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2 months ago
in Ideas triggered by Amazon buying Lexcycle on The Shatzkin Files
That's another argument for The Pirate Bay to do it. They don't seem to be motivated by money.
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Mike Shatzkin
Mike Cane, in a discussion a month or two ago on the 26th Story blog, I said I figured that Michael Cader and Seth Godin would set up a web site that told everybody about all the free and near-free ebooks: Random House giveaways on Stanza, the monthly $1 sci-fi book from Hachette, etc. The publishers will give enough ebooks away in the next few years (to promote print-book sales) that people would be able to do all their reading near-free without even going to Google-Sony public domain! So Pirate Bay could have plenty to do.
2 months ago
in Ideas triggered by Amazon buying Lexcycle on The Shatzkin Files
The Universal eBook Catalog
http://ebooktest.blogspot.com/2009/04/universal...
http://ebooktest.blogspot.com/2009/04/universal...
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Mike Shatzkin
Mike Cane: great idea. The only part I wonder about is the advertising support. Would it amount to much? That's hard to tell.
2 months ago
in Get Your Crystal Ball On - Amazon and Lexcycle on Fiction Matters
>>>Call me a romantic, but my money is still on a kid in his parent’s basement upsetting the entire mess.
I love that!!!
I love that!!!
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Knownhuman
I know. It's a wonderful thing when that's actually possible in our reality.
2 months ago
in Happy Birthday Judie! on Gear Diary
When will she give up telling is she's turned 39 *again*? She'll have been 39 for the fifteenth time now!
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Judie Lipsett
Ha! It's *29* for the 13th time! Get it right! ;-)
2 months ago
in Microsoft LIT, you will be missed on Gear Diary
They can be liberated from DRM and then put back in unprotected LIT. Google is everyone's friend. If you pay for an eBook, you should be able to unshackle it for your own personal use is my opinion.
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Jessica Fritsche
I agree...I actually do have a lot of "liberated" eBooks, I just didn't really know if I should mention that in my post. :-) Sadly it's my "liberated" books that really look the best. Some of the LIT files from Manybooks, I realized tonight, are pretty much straight from Gutenberg and don't really have chapters built in. They still look visually nice, but I do like the chapter divisions.
Michael Anderson
You *should* be able to, if it weren't for this crazy little thing called 'the law' ... and since they made breaking DRM or removing DRM from protected files a crime, it is not something I approach with a casual attitude.
It makes it hard to be anti-piracy, all of this DRM stuff and the draconian laws and lawsuits that the IP holders have put in place - because it effectively punishes honest folks who just want to get 'fair use' from their purchases and does nothing to stop those who just don't care.
In short, yes I know how to crack LIT DRM just as I know how to crack iTunes DRM and get no-DVD cracks to avoid added wear on game discs, but since all of it is illegal I don't think it should be put up as a legit way to do things.
It makes it hard to be anti-piracy, all of this DRM stuff and the draconian laws and lawsuits that the IP holders have put in place - because it effectively punishes honest folks who just want to get 'fair use' from their purchases and does nothing to stop those who just don't care.
In short, yes I know how to crack LIT DRM just as I know how to crack iTunes DRM and get no-DVD cracks to avoid added wear on game discs, but since all of it is illegal I don't think it should be put up as a legit way to do things.
2 months ago
in Microsoft LIT, you will be missed on Gear Diary
I am now drowning in my own drool at the prospect of seeing a LIT file on a Stanza iPhone screensnap. OMG, just update the post with one for the time being. Save my life! Glug glug!
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Jessica Fritsche
Well, like I said in my other comment, I realized that some of my free LIT books (like the screenshot I took) don't have chapter divisions, which makes the LITs look and feel even nicer in Stanza for me, because it "loads" the next chapter up and makes it feel like you really flipped the page and found the start of a new part.
I just took a screenshot of Ethan Frome, which I'm reading right now...the file looks good partly because the file is well formatted and partly because Stanza just plain renders it well. The newest version of Stanza handles paragraph spacing really well, which is really nice because I HATE it when the spacing runs together. I can't find a file that has any fancy tables or anything, so I can't see how they handle in the iPhone reader. I'm fairly certain they'd look grand in the desktop reader...maybe you should send me one, Mike. :-)
I can't edit the post in order to add a screenshot, so I sent it to Judie!
I just took a screenshot of Ethan Frome, which I'm reading right now...the file looks good partly because the file is well formatted and partly because Stanza just plain renders it well. The newest version of Stanza handles paragraph spacing really well, which is really nice because I HATE it when the spacing runs together. I can't find a file that has any fancy tables or anything, so I can't see how they handle in the iPhone reader. I'm fairly certain they'd look grand in the desktop reader...maybe you should send me one, Mike. :-)
I can't edit the post in order to add a screenshot, so I sent it to Judie!
4 months ago
in An HP Mini Note Webcam Fix On the Way? on Gear Diary
So of course we don't get any Before/After shots from this cam. Tch, tch! FAIL!
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Judie Lipsett
You are correct that I dropped the ball on this.
Julie (www.the-gadgeteer.com) has both a Vivienne Tam edition like mine and a regular black Mini Note. She is going to get screensnaps of the webcam picture from each this evening. I will get a picture from mine.
Granted, this won't be as controlled a test as it would have been if I had all three laptops here together, but I think you will easily be able to see a significant difference.
With the film removed, the webcam on my Tam is as bright and usable as the ones on my Macbook Air and Macbook Pro.
Julie (www.the-gadgeteer.com) has both a Vivienne Tam edition like mine and a regular black Mini Note. She is going to get screensnaps of the webcam picture from each this evening. I will get a picture from mine.
Granted, this won't be as controlled a test as it would have been if I had all three laptops here together, but I think you will easily be able to see a significant difference.
With the film removed, the webcam on my Tam is as bright and usable as the ones on my Macbook Air and Macbook Pro.
4 months ago
in HP2140- My First Hack on Gear Diary
>>>and because it’s a standard hard drive rather than the hard drive used in the HP 1000,
Do you mean the slimmer Mini that comes in black and red? What HD is in it? And what speed? Can that unit be opened and hacked as easily?
Do you mean the slimmer Mini that comes in black and red? What HD is in it? And what speed? Can that unit be opened and hacked as easily?
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dan
a 4200RPM 1.8" PATA hard drive so it was slower and there were far fewer options.
brandonsteili
The HP Mini 1000 - the one that you're talking - about uses a smaller drive form factor. I believe a 5mm drive as opposed to the 8mm drive in the HP 2140.
4 months ago
in Win One of Six Seagate FreeAgent Go Portable Hard Drives From Gear Diary and The Gadgeteer on Gear Diary
Me! Me! Me! Wait ... then she'll have my frikkin address!
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Judie Lipsett
yeah! so are you really sure you want to enter? ;-)
8 months ago
in Steve Jobs never said Apple isn’t working on a netbook on Liliputing
Geez, it'll be the iPod Touchbook.
http://mikecane2008.wordpress.com/2008/08/15/oc...
Alas, not coming this month. But probably the big surprise of MacWorld in January.
Watch Steve Jobs flatten CES news once again!
http://mikecane2008.wordpress.com/2008/08/15/oc...
Alas, not coming this month. But probably the big surprise of MacWorld in January.
Watch Steve Jobs flatten CES news once again!
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turn.self.off
heh, i see im not the only one with a "told you so" feeling.
i have been doing some guesswork in the direction of apple over time replacing the consumer part of their mac lineup (desktop and laptop) with something that have more in common with iphone then current day osx.
thing is, if they take the iphone interface, or close to it, and add iwork into the mix, they already have a working "netbook" setup.
i have been doing some guesswork in the direction of apple over time replacing the consumer part of their mac lineup (desktop and laptop) with something that have more in common with iphone then current day osx.
thing is, if they take the iphone interface, or close to it, and add iwork into the mix, they already have a working "netbook" setup.
