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2 unusual facts about download


Digital download

Downloading, the processing of copying data to a computer from an external source

KUNST Magazin

All published editions are accessible in the site archive and almost every edition is available as a PDF-Download.


Atlantic City EP

Atlantic City EP is a record by Mike Herrera's Tumbledown, released on 7" vinyl and download format in 2008. Tracks 2-4 had been previously released as the 3 Songs EP. The artwork was created by tattoo artist Oliver Peck, which was also showcased on side A of the Atlantic City/Gambling on A Love 7" vinyl.

Audioblog

MP3 blog or musicblog, through which music files are made available for download.

Bell 103 modem

The American synth-pop band Information Society featured a track entitled "300bps N, 8, 1 (Terminal Mode or Ascii Download)" on their album Peace and Love, Inc. that could be decoded to a text message by holding a phone handset connected to a Bell 103 modem up to the speaker playing the track.

Bernardo de Gálvez

In the Ubisoft video game Assassin's Creed III, a fictionalized representation of Gálvez is available to download as a playable character for the game's multiplayer mode.

Car Stereo Wars

The band released their debut album in 2008 "For Your Comfort and Safety" and has enjoyed recent commercial success with the track "Come to Nothing" being used in a Tic Tac television commercial in the United States and available as a free download from the Tic Tac USA website.

Carpe Diem String Quartet

"Songs Without Words," composed by Bruce Wolosoff for the quartet, was successfully recorded earlier in 2009 and has been made available for digital download on Naxos's website.

Cilvia Demo

As promised, Cilvia Demo was released on January 28, 2014 via digital download retailers and was made available in CD format exclusively from From Top Dawg Entertainment's website.

Computer Chronicles

Almost all episodes of Computer Chronicles have been made available for free download at the Internet Archive.

DanceX

The group have signed a recording contract with Gut Records and released their first single Dancing In Repeat (written by Oscar Gorres and Swedish popstar Danny Saucedo) as a digital download on 27 August 2007.

Debbie Deb

Janet Jackson released a cover version of "Lookout Weekend" as a free digital download on her website as a gift to her fans prior to the release of her album 20 Y.O..

Discotheque CVB: Live in Chicago

A selection of other tracks from this concert was released as an Internet-only download entitled Seven Hillbilly Punk Ska Classics.

Don't Go Gently

The iTunes download does not include "Give Me a Rocket Pack and Show Me the Moon", but instead is accompanied by two other tracks ("It's Okay to Lie" and "Single Room") recorded live at the City Varieties, Leeds, on September 22, 2005.

Elephants Dream

The film was released for download directly and via BitTorrent on the Official Orange Project website on May 18, 2006, along with all production files.

Energy Star

Martin Hellman revealed that Energy Star standby mode requirement can be compromised when an electronic device uses Download Acquisition Mode (DAM) feature to update TV Guide listing during standby mode.

Falling Awake

Joe Satriani plays on the album version, Jason Hook of Five Finger Death Punch is featured on the single version, and Julian Barrett appears in the free download version.

Fragmentos De Una Tarde Somnolienta

The EP was released under a Creative Commons license and until July 2007 was available for download on the band's website.

Full Pipe

After being discovered by Tom Hall and John Romero at the Russian Game Developer's Conference (KRI-2004), distribution rights were discussed, and a localized version of the game was released (via download only) over Steam in 2006.

Geograph Britain and Ireland

The entire archive of images with RDF metadata is being made available for download via BitTorrent.

Georgina Fleur

Also in January 2013, she released a single titled Je Suis Comme Je Suis (I Am What I Am in French) on Ariola Records (a German subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment), which was only available as digital download and reached #73 on the German iTunes chart.

Give Me Something

In 2010, the Junior Boys remix of the song was released as a free download on MySpace Music and RCRD LBL.

I'm a Big Sister, and I'm a Girl, and I'm a Princess, and This Is My Horse

The download-only package is a .zip file containing a 192kbit/s encoded .mp3 file, a 6-minute QuickTime slide-show of black-and-white photographs set to ambient sounds, and a PDF of the CD insert.

Interferome

BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) analysis and orthologue sequence download;

International Size Acceptance Association

Early on the publication was offered for download via PDF format, though since 2001 has been published actually online in HTML.

Internet Explorer 5

First released to developers at the 2000 Professional Developers Conference in Orlando, Florida, then made available for download, version 5.5 focused on improved print preview capabilities, CSS and HTML standards support, and developer APIs; this version was bundled with Windows Me.

Internet in Egypt

The Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Dr. Tarek Kamel, said in the July 2007 news that the ADSL would be turned from Unlimited to Limited with a Quota at a starting price of 45 LE (Egyptian pounds) for the 256k/64k and a 2GB limit for the download and so on.

Ivan Shapovalov

With his friend Pavel Vrublevsky he is a co-owner of the commercial mp3 download site Mp3search.ru.

Jeff Austin

Available only for digital download, the album features non-traditional bluegrass versions of songs by the Grateful Dead with 100% of the proceeds going to the Rex Foundation.

Judgement of the Judoon

An unabridged audiobook was released in June 2010 on download only, read by Nicholas Briggs who provides the voices of the Judoon on the Television series.

Kembrew McLeod

His book, Freedom of Expression, is available as a free PDF download with a Creative Commons license.

MemSource

The desktop version, MemSource Editor, installs on Windows, Mac, and Linux and is available as a free download.

Nicky Wire

On Christmas Day 2005, the Manics posted a solo track by Wire called "I Killed the Zeitgeist", available to download free for one day.

Notsensibles

In 2013, after Baroness Thatcher's death, "I'm in Love with Margaret Thatcher" received additional publicity when there was an online campaign to boost the record's re-entry into the charts as a download, to counter the promotion of the song "Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead" by anti-Thatcher activists.

Oh! Vanity

The band had previously announced that they would release this single, followed by a new album in March 2008, which was also made available as a free download via XFM's website.

OurTunes

Unlike peer-to-peer programs like Kazaa and Napster, ourTunes cannot search for or download music from users who do not share a subnetwork.

Paul Collister

Collister is currently transferring all of the recent works of Alan Gill to MP3 for free download.

Prosumer

For example, Lego Mindstorms allows users to download software from Lego's website so that the users can edit and update software as they wish.

Robotech: Crystal Dreams

Unfinished Nintendo 64 ROM images are available to download via the Crystal Dreams developers website.

Seth Shostak

Big Picture Science is distributed on the Public Radio Satellite System and the Public Radio Exchange and is available for download at the SETI Institute's website and through podcasts.

Squashed Nigga

Chris Lilley announced on his Twitter page that "Squashed Nigga" was available for download in the iTunes Store in the United States on 7 February 2012, less than a week before the Angry Boys finale was set to air in the United States.

Studio Trophis Production Company

All of the output from Studio Trophis available from their website is available for free download and is licensed under Creative Commons.

Supersonic Man

On October 11, 2013, it was released by RiffTrax as a Video On Demand download via their website, featuring former Mystery Science Theater 3000 cast members Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett providing a mocking audio commentary.

The Artemis Complex

In 2007, Nilaihah Records had the album re-mastered and re-released through its digital download outlets.

The Foxes

On 16 March 2009 the single 'Bill Hicks' (based on famous comedian) was released on CD, vinyl and digital download, which reached number 6 on the official UK Indie charts according to the BBC website.

The Very World of Milton Jones

All three series are available to download as audiobooks from Audible.com.

The Way Out Is Broken

Fans could purchase a download card from Armor for Sleep during the later dates of the 2008 Projekt Revolution tour, allowing them to download the EP on the day of its release.

Timbaland Thursday

Every Thursday, beginning on January 13, 2011, Timbaland planned on releasing a new song available for free download on a specially created website managed by Brian Byrd.

Virtual Console

When asked if Virtual Boy games were going to be available for download on the Virtual Console for the Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime told Kotaku that he couldn't answer, as he was unfamiliar with the platform.

Walking in London

It is also possible to download a tourist guide of London onto an MP3 player or use mobile phone-based services.

WOW Christmas: Green

It was available on the Deck the Halls, Bruise Your Hand EP that came packaged with Two Lefts Don't Make a Right...but Three Do and is also available on the CD Let It Snow, Baby... Let It Reindeer and also available separately on digital download services.


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