Getting a new mobile phone presents a lot of new opportunities. This is especially true with the new smart phones you can get for cheap in the market today. Last week, I got myself a Nokia E63 – the “younger brother” of the Nokia E71 – and have since then been searching high and low for applications that I can install.
In my search, I ran across a very useful site that seems to be authorized by Nokia itself. Dubbed Mosh, the web site is full all sorts of apps that you can download legally to your Nokia mobile device. There are several things about Mosh that I really like.
One, it is totally free. The content offered in the web site can be downloaded without having to pay for anything. You just need to register to be able to download the applications. I think that it might even be possible to download stuff without having to register but I didn’t try that route.
Two, the content is totally safe. This is one of the things that the site prides itself on. The content is regulated and checked to make sure that what you download is virus free and safe for the users.
Three, you can add to the content by uploading to the site. There is already tons of content in Mosh – from themes to widgets to games to audio to graphics. And if you have got more to share, you just need to upload and let others enjoy what you have.
Categories: Downloading Legally, Mobile Phones
For Apple lovers, everything that the company does is perfect. Even though there are some flaws in their products, there is always an excuse to overlook these flaws. When it comes to DRM and the music they sell on iTunes, it is a bit hard to overlook the restrictions that apply.
With the New Year comes good news, though. Apparently, iTunes Music Store is now doing away with DRM restrictions – at least if the users chooses to pay for the product. Wired.com featured this breaking news early this month:
Steve Jobs and three major labels have come to terms on a deal: Music will be available immediately on iTunes without DRM restrictions. Free of the limitations that currently restrict music playback to Apple products, the new plan will let consumers choose from three price levels instead of the 99-cent song model the store implemented on day one.
The announcement, made Tuesday at the last MacWorld Expo Apple will attend, ends an increasingly ridiculous war between two stubborn players. They may have thought they couldn’t live together, but they certainly couldn’t thrive apart.
In the end, each side got what it wanted in the accord — after refusing to concede for years. That means we could have got here a long time ago. Indeed, iTunes merely joins other digital music stores that have already agreed to major labels’ demands for variable pricing (Amazon, MySpace and Wal-Mart, to name a few) in offering their large music catalogs without DRM.
What do you think about this new development?
Categories: Downloading Legally, ipods
