I just started using this neat little app called CoverSutra today as a supplement to my music listening experience on my computer. What CoverSutra does is add additional iTunes functionality without the need to keep switching back to the iTunes application. CoverSutra adds a small music icon to the menu bar and from there you have the ability to search and pick individual songs using keyboard shortcuts. In the end, the song-switching and song-picking procedure is sped up a lot because you don’t have to mess with the task switcher or move your cursor to select iTunes. It doesn’t sound like much when I’m explaining it in words, but CoverSutra is so good at saving me time to be better off spent elsewhere that now I can’t ever see myself turning it off.
You can use the link provided above to try it out.
Let me tell you: Apple finally made the green expand window button do what it’s supposed to in iTunes. I’ve talked previously about how in previous versions of iTunes the expand window button actually made iTunes smaller by going into mini player mode. Stupid.
Data loss has happened to me twice in the past year and I’m not about to let it happen again. I’m a bit late to the game, but I’m finally taking some steps to make sure I have my data backed up by redundant drives. My teachers would kill me if they knew I was just getting into this now especially since it’s literally been drilled in my head to back up my stuff since the first day of classes.
In any case, I am finally doing it and it’s already giving me some sense of comfort in case anything ever should happen to my main drive (let’s hope not). For the first time ever, I’m making use of Leopard’s built-in Time Machine application and so far it seems to be running smoothly. Although, there’s no way I’ll know for sure until something terrible happens. But from what I hear, it’s as good a backup program as any other one out there. Also, Apple’s demo looks very intriguing.
The Ninth Annual Weblog Awards (”2009 Bloggies“) has a category for best web application for weblogs. How can you choose with those choices? That’s like lining your kids up and telling them who you think your favorite is.
I usually play music when I’m using my computer to surf the web. And this being 2008, I often come across videos on YouTube (or other similar sites) that I want to watch. The problem is that I have to stop the music I’m playing in iTunes so that I can hear the sound from the video. I know that this is an easy task on a computer with a dedicated PAUSE button on the keyboard, but even so, the action of moving my finger over that button is just annoying video after video.
I just want an app that will automatically fade my music out as sound from my browser kicks in.
Does anybody know of an app that can do this? I would be forever grateful to the person who links me to an app or writes the program that does this exactly.
