You lease ebooks from Amazon, you don’t buy them.

Posted on June 23, 2009 by Mark Urbin

I came to the conclusion a while ago that you don’t buy ebooks from Amazon, you are only leasing them. First off, the highly restrictive Amazon DRM not only limits access to the ebook to their proprietary Kindle device, it restricts it to your specific device. Once you are done with the ebook, you can loan [...]

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Upgrading from Windows7 Beta to the RC

Posted on June 18, 2009 by Mark Urbin

I upgraded from Windows7 Beta to the RC today.  Microsoft wants a clean install, but I decided to try this hack I found at Life Rocks 2.0. It’s really pretty straight forward. 1 Download the ISO and burn the ISO to a DVD. 2 Copy the whole image to a storage location you wish to [...]

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Summer of the Smart Phone

Posted on June 4, 2009 by Mark Urbin

Let’s review what is announced/rumored for this summer. Palm’s Pre is due out in two days.  Will it be enought to save Palm? Hell, Sprint could use the boost too. Two days after that,  the new iPhone firmware is release, and probably new iPhone hardware as well. Later this month, Nokia’s N97 is due out [...]

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Another entry into the Netbook OS market

Posted on June 2, 2009 by Mark Urbin

Intel has their own custom blend of Linux for netbook computers, called Moblin. Release 2.0 was just announced.  It’s got a slick UI and takes advange of special features of Intel’s Atom chip, which is found in a lot of netbook. I don’t think it will sell as well as Windows 7 or Android, but [...]

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