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iTunes Agent - Today's Free File
by Jason Clarke Mar 6th 2006
Let's face it: brand lock-in sucks. While nobody will refute the fact that iTunes coupled with an iPod is a
match made in heaven, for the "rest of us" that can't afford the overpriced mp3 players and are stuck with a
more regular model, the situation is not nearly as peachy. For us, moving media to and from our devices is a manual
chore, and one that does not sync up with how we listen to our music, or the playlists that we've created. In short,
the experience is lacking.
Luckily, someone is doing something about this. The iTunes Agent is a utility that will interface between your mp3 player and iTunes, and offer you most of the same features that users of iPods enjoy. Now since this seems to horn in on functionality that Apple relies on to help drive sales of iPods, I can't imagine them tolerating this project for too long. Which is really unfortunate, since no matter how well you're able to emulate the experience of using an iPod with iTunes, it's never really the same. So hopefully Apple will just let this little project continue on its merry way.
So, um, grab a copy while you can.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
