The GreenCine Review- November 6, 2003 Over a year ago, I started a series of reviews on the Netflix DVD rental service. I was a customer, I liked the service, and it become a long-running series that's still ongoing with occasional installments. At the time, I considered writing reviews of other DVD rental services. My first target was to be GreenCine, a San Francisco-based outfit that has positioned itself as the alternative to Netflix, for those who prefer unusual, rare, foriegn, and especially indie film rentals. Sounded.http://www.nettle.com/archives/000064.html More on Amazon's Search Inside the Book- November 3, 2003 WIRED News is reporting that Amazon.com's "Search Inside the Book" service does not allow users to "print pages from within books." Technically, it appears what Amazon has done is fool browsers into not showing the scanned image of a book page when you try to print from your browser. For instance, when using Safari on MacOS X or Microsoft's Internet Explorer in Windows, if you try to print a "Search Inside the Book" search result page, you get everything from the...http://www.nettle.com/archives/000063.html |