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Chats and Forums RSS FeedsVudu Does HD VOD Big Time - Vudu, a startup that sells and rents movies via its Internet-connected set-top box, has boosted High-Definition library to 1,100 on-demand titles -- for now, outdistancing any cable operator's HD video-on-demand service. To build what it claimed is the largest library of HD content available to consumers, Vudu added on average of 150 HD titles per week in October. The service requires a minimum 4-Mbps connection for instant playback of HD titles. Vudu is attempting to sell its $300 set-top to home-theater buffs by emphasizing the service's broad content selection and navigation features. Movies on the service are available for 24-hour rental for between 99 cents and $3.99, and $9.99 to $19.99 for download-to-own. As part of its strategy to tar...Feed Source: feeds.feedburner.com HP Debuts First Multi-touch Notebook -- Yes HP, Not Apple (Now That's a Surprise!!!) - From the first time Steve Jobs demonstrated "the pinch" -- the two-finger gesture used to zoom in and out of photos and Web pages on the iPhone -- some Apple observers assumed it was just a matter of time before a multitouch-enabled screen showed up on the Mac.That hasn't happened yet. But now Hewlett-Packard has beaten Apple to the punch, announcing the first multitouch-enabled notebook PC, the tx2. We are all wondering -- aren't we -- why Apple couldn't get this out to market first?The tx2 is a convertible notebook, meaning its screen can pivot 180 d... PC Magazine Stops the Presses - Online Only - I grew up reading PC Magazine and I looked forward each couple weeks to picking up my copy of PC Magazine at the local grocery store. But today, Ziff Davis has announced that the legendary PC Magazine print publication is shutting down its print publication and focusing exclusively on online content. This is truly a sad day Hold on while I grab some tissues... Anybody Like the New Xbox Live? - The new Xbox Live look is supposed to kick off today so be sure to take a peek.The gaming platform now includes customizable avatars, an iPod-like display and easier viewing of Netflix downloads. It's got to be an improvement over what was there before or at least we hope so!Let's hear the feedback!Louder!
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And that's all I needed to start thinking about ebooks and ebook readers and how maybe someday all printed material will be digital and there will be no more newspapers or magazines. Wait! I'm getting a bit ahead of myself. Do find the whole thing pretty cool so was intrigued by this piece of writing today. So all you ever wanted to know about the Sony Reader PRS-700 is here at Mobile Tech Review. A very positive review, but there is something amiss ..... Re: Book digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb - I too have been trying to use some of the texts posted from Google Books by tpb, and am totally appalled by the lack of any kind of quality in the submissions. Missing pages, inverted or blurred scans ... DjVu viewer or plugin not found - The link to a DjVu viewer or plugin on the FAQs page brings up a site that I was not able to find a viewer or plugin for Windows XP. I did find a viewer for a Pocket PC. When I click on a DjVu file in ... Re: Full-Text Search the Texts Archive with Google - Interesting.
Just so you know, Google Book Search seems fundamentally broken. I guess it's better than nothing but is highly variable. Check my post at Ask Metafilter
http://ask.metafilter.com/1064 ... Re: Reprise of the upload discussion. - Well, the simplest way would be to conduct your searches through the 'Advanced Search' page. Go to Texts and click 'Advanced Search' or go straight here: http://www.archive.org/advancedsearch.php
Und ... Full-Text Search the Texts Archive with Google - Ah! This is a breakthrough for me. Everyone else probably does it, but I thought just in case anyone didn't know about it I would post it here.
The breakthrough is not just searching IA through Googl ... Re: Reprise of the upload discussion. - "I assume that is why collection categories are created, to allow the segregation of materials by content."
Does anyone know if there a way to filter out the Google scans when searching? (I ... Re: Book digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb - "I don't know anything about the technical or the copyright aspects of the Google material posted here, but I can say that 90% of the scans I've come across are very poor quality compared with th ... Re: Reprise of the upload discussion. - Question is whether the editions are the same between what was on IA and what was on google, there often are many editions of the same work and it would be nice to have all of them in the archive, how ... Re: Reprise of the upload discussion. - I'll ammend my own post. Has someone uploaded all of Google to the IA, including the indexes? The answer is yes.
This is fairly major. Now I can get Google scans with the full function without on IA ... Reprise of the upload discussion. - I am new and this is my first post.
I noticed that some Google scans are being uploaded to IA. This seems to be the case even when IA already has a copy of the book.
Case: Zinkeisen, History of the ... A little request to Duke and Boston Col -
Could one of you please find it in your hear to upload:
Full report of the proceedings of the International Workers' Congress, London, July and August, 1896
http://www.worldcat.org/wcpa/oclc/219247 ... Digitizing Packaging - Is there a dedicated archive for the digitizations of product packaging, or; instruction, owners, specification. and operation manuals. Much of this material is not copyrighted or the copyrights were ... Re: Book digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb - Excellent, thanks. Hopefully they will list these libraries/collections on the main Text page with the others.
Re: download counts, yeah who knows, guess we'll need an insiders view to explain it.
Y ... Re: Book digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb - Addition: The European Libraries also contain books from Lausanne and Ghent Universities, although Oxford makes up the vast majority. ... Re: Book digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb - Oh, look, I came across another collection page, 'European Libraries'. http://www.archive.org/details/europeanlibraries
Seems to be all the Bodleian/Oxford University books from Google.
Re: the downl ... Re: Book digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb - I don't know anything about the technical or the copyright aspects of the Google material posted here, but I can say that 90% of the scans I've come across are very poor quality compared with the Mic ... Re: Book digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb - Well, partly to answer my own question, looking at the full metadata record (under the "HTML files" link) it appears the "publicdate" field is recent, in the past few months, so th ... Re: Book digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb - Hi thanks for the info, I had not noticed the Google sponsor category, which I guess makes it official. One thing I don't understand is why the books have such high download counts, as if they have be ... Re: Book digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb - Cool thing to do. Taking it into your own hands.
BTW, It's really obvious that google will soon be getting out of the free PD download business. That would explain why they are not complaining about ... Re: Book digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb - This is exactly the situation with the Sam's Photofact series. They are charging for viewers to see their material almost all of which is Public Domain. This is why it is critical that this stuff get ... Re: Why isn't Google verifying copyright status of newer works? - You're right-- my mistake. But downloading in-copyright books is not allowed, which makes it all pretty useless, IMO. Just good for browsing. Even if you BUY the book, you're stuck watching it online . ... Re: Book digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb - Yeah, apparently the term "limited" in the Constitution now means 'finite'. Limited means limited though, but because property rights are what this is all about, it's not gonna change.
Actu ... Re: Book digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb - Most of the latter Google books did not have watermarks on them. Actually all identification can be removed from these images with the right software.
As far as the full text search engine part. This ... Re: Book digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb - Yes, I was wondering about this too. Well, one can hardly fail to notice the size of the IA Texts Archive doubling rather quickly to over 1,000,000 items and when one types in sponsor:"google& ... Book digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb - I've been seeing Google Book scans in the new uploads section. Here is one example:
http://www.archive.org/details/statistischemon01zentgoog
According to the first page (a Google notice) there are s ... Re: Why isn't Google verifying copyright status of newer works? - In no defense of the settlement, section 4.1.d ("basic features of institutional subscriptions") states that subscriptions will enable users to view, copy/paste [4 pages at a time], and prin ... Re: Why isn't Google verifying copyright status of newer works? - Speaking of clueless, I work for a library consortium and they are resistent to downloading any requests for Interlibrary loan from the internet archive or other online services, because they apparent ... Re: Why isn't Google verifying copyright status of newer works? - Right, it means that there's still a reason for the Archive to keep scanning away. I'd bet real money that Google will continue to hoard PD works, and won't make much of an effort to identify PD post- ... Re: Why isn't Google verifying copyright status of newer works? - This is why it is critical that as many of these books, documents, and other materials in the public domain are digitized as open source or creative commons works. Once enough of these works are publi ... Re: Will Google be 'illegally' charging for post-1922 PD books? - It'll be interesting to see what happens. Google still won't release a lot of pre-1923 scans, especially if there are post-1923 reissue versions around. They boast about having the renewal records in ... Re: Potential for a collections of newsletters, magazines, newspapers, comics? - Check under 'gerard arthus', I am putting up these types of materials now. Unfortunately much of this material will dissappear unless it is put up soon. Playbills, pricelists, service manuals, owner's ... Re: Will Google be 'illegally' charging for post-1922 PD books? - Good point. It's funny, Google was accused for being "evil" for putting copyright works online for free - now they are being accused of putting public domain works online for a fee - they ca ... Why isn't Google verifying copyright status of newer works? - Unlike the Archive, Google is refusing to make available any post-1922 books for free full-view download or viewing, despite the fact that their scanning agreements with the host libraries explicitly ... Will Google be 'illegally' charging for post-1922 PD books? - I'm sure word is getting around about Google's new deal with publishers-- where they will pay them off and then commence with a fee policy for in-copyright OOP books.
This doesn't surprise some of us ... On searching and Internet Archive - Internet Archive has a very powerful and complex searching apparatus. I've been using it for years and still keep discovering new ways of tweaking it to find the most complete results. The IA database ... Hold off - You can unbar the Lancaster house conference report, I've cleared things up.
Still working on the Luxembourg pamphlet. ... Re: On hold - The Lancaster Conference report can be put back on, as I've clear everything up with Her Majesties Stationary Office ... Re: can't checkin - Problem is now solved. The item is checked in and the meta data is updated. Thanks you very much to whoever fixed the problem. ... can't checkin - I have an item that doesn't checkin. I think the problem is that I changed the metadata, and checked-out and tried to check-in before metadata was updated on details page.
http://www.archive.org/deta ... On hold - Could the admins please put these two texts on hold
http://www.archive.org/details/LuxembourgYesterdayAndToday
http://www.archive.org/details/ReportOfTheConstitutionalConference
On one of them, I go ... Re: Problem with DjVu links - The link /stream/ is the streaming link and is supposed to open the file in the DJVU viewer; it doesn't always work. The download link is /download/
I use FlashGet and when the download ... Re: A new search engine for the Google-Michigan text archive - Does it block some PD books internationally, the way Google does? I would doubt it.
... Re: A new search engine for the Google-Michigan text archive - Works in the UK. ... Re: Please remove - You know, of course, that it's a joke-- it's making fun of that mentality .
Copyrighted, naturally, and now gone.
Does this-- and his companion piece about, em, African Americans, really go over p ... Re: Many copyrighted books on IA - I'm surprised these major publications got past the first eye down there. They're pretty famous. ... A new search engine for the Google-Michigan text archive - In case anyone's interested, somebody worked up a clever new search engine for the University of Michigan's copies of its Google book and journal scans.
http://roytennant.com/proto/hathi/
The advant ... http://www.archive.org/details/sharhelmakoudi - thanks for this im very happy caus im serching in all site but i cant fiend it im verry glad ... Brewster is onTED - I have just spotted Brewster's inspiring lecture on TED.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/brewster_kahle_builds_a_free_digital_library.html
It is outstanding. ... Re: Many copyrighted books on IA - Think about it like this: a few generations ago our forebares disregarded prohibition even though it was written into the constitution. When the British put a tax on tea, the colonist started smugglin ... Re: Many copyrighted books on IA - Laws are meant to be broken, this is a digital revolution. I violate my own copyrighted material all the time! ... Copyright © 2008, SandyHay.com. All Rights Reserved. |