by @ Fri, 27 Oct 2006 23:51:39 -0600 I was trying to clean up my out-of-control collection of bookmarks -- all 8,223 of the boogers -- when I noticed something interesting about them...
The interesting thing was that many of them were for sites that offered something cool or interesting for free A few days ago I had the honour of hosting in my Rome apartment, freedom activist and hacker Richard Stallman, a near-like mythological figure in the world of computing, hacking and a pioneer figure in supporting free software as a political weapon. Photo credit: www.pspain.
net Wikipedia, which devotes ten pages to cover Richard Stallman history and accomplishments, reports among other things: The Filter, launched this week by the rock star Peter Gabriel, is designed to study the music stored on a computer and suggest other albums and artists based on the owner's tastes. Seidai Software has released FairGame, an application designed to convert songs purchased from Apple's iTunes Music Store to an unprotected format. FairGame uses iTunes' default encoder, keeping all the original metadata, lyrics, and artwork intact.
The process takes 2 minutes and 42 seconds to convert a 4-minute song to AAC on a MacBook Pro 2.16GH..
. Apple Computer released a new utility on Wednesday that resets first generation 512 MB and 1 GB iPod shuffles that stop responding correctly. The iPod shuffle Reset Utility erases all music and data from the shuffle, restores the original factory settings, and reinstalls software version 1.
1.4. ALISO VIEJO, Calif.
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