History of Official Deception and Its Consequences
by Eric Alterman
Eric Alterman's When Presidents Lie is a compelling historical examination of four specific post-World War II presidential lies whose consequences were greater than could ever have been predicted. FDR told the American people that peace was secure in Europe, setting the stage for McCarthyism and the cold war. John F. Kennedy's unyielding stance during the Cuban missile crisis masked his secret deal with the Soviet Union. Misrepresented aggression at the Gulf of Tonkin by the North Vietnamese gave LBJ the power to start a war. Finally, Ronald Reagan's Central American wars ended in the ignominy of the Iran-contra scandal. In light of George W. Bush's war in Iraq, which Alterman examines in the book's conclusion, When Presidents Lie is a warning--one more relevant today than ever before--that the only way to prevent these lies is America's collective demand for truth.

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The American President
Because He Could: Bill Clinton
by Dick Morris & Eileen McGann
Now, in the wake of Clinton's million-selling memoir My Life, Morris and his wife, Eileen McGann, set the record straight with Because He Could, a frank and perceptive deconstruction of the story Clinton tells--and the many more revealing stories he leaves untold. With the same keen insight they brought to Hillary Clinton's life in their recent bestseller Rewriting History, Morris and McGann uncover the hidden sides of the complicated and sometimes dysfunctional former president. Whereas Hillary is anxious to mask who she really is, they show, Bill Clinton inadvertently reveals himself at every turn--as both brilliant and undisciplined, charming yet often filled with rage, willing to take wild risks in his personal life but deeply reluctant to use the military to protect our national security.

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  11/06/2004

Pocket PC DVD
CarryDVD: Movies On-The-Go
You know that when "reliability" becomes a key factor, it's a product that is likely to deliver the goods! CarryDVD allows you to backup your DVDs and transfer them to your Pocket PC for playback, and all you need is Windows Media Player for the Pocket PC – simple! A handy feature of the software is its ability to track the progress of the backup. In the case of a power failure (or some unexpected intervention), CarryDVD recognises where it left off and continues with the backup on the next startup.

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New P2P Star
BitTorrent takes over, accounts for 35% of net traffic
According to British Web analysis firm CacheLogic, BitTorrent currently accounts for an astounding 35% of all Internet traffic, that is, more than all other P2P networks combined.
Although P2P file sharing has the reputation of being widely used by pirates for distributing illegal software, BitTorrent in particular is being used nowadays to decentralize the distribution of legal downloads that go from Linux ISOs, to large game demos, popular video trailers, eBooks, etc.

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  11/04/2004

Time Out! Praise the Lord
Jail for junk email conman
Jeremy Jaynes, 30, was found guilty, along with his sister Jessica DeGroot, of bombarding America Online customers with unsolicited mail.
Prosecutors in America described them as modern day "snake oil salesmen". The fraud involved offering people the chance to earn money working from home.
Jaynes, who used the alias Gaven Stubberfield, was ranked by the watchdog group Spamhaus as the eighth-most prolific spammer in the world when he was arrested last December.
Jaynes sent out more than 100,000 such messages over a 30-day period in July and August last year in violation of state law, according to the charges.
Prosecutors asked the jury to impose a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison for Jaynes, and to consider an unspecified prison term for his sister.

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Press Release
THE FIRST PROJECT GUTENBERG CONSORTIUM CENTER IS OPEN
Today, on the one-third of a century anniversary date of Project Gutenberg, it is my pleasure to announce a site designed for the exchange of entire eBook collections--
The first of the Project Gutenberg Consortia Centers is located at a site designated by its initials: pgcc.net
The mission of the Project Gutenberg Consortia Centers:to help people legally exchange eBook collections under the various new copyright laws.
As you may know, different countries had copyright laws change drastically over the last few years, and we hear even more changes are coming at the end of this year.
Therefore, we are making this effort to help those whom these copyright extensions will effect, to insure their continued abilities to provide free eBooks within rules of their new copyright laws; such as many EU countries, and apparently Australia at the end of this year, along with various other changes we will try to help everyone keep up with.
We hope to be making similar announcements next year to let you know about more such sites under the laws of an assortment of countries worldwide.
PGCC's current eBook and eDocument Collections holdings:
Alex-Wire Tap Collection 2,036 HTML eBook Files
Black Mask Collection 12,000 HTML eBook Files
DjVu Collection 272 PDF and DJVU eBook Files
eBooks@Adelaide Collection 27,709 eBook Files
Himalayan Academy 3,400 HTML eBook Files
Literal Systems Collection 68 Mp3 eBook Files
Logos Group Collection 34,000 TXT eBook Files
Poet's Corner Poetry Collection 6,700 Poems
Project Gutenberg Collection 14,300 Files
Renaisscance Editions Collection 561 HTML eBook Files
Swami Center Collection 78 HTML eBook Files
Tony Kline Collection 223 HTML eBook Files
Widger Library 2,600 HTML eBook Files
CIA's Electronic Reading Room 2,019 Reference Files
Enjoy!

Michael Hart

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Ooops
MS Reader 2.3 not compatible with HP iPaq hx4700
"Please note that latest version 2.3 of Microsoft Reader for Pocket PC is not compatible with the newly released HP iPaq hx4700 Pocket PC (4 inch VGA screen and Windows Mobile 2003SE).
Numerous users - including myself - experienced numerous problems (freeze ups, unresponsive MS Reader menu, inability to highlight text and bring up pop-up menu, etc.) after installing this product."

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  11/03/2004

New York State of Mind
OverDrive eBooks At New York Public Library
Book lovers can now carry up to 10 books in the palm of their hands with New York City's first, portable electronic book (eBook) circulating service.
eBooks are digital versions of print books that may be read on PCs, laptops, and a variety of hand-held personal digital assistants (PDAs). New York Public Library cardholders will now have access to more than 3,000 new and popular fiction and nonfiction eBooks including best-selling and award-winning titles like Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones, James Patterson's The Big, Bad, Wolf, and the ever popular Cliffs Notes. eBooks are available for free Internet download through the Library's new, site: ebooks.nypl.org.

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Hardware Watch
Nokia has eBook
The Nokia 7710 smartphone will feature several mobile media applications and services, such as Visual Radio, which provides a richly interactive information channel to dramatically enhance the FM broadcast experience*. For example, listeners can see information on the song and artist currently playing on the radio or participate in competitions. The preinstalled eBook reader lets users enjoy electronic copies of their favorite titles. The eBook reader makes it possible to purchase or download eBooks from the retail site eBooks.com.

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  11/02/2004

Free PDF
iPodlounge's Buyers’ Guide
For the unfamiliar, iPodlounge's Buyers’ Guide is a complete, magazine-style guide to everything iPod and iPodlounge, with trustworthy previews and reviews of the very best iPod accessories, guides to getting free iPod software and support, and much, much more. We've designed the Guide so you can print only the pages you want, and give them to your family and friends as very specific holiday "gimme iPod" reminders.
By reader demand, the Guide contains a complete report card of the over 200 iPod-related products that have been reviewed by iPodlounge, and features the incredible art and photography of iPodlounge readers from around the world.

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  11/01/2004

Time Out!
Reality Check: The Polling

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Yeeah, not really
iTunes music to your Pocket PC
ppcTunes is a simple app that allows you to copy your favorite iTunes playlists to your Pocket PC.
From a tool to halve the space music files take up on your Pocket PC to our "Sync on Connect" feature (allowing you to copy music files every time you hook up your device), there's nothing we haven't put into this great little app. ppcTunes will even map your music files to your storage card so as not to fill up the main memory of your device.
ppcTunes can convert all of your MP3s into 1/2 size WMAs, saving you crucial space on your device.
It seems the program DO NOT support AAC and Protected AAC, which most iTunes users are using.

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The Ultimate Reader
Skip The Cybook eBook, Buy A Pocket PC
And for the $738 the Cybook costs, we could buy a lot of ebooks, along with a more powerful Pocket PC. Sure, the screen would be smaller. But we'd actually be able carry a Pocket PC without straining a muscle or four.
And we'd still have an open platform for content.

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PoliticWise
Read before you cast your vote

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