Puzzling itunes rumors: iTunes U Reaches 250 Million Downloads

iTunes U Reaches 250 Million Downloads

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The Loop reports that Apple's iTunes U channel for distributing educational content via the iTunes Store has surpassed 250 million downloads since its inception.

Everyone knows about the success of the iTunes Store and the amount of of music, video and apps that are downloaded, but there is a lesser known part of iTunes that is equally successful in its market.

Apple told me on Tuesday that iTunes U, the part of iTunes dedicated to educational content, has just surpassed 250 million downloads from users around the world.

The milestone appears to represent a significant acceleration in usage for iTunes U, as it was only six months ago that the service passed 100 million downloads.

iTunes U debuted in October 2005 as a partnership with Stanford University before officially launching in an expanded form in mid-2007. A number of prominent colleges and universities have joined the program to offer content over the years, with Harvard University notably coming on board in March of this year.

Know Your Local Towing Service Company

A local towing company with a great reputation is important so that your vehicle is safe and will be treated properly. Choosing the right company may be hard because towing hopefully is not be a service you often need. Finding one with a good reputation will ensure that your vehicle is safe and sound and that no damage occurs to it. A great local company can provide safe towing as well as a decent price for its services. Doing a little research will help you find a company with a good reputation. Your car is important; you want a company that values what is important to you.

Whether your car breaks down or you are involved in a wreck, this can be a stressful situation. You want a company that will meet your needs and provide you with a peace of mind in the situation. You want to know that your car is being handled safely and that no further damage is being done. You also want to pay a fair price and deal with friendly employees. All of this is possible with the right company. No matter what you need towed, you want safety and quality. A local company with a good reputation will meet all of your needs with impeccable service and affordability.

Knowing your local towing company can make a huge difference between great service and a disaster. Local companies know the value of providing good service to their communities. Ensure that your vehicle is safe by choosing a company close by with the best reputation.

About time we heard some great news: Best Coast, “Boyfriend” MP3

Best Coast, “Boyfriend” MP3 Best Coast, “Boyfriend” MP3

• story Matthew Schnipper


• photo Beth Rooney (F68)

We love Bethany Cosentino aka Best Coast. BCBC! “Boyfriend” is the first jam from her new album Crazy For You. Judging by the cover, she is crazy only for California and cats, but boys clearly fit into that schema somewhere. Best Coast is in our new issue and you can read that story for free right here and you can download “Boyfriend” below.

• posted on Jun 29, 2010 in MP3 / STREAMS, MUSIC


• tags Best Coast, rock

Easy Ways to Learn Bass Guitar Chords by Tyno Matthew

Learning guitar especially bass guitar needs consistency. If you want to learn bass guitar, the first thing you have to do is learning bass guitar chord. Why? Because chord is your tool to combine notes on different string in order to make harmony.

When you begin to take learning guitar chords especially for bass, you must study from the very basic lesson. Bass guitar chords are a simple lesson but difficult to master. That's why practice regularly is needed. To support your lesson, you can browse materials through internet or buy some books in the bookstore. Usually for beginners, it will be shown such as diagram of the chord and finger placements in line with their use.

The first thing in learning guitar especially bass is familiarizing your fingers with strings in a proper way. Get usual with them by moving to dissimilar chord and position of your finger. It also can be practiced in learning guitar chords for other type of guitars. Keep on trying like that, especially when you want to move to other strings quickly.

If you want to discover new bass composition, you need to match whether your composition is suitable or not with the type of your bass guitar. This is also important to create chords. For beginners, usually, you study only two or three strings. After you master it, you can step up to four, five or even six strings. But, remember you must not forget previous lesson if you want to jump to next lesson. When you come to learn in five or six string chords, usually you will find some difficulties. But, never give up remember your first purpose that you want to master in bass.

In addition, you must provide more times in learning especially bass. At least take four or five times a week to practice. So, there will be no nightmare when learning guitar chords.

Don't laugh, this isn't amusing - Paloma Faith

Joke along at the lighter side of backstage pass in this backstage pass photo by James Taylor, titled Paloma Faith. Click to visit the source only since many people never stop asking for it!

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New Release: The Hundred in the Hands: The Hundred in the Hands

From PitchFork News:

Artist: The Hundred in the Hands

Album: The Hundred in the Hands

Release Date: September 21

Label: Warp

Tracklist:

01 Young Aren't Young

02 Lovesick (Once Again)

03 Killing It

04 Pigeons

05 Commotion

06 This Day Is Made

07 Dead Ending

08 Gold Blood

09 Dressed in Dresden

10 Last City

11 The Beach

Notes: Debut full-length from this spiky new-wave Brooklyn duo.

Media: Listen to "Dressed in Dresden" over at the band's MySpace. Watch them perform "Dressed in Dresden", "Pigeons" and "Commotion" at Spinner.

Lawyers Says Doc Did Not Deliver Fatal Dose of Drugs That Killed Michael Jackson

The lawyer for Doctor Conrad Murray, the attending physician suspecting of delivering the fatal dose of a surgical anesthetic that ended up killing Michael Jackson a year ago today, said his client did not deliver the dose. The legal eagle, Ed Chernoff, spoke to CNN and said that his client, who hasfind more by clicking the link

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Alabama concert strikes the wrong note

Alabama is spending up to $1.5m of BP's money next week on a beachside music concert and the main beneficiaries so far are touts accused of cornering the market in 35,000 "free" tickets.

Both local residents and out-of-state fans are in uproar after failing to get tickets to an event that was meant to provide an interlude of cheer in the Gulf of Mexico oil crisis and give a boost to Alabama's struggling tourism industry.

You're Not Sorry Sheet music

I've been searching the web for weeks now trying to find a sheet music version of You're Not Sorry by Taylor Swift for the piano. With no luck so far, I finally tried piano-sheets.net and BAM, instantly, there it was on the front page. You're Not Sorry is a pretty simple song, for me at least, but some of you might have trouble learning to play You're Not Sorry by Taylor Swift on the piano. Start slow, perhaps with the chorus, and practice, practice, practice!

WOOOOOT!!! I feel like a milling bucks, and I'll tell you why - PianoSheets has just released a new piece of FREE sheet music: You're Not Sorry. You're Not Sorry by Taylor Swift is a fantastic melody - I got You're Not Sorry stuck in my head and couldn't get it out for 2hours Now I can finally learn how to play You're Not Sorry on the piano - by learning using the free You're Not Sorry piano sheets I linked to for all of you.

You're Not Sorry by Taylor Swift free sheet music Something to think about: ""What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists." Alexander Graham Bell."

HP buys mobile music company Melodeo: Does anyone else feel worried

HP buys mobile music company Melodeo

Computer giant Hewlett-Packard has acquired Melodeo, a Seattle-based start-up that specializes in music applications and services for mobile devices, the companies confirmed on Wednesday.

Terms of the deal weren't disclosed, but an anonymous source told TechCrunch that the price was around $30 million. The acquisition vaults HP into the battle for mobile music services.

Shown here, Melodeo's Nutsie for Android lets users access iTunes playlists on their mobile phone. HP has acquired the company, and now could bring the service to its WebOS mobile platform.

(Credit: Melodeo)

I've written about Melodeo's products a couple of times, most recently in January, when I got a demo of a forthcoming update to Melodeo's Nutsie app for Android phones. Nutsie (the name is an anagram of iTunes) runs on several mobile platforms, and gives users a way to get music from the iTunes library on their computer to a mobile device over the air. Unfortunately, the current version of Nutsie only allows users to transfer iTunes playlists, not full libraries, and users can't navigate to single songs. It's more like Internet radio based on each user's personal iTunes library than true portability.

This was supposed to be fixed in the update I saw, which would let users upload their entire iTunes libraries to Nutsie's servers, then let Android phones access those full libraries over the air. Basically, Melodeo was building an online music locker, like what MP3Tunes offers. It sounded like a great solution for Android's weak spot in music, and I even speculated that Google might acquire Melodeo. But the updated Nutsie app hasn't come out yet, and when I contacted a spokesman about two weeks ago, he told me that Melodeo had some big news coming up that was delaying its product plans. This was it.

So what's HP going to do with Melodeo? My guess: it's going to build a music streaming service for the WebOS mobile device platform, which HP gained in its acquisition of Palm earlier this year.

All of the big mobile players are positioning themselves for a world in which consumers stream music from the cloud rather than downloading it directly to their devices. Apple bought streaming music company Lala in 2009 and shut the standalone service down in May, and it's reportedly in negotiations with record companies about using Lala's technology to build some sort of online music service. Google announced big music ambitions for Android at its I/O conference in May, including the acquisition of Simplify Media (which had an application for users to stream iTunes libraries directly from their computer to a mobile phone, with no online service in between), as well as plans to build an online iTunes competitor. Microsoft's Zune Pass subscription service is coming to Windows Phone 7 later this year, and the company could build a music locker service on top of SkyDrive, which offers 25GB of free online storage.

HP has technology called iStream for streaming music from its MediaSmart Server (based on Microsoft's Windows Home Server technology) to an iPhone. HP also teamed up with U.K.-based Omnifone in January to offer a subscription-based music service to PC users in Europe. But Melodeo ups the ante: HP now has the technology and people to help build its own online music service, competing with whatever the other big mobile players come up with.

The acquisition also has implications for smaller companies trying to come up with similar solutions, like HomePipe, which lets users stream music from their home computers to various mobile devices, and ParkVu, which just today announced its Music WithMe BlackBerry app that lets users upload iTunes music directly to their BlackBerry phones. Consolidation is underway, and companies like these may have to find a big benefactor to thrive in the coming mobile music battle.

You'll enjoy this Hold On Piano Sheets

I feel like it's my birthday - I know that a few people have been sending me email asking if I knew where they could find a piano version of Hold On by Jonas Brothers - Well, the search ended a few minutes ago when I found a FREE version of Hold On for the piano or keyboard. Now you can all start practicing Hold On on the piano, and hopefully you'll all end up as good as me!

My friend Norm was visiting me a few days ago. You won't care about him much. He teaches piano lessons. So, I asked him if he could give me a free lesson on how to play Hold On. Hold On by Jonas Brothers is a challenging song. He started to fiddle around, then told me to download a sheet music arrangement for the piano. I looked on Google for a little while, and managed to find it at Piano-Sheets!

Hold On by Jonas Brothers sheet music Here's today's quote of the minute: "Focus on being grateful for what you have already... Enjoy it!! Then release into the universe. The universe will manifest it."

Just released 7 Things piano Sheets

I feel like it's my birthday - I know that a few people have been sending me email asking if I knew where they could find a piano version of 7 Things by Miley Cyrus - Well, the search ended a few minutes ago when I found a FREE version of 7 Things for the piano or keyboard. Now you can all start practicing 7 Things on the piano, and hopefully you'll all end up as good as me!

YAHOO I feel like a milling bucks, and I'll tell you why - PianoSheets has just released a new piece of FREE sheet music: 7 Things. 7 Things by Miley Cyrus is a fantastic melody - I'm positive you must have heard 7 Things playing on the radio more then once, especially recently. Now I can finally learn how to play 7 Things on the piano - by learning using the free 7 Things piano sheets I linked to at Piano-Sheets.

7 Things by Miley Cyrus sheet music

Russian Roulette Sheet music

I feel like it's my birthday - I know that a few people have been sending me email asking if I knew where they could find a piano version of Russian Roulette by Rihanna - Well, the search ended a few minutes ago when I found a FREE version of Russian Roulette for the piano or keyboard. Now you can all start practicing Russian Roulette on the piano, and hopefully you'll all end up as good as me!

I don't think I wrote this yet, so my friend Steve was visiting me a few days ago. You won't care about him much. He plays the piano. I wanted to know if he could give me a free lesson on how to play Russian Roulette. Russian Roulette by Rihanna is hard to play. He started to play it from memory, then told me to download a music sheet. I looked on google for a bit, and found it at Piano-Sheets.net!

download piano sheets for Russian Roulette by Rihanna

My helpful thought for today: Piano Sheets has a cool Toolbar I use, it helps me to locate the best and coolest sheet music and free piano sheets on their site. You should check it out, especially if you love to play the piano.