iTunes is close to the 10,000 million downloads

The Apple Music Store is about to pass a new brand and to celebrate giving away $ 10,000 to the person that gets that number.

Apple has released a few days ago on the website of your local music store, iTunes, a countdown that refers to song downloads that are conducting their customers at the time.

The number is approximately 10,000million, a new brand that will be overcome very quickly. According to information from the company, to celebrate giving away a gift card worth $ 10,000 to the person who is lucky enough to coincide with that round figure.

On the other hand, Apple has released its particular ranking of the 25 most downloaded songs of all time.

In general, this is an initiative that the company really like the block, especially to keep their shops special relevance in iTunes (music) and App Store (applications for iPhone, iPod Touch and the future IPAD).

Also coinciding with the 20th anniversary ofPhotoshop, has launched an application that simulates the 1.0 version of this tool for editing and photo retouching for iPhone, although at present is restricted to a limited number of users.

Also, Apple has decided to withdraw from the App Store applications with eroticcontent. It has done its creators advising of the withdrawal. All these applications were approved at the time by the company, so it is something that developers do not understand. The reason is none other than the repeated complaints of consumers and the future launch of the iPad, which could have enough impact on education, where many children would have direct access to this content explicit.

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If you add files to an FTP server, upload or download from an FTP server you are, this program is ideally suited for this. FileZilla is an open-source project, the software will be offered free of charge.  FileZilla can resume interrupted downloads or uploads to the breaking point (assuming the server supports this feature) and provides a number of other useful features, including encryption of SFTP transfers with SSL or Kerberos GSS. From the makers of There is also a FileZilla FTP server.  FileZilla 3.3.2 simplifies the setting of speed limits. The log files now contain the amount of data transmitted and the time needed for the transfer. On the project website contains information about the numerous bug fixes.

Changelog (excerpt):

• Add support for forward and backward mouse buttons
• Speed limits can be quickly set using the menu and a new indicator in the status bar
• Display number of bytes transferred and duration of transfer in log
• MSW: React to back button of mouse in file lists
• Updated blukis icon set

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A new president for April

Tangui Morlier will replace Sibaud Benedict as the head of April. Benedict will still be a part of the management team of the association by taking the post of vice president.
Member of the April (Association for the promotion and research in computer law) since 2006, Tangui Morlier becomes the new president, replacing Sibaud Benedict, who was the president of the association for five years.
“I hope to continue the work conducted by Benedict last five years. When he became president, the association had only 500 members and was not permanent. He leaves office with an incredible record: the April is now supported by over 5,000 members and was able to make its perennial mission of defending and promoting free software by hiring 3 employees. The fact that Benedict remains in office and agreed to support me as vice-president is very important to me, “said Tangui Morlier.
Tangui Morlier became interested in free software since 1998. He participated in the movement Copyleft Attitude and is a member of the collective StopDRM. He now finds himself as the head of an association of 5360 members: 4913 individuals and 447 legal persons (companies, associations, etc..). This success allows the association to have sufficient weight to make its voice heard, including at senior managerial and governmental spheres.

YouTube delegates the power to filter content to users

It is a nice feature that has just joined the site for sharing videosYouTube.

Blocking content deemed “unacceptable” will now be delegated to users ….

In a blog contribution, Jamie Davidson, in charge of products at YouTube, said that some users wanted more control over what they are viewing.

“We have implemented the Safety Mode (safe mode), an optional setting that helps to filter the content that you prefer not to look or you do not want certain members of your family watch” says Jamie Davidson.

In practice, if the “Safety Mode” is enabled, users should ensure that research on certain keywords HAPPENS actually on video.

A good place for parents who wish to leave their young children watch cartoons in peace.

Note however that the general conditions of use of YouTube already prohibit any publication of pornographic, erotic or violent.

RC 5 of OpenOffice 3.2. finished

The new version of the free OpenOffice.org office program is nearing completion. The developers have made to increase compatibility with Microsoft Office. The program starts to be accelerated.

The free office suite OpenOffice.org is probably the only serious competitor for the Office program from Redmond. Not only for home users, even for small companies OpenOffice.org is popular. To date, over 100 million worldwide have downloaded the software prospective. In Germany, the office program is said to have a market share of approximately 21 percent.

Version 3.2 brings many new features
The new version 3.2. likely the success of OpenOffice.org even higher standard. Some media have reported that the 3.2 version is already finished. On the website, however, is offered at cut-off date, only the Release Candidate 5 to download.

Screenshot of Calc, the spreadsheet of OpenOffice.org (image: OpenOffice.org)

The release list, but leads to even the new features and improvements. Thus, the Calc spreadsheet and word processor Writer will start much faster.

Other New Features

• The format ODF will better support

• The compatibility with Microsoft Office 2007Documents has been improved

• The AutoCorrect feature in Writer can be pinned permanently during a meeting added words

• Many new features in Tabellenkalkulaton Calc

• The drawing program Draw and the Impress presentation program provide a comment function

For a complete list of new features and enhancements can be found on the website of OpenOffice.org (see References).

The software is available for Windows, Linux, MacOS and Solaris.
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