There seems to be a lot of news in the land of Apple today, so instead of covering everything in-depth, we’ve got all the Apple headlines in-brief:
iTunes Store has Sold over Three Billion Songs
- Wowy! The iTunes store has sold over three b-b-billion songs! The iTunes catalog currently features over five million songs, 550 TV Shows, and 500 movies (hmm… this number seems pretty low to me). They are now the third largest music retailer
One of the things that I’ve never liked about the BitTorrent files is that they can be such a pain to download. Often times you need a separate application, such as uTorrent, to download any of the files. I have found that it is something that most people just don’t understand.
BitLet might very well be the thing that breaks the learning curve when it comes to BitTorrent files because they’ve got the
If you frequently upload videos to multiple video sharing sites like YouTube or MySpace Videos, you’re going to love Hey!Spread. Hey! Spread is a fairly new video uploading service that “sneezes” your videos, or spreads them to multiple sites with just a few simple steps which means you’ll save yourself a lot of time. The more services your video is uploaded to, the better chance you’ll have that it will become popular which is why Hey!
One of the requests that I frequently receive with every Firefox 3 Alpha release is to put together a portable build that people can play with. That way they don’t need to worry about messing up their existing Firefox installation or profile, and when they have had enough with it they can simply delete the folder it resides in.
Download Squad found a site that ingeniously created a script which automatically downloads the
It’s hard to believe that it has already been a year since the announcement that Bill Gates would be giving up his duties at Microsoft to devote time to the Bill and Melinda Foundation which focuses on public health and the reformation of education in the U.S. When the announcement was made, we knew it would be a gradual two-year transition for Gates, so one year later, and one year
A lot of people are always skeptical about storing information on the Internet because of privacy concerns, and that is perfectly understandable. But we’re constantly being told that our data is safe like with this statement in the Google Docs help section:
Rest assured that your documents and spreadsheets will remain private unless you publish them to the Web or invite collaborators and/or viewers.
Once
Mozilla has squashed their 27th security bug for the year on the Firefox browser. Late last night they released Firefox 2.0.0.6 that fixed two serious bugs, one of which also plagues Internet Explorer:
- Unescaped URIs passed to external programs [link]
- Privilege escalation through chrome-loaded about:blank windows [link]
Mozilla had just released Firefox 2.0.0.5 less than two-weeks ago to