The Guardian and Observer operate at a massive loss being held by a foundation trust. According to wiki a loss of £18.9m in 2005 going to £50m 2006, who dares guess what kind of loss it operates under now. It's shored up by profitable publications within the same trust.
Alas, this isn't a long term viable strategy to be followed.
The Guardian and the BBC actually leave commercial papers in a bit of a tricky situation with regard to digital strategy here in the UK as they can both give their content away free without any regard to the problems of generating income, as they have guaranteed sources (trust money and license payer money).
Actually, iTools was free. As costs rose, most particularly due to iDisk storage space and increasing support needs, iTools was renamed .Mac as a subscription-based service.
There's a gadget to measure the distance between two points in the Google Maps Directory. Works as advertised, and is also more precise than the bar scale.
Technically it's not. Programs use the libdvdcss functionality built into VLC, but there are other alternatives (such as Fairmount) that also use libdvdcss. VLC is just more likely to be installed. Indeed, if you're running 64-bit Handbrake then the lack of a (stable) 64-bit version of VLC makes Fairmount a better option.
