...tends to be overestimated. This comes as a shock to me---and probably you---as Gmail is most popular among those who are younger, collect higher household incomes and are classified as early adopters by marketers. But overall Yahoo! Mail and Hotmail are significantly more popular than Gmail, at least according to statistics compiled by Hitwise Intelligence released in May 2006:
Gmail, which has only garnered a 2.54 percent market share, is dwarfed by Yahoo Mail's market share of 42.4 percent. Additional statistics also compiled by Hitwise compare Google, Yahoo and MSN across a number of categories. Predictably, Google dominates the search category but as noted above the webmail category is a different story. Likewise Google Maps is significantly less popular than Mapquest and Yahoo! Maps.
Seriously!?!? The popularity of Mapquest relative to Google Maps rankles me the most. I wonder how these statistics have changed in the last 12-16 months.
I'm not calling you stupid, I simply fail to see the upside of a subscription service that binds your music to your desktop/laptop----My understanding is that Rhapsody does allow users to download (and pay for) individual songs (what is the cost per track?) but in my view paying $12 per month for ever for music that you can't take with you in your car or to the gym seems foolish, especially in light of the other alternatives for learning about new music---iTMS; allofmp3, Oink, friends' collections.
While I agree that a service that makes a wide variety of music accessible to an open-minded listener has a big upside, a subscription service that lacks of portability is doomed from the start. To be clear, I am not sure what freedoms are granted to Rhapsody users, but the Microsoft/Urge subscription model appears very restrictive in this regard. e.g., "songs can't be burned to CD and go silent if you stop paying the fees."
You're going to pay about $20 to a broker to sell the shares, so there's no point unless you're going to put in a couple grand (IMHO).
Point well taken---trading surcharges can make small investments impractical---however, as an investor of extremely modest means I've used ScotTrade. $7 trades is perhaps the biggest selling point for me. Prior to learning about ScotTrade I had always assumed that it would be cost prohibitive for an independent investor with only a couple grand (or less!) to get involved with the stock market.
Impossible though it may seem, I've found analysis on Slashdot to be quite useful in making decisions about where to invest. The frequency that a certain company appears in slasdot headlines is one bellweather. Thoughtful analysis by slashdotters is also useful.
Ironically, the Wikipedia server is so slow, I'll often Google whatever Wikipedia entry I'm looking for. It usually doesn't require any special syntax, e.g., "Tin Foil Hat" Wikipedia although sometimes it's handy to be more explicit, like site:en.wikipedia.org "tin foil hat" Both queries (plus I'm Feeling Lucky) return the desired search result in this instance. And not only does Google tend to return the desired page faster, it also makes for more precise Wikipedia searches.
Making it so that the iPod will ONLY play music loaded onto it via iTunes frustrates me and makes me feel restricted, like they want me to ONLY use it the way they want me to.
There are a number of utilities that allow you to transfer music to your iPod from Windows without iTunes. One opensource application is vPod. You can also try XPlay from MediaFour.
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...tends to be overestimated. This comes as a shock to me---and probably you---as Gmail is most popular among those who are younger, collect higher household incomes and are classified as early adopters by marketers. But overall Yahoo! Mail and Hotmail are significantly more popular than Gmail, at least according to statistics compiled by Hitwise Intelligence released in May 2006:
http://weblogs.hitwise.com/bill-tancer/2006/05/google_yahoo_and_msn_property.html
Gmail, which has only garnered a 2.54 percent market share, is dwarfed by Yahoo Mail's market share of 42.4 percent. Additional statistics also compiled by Hitwise compare Google, Yahoo and MSN across a number of categories. Predictably, Google dominates the search category but as noted above the webmail category is a different story. Likewise Google Maps is significantly less popular than Mapquest and Yahoo! Maps.
Seriously!?!? The popularity of Mapquest relative to Google Maps rankles me the most. I wonder how these statistics have changed in the last 12-16 months.
Well played, sir. Kudos to you:)
LOL:)
Nice!!
I'm not calling you stupid, I simply fail to see the upside of a subscription service that binds your music to your desktop/laptop----My understanding is that Rhapsody does allow users to download (and pay for) individual songs (what is the cost per track?) but in my view paying $12 per month for ever for music that you can't take with you in your car or to the gym seems foolish, especially in light of the other alternatives for learning about new music---iTMS; allofmp3, Oink, friends' collections.
While I agree that a service that makes a wide variety of music accessible to an open-minded listener has a big upside, a subscription service that lacks of portability is doomed from the start. To be clear, I am not sure what freedoms are granted to Rhapsody users, but the Microsoft/Urge subscription model appears very restrictive in this regard. e.g., "songs can't be burned to CD and go silent if you stop paying the fees."
Oops. Here is the precise link: Save Form Values Script
See also:
The Save Form Values Script by HowToCreate.co.uk
Point well taken---trading surcharges can make small investments impractical---however, as an investor of extremely modest means I've used ScotTrade. $7 trades is perhaps the biggest selling point for me. Prior to learning about ScotTrade I had always assumed that it would be cost prohibitive for an independent investor with only a couple grand (or less!) to get involved with the stock market.
Impossible though it may seem, I've found analysis on Slashdot to be quite useful in making decisions about where to invest. The frequency that a certain company appears in slasdot headlines is one bellweather. Thoughtful analysis by slashdotters is also useful.
There are tools to strip the DRM and get a plain old AAC file or you can just burn them to CD and re-rip to mp3.
Yes---I've had success using software from Project Hymn to strip away pesky DRM.
Ironically, the Wikipedia server is so slow, I'll often Google whatever Wikipedia entry I'm looking for. It usually doesn't require any special syntax, e.g., "Tin Foil Hat" Wikipedia although sometimes it's handy to be more explicit, like site:en.wikipedia.org "tin foil hat" Both queries (plus I'm Feeling Lucky) return the desired search result in this instance. And not only does Google tend to return the desired page faster, it also makes for more precise Wikipedia searches.
Making it so that the iPod will ONLY play music loaded onto it via iTunes frustrates me and makes me feel restricted, like they want me to ONLY use it the way they want me to.
There are a number of utilities that allow you to transfer music to your iPod from Windows without iTunes. One opensource application is vPod. You can also try XPlay from MediaFour.