Ipod Touch Tip! Safari Tab Browsing And BookMarks
Check out this new ipod touch tip I found today! Tabulate created this
sweet bookmark widget for ipod touch helps you with bookmarks and
tabs.
Not to go into deep details please visit their website and follow the
instructions. If you are on your ipod touch you can test tabulate
right away.
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Not what you want as a response to your threat letter: FairTest, an
organization that often challenges reliance on SAT scores in
education, received a threat letter from the College Board, which runs
the SATs, claiming that the scores posted on FairTest's site infringed
the College Board's copyright. FairTest responded. Making claims on
behalf of rival ACT might be one of the most interesting instances of
overreaching I've seen in a while.
What's sad is that the claim that a score -- a single number, or even
a series of them -- is protected by copyright is not generally
ludicrous, though in this case I think it is. But some cases have held
that prices are "compilations" and thus protected by copyright. If a
number is produced by the exercise of skill and judgment --
determining, for example, how to aggregate cars to determine an
average price for a certain make and model in a certain geographic
area -- then a claim of copyrightability passes the laugh test, even
though copyright isn't supposed to exist for words and short phrases.
I suspect the College Board is prepared to argue that, like prices,
its categories (scores by race, gender, family income) are produced
not mechanically but by making decisions -- about, for example, how to
define "race" ("multiracial" is an option, as is "other," as is
"prefer not to respond," as is no "response") and where to break
income levels ($18,000 or $20,000?) -- and therefore the resulting
numbers are the product of the College Board's creative judgment.
I'd be inclined to call these numbers unprotectable "facts." Though
the fact/expression line is a tricky one, these are not particularly
Salt Shakers as Visual Aids, Bad, Yet Appropriate iPod Songs That Come Up on
the Random Setting, and the Longest Title Since That Fionna Apple Record
Don't you hate when some jag-bag is telling you a story, usually about
a car accident, and he goes into a long description with visual aids
to give you a better mental picture of the events? He's always all
like, "So, this salt shaker is me, right? And this sugar and sweetener
container is the other guy's car. And . . ." I'm always a patient,
polite listener, but I really want to say, "Just stop right there, you
uninteresting slob. Your story will not magically become interesting
when I've achieved the PERFECT visual of the intersection due to your
God damn diorama presentation."
In a completely unrelated matter, on my bike ride home from work today
I heard Semicharmed Kind of Life by Third Eye Blind, and while that
song is horribly nerdy, it made me really happy today. Even though I
was sure no one could tell what song I was listening to, I got a
little embarrassed that I was listening to it, and what's worse,
enjoying it so much. I will say though, it's the perfect
make-you-happy-whilst-you-bike-by-the-lake song, because in the video
all the guys in the band were merrily riding in some sort of gay-ass,
moped procession. So, given the situation, the song was perfect to
listen to, while I would not be caught dead listening to it on any
other occasion I can think of.
This is even more the case with another song I heard on today's bike
ride: Riding the Storm Out by REO Speedwagon. There was a massive
storm hitting the Chicago area, so I was trying to bike home fast
before I got caught in the thick of it. As it turns out, the only real
Free APP For iPod Touch-Petition!
Ipod Touch Firmware 1.1.3 is out and Apple is charging Ipod Touch
owners $20 for applications that some of those applications are
developed for free of charge to Apple!
Today MrCat from TouchCrunch forum found great website for ipod touch
apps petition
Go to:
http://www.petitiononline.com/freeappi/petition.html
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Copyright battle behind surprise win for iPod Apple vs Beatles Apple in High
Court
Copyright battle behind surprise win for iPod Apple vs Beatles Apple
in High Court
by GUY J KEWNEY
NewsWireless, publication date: 08 May 2006
"On the face of it, selling an iPod which has virtually no useful
function except playing iTunes; and selling iTunes which can't be
played on anything except an iPod, is selling music. Not at all, said
the Judge: Apple Computer had argued that iTunes was 'primarily a data
