Vox is closing on September 30, 2010

Vox has been a fun place to explore, create and connect with your friends. But Vox is closing its doors on September 30, 2010.

This does not mean you have to say goodbye to your blog. We want you to make sure you can keep the great content you have shared on Vox, and continue to have a home for your blog. To help you make the transition off of Vox, we have added new export features that make it easy to move your blog to a free TypePad account, and your photos & videos to Flickr.

If you are an active Vox member we encourage you to read the information below about what is happening during the month of September, and learn more about how you can migrate your content.

Cuil, once touted as a 'Google killer', appears to be dead

Remember Cuil? The search engine startup that claimed it could beat Google launched back in 2008 to a lot of fanfare, but it just did not have the quality search results to back up its initial promise. Well, Cuil has existed for two years, getting almost no attention after its colossally bad launch, and now it appears to be shutting down.

There is no official word yet, but the site is down right now, and TechCrunch reports that former Cuil employees are saying it is gone for good. I could not reach anyone at the Cuil offices by phone to get a comment, but if it has failed, it is probably because the name is tough to spell and unintuitive to pronounce (every story about Cuil has to remind you that it is pronounced cool), and because it could not live up to its hyperbolic claims of outperforming Google.

Facebook Alternative Diaspora Launches September 15

Facebook Alternative Diaspora Launches September 15

YouTube Music Downloader 3.6 with Genuine Key

YouTube Music Downloader is an easy-to-use windows software to download YouTube Music videos and convert them to MP3, AVI, WMV, MOV, MP4, 3GP formats. You can download millions of music from youtube and listen them on your iPod, MP3 Player or watch them on your PC, iPod, iPhone. Unlimited Download 6,000,000+ Music from YouTube, Get started now!

Youtube Music Downloader Features:

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Download YouTube Video To WMV: Download YouTube Videos To AVI and WMV files and watch them offline

Download music from YouTube to iPod: Download YouTube Music Videos To MOV format, and watch music videos on your iPod

Download Music from YouTube to PSP: Download YouTube Music Videos To MP4 format for your PSP, enjoy it after playing games!

Download YouTube Videos to Cellphone: Download your favorite YouTube Music Videos To 3GP files, you can watch them on your Cellphone

Youtube still remain the biggest multimedia content source; Let it be old or new and you'll find it on YouTube. Many programs and webwares have been derived to download content from YouTube in various Formats. Youtube Music Downloader is a premium desktop program to download Youtube content as MP3 audio, HD Zune Videos, Ringtones or Flash.

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Ubuntu Ultimate Edition

Ubuntu Ultimate Edition 2.7 is a Linux distribution based on the popular Ubuntu Christmas Edition, released by the same author. Built from the Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04, this Ultimate edition contains a lot of pre-added software. You can also install additional software such as Java, Flash, Acrobat Reader or Google Earth, which were removed due to licensing agreements, using an integrated custom repository. For more information regarding the repository, please click here.

Let's have a look at the pre-added packages:

New theme / splash screen / wallpaper
VCD Gear debian style
Subversion & build tools
Wireless Internet integration
Bluetooth integration
PPP integration
Networking tools
35 Additional fonts
Tons more themes
Repository driven Beryl
New sounds theme
Integrated Custom repository support
All current Updates 158 at time of posting
IPod support
Beagle
Gramps - Genealogy software (thanks poweruser2600)
Legends - Video Game
Kapote - Instant Messenger
Integrated codecs (the good the bad & the ugly)
Mplayer, VLC, Songbird & Amarok players with mp3 support
Mencoder, K9Copy, DeVeDE, DVD Shrink - dvd copying software.
Integrated Nvidia drivers (will work with other cards)
Automatix 2 & Automatix Bleeder (in case you want additional software)
Gaim beta 5 & plugins
GFTP - FTP Client
KVIrc - IRC Client
Additional Themes, icons, cursors & logins
XSnow
Samba
NFS
EasyTag - MP3 Tag Editor
GDesklets
Inkscape - 2D vector drawing
Screem - HTML Editor
Gambas - Programing environment
QEMU & Kqemu Accelerator - Emulation
Screem - HTML Editor
Avidemux - Avi (divx /xvid) editor
GDesklets - Eyecandy & info
NTFS read / write support
Lamp - web server (Apache2, mysql, PHP5)
phpmyadmin
Azureus - P2P software
MS core Font's and extra fonts
Wine - Windows emulation (always newest version - through repo)
Alien - Allows installation of foriegn packages (RPM, suse etc)
Gobby Team programing software
Ksnapshot - Screen capture software
Google Picasa - Graphic editing software
Frostwire Pro - P2P software
Kolourpaint - Graphic editing software
Qcad - Autocad wannabe
Archive Suite - virtually any archive can be handled.
Ajunta IDE - Programing environment
Bluefish - HTML Editor
Glade - Interface designer
Gtranslator
Bit Tornado - P2P Software
Amule - P2P software
Kino - Flick editor
Audacity - Sound editor
Debian Menu (pdmenu)
Dvdrip - Dvd ripping software
Democracy Player
Listen Media Manager
Steamripper
Ilinux (banshee)
Gnucash - Financial software
Aria - Download manager
Build Essentials and make utility's
Quanta Plus and extras - HTML Editor
Graveman - burning software
New Grub splash screen and animated "very pretty" boot up screen
Bum - Boot-up manager
Sum - Startup manager (newer improved version gtk and terminal based)
Istanbul - Live screen capture
Ghex - Hex editor
Gourmet - Recipe manager
Isomaster - CD / DVD ISO editor
GPHPEdit - PHP Editor
Kino - Clip editor
Aria - Download manager
Democracy - Movie streamer
ClamAV - Anti-virus software
Listen - Media manager
DVD|RIP - Dvd ripping software
Lifrea - RSS feed reader
Brasero - Disc burning tool
X-Chat - IRC Client
QDVDAuthor - DVD authoring software

Please download the latest version of Ubuntu Ultimate Edition now from here.