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- Online library offers 1.5 million works and counting
- Online library offers 1.5 million works and countingKnowledge needs to be free!Microsoft, Colleges and University's don't want that to happen!Use the new TOOLS as they should be used! FRICK THEM and get the know-how to improve our universe!Thou shalt not pay for knowledge granted by GOD!Wonder if they could work...
- Tags: Gutenberg, Online Library
- Discussion threads 2007-11-27
- Reflections on the first decade of blogging
- Reflections on the first decade of bloggingGutenberg's and Dave WinerJust like Gutenberg , who is not the inventor of the movable type printing but got the credit of printing press, Dave Winer has nothing todo with the invention of RSS Rahul Guha of Netscape or XML-RPC (Dave...
- Tags: Gannet, Gutenberg, Bemes, blogging, media, blog, genie
- Discussion threads 2007-02-25
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- eBooks, volume 2: What's the bridge document that would drive ebook reader adoption?
- Last week, I ran a poll about the number of ebooks people purchased each month. The results suggest that most people don't buy ebooks, but get them from various free sources, such as Project Gutenberg, Biblomania and O'Reilly Open Books. Fifty-nine percent of respondents said they bought no books during...
- Tags: E-books, Personal Technology, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-08-12
- Kindle, Sony and eBook readers: How many a month?
- Kindle, Sony and eBook readers: How many a month?eBooks on MobiPocket on my SmartphoneI dont own a Kindle (waiting for V2 - hoping it will look better!) but I always have 2 or 3 eBooks on my phone in case I get stuck waiting somewhere.No paper for meSince getting my...
- Tags: E-books, Project Gutenberg, e-book, Sony Corp., eBook Reader, Palm Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-05
- Is Google locking up historical works?
- Is Google locking up historical works?I agree100%I see good in this.I think that as long as they offer to the public access to digital scans of books which copyrights have expired and might be otherwise difficult for people to have access to, everything is good and no one is hurt.Sharing...
- Tags: SEARCH, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-04-28
- Yet another academic against Wikipedia
- Yet another academic against WikipediaGood Starting PointWikipedia is an excellent resource to use as a starting point for any research, so long as you understand that the articles are not necessarily written by experts in the relevant field.It's main failing is that any subject that has a political slant is...
- Tags: Wiki, Wikipedia
- Discussion threads 2008-04-15
- Silverlight on the Library of Congress site
- With DEMO today there's going to be a ton of RIA news but this one isn't DEMO-related. Microsoft is going to be working with the Library of Congress one of my favorite buildings in DC on an enhanced version of their website. The plan seems to be part of an...
- Tags: The Library Of Congress, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp., Plan, Site, Web Site Development, Web Technology, E-mail, Corporate Communications, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-01-28
- University Simplifies Administration With Server Consolidation, Management Tools
- Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz is a research university in Germany with multiple disciplines and more than 35,000 students. The university community uses a variety of client software and has considerable freedom in implementing new solutions. To support this constantly changing environment, the central IT department at the university needs to...
- Tags: Information Technology, Administration, University, Tool, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Server Consolidation, E-mail Servers, Servers, Strategy, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Management
- Case studies 2008-01-01
- yBook (exe)
- yBook display ebooks on side-by-side or single pages. Resize the pages, adjust the margins, set text and paper colour. Loads TXT, HTML and compressed PDB or PRC text files. Search for words or phrases. Automatic bookmarks. Text sizes from tiny to HUGE. No zooming, panning or scrolling, books are reformatted...
- Tags: yBook, E-books, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Personal Technology, Security
- Software downloads 2007-12-13
- Amazon 'Kindled' thoughts: Should Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 be renamed to Fahrenheit 1981?
- Amazon 'Kindled' thoughts: Should Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 be renamed to Fahrenheit 1981?DRM the real problemDRM and endless copyright are the real problem. The books at Project Gutenberg will never go out of print. They have already bee dublicated on hundreds of web sites and thousands, if not millions of devices.Only...
- Tags: Digital media, environmentalism, Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury, Amazon.com Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-12-03
- IMHO: Amazon Kindle drum roll another example of digerati clustercluck
- IMHO: Amazon Kindle drum roll another example of digerati clustercluckLet's seeAt $7.99 for a paperback [1], the amortization for a $399 reader would be $399/($7.99-$9.99) -- wait a minute!Oh, wait -- I forgot the monthly service charges.For this I get what? "Books" that are unreadable after the two or...
- Tags: Digital music, over-the-air service, Amazon Kindle, Amazon.com Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-11-19
- E-books galore...for free!
- E-books galore...for free!Don't forget the originalProject Gutenberg is still going strong and offers thousands of free e-books. My favourite is the Science Fiction Bookshelf ;-)www.gutenberg.orgNot exactly freeStill under copyright, but the authors and publishers are at least enlightened about the value of "here, read this:"http://www.baen.com/library/Of course, they're trying to...
- Tags: E-books, e-book, Project Gutenberg
- Discussion threads 2007-11-13
- E-books: Can Amazon and Google make them work?
- E-books: Can Amazon and Google make them work?Who cares?Yeah, that makes sense. I'll shell out $400-plus bucks for a reader which lets me access a list of books so short that if they were [b]free[/b] with the reader I'd still be paying more per book than if I scored...
- Tags: E-books, Webscriptions, Google Inc., Amazon.com Inc., e-book
- Discussion threads 2007-09-06
- The OLPC project and competition
- The OLPC project and competitionCompetition is goodI realize what the OLPC is saying about Intel. If you compete against the OLPC, you look bad... sort of. But let's face it, AMD is not going to lose money on each unit sold, are they? Intel has the right, and to extent,...
- Tags: Negroponte, Intel Corp., One Laptop Per Child project
- Discussion threads 2007-06-14
- With or without Windows, is OLPC DOA?
- With or without Windows, is OLPC DOA?The little laptop that could? NOT!Well, now the truth comes out -- that Nicholas Negroponte never did endorse Windows on the XO. He is still clinging to open-source as the ONLY answer. I guess the point is that the OLPC can...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Now IT, One Laptop Per Child project, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2007-05-03
- Web2book (msi)
- This program makes formatted HTML, RTF, LRF or PDF files from RSS feeds, Web sites, Project Gutenberg books, Wikipedia entries, Crossword Compiler crossword, Microsoft Reader .Lit files, and other sources. PDF output is in iso-8859-15 character set, so some European languages are supported. The output files can be saved on...
- Tags: RSS Feed, Adobe PDF, Web Site, RSS, Web Site Development, E-books, Internet, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2007-04-27
- But my printer is out of ink...
- But my printer is out of ink...Cheap InkI know how you feel about running out of ink. Thaks exactly why I started an inkjet supply business. Too much money was being spent on constantly running out of ink and buying it at exorbitant prices.Just drop by our store Http://www.metawatch.ca and...
- Tags: Printers, Document management, E-mail, Backups, printer, Printing technology
- Discussion threads 2007-04-16
- Why Google's universal library is an assault on human identity
- Why Google's universal library is an assault on human identityIts either left or right in this caseMS actually just plans to do the same. I agree that a book is best read in full, but wouldn't it be great to find all books with a certain quote?If you look at...
- Tags: Reading, binaries, Google Inc., human identity, identity, assault
- Discussion threads 2007-03-06
- Chiming in on the iPhone vs. Treo vs. Symbian vs. RIM vs. ...
- Food fight! As if it could have turned into anything else instantly, the fanboy hordes are storming the castle gates at enthusiast sites around the web with prognostications and opinions based more on emotion than anything resembling facts that Apples just-announced iPhone is take your pick:A category killer.The greatest thing...
- Tags: Productivity, Mobility, Hardware, Gadgetry, Mac, Apple Computer Inc., iPhone, Apple iPhone
- Blog posts 2007-01-11
- Cell phone porn to ring up $3.3 billion
- Cell phone porn to ring up $3.3 billionC'mon people!What's wrong with some people? Life is way too short for poor quality pornography! It's like drinking cheap beer or bad wine. If you're tech savvy enough to use your phone to connect to the internet, dammit, you should...
- Tags: INTERNET, Telecom & Utilities, cell phone, phone
- Discussion threads 2006-11-28
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