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Free iPod cases for students from NotePods.com

NotePods are audio and text summaries, written specifically for students by university professors, of books and plays by Shakespeare, Dickens, Austen, and many other required authors. Unlike other study aids that are long on analysis and short on storyline, NotePods are detailed summaries of the characters and events that happen in the books. For example, the NotePods version of Pride and Prejudice (which is about 230 pages in the original text) is 90 minutes in length, which means that students can study while riding a bike, walking to class, sitting in the cafeteria, and so on. NotePods can be downloaded for USD$1.99.
As for the free iPod case, Jack Bernstein, President of InterLingua Educational Publishing says, “There’s nothing to buy and there are no hidden catches. Our only goal is to introduce students to our new line of NotePods, and the iPod case giveaway is intended to bring people to our www.NotePods.com website so they can see the titles we’re offering and download a free sample.” The clear, hard plastic protective cases are designed for the current generation of video iPods and only full-time students with United States postal addresses are eligible to receive them.

Students visiting the website can also register for the NotePods School Rep program. There are a limited number of reps at every school and they receive a generous percentage of sales made via their MySpace, Facebook, or other webpage. A registration button is included at the bottom of every webpage.
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Apple Reputation Quotient (RQ) number 27 in list of most visible US companies

The Annual RQ 2005 study conducted by Harris Interactive measures the corporate reputations of the most visible companies in the United States. According to this year’s Reputation Quotient(RQ) survey Johnson & Johnson ranks No. 1 with an RQ of 80.56, Coca Cola ranks second (79.69), and new to the 60 companies measured in this latest study, Google ranks third, with an RQ score of 79.52. Further down the list, below Disney, Dell, Starbucks, and Nike, we find Apple Computer with an RQ of 70.59.

Well, at least they beat out Martha Stewart and Enron.

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Pfeiffer says QuarkXPress Lags Behind InDesign CS

Pfeiffer Consulting has conducted an “independent, high-level technology analysis of Adobe InDesign CS and QuarkXPress 6.x, in order to allow decision makers in the publishing industry to evaluate the comparative strengths of both applications.” IT-Enquirer has interpreted that study (saving us 295 Euros if we are willing to trust their summary) in this article and has come to the conclusion: “Stay Away from QuarkXPress 6.5…Pfeiffer found frequent and reproducible crashes, and serious reproducible dysfunctions of existing product functionality. The problems were so severe that a system’s data integrity was in peril. Pfeiffer therefore warns against deploying version 6.5 without checking if Quark has solved the problems found by Pfeiffer.”

I think the folks in the QuarkXPress Commiseration Area of our Forums could have saved both organizations a bit of time and money as they have all experienced these issues first hand…these issues and many others.

QuarkXPress Lags Behind InDesign CS? Well, DUH!

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