One piece of hardware, a mechanized private file library called a "memex, " has become a model for the MyLifeBits team.

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That meant their music could be made available on Amazon MP3, which does not use DRM, and which features free software that delivers a customer's MP3 file directly to their iTunes library.

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When ABC News (Disney owns ABC) closed its Washington Bureau library, the clip file there got recycled.

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On a recent summer evening, children splashed in a fountain next to the bustling public library, and a family of four cycled single-file down That Way drive.

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Even with Vista codec packs installed (we used K-Lite) and the .mp4 reg hack which supposedly enables MP4 file indexing in WMP11, we could still only jam more "traditional" WMP-capable media into the library (MPG, AVI, etc.).

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