Posts Tagged ‘download’
Win $10,000. Hangup on congratulations call from Apple!
Mom says, “Oops!”
You can’t blame Gail Davis for hanging up on the person who called her to congratulate her on downloading Apple’s 10 billionth app and winning a $10,000 iTunes gift certificate. Her husband and her both don’t have iPods capable of using App store items.
“I thought it was a prank call,” Gail Davis said to Cult of Mac. “I said, ‘Thank you very much, I’m not interested’ and I hung up.”
However, the call – which came from Apple’s VP of iTunes Eddy Cue – was completely legitimate. Her 14 and 17 year old daughters had downloaded the free Paper Glider app on their mother’s account and told her mother this was the real thing.
They had downloaded the app around 9:30AM their time (UK), 1:30 AM PST/4:30 AM EST. “The more I thought about it, the more I realized it was a genuine call,” she said. “The girls were getting quite tense. They never would have forgiven me. They would have held it against me for all eternity.”
One of Cue’s colleagues called back, and the Davis’ family will be using the prize money to, you guessed it, download more apps.
Har! Hanging up is definitely something I’d do.
The secret is out. The new ingredient in Windows 7 is – Windows XP
Microsoft has finally revealed one of the “secret ingredients” in Windows 7, and it’s Windows XP SP3. This only applies to the Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate editions, and involves downloading the code from Microsoft’s web site.
XPM (for Mode) is based on Microsoft’s Virtual PC and includes a free copy of XP SP3. It provides a bit more functionality than simply installing your own copy of XP (if you have one that legally allows that) in Virtual PC, VMware or VirtualBox…
It will also be a big help even where companies don’t need XPM. They’ll be able to upgrade to the more secure and more capable Windows 7 with the confidence that they have a backwards-compatibility option if they run into an unforeseen snag…
It remains to be seen how well XPM runs on netbooks that don’t provide hardware assistance for virtualisation. But in any case, netbooks typically have too little processor power and not enough memory to make XPM attractive.
Uh, enjoy yourself, folks. Save it for some weekend self-flagellation sport.
Microsoft unclogs Windows 7 beta download pipe
Microsoft Corp. on Saturday restarted its roll-out of the Windows 7 beta, 24 hours after it aborted the launch when heavy demand stalled its servers. As of noon PST, 10 January, Microsoft said that the primary beta download site, an off-shoot of the Windows section Microsoft.com, was “up and working.”
Computerworld confirmed that the Windows 7 beta download page was online and taking download requests. Springboard Series, another public download location targeting IT professionals, was also live.
Originally slated to start Friday at noon PST, Windows 7′s public debut was postponed by Microsoft, which cited “very heavy traffic” across its Web properties. “Due to very heavy traffic we’re seeing as a result of interest in the Windows 7 Beta, we are adding some additional infrastructure support to Microsoft.com properties,” a spokeswoman said Friday afternoon.
On Wednesday, when Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced the Friday launch of the public beta, he urged everyone to grab a copy. “I encourage you all to get out and download it,” he said.
Some of the comments from Microsoft – and users – were hilarious. A Microsoft hack worried aloud that, “demand might be so high it will bring down the Internet”. Uh-huh.
Then there were a few users who cautioned Microsoft that continued delays “were going to hurt the credibility of Microsoft statements.”
Har!
Nokia “Comes with Music” comes to market
Consumers in the U.K. will be the first to try Nokia’s Comes With Music on the 5310 XpressMusic phone.
The phone is expected to ship next month. The service, announced last December, packages mobile phones with a year of unlimited access to tracks in the Nokia Music store and the ability to keep all downloaded tracks even after the year is over, according to Nokia.
It’s no surprise that Nokia is launching Comes With Music with a retailer, and not a carrier, according to Carolina Milanesi , research director at Gartner. “I think this only represents a revenue potential for carriers if users download over the air, other than that there is no real incentive for them. Also if you are offering your own music offering this is in competition from what you already have,” she said.
Yet another variation on the mobile with music syndrome. Dunno. I’m still one of those who uses a cell phone only as a phone.
For photos, I own 2 cameras. A pocket camera that hides away everywhere I go. A Panasonic DMC-FZ50 for serious work. If I’m in the house, I have thoroughgoing entertainment center in the living room – and Klipsch speakers pumping whatever I wish to listen to in my home/office via iTunes storage and streaming. I have a good radio and speakers in the pickup – and if I’m outdoors, I’m happy listening to the wind and the birds.
Halfway solutions don’t appeal.
