How to Download Free Public Domain Audiobooks
There are a number of websites which maintain databases of freely downloadable audiobooks. The audiobooks that are available as free downloads are often classic titles that have entered into the public domain and are no longer under copyright law.
Here are a number of websites which offer free public domain audiobooks:
AudiobooksForFree.com – AudiobooksForFree.com contains a large database of free audiobooks. This service does a superb job of organizing audiobook titles into categories and offers newer royalty-free audiobooks in addition to those in the public domain. Unfortunately, this website has not been updated since 2008.
FreeClassicAudiobooks.com – FreeClassicAudiobooks.com offers classic audiobooks in MP3 and M4B format. The service contains a few dozen titles, including a free audiobook copy of the King James Bible and Spanish, Italian and French language learning audiobooks.
LearnOutLoud.com – LearnOutLoud is a service that provides free copies of audiobooks, lectures, speeches, sermons and interviews in audio (MP3) and video format. This website has approximately 3,400 titles available as of March 2011.
Librivox.com – Librivox is one of the larger services that offer free public domain audiobooks. As of March 2011, Librivox had approximately 4,250 titles available. Librivox also organizes volunteers to create audiobook recordings of public domain audiobooks for free consumption.
OpenCulture.com – OpenCulture, a website dedicated to providing free educational and cultural media, maintains a list of freely downloadable audiobooks in MP3 format. Most of the titles that are available from OpenCulture are classics and other public domain works. This website also maintains a list of free podcasts.
Project Gutenberg -Project Gutenberg, a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, maintains a library of public domain audiobooks. Some of the titles are read by narrators and some were created using synthesized technology (computer generated voices). Project Gutenberg collaborates with Librivox and AudiobooksForFree.com to organize volunteers to create human-read recordings of audiobooks.
There are also a couple of websites which offer newer titles that are independently produced outside of the major publishing houses, including:
New Fiction – New Fiction offers free modern-day radio dramas called iSoaps. The titles on New Fiction vary from other free audiobook websites in that they are not public domain books in audiobook format, rather newer fiction titles from independent authors.
Podiobooks – Podiobooks provides free audiobooks in episodic form over RSS so that readers can enjoy titles one chapter at a time. The service contains approximately 500 original fiction titles.
Storynory – Storynory offers free audiobook children’s stories. This U.K. – based website provides audiobook versions of dozens of classic fairytales, educational stories and original titles.
Domain Suffixes Explained (Domain Names Simplified Series)
Domain names (or DNS addresses for the geeks) are a system by which people like you and me can reach the computer we want and get the information without the hassle of remembering a sequence of seemingly unrelated numbers ( called IP addresses )
Domain names are further suffixed to provide the user with some means of identification of the nature of the website and a means of classification for the web sites themselves. These suffixes are referred to as top – level domains.
The common examples of these are .com, .org, .net, the newer .biz, .name, .info etc.
These suffixes help to provide further information about where the computer is located and what is it prime reason for existence i.e. for commercial purposes, non-profit organization, networking purposes or purely as a B-2-B site (business to business site).
On the basis of their primary motive, domain names are registered. Hence, since most businesses exist for commerce, the most common suffix is … yes you guessed it right! .COM!!
So common is this particular top level domain that it is mostly implied when we visit a website. Hence, for more purposes than purely commercial is this suffix used.
A brief overview of the common suffixes is outlined below
SUFFIX Meaning
.com Commercial Site
.org Non-profit organization site
.net Site within a larger network.
.biz Purely for Business-to-Business sites
.name For identity purposes of an individual or organization
.info Informational sites providing no e-commerce
.co.uk Site based in the United Kingdom
.co.in Site based in India
Note: The last to suffixes can be replaced by most other country’s two letter abbreviation. Eg. For a Japanese site .co.jp would be the suffix.
Check whether your domain name is available here.
Step-By-Step Guide for Windows Server 2008 Domain Controller
In this tutorial I am going to explain how to install and setup Windows Server 2008 Domain Controller and DNS server which can be used as centralized server to keep user information, OU, setting up group policies etc.
1) Go to Start >> Run and type “dcpromo” and press enter.
Server will now start checking if Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) binaries are installed or not; if not, then it will install it. After running “dcpromo” you will get popup like below which will scan the server
2) Once the AD DS binaries are installed, you will get “Active Directory Domain Services Installation Wizard” like below
Here you will find a option “Use Advance Mode installation” which will show you more options (basically for advance user). You can keep the checkbox unchecked and press Next
3) Next Windows will show some basic information about Microsoft Windows 2008 Active Directory Services. Press Next to continue
4) Choose Deployment Configuration: This windows will allow to add the server to an existing Forest Or to Create a new Domain forest.
Select Create a new domain in a new forest and press Next.
5) Name the Forest Root Domain: Enter the name of the domain (Fully Qualified domain name) which will act as root domain for the AD DS and press Next..
It will take some time to check if the domain is already in use or not.
6) Set Forect Function Level: We would suggest you to read the description of every OS before selecting the option
7) Set Domain Function Level: We would suggest you to read the description of every OS before selecting the option
Additional Domain Controller Option: On this window you can select DNS service here. Also as this server is First domain controller in a forest it must have Global Catalog due to which it doesn’t allow you to enable or disable this feature. I want to set this Domain Controller Server as a DNS Server as well, so I have kept the check box beside DNS server selected. Press Next to continue.
Please allow sometime to for DNS configurations and if any DNS warning Pop-Up’s Press Yes to continue
9) Location for Database, Log Files and SYSVOL: In this window you can set the Path for database, log and SYSVOL files. If you don’t want to change it keep them default and Press Next.
10) Directory Services Restore Mode Administrator Password: Enter the Password (& confirm it) which you will use login into Domain Controller.
11) Summary: It will Show you the Summary of all configuration which you have selected. Here you can export the current configuratino whch can be used for any other setup.
12) Installation wizard will install/configure everything on your Server now
13) Reboot: Once the above process gets completed press Finish and reboot the Server.
By default First name of the domain is NETBIOS name. E.g. here I have used domain adtesting.com so that NETBIOS name will be ADTESTING. So, after reboot I have to login into the server I will use “ADTESTINGAdministrator” as user and the password which I have used on Step 10.