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Post details: TTL: Today's Top Links

2007-10-01

23:17:28, Categories: Links, Software Development, Social Networks

TTL: Today's Top Links

More than 50% of “Second Life” inhabitants are from Europe

From a report by comScore, dated 4 May 2007, titled “comScore Finds that ‘Second Life’ Has a Rapidly Growing and Global Base of Active Residents". Also by them: “Social Networking Goes Global” - shows growth dynamics of a number of most popular social networking sites.

Linden Labs to Eurpoean Union Residents: It’s a Tax Time

“Second Life” EU residents now have to pay VAT (~20%). That’s what many learned from direct emails sent to premium subscribers.

Gallery of Adobe remedies

eBooks are often distributed as PDFs with a bitter taste of DRM added. This means that an ebook you’ve bought may be locked to a particular device and most probably you won’t be able to use it with Linux. Don’t we have a right to use the eBooks purchased on any device we own? This gallery lists some remedies to Adobe PDF encryption and DRM.

If you can print PDF to a PostScript file then these links can also be useful for converting it back to a DRM-free PDF (did not succeed applying these suggestions in my case though, let me know if they work for you):
Anon: Adobe eBooks to PDF (anon-ebook-to-pdf.txt)
Making protected PS files distillable (convertable back to PDF) (200610_pdf_ps_hacking.html)

Programming Digital Media - Making and modifying digital media by writing custom software for Mac OS X

Education materials. Found via stumbling upon An Introduction to PostScript, a part of this course.

Scripting Tools for Scientific Computing

Course materials from Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Oslo - Simula Research Laboratory - April 2003

Python module that parses palm files

Date: 04/08/2004 - Version: 0.5.It has been a while since I last used a Palm PDA. But those 10k+ applications built for PalmOS, mostly free- and share-ware, were something many other platforms could wish for. One of my favourites is DateBk4 (and follow-up versions).