NYTimes to Stop Charging for Parts of Its Web Site

Access to articles by columnists and the newspaper archives were formerly only accessible through TimesSelect, but are now available for free for everyone. There will be lingering fees to access certain material from the period of 1923 to 1986, but the public domain portion of the archives from 1851-1922 and all of the archives from 1987 to the present are available without charge.

Looking at the web traffic of NY Times (It drops back to the 2005 level) ... They ought to do it sooner rather than later! With information overflood the Internet and our everyday lives, media might as well start paying us to read their stuff (rather than getting us to pay for it).

Canada's Largest-ever Class Action Against Mobile Carriers

The Saskatchewan court has certified a class-action lawsuit that accuses Canadian cellphone companies of profiting from charging customers system access fees (CAD$6.95/month) over and above their regular service costs.

The suit, targets an estimated $12 billion (plus interest) in customer charges collected over the years could possibly the country's largest-ever class action. This has affected at least half of the Canadian populations (all cell phone users in Canada).

Rogers Wireless, one of the largest carriers in Canada said it would appeal the certification. With $12B on the line, it doesn't look like the carriers will be back down without a fight. However, we do look forward to getting away from the mobile dark age.

Sunday Apple Tech Buzz - September 16, 2007

A $200 price cut with the iPhone to boost the sales. All early iPhone owners get $100 Apple store credit.

Apple also released the new iPod nano, the "Fat iPod" and iPhone II ... I mean the iPod touch.

iPhone is unlockable

[via Gizmodo]

Where did all these coins come from?

Simpsons meeting Star Wars

Opensource Photoshop

GIMP is an opensource image manipulation program (Photoshop-like). It works on different operating systems, which included Windows, Unix, Mac. It also support all the major languages in the world. It is a very nice piece of software for users who don't want to shell out $600 to get Photoshop but yet good enough to do all the photo editing and image composition.

There are many free tutorials to walk you through all the "how-to" step by step. The help files come with different languages and it is pretty easy to start learning how to use GIMP from scratch.

Click here to download and try it out.