Posts Tagged ‘Downloads’

Pokki launched its Windows 8 Start menu replacement back in early October and the company has revealed today that it has been downloaded 1.5 million times for the new OS. The download figures for Pokki, which also adds an app store for hundreds of desktop apps built on its platform, show that there’s a demand for a traditional Start menu on Windows 8 — something that Microsoft removed in its latest OS that has sold 60 million licenses so far . Microsoft’s Windows 8 Start button removal last year was described by the company as a reaction to telemetry data that showed Start menu usage was dropping. Pokki’s own data suggests that its users open the Start menu replacement 10 times a day on average. Pokki isn’t sharing exact Windows 8…

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Bring back the Windows 8 Start menu, say 1.5 million Pokki downloaders

British supermarket chain Sainsbury’s is partnering with digital entertainment provider Rovi to launch a new video streaming service. Part of the company’s Sainsbury’s Entertainment division, the service — slated to launch “later this year” — will be a rebranded version of the white-label Rovi Entertainment Store , which integrates with a number of content providers and rights management services, including the universal DRM locker UltraViolet. According to a press release, new titles will be added to the store “often on the same day they are available on DVD and Blu-ray Disc.” While the service will initially be available only through the Sainsbury’s Entertainment website, the supermarket has plans to expand the offering to portable…

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Apple’s recently released OS X 10.8, codenamed Mountain Lion , is officially the California company’s most successful OS X release to date. Totalling more than three million downloads in its first four days of availability, it overshadows OS X 10.7 Lion — the prior version of the operating system, which was also the first to be made available via a direct download from the Mac App Store. Lion was already the fastest-spreading OS X upgrade in Apple’s history, thanks to that direct distribution method, and the cheaper and universally better Mountain Lion seems to be keeping that momentum going.

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Mountain Lion is Apple’s ‘most successful’ OS X release with three million downloads in four days

RIM has just a bit of good news to share after revealing a $518 million operating loss last quarter and plans for 5,000 job cuts : the BlackBerry App World has reached the three billion download mark. To get to that number, users have been downloading apps at a clip of six million per day from the store’s selection of 90,000 apps. Of course, the numbers all pale in comparison to Apple’s iTunes App Store — 30 billion downloads from a selection of 650,000 apps — and the Google Play Store — 20 billion downloads from 600,000 apps — but the numbers aren’t bad for RIM, which was late to the app game. The BlackBerry App World took 768 days to attain one billion downloads, 210 days to get to two billion, and then 176 days to make it to..

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BlackBerry App World surpasses three billion total downloads

The RIAA has released its statistics on digital and physical music sales for 2011, and it has confirmed that downloads have beat out physical for the first time, eeking just over the 50 percent mark. Total US music shipments were up for the first time since 2004, with a 3.5 percent gain to 180 million units, though that increase mostly came from digital, which had an increase of 11.3 percent year-over-year. Notably, the digital market appears to have shifted a bit towards full album downloads over singles. Album downloads increased by 22.1 percent over the year, compared to a growth of 10.9 percent for singles

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RIAA: Digital beats out physical for first time in 2011, streaming services gain 300,000 subscribers

Apple has just delivered its 25 billionth app through the iOS App Store, and once again, one lucky person’s just won a $10,000 App Store gift card. Of course, there may be no objective law that says 25 billion downloads are more noteworthy than 25 billion-plus-one downloads, but in the spirit of honoring a heap of uninterrupted zeroes to the left of the decimal, we’ll concede that 25,000,000,000 does in fact contain a lot of zeroes. The milestone comes in less than three years since the App Store hit the one billion download mark , and just under four years since it initially launched on July 10th, 2008.

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iOS App Store serves 25 billion downloads

We’ve all gone mobile since BitTorrent started bringing media and (ill-gotten) files to us in 2001, but the popular uTorrent client has so far stuck stubbornly to the desktop. It appears that might not be the case for much longer — TorrentFreak reports that uTorrent developers are working on a full version of the program for Android. No, this isn’t just the uTorrent Remote app that lets you control your file sharing on your computer — like some apps already out there, this would be a complete experience that would see users seeding and leeching from their Android devices. The prospect of torrenting on your phone might sound crazy, but when you think about devices like the Asus Transformer Prime — which can function as a computer… Continue reading…

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Fully-fledged uTorrent app for Android in development, has no ETA

TorrentFreak has released its top ten chart of the most downloaded movies worldwide of 2011, and, as usual, it’s difficult to make any solid conclusions from it. It’s headlined by Fast Five , with The Hangover Part II and Thor rounding out the top three. The top ten list looks to be skewed by young male tastes. Films like Harry Potter , Twilight , and Pirates of the Caribbean , which were in the top five by international gross, appear to have scored much lower as their advantage of appealing to wide audiences may have been negated. The appearance of low-grossing films like Sucker Punch , 127 Hours , and Source Code are also a clue of the demographics of pirates

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TorrentFreak lists 2011′s top ten pirated movies

Just as  we heard earlier , Nintendo’s overhauling its loyalty program, Club Nintendo, offering users downloadable games for the 3DS and Wii in addition to previously-offered swag like notebooks and posters. The relaunched site is live now and is offering four games: Super Mario Kart and Fluidity for the Wii, 3D Classic: Xevious and Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Minis March Again for the 3DS. Typically, these games would set you back anywhere from $6 to $12.

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Club Nintendo overhaul offers Wii and 3DS game downloads as rewards

There are a number of different ways to track your work time, but for the majority of people, something like the free, cross-platform Klok is perfect for managing your workday, seeing how long your projects take, and tracking how you spend your time. More »

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The Best Time Tracking App for Windows [Windows App Directory]

You ditched your landline years ago. Smart! Because the one thing it was good at—buzzing people into your building—can be done better with your smartphone anyway. Here’s how to have that buzzer ring any phone you want. More »

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How To Make Your Apartment Buzzer Ring Every Phone in Your Home [Homemod]

Specific places instantly trigger different responses in us: sinking into a favorite chair, we automatically relax; entering the gym puts us in active mode. Using this principle and setting up special zones in our workspaces, work activities could be more effortless. More »

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Boost Productivity by Setting Up Mission-Specific Zones for Your Workspace [Workspace]

Most of us are mired in the day-to-day management of our personal finances, and between paying down debt, saving for emergencies, getting enough insurance, and investing properly, it’s hard sometimes to see the big picture. CNN Money’s quiz can help. More »

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Take a Quick Financial Checkup Quiz to Find Out If You’re on the Right Track [Personal Finance]

Caller ID spoofing has long been the domain of pranksters and scammers, but although the technology often is used unethically, there may be a few legitimate reasons why you would want to disguise your phone number’s Caller ID, rather than just block it. Here are a few that come to mind and easy ways to masquerade as someone else. More »

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How to Spoof Caller ID [Evil Week]

If you’re not the type to keep chrome polish lying around but you are the type who has a bottle of vodka they didn’t care for sitting the back of your home bar or pantry, consider using it as a chrome or jewelry polish. It works well when combined with a microfiber cloth, and lets you use something you already have instead of making you buy something new. More »

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Use Vodka as a Chrome and Jewelry Cleaner You May Already Have [Clever Uses]

Mac: Blast is a utility that puts the files that you’ve recently accessed, downloaded, or modified right in the menubar where you can access them quickly. You don’t have to remember where you originally saved the file or where it is now: just click the Blast icon and they’ll all appear in the drop-down menu. More »

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Blast for Mac Puts Recently Viewed Files in your Menubar [Mac Downloads]

If the kitty litter bucket set didn’t tickle your fancy, perhaps this pair of more normal-looking toolbox saddlebags will inspire you to add some storage to the sides of your bike or motorcycle. They’re cheap, easy to attach, offer a lot of storage, and look good at the same time. More »

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Add a Pair of Toolbox Saddlebags to Your Bike or Motorcycle on the Cheap [DIY]

Whether you made a mistake when setting it or you’ve been mind-wiped by aliens sometimes you just can’t remember the PIN number or unlock pattern for your phone. Here are your options for getting back into your device. More »

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What to Do If You’ve Forgotten Your Android Phone’s Passcode [How To]

Server-side restrictions prevent Apple’s personal assistant software from running on older hardware, mobile gaming on Android will get a boost in Ice Cream Sandwich, and you’ll soon be able to merge your Blogger and Google+ profiles. More »

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Remains of the Day: Siri Will Run, But It Won’t Work, On Older Hardware [For What It's Worth]

The Daily App Deals post is a round-up of the best app discounts of the day, as well as some notable mentions for ones that are on sale. More »

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Daily App Deals: Get Splashtop Remote Desktop for Android at 90% Off the Regular Price in Today’s App Deals [Deals]

Apple’s iOS 5 is currently jailbreakable , but only with a tethered jailbreak. That means if your phone ever crashes, or if you have to reboot it for any reason, you need to have it connected to a Mac or PC. That sucks! If someone ever wants to murder you they’d just reboot your phone and you’d have no way to call the cops. But ho! SemiTether solves this problem. More »

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SemiTether Makes Tethered iOS 5 Jailbreaks Rebootable Without a Computer [Ios Downloads]

Late last week Google changed the way one of their most useful (but lesser known) search operators works: The + (plus) operator. What’s that mean for you? Next time you want to make sure any single word or phrase appears in your search results, wrap it in quotation marks.

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Use Quotation Marks Instead of + to Require a Search Term in Your Google Results [Google School]

Cardiologist Dr. Clyde Yancy has compiled a list of the seven main lifestyle changes that lead to a longer-than-average lifespan, and while they’re mostly common sense, it’s compelling to be reminded of just how much of a difference the right changes can make. In this case, Yancy claims that adapting all of the strategies can add a decade or more of healthy years to the average lifespan. More »

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The Seven Lifestyle Changes That Can Add a Decade to Your Life [Health]

You’ve likely heard that body language accounts for up to 55% of how we communicate, but reading non-verbal cues isn’t just about broad strokes. The same gesture can indicate a number of different things depending on context. In this post, we’re going to take a look at three common situations in which non-verbal cues are especially important—detecting lies, going on a date, and interviewing for a job—then explain how to interpret body language more accurately so that you can read between the lines when a person’s words aren’t necessarily conveying the way that they honestly feel. More »

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How to Read Body Language to Reveal the Underlying Truth in Almost Any Situation [Communication]

Chrome/Firefox/Safari (User Script): If you’re like me, you probably avoid most YouTube links because you don’t know what’s on the other end, and you don’t want to waste time finding out. User script YouTube Link Title saves you from NSFW videos, rickrolls, and things that just aren’t worth your time by warning you what’s on the other side. More »

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YouTube Link Title Tells You Where YouTube Links Lead, Lets You Watch Them Without Leaving the Current Page [User Scripts]