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Septembery musics

So what'd I get in September?

This video indeed convinced me to risk that Au album, which is in fact pretty good. I was almost sold on Madvillainy 2 and the live Ted Leo EP, but the previews couldn't close the deal. Isn't there supposed to be a real Ted Leo album before November?

Trying to post these at the start of the month seems to naturally cleave my buying in two, since I try to spend my downloads for them, don't succeed, then really try to spend them all before they expire. So these plus those late “August” selections make a month's worth (I've sure been listening to Sissy Wish and Doomtree the past half month). Plus I have 46 downloads that half expire on Saturday, so I should pick up a few more by the next epdate.

This Gift on Emusic

This Gift

Sons & Daughters

I was trying to pick out the rest of those downloads (I still had 44 that expire Thursday), but found out that with the new presence of Domino Records on Emusic, you (or at least us in the US) can now get one of my favorite albums of 2008, one I paid $15 for on 7digital, Sons and Daughters' This Gift on Emusic. With my iTunes crapping out, it's now even putting the last track, “Goodbye Service,” on my iPod again, which is nice.

Meanwhile these are the other “August” albums I got:

These are kind of speculative picks from Shifted Sound and watching a bunch of Epic Fu today (though Apparat's been on my Save For Later list for a while). So we'll see if they're good.

Little hater

New August music

I accidentally deleted my whole music library except for what I could recover off my iPod, but what did I get that was new?

Wow, not much of anything. In fact I bought an Emusic booster shortly before my refresh date to get the Crooked Still album, so I still have 106 downloads I have to figure out how to use by next Thursday. Hmm.

Wtfgoo

I was looking for a memorable article but couldn't think of how to find it, even with the Awesomebar. (“Starling” isn't in the URL or title.) So I decided to give up and reinstall Google Desktop Search. Now my MBP is warming my lap in the summer, primarily because...

Wtfgoo

The one part you can't disable is the part the OS already provides. Wtf??

Newly new in July

I stopped posting these, but with Emusic's new album page design (nice!) I'll start again. But given how many stores I'll buy from now, I might as well just include everything. You can find it, right?

Here's music I got in July:

Firefox 3

Kesh’s post reminds me: Firefox 3 comes out tomorrow, Tuesday the 17th—but I’ve already been using it. Despite overcoming the lack of Greasemonkey and Firebug, Safari still has no Awesomebar, and I can happily report that since upgrading to Firefox 3 rc2 (now rc3) and Firefox 3 versions of my extensions (Firebug, Greasemonkey, and Adblock Plus), I haven’t noticed any crashing, either.

• That first link is about Spread Firefox’s Download Day 2008, the attempt to get Firefox into the Guinness World Record book for “most software downloads in 24 hours.”


• Deb Richardson compiled a field guide to Firefox 3 showing off all the new features and improvements.


• If you don’t want to read, watch Mike Beltzner’s screencast guide to the major features instead.


• The improved default theme for OS X is more OS X-y, but if it’s not quite OS X-y enough for you with all the rounded buttons and whatnot, try one of the GrApple themes.


• Lastly, feel for Mark Smith, who’s working at Mozilla, supporting all this craziness.

If you aren’t going to use Firefox 3, there’s still good news: even at $0, the market for browsers is competitive again. Safari is a better browser because of Firefox, and Firefox 3 is a better browser because of Safari. Here’s looking forward to a Safari 4 that makes me want to switch again! (But hopefully not too soon.)

Pseudopod Juiceblag

To follow up:

• With stories like this, I really really hope what Walt (I think) pointed out is right, and they announce a new iPod Touch in a month or two. After all, they did it with the original iPod Touch, announcing it in September after the iPhone came out in June. OTOH maybe “we fixed all the design bugs with the iPhone!” includes fixing the need for a phoneless iPod Touch.
• Jesse Gardner posted directions and an awesome icon for doing the Fluid menu extra thing with the iMT app for Movable Type. Nice! I found how to fix the icon problem I had by digging around inside a generated FluidInstance. You can also set whether the FluidInstance defaults to a regular SSB or a menu extra, which I was hoping to do to make a distributable FluidInstance for an iPhone app... but the developer asks that you not do that, which makes me rather less excited about Fluid when wearing my web app developer hat.

Profile button wall: slow progress

I added a couple buttons since last time: the LJ button Abe got me and a Yelp button (the purple one at the bottom).

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I bought the Yelp button in a set, so I have a bunch more of their various designs. Anyone have any to trade? I'd hate to resort to making buttons.

Touch Pod & Blog Fluid

Jonathan Gitlin at Ars Technica's Infinite Loop mentions what I've been mulling since Monday: the iPod Touch is now a pretty bad deal. The price is higher but the TCO is lower... as long as you don't have a cell phone. I'm not so hot on the new AT&T deal, so I would definitely probably maybe order a 16 GB iPod Touch with GPS at $300. But $410, with no GPS? I hope there's another shoe to drop.

In other Mac news, I had ignored Fluid, but read about it today when I thought it was something else. The Menu Extra feature looks great for iPhone apps like Blog It.

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