September 2008

Common platforms are a good thing. Right?

by Shane Perris on Thursday, 18 September, 2008

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Adobe AIR for Linux beta released (labs.adobe.com)

I can see the attraction of developing from a known baseline that is guaranteed to work, look and feel exactly the same across different platforms. One set of bugs to fix, one set of UI changes to make, only one lot of updates to push live. Less development time + potentially wider user base = WIN, surely. But does that always hold true?

 

 

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Review: Bigpond Music DRM-free mp3s

by Shane Perris on Sunday, 14 September, 2008

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(Note: all prices in this post refer to Australian dollars)

(Note 2: This review has taken nearly a month from purchase to publication. Some features may have changed in the meantime that I wasn’t aware of. If that is the case please feel free to let me know in the comments)

While US residents have had access to the Amazon mp3 store for some time now, the rest of the world has been starved of access to DRM-free, high quality music downloads. Here in Australia consumers looking for DRM-free downloads have been restricted to those available via iTunes (essentially selections from the EMI back catalogue).  On 13 August 2008, all that changed as Bigpond Music launched its mp3 store. [click to continue…]

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