Archive for December, 2009

Author: Brett

Dec 30

National Geographic magazine has been around for over 120 years.

They’re now selling a digital compilation of every issue all the way back to #1 in 1888.

You can buy it on either six DVDs ($90) or a 160GB hard drive ($200). They don’t provide any specs on the scans other than to say that they’re “high resolution,” so there’s no way to know whether or not the photos of topless african ladies with the neck-stretching rings be suitable for computer wallpaper purposes. (If anyone I know ends up buying this collection I will be sure to update this post with that info.) Amazon has it even cheaper on DVD for just $43 without the leather case.

This seems like a killer app for the Kindle. A Natgeo-branded Kindle with this collection pre-loaded would sell like gangbusters. DRM and capacity issues will probably prevent that from ever happening though.

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    • Author: Brett

    Dec 21

    The unofficial Rapidshare Automatic Downloader for free users will save you hours of work. You just paste in a bunch of Rapidshare URLs and it sits through all the countdowns and presses all the buttons for you.

    This is particularly helpful as we near the end of the 2009 Christmas sharity season, as an overwhelming majority of those bloggers all use RS exclusively.

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