I wanted to play some audiobooks from Audible.com on various devices as mp3s. These books are distributed in an encrypted .aa format. You can play these in iTunes or Audible Manager. You can also burn them to audio CDs, which is a pain as they can be 20-40 hours long, that’s a lot of CDs!
The Hubble Space Telescope has been up for over 20 years now and I think almost everybody has at some point enjoyed looking at some of the fantastic pictures its taken. After reaching the end of its cost-effective lifespan the James Webb Space Telescope was to be its successor. Unfortunately it looks like the USA may be cancelling the successor to the Hubble.