Given a tip from a reader, Lifehacker has posted up a small, yet sweet, little feature discovered on iTunes 9 made exclusively for Windows 7.
When you hover over the iTunes icon in the taskbar you are now given basic control options rather than a preview window, and when right clicking are given an option of visiting the iTunes store.
[Photo and tip via Lifehacker]
Face it, not everyone is a tech/internet enthusiastome. So people are a bit confused as to why they have to upgrade to a new version of iTunes. And hey, they might wonder what's new in 9. SoldierKnowsBest gives you a quick guided tour over the new features.
I thought something felt off last night when from one search to the next I coulda sworn the size of my font had changed. I used Ctrl+Scroll up and down to adjust the size but I couldn't get it to where I had just seen it a moment ago.
Today, I'm more enlightened, and I'll let you avoid those moments of question as I did last night. Google resized their search box - making it bigger, and also upping the size on the font in your search.
[Via Gmail Blog]
Maybe it's just me, since I just finished up Shadow Complex on the 360, but I couldn't stop thinking of the character Jason Flemming under that souped up suit. But seriously, this is pretty fascinating technology. I've been reading about this for quite some time, and to see it now on the streets of Japan is nothing short of awesome.
Can't wait until the black market gets a hold of these and then we're gonna have to power our own Iron Man to stop them.
Today, Apple released iTunes 9. Its newest features include added Social networking tie in's, revised Genius Bar suggestions, and asthetic tweaks to the UI. But not everyone is happy with this overhaul.
On my PC I use Winamp — have for years, love it. I understand I can’t have a carbon copy, if you will, on OS X, but at the very least give me a program that isn’t 80% features I will never use...
...Many Mac users chime in angrily whenever I have the nerve to mention bloat in a precious, perfect Apple product. Is it really such a stretch of the imagination to believe that some people might just want to play their music, or perhaps organize and browse it differently from how iTunes lets you? I think for every person who is excited to let Genius pick their party’s music, there is someone who can’t stand how playlists work. And for every person who likes the way iTunes organizes albums and tracks, there’s someone for whom its method of displaying their collection is frustrating and backwards.
-Devin Coldewey, TechCrunch.com
I think Coldewey is onto something. Practicality and simplicity has been the name of the game in the recent digital age. iTunes is lucky that there isn't much of a contender out there in the music desktop application market, since bloating itself up with more and more add on's just might make some people look for alternatives.
If you think about it your Walkman just played your music, same with your CD player, but now iTunes and iPod have given unprecedented control over the notes being heard over your speakers and headphones. Apple needs to be careful here. Some people just want the simplicity of clicking play and listening.
[Via TechCrunch]
After watching this video it made me realize how far we've come in technology. Imagine 50 years ago, heck, even 10 years ago, when you'd have to call someone to tell them what you were upto. Now with everything being connected directly to the internet, the thoughts, feelings, and musings of a person are all fed to you via social networks.
Of course, there are those objectors who are against the idea of tweeting the most randomest and unncessary things. I used to be one of them. But as we keep going forward I realize that all of this is a social experiment. What happens when the world is connected? The world has been separated for far too long, and now here we're given the tools to say or type whatever we want, when we want, to whomever we want. It's a thrilling aspect of living in the digital age.
Facebook and Twitter are the perfect means to do so as well, since it's not a vain attempt at an ego boost as Myspace was. Instead, these two have brought us information and status updates, which of course at times are stupid, but keep you in touch with what or whom you want.
But will it ever be too much? Social network overload? Only time can tell.
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