Hopefully, it won't be too long before Toast with Jam and songs purchased through the iTunes Music Store are playing nicely together. Hopefully, all of these crazy kids will quit illegally downloading and copying so many songs that the RIAA feels they can blame their poor record sales on that instead of on the crappy records they continue to force on us. Hopefully, the record companies will realize that their strong-arm DRM tactics will always will be bypassable and will only incite the kids to illegally download more music.

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When or whether to upgrade your operating system really depends on a variety of factors, including personal taste, the age of your machine, and compatibility with desired software.

There are many people like me; those with hundreds of vinyl albums with which we can't part, but that we seldom play because we like the convenience of CDs. Either we are faced with the reality that The Best of Peter & Gordon is not likely to be converted into a CD by Capitol Records, or, since we already purchased the record once, why should we purchase it a second time? The good news is that you can convert your albums to CDs. The "also" good news is that it's not all that difficult to do, but the important thing to be aware of is that it does take a bit of time (about an hour and a quarter to an hour and a half per album), and it does require you to walk the process through.

One of the most basic elements of computer maintenance and housekeeping that is frequently overlooked by newbie computer users is mouse cleaning

Print-on-demand (or, as the self-important yet slightly embarrassed crowd calls it, "author-driven publishing™") is kind of the literary equivalent of MP3, I guess, as it makes novel publishing accessible to those who otherwise would be stuck handing out heaping manuscripts in three ring binders to their friends and family.

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