September 20, 2009 @ 1:32 am
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.
September 2, 2009 @ 9:29 am
May 29, 2009 @ 6:40 pm
The Tune Blocker is a product from Matias that acts as a sort of cable gateway between your iPod and your computer/iTunes. If you own an iPod, you’ll know that it’s sometimes annoying to connect your iPod (or somebody else’s iPod) and watch as iTunes opens and syncs your media. Sometimes, you just want to charge your iPod via the computer — not sync it!
So the Tune Blocker has a switch that allows you to plug the iPod in without making it launch iTunes. [via]
A 3ft cable costs $19.95 and a 6ft cable costs $24.95. I would like one of these.
March 24, 2009 @ 11:10 am
As I mentioned earlier, the Mac OS Expand Window button (the green one) is completely stupid.
The image above shows the expanded window state for my browser. Yeah, I can see a lot more of what I was looking at before now. -_-
Below is a perfect example of the inconsistencies of the button within Mac OS. If you push the Expand Window button in iTunes, the window actually goes into compact mode which makes absolutely no sense for a button that’s called Expand. If you think it’s isolated to the music library window, then you’re mistaken, because this same result happens when you push the Expand button in the Equalizer window too!
February 21, 2009 @ 12:00 am
Kelly Clarkson’s upcoming album, All I Ever Wanted, leaked onto the internet this morning just under a month before its March 10, 2009 release date. I normally don’t care much about where a leaked album comes from, but this time it’s just a bit funny. Apparently, there was no group behind this latest leak. It was leaked by iTunes in Norway.
According to Rolling Stone, All I Ever Wanted was available in the store to allow customers to preview 30-second clips of each song, but customers soon found out that due to a glitch in iTunes, they could in fact download the entire album. And so they did, and the rest is history.
I’ve had the opportunity to give it a go a couple of times over and I’m liking it. I wasn’t exactly a fan of her previous album, My December, and I think this album really brings her back to the kind of pop-rock that I liked on Breakaway. You be your own musical judge though.
So here’s what Norway has that the rest of the world is just finding out about (it’s encoded in 192kbps via iTunes). I wonder if RCA Records people want to kill Apple iTunes (Norway) right now.
By the way, if you want a hi-res version of the album cover, I’ve uploaded that to Megaupload (4143 x 4143).
February 11, 2009 @ 1:41 am
Missed the debute of The CollegeHumor Show this past Sunday? Don’t worry. It’s available FOR FREE on iTunes. Go get it now.
UPDATE: Stupid DRM won’t allow you to transfer the video elsewhere. Looks like your best bet is a torrent.
