iTunes Videos tops 1 million

Taken from Yahoo Finance:

Apple Computer Inc. said Monday that iTunes users have downloaded more than 1 million videos since they were made available on Oct. 12.
"Selling 1 million videos in less than 20 days strongly suggests there is a market for legal video downloads," Steve Jobs, chief executive officer, said in a statement. "Our next challenge is to broaden our content offerings, so that customers can enjoy watching more videos on their computers and new iPods."

Using iTunes, customers can choose from more than 2,000 music videos, episodes of popular television shows and short films from Pixar Animation Studios.

Apple shares rose 86 cents to $55.33 in premarket trading.

Closing in on 2000

I just would like to point out that the TechWrap is closing in on 2000 views (check the bottom of the page).

I'm going to continue to tell people about it as much as I can.

If you guys would be willing to tell your friends then that would be great. Also, if you are active at a particular forum then for instance if you found out something new from this site, then link them to us. That would be great and I would really appreciate it.

I've set the goal of hitting 2000 views by the end of November. Hopefully we'll reach that!

Thanks to all that continue to come back to this site and enjoy it.

Google Maps w/ Weather

Click the title or the this. for more info. Basically, it is google maps but it has little weather icons on it that will show for most major cities in your state. A lot of people have been manipulating Google Maps recently such as the frappr thing I showed earlier. Click below to see that

World of Warcraft Expansion Unveiled: Burning Crusade!

The new World of Warcraft expansion, the Burning Crusade, has been unveiled! Here’s the breakdown (via worldofwarcraft.com):

* An increase in the level cap to 70
* Two new playable races (including Blood Elves)
* New starting zones
* The entire new continent of Outland (via Dark Portal)
* Many new high-level dungeons
* New flying mounts in Outland
* Many new monsters (including epic world bosses)
* Hundreds of new quests
* Hundreds of new items
* A new profession (Jewelcrafting)
* Socketed items

Microsoft Office Online??

Here is what the article that I read said:

Microsoft is leaping into hosted applications big time. InformationWeek reports that Microsoft plans to offer hosted implementations of SharePoint, CRM and ERP applications. But the best quote in that article was left till last. A "Microsoft insider" was asked which other products and services Microsoft would host and the reply was: "Everything. Hosted Office. Everything hosted."

Ahem, can anyone say Web 2.0 Office? Exactly a month ago I wrote what turned out to be a very popular post entitled The Web-based Office will have its day. My main focus in that post was all of the small start-ups that are currently building web-based office apps. I forgot to mention that of course there's nothing stopping Microsoft from building their own Web 2.0 Office! Perhaps that's their only option to head off Google, because Google Office has been rumored to be around the corner for 1-2 years now.

I have NO idea if this is true (click the title of this article to go to the full copy and you can decide for yourself). I really don't like the idea of a web-based Office. I think you should be able to choose between software and web.

Google Web Accelerator Beta: Get It!

This is an amazing product. It really speeds up your load times, especially of highly flash based and image based sites. Basically, what it does is that when you visit a site it remembers that and then when you visit the site again it will just warp speed you to it, updates and all. It really is an amazing product. So far I have saved 2.5 days. Ok, I know this sounds like a complete lie, but it really is true. The only difference though is that it just allows you to do more things online, which will in turn, take you the same amount of time without it.

It just increases your productivity and happiness with the web. I love it and I definitely recommend it to anyone. Click the title of click this.

Nintendo Revolution due for June '06?

This one is according to SPOnG news. They say that the Nintendo Revolution will be coming out in June of 2006. Also, they will be planning a worldwide launch which is basically what will happen with the xbox 360. SPOnG also says that there will be only a $200 tag on the item. Nothing here is official but pretty interesting. Just wish to remind everyone that Nintendo never sells their consoles at a loss like xbox and the playstations. This means that the Revolution won't have as much power as the other systems.

Base broke?

Google Base (read the article below) has been released (I believe it is an alpha). I've tried logging in but haven't had any luck. Some others have but most have not. Check it out for yourself:

http://www.base.google.com

Google to take on eBay

Google Base is in development right now. Don't know what Google Base is, then keep reading! Basically, Google Base is going to be a fixed offering site (like eBay's buy it now function). Currently the Buy it Now feature on eBay makes 30% of the gross earnings for eBay which is a good piece of the pie. Google will make money by, like always, placing relevant text ads on the items (we even have some). No details on whether this will come bundled with the Google Wallet service (meant to be Google's version of PayPal).

I think this would be pretty great and good competition in the end is better for the consumer than anyone else (which i love).

Google Maps for the Tech Wrap

Check this out i though it was pretty cool. Don't worry it's completely safe. Basically, it's Google Maps for the Tech Wrap! So you can see where people are from which is pretty cool. Again, it's 100% safe and all they ask for is your zip code. Just click the picture below!