Aside from the iPhone price drop and the release of the new iPod Touch, the next biggest news coming out of Apple this week was the announcement that NBC doesn't intend to renew their contract with iTunes once their current contract runs-out in December. The reason is because neither party can agree upon a price to sell NBC's TV shows at.
There are a lot of Apple fans out there these days, and I have nothing against them. I don't use any Apple products aside from the iPod, but I do think it is good that they are emerging successful in the computer market so that there is more competition. And good competition often means that the consumers win.
Back in February Firefox hit 300 million downloads, and now 7-months later it is rolling the counter over again as they hit 400 million downloads! Of course that is the number of downloads the browser has, and doesn't actually represent the number of users.
Have you ever visited Google Trends before? I do on occasion because sometimes it's interesting to see what people are searching for. Much like Google Trends, a new Wikipedia data mining service called Wikirage tells you what the hot topics are on Wikipedia.
One of the most notable features in the new Opera 9.5 Alpha is synchronization with your free My Opera account. All of your bookmarks, Speed Dial entries, Personal Bar items, and panels are sent to a remote server in Oslo, Norway. You can then access them from any number of computers that you have Opera 9.5 installed on.
Some of you probably remember the controversy that came last Summer when Netscape launched a social news service which they hoped would compete with Digg. They even went as far as "bribing" some of the top Digg and Reddit users at the time with $1,000 per month to come over to Netscape and submit at least 150 news stories each month to help build a community. It's been just over a year now since the service launched, and Netscape is calling it quits.
Adobe announced back in March that they intended to create an online Photoshop that is geared towards home and casual computer users. The solution that they came up with, called Photoshop Express, will offer a simplistic interface that is free for everyone to use. However, it will be ad supported (I'm guessing that's what the box in the bottom-right corner of the screenshot is for).
Error messages tend to be something that most computer users deal with at some point or another. Usually they're to be to the point, and polite, but that's not the case with the set of error messages I've got for you today.
