Sun December 26 2004
Resco products 30% discount till 12/31/04 |
04:07 PM by Alexander Turcic in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones Resco is offering a 30% discount on all of its application till 12/31/04. This is a great deal considering that its Explorer 2003 is my favorite file manager for Pocket PC! |
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Stream music to your Airport Exress from anywhere |
07:12 AM by Alexander Turcic in Archive | Portable Audio/Video Slipstream 1.0 is a new Mac OS X-only application which allows you to send audio from any application directly to remote speakers attached to Apple's AirPort Express device. Airport Express officially only supports streaming music from iTunes. With Slipstream you can now listen to your music in any file format from applications like RealPlayer and Windows Media Player. The program will be available in early 2005 for an introductory price of US $20. Let's hope someone will hack a similar tool for MS Windows and *nix users. I bought an Airport Express even with the original Monster cables, but so far haven't even tried to use audio streaming because I don't like to have to install iTunes. Note: This is not the first time someone tried to circumvent the limitations of the Airport Express. In August we reported how "DVD Jon" cracked the private keys that the device uses to protect music streams. |
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ubook 0.9b e-book reader available |
06:53 AM by Colin Dunstan in E-Book Software | Reading and Management David at Gowerpoint has just released a new version of his wonderful Pocket PC e-book reader ubook - version 0.9b. Here's what's new: Click here for a full overview of all ubook features including screenshots. ubook is a shareware product. A licence costs $12US and works for all versions of the reader. The unlicenced version is not crippled in any way, but pops up an about screen every now and then. |
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Sat December 25 2004
Recent Downtime |
06:37 PM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Announcements Mobileread.com was inaccessible for about one to two hours. Sorry about that - it seems that nasty worms and script kiddies don't enjoy their holidays. |
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Digital Library: Making of America |
09:37 AM by Bob Russell in E-Book General | Deals and Resources (No... Making of America (MOA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history primarily from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The book collection currently contains approximately 8,500 books with 19th century imprints. You can either do a search, or see browse the information in a few places... http://moa.cit.cornell.edu/moa/moa_browse.html Can't tell if these browsing locations are comprehensive, or if there's overlap between them, but you can always go back to the main site and do searches if there's something in particular you are looking for. This is a noble effort, and maybe one day soon collections like this will become commonplace. |
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WebIS Money free for registered WebIS users |
07:54 AM by Alexander Turcic in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones If you are an owner of any other WebIS software, you can get your copy of WebIS Money for free by just filling in your registered email address, order number, or software registration key. You will then get a download link if you are eligible. If you are an avid Mobileread reader, you know that there is currently another WebIS promotion, which allows you to get WebIS Mail for free. If you combine the two promotions... This promotion ends when WebIS Money 2.0 is released. |
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iPod soon with airbag-like sensor detection? |
04:44 AM by Alexander Turcic in Archive | Portable Audio/Video Apple is eyeing a technology that could make the iPod more likely to survive a fall, according to this ZDNet article:
This technology is not new though. My IBM Thinkpad notebook has a similar patented feature called IBM Active Protection system (white paper, flash presentation). In a nutshell, Active Protection automatically parks the hard drive head temporarily when a drop or a similar damage event is predicted by a motherboard-mounted motion detector ("accelerometer"). So since IBM already features such a technology, I am curious to see how Steve Jobs thinks he could re-patent it for himself. |
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