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A nice way to get offline access to ebooks for free. I read all of Patton’s “Jefferson, Cabell, and the University of Virginia” on the iPhone using the Google Books web interface, and I think this would be better, not least because of the offline capability.
Wonder how you get the books into an iPhone app.
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The UVA Arts Box Office actually does ticketing for student organizations, like the Virginia Glee Club, too (even if it doesn’t link to them). I may pass out from surprise. Back when Arts $ was launched, student orgs were locked out.
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File Quarantine (“this application was downloaded from the Internet”) has been augmented by a known bad list. A decent start, but what if the user’s badlist is out of date? Or if they downloaded a file from Bittorrent? Needs improvement.
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Alas, I won’t see much in the way of disk savings from Snow Leopard if most of it is from deleting unused print drivers. I purged those a long time ago.
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Hey cool–some fringe benefits from the Black Dog.
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Nice move to online ticketing, though, of course, this article is useless without a link.
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A look at the security of the Mac OS X platform on the eve of the Snow Leopard launch.
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Hog Bay Software discovers the power of marketing price promotions: doubling daily sales and adding 15000 new downloads by briefly taking the price of their iPhone app to free.
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The author of Wired’s Craigslist piece digs deeper into the site and where it’s going. Nice follow up blog series coming.