Seriously, it took maybe two minutes total of my time, and another five for their servers to render the video. That’s just awesome. I need to play with it a bit more, to see how much customization they will allow, before I give it an unconditional thumbs up, but it is definitely worth checking out if you are into this sort of thing.

If they don’t have iPhoto or Aperture plugins in the works, I sure hope they are thinking about it. A way to post to Flickr would be nice as well.

Fast forward to the Ipod age.  Now, I can have dozens of books on a tiny flash mp3 player that will run for dozens of hours on a single charge.  Audible.com was the first in the space of digital downloads for books.  They supply iTunes and they’re now owned by Amazon, so they are probably there to stay.  I recently signed up, and I must say I love it.  It is kind of expensive, and it breaks my rule agains buying DRMed material.  However, I haven’t been reading much  in the last couple of years, and this allows me to squeeze some reading in during my exercise time.  It’s nice to be reading regularly again.

Here’s to hoping Amazon can convince the publishers to shed the DRM.  Honestly, the book reading crowd isn’t a bunch of freeloaders.  We’ve always purchased our books, and human nature says those folks aren’t going to go giving the books away.  If Audible ever folds and I’m stuck with books I can’t listen to, you can tell me I told you so.  But for now, the benefits outway the possible drawbacks.