Nobody is trading music using Napster's service any more -- well let's face it, for almost a week they haven't been able to even if they wanted to.

A growing number of people now believe that even if/when Napster manages to sort out its database woes, the people will not return. And why should they?

The big drawcard -- free popular music -- will be forever gone.

Sure, the company is making lots of noise about signing deals with recording companies so as to offer users legal access to the latest music but Napster's users have been too long spoiled by getting all the chart-toppers for free.

There is perhaps only one thing that could restore Napster to its previous levels of popularity and that's the Net's biggest drawcard -- pornography.

Just to see whether someone else had figured out that a P2P porn service might be a winner, I keyed www.pornster.com into my browser. The name *has* been registered and there is a website -- but my Netscape browser ended up producing a this page error due to some problem with the site.

With the competition in such disarray, maybe Napster should forget music and start focusing on girlie pictures? What do you think?

The only problem is the number of underaged Napster users who already have the service's software installed on their computers.

We Need One Of These
It's not often these days that I come across a website that makes me stop and think "hey, that's good" but I encountered just such a site this weekend.

While checking my mail at Yahoo I saw a banner-ad for this site and, for the first time this year, I clicked the ad.

The site which was so alluring as to convince me to click on an ad where all others had failed was PlanetFeedback.com and it's a brilliant idea!

We need one of these sites which focuses on local businesses -- and I believe that if it were implemented properly, with high levels of automation, it could even make money.

How useful it would be to be able to check out a company's bouquets and brickbats online before committing to a major purchase. What's more, I bet the *smart* retailers would gladly pay good money to get access to such information and gain the chance of soothing the ruffled brow of anyone angry enough to complain in such a public forum.

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Another Cool Product
Quite often I receive PDF files which are nothing more than a series of scanned pages compiled into a document.

Because Acrobat uses fairly standard compression techniques, these scanned documents are often very large and cumbersome -- not at all well suited to being transferred over dial-up connections on the Net.

A month or so ago, someone sent me a document which was in DjVu format and I found it hard to believe that the 3MB of files really did contain almost 300 scanned pages (with drawings and photos).

However, I downloaded the plug-in, and sure enough, they were right.

This is an incredibly powerful tool for digitally archiving and viewing documents in scanned form. If you're currently using Adobe Acrobat for this purpose then I suggest you at least take a look and see what you think.

? There's more information and some free downloads on the LizardTech website.

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