There was a lot of hype when Amazon began selling MP3 song downloads. Some even used the dreaded “iTunes Store Killer” phrase.
There’s certainly a lot to like about the Amazon MP3 store from a features point of view:
Un-DRM’d MP3 music downloads.
256kbps encoding. (Actually it’s Variable Bit Rate encoding)
Lower cost - $8.99 for top 100 albums [...]
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After much angst and with great trepidation I decided to switch my broadband over to Comcast.
I called AT&T again to see if faster DSL was available and it’s not. I also checked Broadband Reports to see what other broadband providers are available to me. There really isn’t an alternative to give me higher speeds than [...]
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[Update: This site is no longer available.]
I finally opened up my new Wordpress blog - Big Waste of Time and Energy (BWOTAE.com).
I’ve been posting to it for a couple of weeks to see what it would turn into and to see if I’d keep posting to it. I really didn’t pick the name as a [...]
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…but not always what you think. I lost a couple hours of blogging time tonight because my site was down, or I thought it was down. Shortly after I put in a redirect to one of the domains on the server I began to lose connectivity to the Bluehost servers.
First I couldn’t access through SFTP [...]
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The release of the Safari 3 beta triggered another one of my pet peeves. Beta software - or software labeled as beta - being treated as production software. This pet peeve is typically triggered by public betas but “invitation” betas can trigger it too.
Wikipedia defines a beta software release as:
A beta version is the first [...]
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The OS Quest is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
I'm currently backing up over 32GB in over 121,000 files.
Telcos Are Evil
Two cellphone related stories caught my attention recently which together showed how consumer unfriendly the telcos really are. Both stories involved AT&T, now the largest cellphone network in the U.S.
The first story was actually all the stories covering the upcoming spectrum auction and Google’s announcement that they would bid at least $4.6Billion even if the [...]
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