outlander78 - Slashdot User

Comment DRM-Free Digital Downloads? (Score 3, Interesting) 121

by outlander78 on Monday November 23, 2009 @01:19PM (#30203598) Attached to: Review: <em>Eufloria</em>

Lately, I have become enamoured with legal, DRM-free digital download content providers such as gog.com (for games) and filmbaby.com (for indie movies). There are many similar sites, but they come burdened with DRM, which I am not interested in supporting or being bogged down by. Given the slashdot community's general dislike for DRM, and hopefully support for indie developers of content, I am hoping you folks can suggest other such sites. So - care to share any favourites?

Comment Re:Let's check the sympathy meter (Score 1) 158

by outlander78 on Monday January 26, 2009 @10:06AM (#26606729) Attached to: PwC Auditors Arrested In Satyam Fraud Inquiry

Not that I doubt you, but I've never heard of this happening in the US. I'm interested in reading about it, if you could link to an article or give me some key phrases to seach for. Thanks in advance.

New Search Engine Cuil Takes Aim At Google 649

Posted by timothy on Monday July 28, 2008 @06:10AM from the shows-promise dept.

theodp writes "CNET reports that Cuil (pronounced 'Cool'), a startup founded by the husband-and-wife team of Xift creator Tom Costello and former Google search architect Anna Patterson, is launching a new search engine today that claims to index three times as many Web pages as Google." Running a few searches left me underwhelmed with the content of the results (hitting the next-page button on a search with a listed 62,200,000 results — for "seattle" — got me the unexpected error message "We didn't find any results for 'seattle.'"), but pleased with the actual layout of the results when it worked, so I hope the kinks are worked out. Update 7/28 18:30 GMT by SM: corrected Tom Costello's accreditation, he wasn't a professor at Stanford as the linked story suggests, just did some research there as a grad student. Thanks to the Stanford CS department for pointing this out.

Submission + - eBay launches desktop application (networkworld.com)

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jbrodkin

on Monday October 01, 2007 @10:28AM

jbrodkin writes: "eBay today launched a new desktop application that ties directly into the eBay Web site, making it easier for buyers to keep track of items and make new bids. The appropriately named eBay Desktop lets users receive alerts about new listings of products they are interested in, reminders before specific listings expire, or alerts when they are outbid. Users can receive alerts and submit new bids even if they have closed both their browser window and the desktop application. "Users don't have to proactively go to their browser to find out what's going on, and they don't have to rely on e-mail, which as tons or problems to begin with," says Alan Lewis, the eBay Desktop product manager."

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