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Today’s promo at Macupdate is the fantastic Devon Think Pro. It is a great program and I urge any Mac users who are in need of a quality program to organize information to check it out.
Today’s promo at Macupdate is the fantastic Devon Think Pro. It is a great program and I urge any Mac users who are in need of a quality program to organize information to check it out.
Yesterday we got back from a nice vacation on Cape Cod just before Shabbat. During the week I read an excellent book on the history of the CIA, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA. It documents how torture, lying, incompetence, and other related activities has been the bread-and-butter of the CIA [...]
For Mac users out there, you have 14 hours left to buy the MacHeist Bundle. For just $49 you get some great programs. Among the programs included are DevonThink Personal, iClip, TextExpander, Write Room and Cha-Ching. If you need more than one of these programs this is a great deal.
Microsoft’s Live Search Books is officially closing its doors (closing its links/portals?). It seems that they couldn’t make enough money to justify keeping it around. See more about it here. Hopefully centralized platforms such as the Internet Archive will get a boost from this.
I have written before about the problem of privacy in the Internet Age, and things are just getting worse. Over at the informative NYT’s tech blog Bits there is a disturbing post describing how ISP’s (Internet Service Providers) are thinking about possibly monitoring your internet traffic and supplying advertising based upon your internet usage [...]
Two more things from the Internet Archive:
1. Dibre ha-riboth [microform]. Matters of controversy, a rabbinical disputation between Zerahiah ha-Levi and Abraham ben David. Published from a manuscript (unicum) in the possession of the Jewish theological seminary of America (here)
2. A Jewish Calendar for Sixty-Four Years (here- It was printed in London and is from 1838. [...]
As is apparent to anyone who tried to use the links in my recent post on books digitized by Microsoft’s Live Search, accessing digitized books that have been posted online isn’t always very successful. One step towards making it easier is Internet Archive. Internet archive was founded “with the purpose of offering permanent [...]
For those who want to read more about Large-Scale Digitization Initiatives (LSDI’s), there is a recently published white paper here. The summary can be found here. The paper discusses such topics as digital storage quality, access to digital collections, the commercial aspect of many LSDI’s (see more here) and the impact of digital [...]
Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences has voted to make available their research to the world at large in an open-access framework.
To assist the University in distributing the articles, each Faculty member will provide an electronic copy of the final version of the article at no charge to the appropriate representative of the Provost’s Office [...]
I was looking up a book in the Columbia University Library catalogue, and I noticed the following news item.
Columbia University and Microsoft Corp. are collaborating on an initiative to digitize a large number of books from Columbia University Libraries and make them available to Internet users. With the support of the Open Content Alliance (OCA), [...]
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