Tuesday, February 25, 2003

From ArtsJournal: What A Hit Band Earns So how much does a hot new band earn from a hit recording? Let's say this hypothetical hot band sells 500,000 albums at $16.98. That's gross sales of $8,490,000. [Remember, of course, that this is a very hot band - only 128 of more than 30,000 records sold half a million recordings in 2002.] Well - after all the fees, commissions, fees, percentages, charges and expenses are deducted, the band comes home with $161,909 - split however many ways by band mambers. For a hit. Is this any way to run a business? New York Daily News 02/24/03 From ArtsJournal: Parting Company? "Companies have become part of the furniture of our lives. Most of us work for them. They make almost everything we buy. Most of our savings are tied up in them. Yet now the furniture seems uncomfortable, broken or downright dangerous. Companies are cutting back jobs and slashing pensions. Far from proving a reliable source of future wealth, they seem to be picking the money out of our pockets. Above all, many who have worked most of their lives in companies have suddenly discovered that they are curiously impersonal things..." Financial Times 02/24/03 From ArtsJournal: Movie Studios, Electronics Firms Meet To Combat Piracy Holly wood movie studios and electronics companies are meeting to find ways to stop illegal copying of movies. "The new group will explore ways to use electronic watermarks and other signaling techniques that could remain embedded in a program after it's converted to analog. Many DVD recorders already incorporate one such technology, which hides copying restrictions within an unused portion of a standard TV picture." Los Angeles Times 02/24/03 3:59:53 PM

Overclocking the Brain: Gregory Cochran looks at overclocking the human system and possible consequences. 3:42:07 PM

Plucker is an offline web and eBook viewer for Palm OS® based handheld devices and PDAs that comes with Unix, Linux tools and conduits, and Windows and Mac OSX conduits that let you decide exactly what part of the web that you want to view on your PDA. Plucker includes programs that let you specify exactly what part of the World Wide Web you'd like to download onto your PDA (as long as they're in standard HTML or text format); these web pages are then processed, compressed, and transferred to the PDA for viewing by the Plucker viewer. Plucker supports many features, including clickable images (pan and zoom), italic, narrow, and HiRes fonts, multiple concurrent databases, configurable display parameters and stylus options (gestures and hardware button navigation) ZLib and DOC compression, Perl and Python conduits and parsers, a Windows fully-integrated installer, and a whole lot more! Plucker is Free Software and that means that you can use it without charge, you can give it away to others, and that you can even modify the program (or pay others to do it for you) to customize it or add the features you want. 1:46:16 PM

Crazy Browser is a powerful Web browser. It has the ability to open multiple sites and windows inside a single browser task. It also has a Smart Popup Filter - it blocks all the annoying popups automatically! This has full support for Windows XP Theme and P3P privacy policy and JavaScript error suppression.... It can handle multiple monitors and has tab status indicators. Annoying ad windows can be removed automatically and multiple pages can be saved and reopened together. Crazy Browser comes with many preconfigured search engines, but you can extend it to use your own. Major Features: Tabbed Interface:It has the ability to open multiple sites and windows inside a single browser task. Browser tabs may be aligned at the top or the bottom of Crazy Browser and may be displayed on either one or multiple rows. Full Windows XP Theme support. Cool! Smart Popup Filter (Smart Popup killer): Cool! This is the best pop-up killer- it blocks all the annoying popups automatically! Security: This has full support for P3P privacy policy and zone-based security assignments. Multimedia Data Loading: Turn loading of multimedia data on/off with just one click. Multiple Engine Searching: Crazy Browser comes with many preconfigured search engines, but you can extend it to use your own. Middle mouse button click on links open on new tab. Cool! Take a tour. 1:42:34 PM

µBook is a simple and lean, yet powerful ebook reader for Windows and Pocket PCs that can read HTML, TXT, RTF, PDB and PRC (not secure) ebook files. It can read directly from inside ZIP or RAR files, and supports BMP, GIF and JPG images. It offers many customization options including: Portrait and Landscape display, Choice of font type, color and size, etc.... It Also has a resizable/skinnable User Interface. µBook is improving on a regular basis and best of all it's free! 1:38:08 PM

NewsGator is a "news aggregator" that runs in Microsoft Outlook. It allows you to subscribe to various syndicated news feeds (such as weblogs, news sites, etc.) and have news from these sites be delivered right into your Outlook folders. 1:32:46 PM

Simply the Best Fonts: Browse through the alphabetical font listings or the font categories to view the available free fonts. Each font has a full preview page with proprietary details. Most fonts are freeware and as such free to use for professional webmasters and hobbyists. 1:31:48 PM

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