Apple has announced [1] on Monday that it has reached a total of 250 million songs sold worldwide on the iTunes Music Store. The company is now selling more than 1 million songs everyday and hopes to sell about half a billion songs this year.

On Tuesday, Apple has dropped prices on the Mac mini [2]'s BTO options: the Bluetooth and AirPort Extreme wireless option now costs US$99 (instead of $129), the 1GB DDR333 SDRAM upgrade is for $325 (instead of $475), and the 80GB hard drive upgrade is for $50 (instead of $80). A typo showed 8X speed instead of 4X for the SuperDrive option but now it has been changed again to 4X. The Mac mini's success is now undeniable but Apple is apparently not able to ship in enough quantities while Target has more recently dropped the Mac mini from its online store, claiming it can't ship it.

Apple has also released a Security Update for Mac OS X 10.3.7 on Tuesday, the update numbered 2005-001, provides security enhancements on "at commands, ColorSync, libxml2, Mail, PHP and Safari". You may find more information on this update here [3].

ThinkSecret gives some interesting information about Adobe's AfterEffects 7 and InDesign Server on its latest posting [4].