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The carnage continues, the RIAA will someday come to the realization that you can sue and litigate all you want but until they can change their ideology and fix their business model the temptation to rip music will prove to be to great for many. [CNN]
Apple has upgrade iTunes along with a new iPod release. Seems they where not very happy with the PlayFair and FairTunes tools as they no longer work with the new release. [Slashdot]
Ohhh I bet the RIAA is going to turn fiery red over this one and I bet the bandwidth between the United States and Europe is going to take a hit. Nothing like encouraging some stealing of music when it can be had that cheap. The creators of the site have done a impressive job in getting it setup. [Designtechnica]
I get my tickets late Tuesday afternoon and look at the travel itinerary and low and behold I have a 12 hour layover in Minneapolis. I wanted to throttle someone. So instead of sitting in the airport all day I am going to crash at a hotel and fly out tonight for Europe. Traveling from Hawaii to Europe always comes
I work in the technical field and have to read very large schematics. Recently I had to read those same paper schematics on my laptop utilizing Autocad to fix a problem in the field. I am here to tell you it sucked. So I wonder how 5th and 6th graders are going to be able to handle making the transition
Give me a break. I haven't searched for anything on Yahoo in 2-3 years. This is after they pissed me off and started charging to get sites added to there database. Google has the 2500+ pages on this site indexed completely. Looking at the stats today I have received nearly 7630 hits from Google searches alone. How many from Yahoo
I have downloaded about a 100 tracks from Music.Download.com music section this afternoon. It is nice to be able to score music that is legal and as diverse and as good as anything the big labels are making you pay for. Thousands of wonderful singers and groups worldwide never break out from regional exposure and now they will once again
One of my co-workers gave me a pretty hard time when I bought computers for my kids. What prompted this was that even though I had their login on my wife's machine locked down and had employed a significant anti-virus and anti-spyware protection to the machine. Little kids and mouse clicking go hand in hand. I had visited the majority
Spent the morning packing and getting ready for an extended business trip. This will be a interesting adventure as I have the travel plans from hell. The biggest challenge will be finding connectivity. I will keep you advised to how it is going. I will be out of action after these set of post for at least 48 hours due
High-capacity DVDs (Digital Video Disks) that use blue laser technology may soon be available to information technology professionals. Blue laser DVD-RW (rewritable) disks are expected by Sony in the U.S. as early as this June. The disks will store 23GB of data and the drives will initially be connected by SCSI or USB 2.0 interfaces. The expected cost of the first models is between $2,500 and $3,000; however, fast price drops should follow.
"LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Online technology company CNET Networks Inc. (Nasdaq:CNET - news) on Monday launched a free digital music service, allowing users to search and download what it said were thousands of songs contributed by independent and unsigned artists" [Yahoo] As many of you know CNet also owns MP3.com which was once had the largest collection od independent artist.
Lots of terrific new feeds out there today and thanks to the Lockergnome crew for finding a couple of gems today: "RSSJobs is a new service that helps you keep track of new postings on Monster.com" [Lockergnome] [www.rssjobs.com]
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