These are tough economic times and if you want to save yourself a few pennies, stop buying ebooks, join your local library and borrow ebooks for free. The OverDrive Media Console app lets you download and read ebooks offered by…
The British Library and Google have partnered to digitise 250 000 books from the period of 1700 to 1870, an era of political change starting with the French Revolution and ending with the abolition of slavery. The press release from…
Ken Plotkin, the CEO of Hauppage (www.hauppauge.com), describes the Colossus HD H.264 Video Recorder PCI Express card for the PC. The Colossus card is designed to record high definition video from sources such as an X-Box 360, Playstation 3, as…
The Library of Congress, in a regular review of digital copyright laws, made a few adjustments last week. They declared that jailbreaking a device is perfectly legal, that breaking code on games is okay for certain purposes (to fix bugs,…
Last night, I downloaded some music from Amazon for the first time and I was both irritated and pleasantly surprised by the experience. I’d gone to Amazon because I’m not an iPod owner and wanted to get some DRM-free music for…
I have been a consumer of Amazon MP3’s for at least two years. Probably longer. I choose to buy music through the Amazon MP3 downloader above almost anything else. One simple reason: no DRM. Amazon MP3’s can be downloaded for…
I don’t know how Pandora works. I just know it does. Pandora is an online music service I’m sure most of you have heard of if not used. I started using it last year and I absolutely love it. It…