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Advertisements in E-books?
AD building Originally uploaded by Straws pulled at random OK, thanks to Steve Gibson tweeting an article in ReadWriteWeb, my weekend is ruined. A Wall Street Journal editorial claims that according to a business professor and a former book editor (Ron Adner and William Vincent), ads in E-books are the next big thing. Sacrilege, right? [...]
iTunes 9.1 authorization and Windows 7
I recently started working with Windows 7 on my work computer (expect a slew of updates to the old Vista postings ) and ran into some problems with iTunes. First off, it needed the special 64-bit installer to be run (I’m using Windows 7 64-bit), even though after doing that it installed almost everything in [...]
Apple iTunes to raise prices on movies
According to MacNN, Apple is set to raise the prices on downloadable movies in iTunes to $15, just a couple of dollars below the retail price of a physical DVD. This means that for $3 more, you can order the same movie, without DRM, with extra content, in a nice box, and probably in better [...]
Vista network performance while playing music
Yeah, I just got bit by that Vista “feature”… the one where your network slows down when you play music. That one, yeah. I just added an index to our database, unfortunately from the client side. While I was chastising myself for doing it client-server instead of host-based, I was watching the number of records [...]