This was Day-1 for Vol.03 on newsstands, and so far it looks like they’re showing up all over the place! Photo! MAKE is available now at Amazon.com, and in the magazine section of Barnes & Noble, Borders, CompUSA, and Tower Records. MAKE is also available through many of the same leading online and brick-and-mortar retailers that carry O’Reilly’s other publications, plus select newsstand outlets. Link.
Looks like NPR is dropping Audible – As we formulate a more comprehensive strategy, we chose not to renew our agreement with Audible when it recently expired. We are now developing a new strategy for making NPR content downloadable and portable. Once the plan is finalized, we will announce it publicly. [via] Link. Here’s my review / HOW TO of Audible with their podcasting features…and on that note, I’ve been using CD audio books for the last month, and so far, working out great.
9 months ago Firefox 1.0 came out, 80 million downloads later, it’s hard for me to use anything else. I have a pretty tweaked set up, the G5 optimized build, the brushed metal theme and here are my extensions and greasemonkey scripts. All of this together helps fuel the MAKE blog machine. The really interesting thing is- I think this might be the “end of Word” as we know it as all the browser tools are slowly replacing my need to use Word and Word-like applications. Any way, happy 80mm to the most DIY-MAKER friendly browser! Link.
We’re still experimenting with delivering audio, video, enhanced podcast HOW TOs with slideshows & URLs along with PDFs from the pages of MAKE.. If you use iTunes, check it out by clicking here and clicking SUBSCRIBE. We’re going to try some other interesting things this week too.
Wow, do you recall the post here on MAKE about 2 months ago? Someone was making furniture (for themselves) out of Fedex boxes, then the next day the site went offline. Turns out there was indeed a cease and desist from Fedex. Here’s a pretty scary article about that… Link.
MAKE will be on Computer America Tonight LIVE 8pm to 9pm tonight 8/9- tune in (info on the site). Carried live for two hours each weeknight over the Business TalkRadio Network, Computer America is the only radio talk show dedicated to computers and technology in nightly national syndication. Link.
Ben Bustard, 17, of Bucksport dismantles his Marshmallow Shooters booth Tuesday at the Bangor State Fair after he was informed that the cost of $1 million of liability insurance was more than he initially budgeted for. Bustard was selling Marshmallow Shooters, a type of blowgun made from PVC pipe that shoots small marshmallows, similar to the way a cork flies out of the end of a popgun. We have the HOW TO in MAKE volume 02. Link.
