This week's free weekly listen:
2 Imponderables: Naptime Dreams & Bagel Holes
: a sample clip from When Do Fish Sleep? And Other Imponderables of Everyday Life By: David Feldman
This sample clocks in at 4 minutes.
If you liked this sample clip, please check out When Do Fish Sleep? And Other Imponderables of Everyday Life
and Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise? An Imponderables Book by by David Feldman
Or, you can take advantage of a special introductory offer of joining Audible's AudibleListener Gold membership for $7.95 for the first three months (Get an Audiobook for FREE each month) plus 30% off all audiobooks and programs and samples. Or join the other Audible membership plans that offer discounts on a yearly basis. More details on the promotions and the membership plans available can be found at my posting on Audible.
Unlike a lot of the other free Audible files, the weekly free listen is a streaming audio file. You don't add the free file to your cart and check out like you normally do.
Simply click on the Play icon (right pointing triangle) in the Flash player (of course, you'll need to have Macromedia/Adobe Flash enabled on your browser) to listen to the file.
The file is normally in mp3 format.
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Today's special at $6.97
The Amazing Power of Deliberate Intent, Part I (Unabridged) by Esther Hicks and Jerry Hicks
I hope you enjoy the free Audible file. More information on Audible can be found at
Audible.com (get a FREE audio book) as well as
my blog posting on Audible
Thanks for visiting Palm Discovery.net!
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Posted by webmaster as palm, audiobook, audible, ConnectionCentral at 8:46 AM EDT
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A quick BIG THANKS to Sammy of Palm Addicts and Alex of Treobits for the recent mention of Palm Discovery.net on their front page!
Sorry for a very delayed post of the current This Is Audible. I try to post as soon as the Audible files are release (given the time to listen to them first and make all the links and info in the posting). So, this delay is mostly due to the delay from Audible's end. I've been checking Audible the entire day (and night) yesterday and they finally released it just now (10:30am PST) a day later! So, if the regular Audible posting is late, most of the time it is because of Audible (although sometimes it is due to me and my busy day 
).
The latest issue of the free Audible periodical
This is Audible with Josephine Reed on XM Satellite radio is now available for download. For more info on Audible and the bi-weekly radio show
This is Audible, please check out
my previous posting on Audible as well as older postings with the
audible tag.
This is Audible March 27th issue features:
Today, it's the sporting season on This Is Audible. I talk to John Feinstein about is book about the final four, Last Dance: Behind the Scenes at the Final Four.
Then, Susan Elizabeth Phillips chats about the newest book in her romance series, starring the Chicago Stars Football Players ( This Heart of Mine (Unabridged) ).
And we hear two terrific oral histories about America's favorite pastime ( The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It By: Lawrence S. Ritter ) and ( Bums: An Oral History of the Brooklyn Dodgers (Unabridged) By: Peter Golenbock ).
But first, Maggie has today's top-selling science fiction downloads from Audible.com®.
[Broadcast Date: March 27, 2007]
10 - Halo: Ghosts of Onyx (Unabridged) By: Eric Nylund
9 - So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish (Unabridged) By: Douglas Adams
8 - Star Wars: Legacy of the Force #4: Exile By: Aaron Allston
7 - From the Earth to the Moon (Unabridged) By: Jules Verne
6 - Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang (Unabridged) By: Kate Wilhelm
5 - The Draco Tavern (Unabridged) By: Larry Niven
4 - Off Armageddon Reef (Unabridged) By: David Weber
3 - The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (Unabridged) By: Robert A. Heinlein
2 - Empire (Unabridged) By: Orson Scott Card
1 - Deep Storm (Unabridged) By: Lincoln Child
The links in this posting refers to the Audible audio book that is either discussed, referenced or related to what was discussed in the program. Please consider checking out and purchasing the books if interested.
Today's $6.97 special
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations (Unabridged) by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
I hope you enjoy the free Audible file. In order to listen and download the files to listen on your Palm, you'll first need to register and set up a free Audible account. Download the necessary softwares (Audible manager, Audible player or Audible Air if you have a Treo) and install them. Download the files and transfer them over to the Palm (if applicable). Then sit back and enjoy. More information on Audible can be found at
Audible.com (get a FREE audio book) as well as
my blog posting on Audible
Thanks for reading and visiting Palm Discovery.net!
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Posted by webmaster as palm, audiobook, audible, ConnectionCentral at 11:30 AM EDT
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I normally don't write a lot of editorials, especially if they aren't technology or Palm related since I do try to keep them as close to topic as I can since this is a *Palm* and gadget related blog. But, there is something very disturbing that has been happening on the internet that concerns bloggers that I feel I *MUST* bring to light, regardless of how horrifying and disturbing it is. I hope that you, the reader, will please excuse me and accept my apologies for discussing something that may be terrifying and disturbing. This is normally what I do not like to discuss but in order to bring it out to light and hopefully make others aware, I felt I wanted to write this editorial.
I only found out about this only through Matthew Ingram's personal blog posting. He's a writer for the Globe and Mail newspaper in Canada. So, you can understand that this news hasn't been spread around the net much yet.
As a blogger, albeit, a very small, and relatively unknown one, I am quite aware that whatever I write, post and upload on the internet can easily be accessed by anyone. That can mean someone halfway across the world, or even someone just next door. I am no stranger to the internet and have made a lot of contributions to forums, groups, chat, websites, etc. A search on Google for me won't be hard to find all the little places where I've been and left a comment or two or whatever behind. And I am very much a private person as I do try to keep a lot of my private life private. If someone really wants to stalk me, they can probably easily figure out and track me down since I live in a relatively small town through all the info, pictures, whatever else I've posted on the internet from years before. After saying all that and being somewhat aware that my life and info are out in the open for all to see, I am aware that I could potentially be a target, although I can't imagine why anyone would want to target me. But then, I couldn't understand why anyone would target Kathy Sierra, webmaster of Creating Passionate Users. She is not only a blogger, but has written several books on computing and speaks at a lot of conferences on technology and well versed in the computing industry.
Recently, she has been getting a lot of nasty comments which turned into death threats on her own blog! But that isn't all of it. There were other blog sites that were posting other nasty stuff, supposedly coming from well respected group of bloggers, which I find quite disturbing. It makes me wonder about the bloggers that I respect and read daily and whether they are also capable of doing nasty things that I'm not aware of. That gives me the shivers.
I won't go into the details of Kathy's ordeal. You can read about it here. Keep in mind that the post is very disturbing so you may want to be prepared for it before you venture.
We are all aware that there are always some kind of "underground" areas in all areas of life, but obviously, it looks like it is starting to come out a lot more in a much more disturbing trend. I don't watch YouTube because I am aware that there are a lot of sick stuff out hosted out there on YouTube but I only post my stuff because it's the most popular video hosted site. As most of you know, I have disabled comments and ratings because I was starting to get some nasty comments earlier on, that I knew was going into a disturbing direction if left unattended. Originally, I left them around and they started to snowball with each getting worse. Eventually, I had enough so removed the comments and ratings because they were not constructive or relevant to the product or review and didn't feel like having to waste time moderating it. So, if you wondered why comments and ratings were disabled for my YouTube video, that is the reason why. I don't care to be on the front page of YouTube or get that much exposure anyway since my objective was to use YouTube to distribute my videos to help others. I think that YouTube, rather than getting all excited over copyright content, should focus more on the sick and hatred videos that are spread through its network.
So, as a blogger, I can sense and relate to the fear that Kathy Sierra is feeling. Although I have not received any real nasty stuff (yet), I'm quite sure that one day it may come. I just wonder what and how I will react when it does happen.
Apparently, these cyber terrorists have done it before as I've read (I'm not sure if it's in the comments in Kathy's post or other linked comments on other blogs) so this is not a "one time" thing but something more sinister and obviously getting worse. These people won't stop with one but will continue until they terrorize the entire blogging community. And that is sad and I strongly belive that they MUST BE STOPPED.
So how to fight back? First of all, bring this situation to light so that the entire blogging and internet community will be aware. Spread the word and link to Kathy's post so that your friends and others will be aware of this. Don't let bloggers or targets suffer in silence. As a community of bloggers and readers, I believe we can expose these people and shame them for their horrible deeds. Even if they aren't punished or tracked down, at least we can somewhat stop them "above ground" from proliferating and spreading this terrorizing disease.
If we don't do anything, blogging and this interactive and vibrant community that we are all familiar with can quickly dwindle and be silenced. That means no more engadget, slashdot and many other blogs that we all love. Don't let it happen.
I hope that this editorial will at least help spread the word out that there is evil that is lurking, attacking and terrorizing the blogging community. It's very unfortunate that we, the blogging community are now under attack.
Thanks for reading Palm Discovery.net!
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Posted by webmaster as misc, editorial at 12:29 PM EDT
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First of all, Palm Discovery.net gives a BIG THANKS to Tam Hanna of Tamoggemon for providing the product for this review.
If you have a pretty good capacity sized SD (Secure Digital)/flash memory/expansion card like 1, 2 or even 4GB and store a lot of media files like pictures, videos, ringtones, mp3s, etc, chances are, you will know how difficult it can be to organize these files so that you can find and access them later.
Most of us will likely just download or store them in a specific folder and then forget, until we encounter the need to locate it. Of course, by then, we have probably accumulated way too many files that it is very time consuming to manually look in each folder on the card for that file. Or worse yet, if it's a document and you can't remember the name it's saved under.
Tamoggemon's FileFind program will help solve that problem. You can easily set many different filtering and criteria to specify and narrow the search (or vice versa to broaden it) so that the program will do the searching for you. You can specify where to do the search (eg. within a specific folder on the card), search for the extension of the file (eg. avi, mp3, jpg, etc), partial name search, text based content search, as well as file attributes like size of the file, whether it's a read only file, etc. There's a lot of different ways you can filter and narrow the search so that you only come up with specific results.
This can be very handy for those who have a lot of files and don't want to have to go into all the various folders, subfolders looking for something without really knowing exactly what you are looking for. With FileFind, it can help with at least providing some results so that it may trigger your memory.
Here are some screenshots of the FileFind program
Video of FileFind
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