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Bookpedia – you can also, of course display the catalog as a list! Until now I have for many years used Readerware to catalog our (1100+) books and (800 or so) CDs, and Delicious Library to catalog our much smaller collection of DVDs. The rational behind that was that Readerware is cross-platform (Windows, . . . → Read More: Good software to catalog books, CDs and DVDs Good news (the music is financed by advertising on their website): As of today, you can play full-length tracks and entire albums for free on the Last.fm website. Something we’ve wanted for years—for people who visit Last.fm to be able to play any track for free—is now possible. With the support of the folks . . . → Read More: Free music on Last.fm In the past, I’ve tried a number of times to get a reasonable conversion of a bitmap graphic to a vector graphic. I have never been satisfied with the results, and have ended up creating the vector graphic from scratch. Now there is a free online tool, developed by Stanford University’s Artificial Intelligence . . . → Read More: Good bitmap to vector graphic converter …Researchers at the California Institute of Technology have shown that a person’s enjoyment of wine can be heightened if they are simply told that it is an expensive one… More > Logitech took over Slim Devices some time ago. They are introducing a new product at the end of January, which looks like it will give Sonos a run for their money in the area of wireless streamed music at home. The Squeezebox Duet offers much of the functionality of the Sonos gear . . . → Read More: Interesting competitor to Sonos Vaibhav Sharma highlights a useful feature of recent-model Nokia phones on The Symbian Blog. The phones come with an application called “Switch” which is intended to allow purchasers of a new phone to transfer (switch) the content of their existing phone to the new one. In fact it can do a lot more than . . . → Read More: “Switch” for the Nokia E- and N-Series phones The Economist thinks that although last year was terrible for the music industry, things will soon be even worse: IN 2006 EMI, the world’s fourth-biggest recorded-music company, invited some teenagers into its headquarters in London to talk to its top managers about their listening habits. At the end of the session the EMI . . . → Read More: Music industry woes to deepen Jeremy Clarkson, the BBC Top Gear presenter, is regretting mocking the fuss made about the British government losing CDs with millions of sets of personal data on them. He published an article in the Sunday Times which included his bank account details, claiming that concerns about identity theft were exaggerated. Someone promptly transferred Ł500 . . . → Read More: Better not publish your bank account details How some software manages to get on to the market is a puzzle to me. For the last 3-4 days I have been struggling to download the Nokia Maps which, if I could download them, would allow me to use Nokia’s navigation software with our new mobile phones without having to buy a . . . → Read More: Dodgy maths (Update: Not) Downside 1: When the cheapest source in Germany for two CDs by Gianmaria Testa (an Italian singer) ships the CDs from New Zealand (with a packing slip printed with an address in New Jersey, USA). Downside 2: The demand for cheap meat results in keeping chickens in overcrowded, insanitary conditions. Free-range birds cost . . . → Read More: Downsides of too much capitalism? |
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