Request for information re: Book Download Center

I recently discovered a potentially useful site, bookdownloadcenter.com, that purports to provide free access to ebooks for a subscription fee. The books they advertise are not just limited to Project Gutenberg and the like--many are pretty new. Naturally I viewed this with a high degree of suspicion, but when I did a pretty thorough search (admittedly limited to Google) for any sort of negative press on them (e.g. bad reviews, scam warnings, etc.) nothing popped up.
It was quite a chore plowing through all the virtually identical positive reviews that they wrote for themselves, but I'm puzzled by the fact that not one person seems to have ever written anything bad about them, while nobody except themselves seem to have written anything good about them either. So my basic question, are they legit, and is this legal, is still unanswered. I thought that someone in here might be able to shed some light on this.
Thanks for any guidance you can give.

I agree on the "too good to be true" part, but maybe they're trying to build a reputation quickly or something similar. You know, something like they're offering lifetime memberships now to get some good press but later will change to periodic subscriptions for new customers.
I am also troubled by the lack of a catalog, truth be told. However, as you say, if you give them the benefit of the doubt, then you have to take this seriously: "These aren't books by authors you have never heard of, they are popular well-known books which are selling in your local bookstore or on the iTunes iBookstore." That and the advertised 60-day money back guarantee are warring with my natural suspicion. I figure if anyone can tell me if they're legit, it would be someone from iTunes.
As an aside, their Terms of Service (http://termsandprivacy.com/ebook/privacy.asp?domainName=www.bookdownloadcenter.c om) place them in the Bahamas.

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Erica,
     I can, with 99.99% certainty, tell you that you are absolutely right in not wanting to download or install this "Helper," whatever it is (but we can be equally certain it would not "help" anything).
     I cannot comment as to Oglethorpe's recommendation of 'adwaremedic'; I am unfamiliar with it. His links to the Apple discussion and support pages warrant your time and attention.
     It might be really simple -- Trying looking in your Downloads folder, trash anything that you don't know with certainty is something you want to keep, and then Secure Empty your Trash. Then remove the AdBlock extension, LastPass, and Web of Trust extensions to Safari and re-boot. If the issue goes away, still be extraordinarily careful in the future.
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We have implemented a approval notification for our customer which on a high level is as follows
requester -> Approver 1-> Approver 2
Once a request is submitted, the 'approval' notification goes to Approver 1 followed by Approver 2. The request is approved when both approves approve the request. If no action is taken by the approvers, the original notifications are cancelled and escalation notification is sent to supervisor of approver 2.
We have a timeout of 48 hours set for the initial approval notifications sent to the approvers (1 & 2). In case Approver 2 requests for more information using the 'Request information' button, the TIMEOUT clock does not seem to reset and the notification is cancelled after 48 hrs even if the notification is in the queue of the requester.
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About CS4 vs CS5 - a request for information

First my setup:
Sager laptop NP8760
CORE i7 820QM @ 1.73Ghz (both cores)
ATI MR HD 5870 (1 GB)
Ram: 8192MB DDR3 1333 (2 DIMMS)
2 SATA 500GB WD hdd
Win 7 64bit
What I want to hear about, is given the hardware and that its 64 bit win 7... How different will I find CS5 encore to be.
I've been working with CS4 on the same hardware for about a month.
It sounds like CS5 Premier has a significant change with the new rendering engine, but what about Encore? Has it aquired some new and better way to grind avi into mpeg2?
My usage is as an event videographer still in the learning phase in all respects. Although I have finally developed some familiarity with the Adobe CS4 Production set. And have been an off and on user of Photoshop, premiere, encore and Illustrator going back to the version where CS had no number following it.
Its really hard to tell from the online descriptions that adobe has posted, although it appears they have put a good effort into trying to describe what to expect. It isn't enough for me to understand what I might find better or worthwhile about CS5.

John T Smith wrote:
64bit (required for PPro CS5) means better use of more memory
Your ATI graphics card does not allow hardware MPE in PPro
Encore is still 32bit, since the "core" is licensed from Roxio, and they are still 32bit
You might want to check http://ppbm5.com/ to see if there are any laptops like yours, and where they rank
MPE ?... is that hardware acceleration?
And what is the end result of not allowing MPE?
I couldn't make much sense of the tightly woven pages at you citation... looked like it make take some serious pondering just to get started with that
My laptop had 2 choices of vid card... the other one was `Nvidia Quadro FX 2800M 1gb Gddr3' I didn't know enough about how to read the specs to make an informed choice... but shy'd away from Nvidia due to experineces on a P4 running winXP -pro where I reall couldn't even run encore CS4 without major problems... begining with having to turn hardware excelloration off.
Would that card make a serious difference in working with PP and Encore?

Request for information from EFI Windows/Linux dual-booters

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In my system originally created I have as follow
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GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.8
Partition table scan:
MBR: protective
BSD: not present
APM: not present
GPT: present
Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.
Disk /dev/sda: 1465149168 sectors, 698.6 GiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): E805A24A-C0ED-4E17-B852-352C5CD6A9F7
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1 2048 616447 300.0 MiB EF00 EFI system partition
2 179179520 220139519 19.5 GiB 0700
3 616448 2721791 1.0 GiB 0C01
4 2721792 179179519 84.1 GiB 0700 Basic data partition
5 588779520 1423183871 397.9 GiB 0700 Basic data partition
6 1423183872 1465147391 20.0 GiB 2700 Basic data partition
8 220139520 261099519 19.5 GiB EF02
9 261099520 383979519 58.6 GiB 0700
10 383979520 588779519 97.7 GiB 0700
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ASUS Boot Microsoft arch_grub gummiboot
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Tooling used for the SAP Software Download Center (swdc)

Hi,
does anybody know what kind of software SAP uses for their SWDC? We're looking to offer simular functionality but do not know of any SAP product that does this.
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GLIMMERMAN76 wrote:
the phone is almost 3 years old they may not update it.. But then again there are suprise around every corner sometimes. People with the 830 are waiting for an update also.When the update came out the phone was about two years old. Now we expect GDR2. On the Microsoft update page there are seven AT&T Lumia phones. There would be eight but the 830 is no longer listed. Did AT&T have it removed ? Only three of these phones have the Denim update available, that is 37.5%. Is AT&T even trying, I don't think so. The same models of phones all over the world have been updated. Now WP10 is coming up. Microsoft says they will update WP10 directly, no carrier in the middle and they say it will be available to all phones and only phones running Lumia Denim, OS version 8.10.14219.341 or higher can be upgraded. So, the phone has to have at least Denim before you can update.Will Windows 10 update be available for my Lumia phone? We bought two 920's from AT&T in 2012. Wife is still using hers and I replaced mine with a 1520.3 last year. It has Qi wireless charging and 32GB memory, not the AT&T version. We no longer have a contract and never will, using 'bring your own phone'.The other 62.5% of the Lumia phone users with AT&T probably feel the same way.

Request for ovi music unlimited download song

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I would like to download iMessage for my mac book pro.

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ITunes accepts password for initial login but not for Match, account information or automatic downloads

Hello all,
I have an iMac with 2.0 Ghz core duo running Snow Leopard 10.6.8 and the latest iTunes 10.5.1. iTunes will accept my initial login for purchases and access to the iTunes Store. But if I attempt to access my account information, enable automatic downloads or iTunes Match, I get a login window that states, "Sign in required." I enter in the correct password but iTunes does not allow me further access. It just keeps giving me the same login window over and over. It does not state that I have entered in the wrong password.
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3. Reset password.
4. Trashed iTunes application, emptied trash. Downloaded new copy of iTunes 10.5.1. Restart.
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More than slightly embarrassed,
Chris

Request for proper information and to refuse to help when it's missing

On behalf of many of us volunteers who are getting tired of guessing the environment of those who are asking for help, I hereby
ASK ALL VOLUNTEERS TO STOP RESPONDING TO REQUESTS FOR TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE THAT DO NOT PROVIDE SUFFICIENT INFORMATION
In general, sufficient information should include:
1) Operating system and Service Pack, not just the family.
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- XP is a Family of operating systems. Insufficient information (need Home, Professional, etc.)
- Linux is a Family of operating systems. Insufficient information (need Oracle Enterprise Linux 4 Update 4, Red Hat EL 4 Update 2, OpenSuSE 10.3, Fedora 8, etc.)
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I am not requesting this to be enforced by the forum.
I am requesting that people like you and me reply by linking to this thread (or to the other excellent related threads) INSTEAD of replying. If we do it consistently, eventually the newbies will also enforce it voluntarily, and that will cut the useless teeth-pulling-effort replies to a minimum.
In your 90% posts figure - you do realize that that means 90% of the posts are badly formed and are wasting your time as well as mine.
Or - if they were properly formed - you and I could answer that with a lot less effort and a lot faster. With the implication is that the person asking would generally get a resolution a lot faster as well. Net result - you and I get to sleep more (or answer more questions) and people with problems are happier because they get them resolved faster.

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