Four years ago, I wrote a piece called Fame vs Fortune: Micropayments and Free Content. The piece was sparked by the founding of a company called BitPass and its adoption by the comic artist Scott McCloud (author of the seminal Understanding Comics, among other things.) McCloud created a graphic work called “The Right Number”, which you had to buy using BitPass.

It didn’t work. BitPass went out of business in January of this year. I didn’t write about it at the time because its failure was a foregone conclusion. This isn’t just retrospective certainty, either..

Google accepted ten Wine proposals in 2007:

• "Improve sound in wine" by Maarten Lankhorst, mentored by Marcus Meissner
• "Improve Wine's rich edit implementation" by Matthew Finnicum, mentored by Ulrich Czekalla
• "Improve Wine's rich edit implementation" by Matthew Finnicum, mentored by Ulrich Czekalla
• "The DIB Engine" by Jessie Laine Allen, mentored by Huw D M Davies
• "Implementing mscoree.dll and Mono-WINE bridge" by Bryan DeGrendel, mentored by James Hawkins
• "Tablet PC support in Wine" by Carl John Klehm, mentored by Daniel Richard Kegel
• "Beginning of Direct3D10 implementation" by András Kovács, mentored by Stefan Dösinger
• "Improve WIne's built-in text editors" by Alexander Nicolaysen Sørnes, mentored by Eric Pouech
• "Windows Printing subsystem bridge (i.e. use WIN32 drivers to print from wine)" by Marcel Partap, mentored by Detlef Riekenberg
• "CHM compiler" by Miikka Viljanen, mentored by Jacek Caban
• "Improve Wine portability, make Solaris x86/amd64 a first-class supported platform" by Albert Lee, mentored by Juan Lang

-http://wiki.winehq.org/SummerOfCode

Copy your files faster and easier

TeraCopy is a compact program designed to copy and move files at the maximum possible speed, also providing you with a lot of features:

Copy files faster. TeraCopy uses dynamically adjusted buffers to reduce seek times. Asynchronous copy speeds up file transfer between two physical hard drives.

Pause and resume file transfers. Pause copy process at any time to free up system resources and continue with a single click.

Error recovery. In case of copy error, TeraCopy will try several times and in the worse case just skips the file, not terminating the entire transfer.

Interactive file list. TeraCopy shows failed file transfers and lets you fix the problem and recopy only problem files.

Shell integration. TeraCopy can completely replace Explorer copy and move functions, allowing you work with files as usual.