Apple giving all sorts of amazing prizes away such as New Macbook

Apple are now within 60 million Aps away from making history by 1 Billion Applications being downloaded by Apple users in the App Store. The current figures can be found at the Apple Countdown Page.

To make it even more interesting for users, Apple are entering every App Download user the chance to win big prizes!

“As of today, nearly one billion apps have been downloaded around the globe. So we just want to say thanks — a billion. Download an app and you’ll automatically get the chance to win a $10,000 iTunes Gift Card, an iPod touch, a Time Capsule, and a MacBook Pro. Just go to the iTunes Store, browse the App Store, and download your best app yet.”

To make Itunes celebration more apparent, they featured the top 20 Free and Paid Aps perhaps to attract more downloads.

Current All Time Top Paid Apps

1. Crash Bandicoot.

2. Moto Chaser.

3. Virtual Pool.

4. Cro-Mag Rally.

5. Flick Fishing.

6. Koi Pond.

7. Monopoly.

8. Super Monkey Ball.

9. PocketGuitar.

10. iCopter.

11. Pocket God.

12. London Tube.

13. Bejeweled 2

14. Texas Hold’em.

15. Real Football 2009.

16. Blocked

17. Field Runners.

18. Tetris.

19. iShoot.

20. iFart.

Current All-Time Top Free Apps

1. Facebook.

2. iPint.

3. Google Earth.

4. Pac-Man Lite.

5. Touch Hockey.

6. Labryinth Lite Edition.

7. Lightsaber Unleashed.

8. Tap Tap Revenge.

9. Flashlight.

10. Shazam

11. Backgrounds.

12. iBowl.

13. Crazy Penguin Catapult.

14. Remote.

15. Bubblewrap.

16. Audi A4 Driving Challenge.

17. Darts.

18. Ebay Mobile.

19. Last.fm

20. Movies

As you can see from above, the top 20 Apps, both free and paid are constantly changing. Apple are doing this delibrately as all featured apps will become popular and the average popular apps will be not so popular anymore, making more downloads occur every minute.

As Apple are doing the competition for downloading a “unique” app and winning a whole bunch of cool gizmos. Techcrunch are just one of the other companies offering goods but this time for guessing the correct time at which the counter will reach 1 Billion, giving the winner a free TechCrunch T-Shirt.

Well, When do you think it will reach the 1 Billion landmark? Post your opinions below and see how close you come!

Portable apps allows you to take almost any computer program with you including, Openoffice.org(a free alternative to Microsoft Power point and Microsoft word and  excel) and also an internet browser that is Mozilla Firefox and a lot more! All you need is an portable device like SD card, Memory Stick and I pods. Installing this allow  you to use your favorite program without administrative privileges.

To get portable applications installed on your portable device you need to go to Portableapps.com and download one of their suites depending on the amount of space you have on your portable drive and the type of application you want and install it on your portable device .

While installing it make sure you select your portable device’s drive instead of your hard drive. Most of you out there have more than 512+ Megabytes of space on your portable device. So, it is recommended that you download “Suite Standard” from their website which includes Firefox, Thunderbird, Sunbird Open office and many other programs.

This is extremely useful when you are at a different computer at a different place and you want to use your favorite program or just edit an microsoft document. You may also download different applications from their website.

When you download the full suite you’ll have “Cool Player” and other apps you might not need. Since cool player doesn’t play all the file formats of media you can download vlc player or mplayer. To uninstall a program just delete the folder of the program for

ex: “KeePassPortable” and you’re done.