I have a question for you guys. If I upload epub books to the net, people can download them directly to their iphone or ipod touch if I make the link stanza: (or something like that. Will have to check exactly proper) instead of http:.

Any ideas how I would do that?

Also, they suggest making the link expire after a certain time so the downloader can't give it to all their friends, and then obfuscating the expiration time/date. Any ideas how I'd do that?

(This is what comes of learning by reading things piecemeal. I know lots of stuff but it doesn't always connect properly.)

Deena, part 1 is easy: just stick the ebooks in some location on your site, and instead of making your links look like <a href="http:// blah-di-blah">, you'd set your links to <a href="epub:// blah-di-blah">.

The obfuscation part is a little harder, as there are a number of ways to do it. It looks like most sites do it with javascript and/or php -- are you comfortable at all with that?

A wee bit comfortable with both, enough to find it now that you've given me an idea where to look/what to look for.

Thanks so much Amych. You rock!

iTunes help needed.

I had my work (and only) macbook pro laptop stolen out of my house last month (fun! not). I now have a shiny new unibody macbook pro, and am slowly rebuilding my archives from scattered backups here and there, but of course didn't back anything up since early November.

I've got a 8gb Nano that has music, video, and photos that I would like to salvage, but I can't for the freakin' life of me figure out how to copy content FROM the ipod onto the new computer.

I have successfully transferred purchased content, but that's the only thing that Apple makes simple.

Any hints?

When I had my (sadly preventable) external hard drive crash, I was able to get all the music content off my iPod using a utility program called Senuti (iTunes backward!) -- it opened the iPod as an external drive, so that the song files and their markup tags could be accessed. That was on a Mac, so it should be applicable to your situation!

Does anyone have any idea how secure an iPhone wireless connection is? Assuming that you're not using an open wireless connection, is it safe to do private transactions like banking? I mean, I'm thinking that it's no different from me using my secure wireless network in my house, but I thought I'd check.

I wouldn't bank over an iPhone, but I have no idea how rooted in reality that paranoia is.

ION, does anyone know if there's a PPC-supported version of Chrome for OSX yet? Crossover Chromium is Intel-only and Google's still dragging their heels.

I wouldn't bank over an iPhone, but I have no idea how rooted in reality that paranoia is.

exactly. and would the edge network be safe?

Matt says maybe -- partially it depends on your bank . I'll make hime type more in a minute if you have more questions

Lori, I know how to transfer music from an iPod to a Windows computer, but not for a Mac. this page suggests from free software: [link]