iTunes library over the Network
iTunes vs. Universal Music Group
Apple may have a problem on their hands. Execs from Universal Music Group (the largest music corporation) said that they would NOT renew the annual contract to sell their music through iTunes. They are marketing music to Apple at will, which means they could yank Universal's music from Apple on short notice if they can't agree on pricing. It's all about the Almighty Dollar, huh?
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iTunes hits 3,000,000,000 songs sold
The iTunes Store is on a roll and not slowing down any time soon. Apple announced this morning that over 3 billion songs have been sold through its online music store. The milestone not only marks a major feat for Apple, but also for the digital music industry as a whole.ars technica
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Win-Get
I think this is great. At least if you're like me and have like 3 CMD.exe windows open at all times just because you're addicted to the command line.
win-get is an automated install system and software repository for Microsoft Windows written in pascal (for the command line client) and php for the online repository. The ideas for its creation come from apt-get and other related tools for the *nix platforms.Lifehacker
The system works by connecting to a link repository. Finding an application and downloading it from the stored link using wget.exe . Then performing the installation routine (silent or standard). And finally deleting the install file.
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The Hard Drive turns 50
Last Wednesday marked an important date in history when the Hard Drive turned 50.
Today, the hard drive is found everywhere--from the PCs we use daily to MP3 players and memory keys so small you can toss them in your pocket and forget you're carrying around a hard drive. But when the hard drive was first introduced on September 13, 1956, it required a humongous housing and 50 24-inch platters to store 1/2400 as much data as can be fit on today's largest capacity 1-inch hard drives. Back then, the small team at IBM's San Jose-based lab was seeking a way to replace tape with a storage mechanism that allowed for more-efficient random access to data. The question was, how to bring random-access storage to business computing?PC World
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Cyber-criminals and Ajax
Cybercrooks add Ajax coding to bag of hacking tricks.
USA Today via Lifehacker
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Recently this problem has presented itself…the need for my iTunes library to stay up-to-date even though I’m using multiple installations of iTunes on multiple PCs. Browsing the brilliant reads over at Lifehacker, I saw this post. Perfect.
