8 Ways to Sunday

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Update: Polls are closed, and the answer is “no.” I’ll try not to take it personally (sniffle).

A banner ad and my own curiosity led me to the revamped Napster home page yesterday afternoon, where I was amused to find them still copping a rebel attitude after being bent over by Big Music. They’ve got a new business model, a new software release (a shameless iTunes clone), and new corporate sugar daddies. The only things that haven’t changed are the logo and the name.

In the interests of truth in advertising, and to better help Napster promote its new service, I’ve decided to donate my services by providing some rebranding assistance for Napster 2.0…

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Some time yesterday, 8 Ways to Sunday surpassed the 1,000 unique visitor mark! Hard to believe that over a thousand people have wanted to visit my little slice of the web since I started this two months ago.

I’d like to thank everyone who reads here, and encourage you to leave feedback and comments so that 8WTS can continue to grow and become more of a conversation and less of a broadcast. I welcome your input!

Since printer manufacturers began putting special chips into their ink cartridges that were required to make them work properly, companies making after-market and off-brand inkjet cartridges have been in a bit of a bind. Enter SCC, which makes chips that mimic the functionality of those used by the printer makers.

It was only a matter of time before a printer manufacturer tried to buldgeon SCC with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and Lexmark was the one to step up to the plate. Fortunately for those who don’t feel like paying the printer makers’ high prices for their ink cartridges, the US Copyright Office has ruled in favor of SCC.

Update: Lance Ulanoff points PC Magazine readers to online dealers of affordable ink cartridges in this article.

eWeek has a report from Microsoft’s Professional Developer’s Conference about some of the new features to be found in Redmond’s forthcoming OS, codenamed Longhorn. Most of the background is old news, but info on new features — like popup blocking and a download manager for IE — make it a worthwhile read. Slick new screenshots as well.