Get the full iPod experience in an impossibly small design. The pencil-thin iPod nano includes all the features of a normal size iPod, like the Apple Click Wheel, bright 1.5" color LCD display and completely skip-free playback, in a sleek package. Holds up to 1000 songs and features full-color album art, and can play podcasts, audiobooks and store up to 25,000 photos, too. Features the same 30-pin dock connector as previous iPod and iPod mini, so accessories are interchangeable.
Customer Review: Amazing gadget and I got it free!
I would recommend getting a PDA screen protecting film to avoid scratches. Overall, I really love my new iPod nano, and recommend you to buy one if you have the money. Or you can just get it Free like I did at this web site: forfreethings.com/ipod-nano
Customer Review: Junk
My mother had this player, the screen’s acrylic surface is horrible and it cracked easily within the first few days. What kind of product should even be sold with this kind of limited durability. Either ways, we got it for free actually for just searching on this website called Blingo. Really, u are automatically entered to win prizes just by searching through them. here is a link. its not one of those pointless ads supported surveys.
http://www.blingo.com/friends?ref=8K6GCz2_aEMfxkS23jUxt9XVJc0 Buy It Now at Amazon!

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CSR Wire - Mohawk engineers its papers to provide optimal performance for sheetfed, web and digital printing. Mohawk papers are used in a wide variety of communications including prestigious annual reports, corporate identity systems, high-end brochures
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dBusinessNews.com - that worked for both Brightec and Cornell. This agreement is a significant step for us and will provide us with the resources we need to position Brightec as the media of choice for printable glow-in-the-dark for the commercial and digital printing
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Xerox Emirates participates in leading ITSM conference
AME Info - From the desktop to the production department to the enterprise, Xerox Emirates has the richest product and service portfolio - copiers, printers, fax machines, scanners, software, digital printing and publishing system, supplies, turnkey document
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The English poet Wystan Hugh Auden was born 100 years ago this week. He wrote over 400 poems, and he was always known by his initials – W H Auden. When he was young, he was a radical, both in his politics and his poetry. But – like many of us – he became more conservative as he grew older. A lot of people did not like Auden or his poetry. In particular, they criticised him because he left Britain to live in America during the Second World War. But some of Auden’s poems have remained very popular. One of them is called Night Mail. There is a link from the podcast website to a site which has the full text of the poem. I am going to read you only a few bits. There is a grammar and vocabulary note for the podcast. It is on the website, and – as an experiment – I have also posted it as a pdf file which you should be able to download direct from iTunes. (You will however need Adobe Acrobat Reader on your computer). How did the poem come to be written? In the 1930s, the Post Office decided to make a short film about the mail trains which carried letters and parcels overnight between England and Scotland. The composer Benjamin Britten wrote music for the film and the Post Office asked W H Auden to write a poem as part of the commentary. The Night Mail was one of the famous “travelling post offices”. The men and women who worked on the train sorted the letters and parcels as the train travelled through the night. The Night Mail was of course pulled by an express steam locomotive. It was a magnificent sight as it thundered northwards. Auden’s poem began: This is the Night Mail crossing the border, Bringing the cheque and the postal order, Letters for the rich, letters for the poor, The shop at the corner, the girl next door. Pulling up Beattock, a steady climb, The gradient’s against her, but she’s on time. Auden tells us about the letters which the train was carrying: Letters of thanks, letters from banks, Letters of joy from girl and boy, Receipted bills and invitations To inspect new stock or to visit relations, And applications for situations, And timid lovers’ declarations, And gossip, gossip from all the nations.. Of course, letters were much more important to people in the 1930’s than they are today. Today we keep in touch with friends and relatives by telephone or e-mail. Most of the letters I receive are what we call junk mail – catalogues for things I don’t want to buy, special offers on car insurance and mobile telephones. At the end of the poem, Auden tells us about the people all over Scotland who are still asleep and dreaming. But they shall wake soon and hope for letters, And none will hear the postman’s knock Without a quickening of the heart. For who can bear to feel himself forgotten? Artwork from poster for the film Night Mail Grammar and Vocabulary Note :: File Download (4:05 min / 1.4 MB)
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DRM: Digital Rights Restrictions - Richard Stallman Viewpoint: Video
Digital Rights Management, or DRM, is an all-too-pervasive means by which the manufacturers of hardware and software - including music and video - place restrictions upon the people that buy it from them. If you have ever downloaded a music track from iTunes, or a movie from Amazon Unbox, bought an audio book from Audible or tried to get your music collection back off an iPod, you have already come into contact with DRM. Photo credit: Ovidiu Predescu Effectively, DRM is a means of controlling and restricting how you listen to, watch or interact with your digital media. For one, it is designed to prevent you from sharing it with your friends, and for another it is kept in place to ensure that you do not tamper with, remix or in any way alter the digital content that you have purchased. In some cases you are restricted to accessing this media using a single device. Lose the device, lose the media. Increasingly, consumers are standing up and refusing to be treated like criminals by the people whose salaries they pay. While there are a growing number of ways to remove DRM from software they remain largely illegal, and perhaps the most effective stand that consumers can take against it is to boycott products that implement DRM altogether. In the second part of Robin Good’s exclusive interview with Free Software pioneer and founding member of Defective By Design Richard Stallman, they discuss the current status of DRM and the alternatives available to you as a consumer and producer of digital media. What is DRM, where can you find it in action, and what are the alternatives? Richard Stallman on DRM - with full transcript RG: Can we spend a few words on the status of DRM and your concern on activities around it? In line with Richard Stallman’s wishes, this video is also available to download in the Free Software Ogg Theora format Richard Stallman: DRM refers to Digital Restrictions Management. That s the practice of developing software specifically to restrict the users, where the program says I don t wanna show you this file I don t wanna let you copy part of this file I don t wanna print this file for You, cause you re no good. Literally the developers design the software to stop you from doing things. Microsoft does it, Apple does it, Adobe does it, Sony did it in a very nasty way and received a lot of criticism for it a year ago. It s therefore a temptation that many proprietary software developers face to put in malicious features. You can t tell in many cases whether a proprietary program has malicious features. Some kinds of malicious features are visible DRM is visible if the program refuses to let you do certain things, you can see that. If it spies on you, you may not be able to see that it s a different malicious feature. These malicious features are possible because of the fact that the developer has power over the users. If the users were in control, they would take out the malicious features. And with Free Software, that s what happens, except we never put them in because it would be like trying to rob a bank by pointing your finger at somebody and saying I ll shoot my finger at you . You know, its s going to be obvious that you can t and nobody s going to do anything but laugh. And so nobody even gets tempted to try to put malicious features into Free Software because they know that someone else will take them out. But with proprietary software, once the developers have power over the users they can put in anything they want, and the users can t change it. They re constantly faced with the idea of choosing the features to hurt the users and help themselves at the users expense. RG: What are the actions that we as individuals can take to stop some of this? In line with Richard Stallman’s wishes, this video is also available to download in the Free Software Ogg Theora format Richard Stallman: The main thing you can do to stop DRM is don t accept products with DRM. Don t use Apple iTunes, don t buy HD-DVD or Blu-Ray, don t buy ordinary DVDs unless you get a copy of the illegal Free Software that can play a DVD. I prefer simply not to get any DVDs that are encrypted, because that s a better solution from my point of view. So if you reject these things, and don t install Real Player or Windows Media Player on your machine these also implement DRM. If you care about freedom, then when someone asks you to give up your freedom for practical benefits, you ll say no. And ultimately that s what we depend on. But there s more you can do, if you want to spend some time opposing DRM go to DefectiveByDesign.org, which is the website of our protest campaign against DRM. We have had many public protests this year, on the DRM issue, and we are continuing to do so. The more people join the campaign, the more we will be heard. Photo credit: Defective By Design Defective By Design Defective By Design is both a well featured online resource and an organization determined to raise public consciousness as to DRM and assist them in living without it once and for all. In addition to bringing about international protests and direct action against DRM, Defective By Design also offer a growing list of DRM-Free products and services that consumers can use as alternatives to their DRM-restricted counterparts. In the following short video, we see one example of Defective By Design members taking their message to the street, and learn more about the ideas behind the organization and its issues with companies like Apple, who make heavy use of DRM in their iTunes and iPod products. This is one of many Anti-DRM protests carried out by Defective By Design. It took place at the San Francisco Apple Store in June of last year. The featured speakers are Henri Poole of DefectiveByDesign.org / CivicActions and Mike Linksvayer of Creative Commons. The Defective By Design website challenges the notion that DRM is necessary, and underlines the fact that it is used to maximize profits, while minimizing the control users have over the content they have paid for: ‘’Big Media describe DRM as Digital Rights Management. However, since its purpose is to restrict you the user, it is more accurate to describe DRM as Digital Restrictions Management. DRM Technology can restrict users access to movies, music, literature and software, indeed all forms of digital data. Unfree software implementing DRM technology is simply a prison in which users can be put to deprive them of the rights that the law would otherwise allow them. From Richard Stallman, President of the FSF: The motive for DRM schemes is to increase profits for those who impose them, but their profit is a side issue when millions of people s freedom is at stake; desire for profit, though not wrong in itself, cannot justify denying the public control over its technology. Defending freedom means thwarting DRM. ‘’ (Defective By Design, 2006) As a consumer you have the right not to buy software, music, video or electronic devices that treat you as a potential criminal regardless of your intentions. Exercise that right. ‘’So what is the alternative to DRM?'’ ‘’No DRM.'’ Further Resources: If you would like to read more about DRM, and the alternatives to this restrictive business model, the following web sites may be of interest: DefectiveByDesign.Org - A great resource and one way that you can get directly involved in the battle against DRM The Gripe Line Weblog in DRM’s defence Wikipedia on DRM - an extensive wikipedia entry on DRM Free Software Foundation - Richard Stallman’s surefire way to make sure you are DRM free: avoid proprietary software. Defective By Design’s Guide to DRM-Free products and services that deserve your custom Originally written by Michael Pick for Master New Media as: DRM: Digital Rights Restrictions - Richard Stallman Viewpoint: Video Interview
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Apple iPod Universal Dock - This updated docking station works with any iPod that has a dock connector. Allowing you to sync and charge your iPod by attaching it to your computer. With optional accessories, you can also use this dock to display photos and video on your TV, or play your iPod’s audio files through your home stereo system.
Customer Review: Works as expected
Nothing great about it. Does what it is suppose to do. I was aware of it’s limited functionality in regards to its remote from beginning. SO not depressed by it. I like the way it hold IPOD and charges it. Not worth money but a necessary thing to have if you have a 400$ ipod. Good part is it is universal and holds any IPOD.

Customer Review: Once you’ve purchased the iPod, avoid the Apple logo
A general rule of thumb for iPod accessories, especially from the 5th generation on up - if it’s made by Apple, it’s a colossal rip-off.

Their Macintosh accessories have always been fairly pricey, but also innovative and flexible. Not so with the iPod add-ons, which always seem to be missing something necessary.

This universal dock is no exception. No - it doesn’t come with an AC adaptor for charging (another $35 from the Apple Store). No, it doesn’t come with the A/V cables to hook it up to your TV or stereo ($20 from the Apple Store). And no, despite it’s nifty remote sensor, there is no remote control included…that’s another $30 purchase from Apple.

Thankfully, there are third parties slowly but surely cranking out cheap alternatives for the latest generation of iPod, allowing it to retain it’s mantle as the best digital music player on the market. It is still unfortunate to see that Apple, once it’s finally got a grip on the market again, couldn’t resist trying to gouge it’s customers. Buy It Now at Amazon!

The Kensington Lightweight, Slim line 120 Watt AC/DC Power Adapter handles all your mobile power needs, all in one slim package. Packed with 120 watts of power, the Kensington Notebook AC/DC Power Adapter uses patented technology to deliver all the power you need. It’s 40% smaller and lighter than other power supplies, but provides reliable power for today’s larger, high-performance notebooks as well as other small mobile electronics: iPods, cell phones, DVD players, and PDAs.
Customer Review: a little stain
It’s very nice, it works good and is compact and light. The adapter series is complete. The only thing that surprised me is the lenght of the power cable from the outlet to the power adpter: it’s few inches! I expected to be at least 10 feet.
Customer Review: Meets my needs & most of my wants.
The Kensington Slimline Power Adapter does everything I expected it to, powering a Dell laptop, iPod, & Palm PDA on the road & in the house. It is light weight & convenient. I agree with Kensington’s rationale that the short wall power cord saves weight & space for traveling. Since I keep ‘proprietary’ adapters at my office, being able to have a single adapter at the house & for trips for all my rechargeable stuff works great. Of the half dozen or so power tips with the adapter, only the iPod was of use to me. I think I would have rather had a voucher for say 3 tips of my choice rather than the 5 tips that I have already thrown away. That being said my Dell tip & Palm PDA tip ordered from Kensington arrived in a reasonable time. I withheld the 5th star because the tip I ordered for an LG cell phone (2 yrs old) has yet to be in stock after 30+ days, and the one for a Motorola (new) is not in stock either. Despite direct questions by email to Kensington for estimated shipping dates, none is have been provided in their responses. If they never come up with my cell phone tips, I would downgrade this to 3 stars. On the other had if they get the cell phone tips to me & stocked a tip for my proprietary Olympus digital camera battery, I’d go six on the stars. Buy It Now at Amazon!

New York — Friday, April 27th, 2007 — Freeverse and plasq today announced the release of Comic Life Deluxe version 1.3.3. New Features in 1.3: * Visual style previews * ‘Email this Comic’ button * Publish to iWeb * Multiple tails per balloon * Rotate panels and captions * Multiple images per panel…
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Complete video at: fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=453 “Wired” editor and “The Long Tail” author Chris Anderson talks with publisher Will Hearst about how user-created content is changing the landscape of mass media. —– The Long Time Tail You know something is up when an audience member is taking cell phone photos of the presenter’s slides for instant transmittal to a business partner. Chris Anderson does have killer slides, full of exuberant detail, defining the exact shape of the still emerging opportunity space for finding and selling formerly infindable and unsellable items of every imaginable description. The 25 million music tracks in the world. All the TV ever broadcast. Every single amateur video. All that is old, arcane, micro-niche, against-the-grain, undefinable, or remote is suddenly as accessible as the top of the pops. “The power law is the shape of our age,” Anderson asserted, showing the classic ski-jump curve of popularity - a few things sell in vast quantity, while a great many things sell in small quantity. It’s the natural product of variety, inequality, and network effect sifting, which amplifies the inequality. “Everything is measurable now,” said Anderson, comparing charts of sales over time of a hit music album with a niche album. The hit declined steeply, the niche album kept its legs. The “long tail” of innumerable tiny-sellers is populated by old hits as well as new and old niche items. That’s the time dimension. For the first time in history, archives have a business model. Old stuff is more profitable because the acquisition cost is lower and customer satisfaction is higher. Infinite-inventory Netflix occupies the sweet spot for movie distribution, while Blockbuster is saddled with the tyranny of the new. Anderson explained that we are leaving an age where distribution was ruled by channel scarcity - 3 TV networks, only so many movie theater screens, limited shelf space for books. “Those scarcity effects make a bottleneck that distorts the market and distorts our culture. Infinite shelf space changes everything.” Books are freed up by print-on-demand (already a large and profitable service at Amazon), movies freed by cheap DVDs, old broadcast TV by classics collections, new videos by Google Videos and YouTube online. Even the newest game machines are now designed to be able to emulate their earlier incarnations, so you can play the original “Super Mario Bros.” if so inclined - and many are. “I’m an editor of a Conde-Nast magazine [Wired] AND I’m a blogger,” said Anderson. In other words, he works both in the fading world of “pre-filters” and the emerging world of “post-filters.” Pre-filtering is ruled by editors, A&R guys (”artist and repetoire,” the talent-finders in the music biz), studio execs, and capital-B Buyers. Post-filtering is driven by readers, recommenders, word of mouth, and buyers. Will Hearst joined Anderson on the stage and noted that social networking software has automated word of mouth, and that’s what has “unchoked the long tail of sheer obscure quantity in the vast backlog of old movies, for example.” Anderson agreed, “The marketing power of customer recommendations is the main driver for Netflix, and it is zero-cost marketing.” “By democratizing the tools of distribution, we’re seeing a Renaissance in culture. We’re starting to find out just how rich our society is in terms of creativity,” Anderson said. But isn’t there a danger, he was asked from the audience, of our culture falling apart with all this super-empowered diversity? Anderson agreed that we collect strongly and narrowly around our passions now, rather than just weakly and widely around broadcast hits, but the net gain of overall creativity is the main effect, and a positive one. Questions remain, though. “Digital rights is the elephant in the room of freeing the long tail.” Clearing copyright on old material is a profoundly wedged process at present, with no solution in sight. Will Hearst fretted that we may be becoming an “opinionocracy,” swayed by TV bloviators and online bloggers, losing the grounding of objective reporting. Anderson observed that maybe the two-party system is a pre-long-tail scarcity effect that suppresses the diversity we’re now embracing. Much of how we run our culture has yet to catch up with the long tail - Stewart Brand, The Long Now Foundation Author: ForaTv Keywords: long tail msm blog bloggers weblog new news television cable internet market you tube video info web 2.0 fora tv fora.tv Added: December 1, 2006
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Osx86 - Mac OSX on PC Hardware
Building a fast & cheap Mac PC from hardware which works with OSX out of the box. For more info, please goto www.osx86project.org and look up the wiki on OSX86 to see what PC hardware will work with your box. Also see this great write up on a cheap $200 OSX86 machine here: www.i-hacked.com/content/view/202/42/ Only thing that needed help was the sound hardware, and even the Network card came up in OSX as an Apple device. My wireless also wasn’t supported, so no airport But - goto the OSX86 wiki, from what I’ve read there are several wifi cards that work! I’ve also tested my USB HP Officejet printer (w0rks perfect!) My Sony Digital Camera (w0rks perfect!) Burns DVDs / CDs iTunes Works perfectly Built in Firewire port? / cannot connect my digital video camera An even Cheaper solution to building one of these is to use a Celeron w/ SS3 You will have to either have two disks, or partition your HD into two drives to make this dual boot setup I have work, then modify your windows boot.ini startup file so you can boot between OSX & XP like shown in this video. Please don’t ask me where to ‘find’ OSX86. It’s on torrentportal.com/torrentz.com (virtually aLL the tOrrent sites) - enjoy yer PCs! Author: capth00k Keywords: OSX PC osx86 hacking apple hardware hack hackintosh macintosh mac os Added: November 25, 2006
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