Just after Apple announced its intention to create an online app store for the iPhone, “You’re witnessing the birth of a third major computer platform: Windows, Mac OS X, iPhone”?
Anyway, there are now 15,000 programs available on the App Store, and so many more are flooding in that Apple’s army of screeners can’t even keep up. I keep meaning to write a thoughtful, thorough roundup of the very best of these amazing programs, but every day that I don’t do it, the job becomes more daunting. (But don’t worry. I’ll …

Before you authors get upset, never fear: Google is making 1.5 million books available,
it announced today, that are in the public domain. There’s a lot of good stuff, including everything by Charles Dickens and (pre-zombified) Jane Austen. Google Says: 
 
“We envision a future where people across the globe can search, discover and access the world’s books from any device,” Google spokeswoman Jennie Jarvis said in an e-mail.
For all the classics you’ll be able to find, there is also a very, very, very, very, very long tail of out-of-print books you’ve never even thought …