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Well well well, Apple pops out another version of their incredible music-hording app, iTunes, and I like it. There are other sites that can tell you about the new features, so I won’t, I’ll just put in my personal opinion and a funny oddity I discovered on Apple’s site. Apple thinks DRM is unnecessary for Windows Media files!

What’s new that they mixed in? The biggest additions are the â€?Playlist Shuffleâ€? and â€?iMixâ€? features. Playlist shuffle is really cool because it gives me a feature that I’ve wanted in iTunes forever. Much like MusicMatch Jukebox, it will create a random playlist of songs, and allow you to pick and choose the ones you want to hear. Sure, you could use this at a party… if you were a geeky host behind your computer half the time deselecting songs. The only way to make this feature better is to allow certain songs to be selecting based on genre, BPM’s, etc. However, you can kind of achieve this through the use of Smart Playlists.

And iMix’s? Well, I suppose it’s cool, I can choose my playlists to publish onto the iTunes Music Store so others can listen to the preview clips (and Apple hopes, buy some of those clips) and have others rate your mix. I can see a power struggle right now for the top rated mix. Oh boy… too much â€?communityâ€? going on here. But if you want to vote for mine, haha, find â€?uplink’s Top Ratedâ€? and give it a 5!

Now what is this all about Apple and their �generous usage rights� (or something like that)? I like it, you can have the file on 3 computers, burn up to 10 playlists to CD’s (and then change it and burn some more) and so on. But check out what a little sidebar on the Apple website can reveal about their thoughts on Microsoft’s attempt to stop the insurge of piracy. Hmmm, seems the Senior Jobs does not think that Window’s Media Player music should be protected, so all of that music can float on over to iTunes. Huh. Works for me! No DRM! LOL, later days!

Um, creativity speaks for himself. Truely a unique case:

Neuhausplatz 200NC, “look ma, no case”

Just a bunch of miscellaneous updates that don’t warrant their own posts:

1. Ummm, Google has 100,00 servers in their farm. Um, ya, that’s alot Extremely interesting actually. Google Servers
2. Everyone knows how you can cheat on the Pepsi-product bottles to always get an iTunes song. Problem is, with everyone knowing about it, there aren’t too many winning caps readily available! I spent a good 2 minutes trying to find a good cap in Wal-Mart, with everyone probably wondering �What is that guy doing to those sodas?� O well, I found one eventually!
3. I turned off my computer last night, and lo and behold, the Num Lock key, which was lit when it was on, stayed on when I turned the computer off. Now I know that I still have current flowing through until I physically disconnect the power cord, but I have never seen keyboard lights staying on after a power-off. Who knew!
4. Yay! A new wishlist item! Now this is one nifty item I found in Wired Magazine (gotta love Wired). Instead of those cool little bouncing balls on your desk, it is a stylish-looking set of analog dials that represent a bunch of different items such as Emails you have, visitors to your site, network traffic, and plenty more. Called the “Executive Dashboardâ€? from Ambient, you choose the three of your favorite readings, and place the corresponding face plates behind the dial. The statistics are sent through radio waves. I want one of these!