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One More Step For iTunes

 Apple has announced that iTunes is the top two music retailer in the US today. The data is collected from NPD Group*. Its not just that. iTunes also have 50 million customer around the globe, sold over 4 billion songs. 20 billion just for the last Christmas day. Pretty nice Apple!

“We’d like to thank the over 50 million music lovers who have helped the iTunes Store reach this incredible milestone,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s vice president of iTunes. “We continue to add great new features like iTunes Movie Rentals to give our customers even more reason to love iTunes.”

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*Based on data from market research firm the NPD Group’s MusicWatch survey that captures consumer reported past week unit purchases and counts one CD representing 12 tracks, excluding wireless transactions. The iTunes Music Store became the second-largest music retailer in the US after Wal-Mart, based on the amount of music sold during 2007.

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The New Macbook an Macbook Pro Models With Multi-Touch Trackpad

Apple has launched their new Macbook and Macbook Pro today. With the new features, its look like Apple is taking this very serious. Comes with the latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors, larger hard drives and 2GB of memory standard in most models and of course the multi-touch trackpad.

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Two more days and Stage6 will shutting down?

Two more days. If you think you like some videos on Stage6 then go get it before February 28. Even the memo has been announce, but we still can download the videos but if plan to upload it you can’t. The upload button has been disable. Stage6 is work very hard to keep the service but they cannot afford the maintenance cost and attention. However, they still hoping that somebody or someone from a big yummy-yummy company will take over it.

Now, why didn’t we think of that before we decided to create Stage6 in the first place, you may ask? That’s a good question. When we first created Stage6, there was a clear need for a service that would offer a true high quality video experience online because other video destinations on the Internet simply weren’t providing that to users. A gap existed, and Stage6 arrived to fill it.

As Stage6 grew quickly and dramatically (accompanied by an explosion of other sites delivering high quality video), it became clear that operating the service as a part of the larger DivX business no longer made sense. We couldn’t continue to run Stage6 and focus on our broader strategy to make it possible for anyone to enjoy high quality video on any device. So, in July of last year we announced that we were kicking off an effort to explore strategic alternatives for Stage6, which is a fancy way of saying we decided we would either have to sell it, spin it out into a private company or shut it down.

I won’t (and can’t, really) go into too much detail on those first two options other than to say that we tried really hard to find a way to keep Stage6 alive, either as its own private entity or by selling it to another company. Ultimately neither of those two scenarios was possible, and we made the hard decision to turn the lights off and cease operation of the service.

So that’s where we are today. After February 28, Stage6 will cease to exist as an online destination. But the larger DivX universe will continue to thrive. Every day new DivX Certified devices arrive on the market making it easy to move video beyond the PC. Products powered by DivX Connected, our new initiative that lets users stream video, photos, music and Internet services from the PC to the TV, are hitting retail outlets. We remain committed to empowering content creators to deliver high quality video to a wide audience, and we’ll continue to offer services that will make it easy to find videos online in the DivX format.

It’s been a wild ride, and none of it would have been possible without the support of our users. Thank you for making Stage6 everything that it was. - Tom

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..//Stage6 is my favorite place to download the Apple Keynote Videos.

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Go Invisible - Change your gmail chat status

This great web2.0 service has added a new features for their system and its really, really must use have features. Now, you can change your chat status to ‘invisible’. Same goes with your contact. Even they are sign in to gmail, but if they change their status to ‘invisible’, you can’t see them. If you didn’t want your contact interrupt your work then use this.

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Ubuntu 8.04 available to downloads, today.

Canonical just bring the new Ubuntu 8.40 with the codename, Hardy Heron Alpha 5. Now, its available to downloads. If you are planning to use it on your main system, I not recommend it because its still an alpha version and contains many bugs. Well, they are working on it.

This version come with the new features that i think is great. I decide to cover it here. First, the way to install and i think this will be the easiest way ever for OS installation - WUBI. Wubi was born as an independent project, as such 7.04 and 7.10 are unoffical releases. But since 8.04 the code has been merged within Ubuntu and since 8.04-alpha5, Wubi can also be found in the Ubuntu Live CD. Thats cool.

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Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 Launched!

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There some of people out there has just received a letter from Microsoft Internet Explorer Team about offering a chance to participate in a technical preview of the number one browser on earth, Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1. While, Firefox, the greatest ever browser on planet just celebrated their 500 millions downloads last week. That’s why Microsoft has announce about the launch? I don’t know. I’m not an IE user.
Back to the point, the content of the letter said they are nearing the launch of Windows Explorer 8 Beta 1 and they will be making it available for the public to download it and test it. What i’m really thinking about this version is it’s more likely a Microsoft Office 2007. It has a big menu bar but there are still a lack of information about its features, security level and anything else. So, we have to wait.

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500+ Million Celebration… Firefox + FreeRice

Firefox is getting the 1/2 millions downloads nowadays. This browser is getting more popular even the IE is still the number one. That’s because IE is coming with windows.

We thought about baking Firefox another cake but it felt a little decadent given that Firefox is asking users to head over to FreeRice and play their games to help donate rice to those in need. Something about eating butter-creme frosting and thinking of starving children just didn’t work so well. Instead, by playing FreeRice and choosing the correct meaning of the displayed word, you’ll send 20 grains of rice — per word — to an area of the world in need. [via-downloadsquad]

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