my spoo has too much fleem
Heading to Arkansas
I'm off to Fort Smith, Arkansas in a couple of weeks on business. During today I'll have a surf to see what I can find out about the place, and post it here...
Apple - iTunes
Apple's launched
iTunes Music Store - Europe at last. Tracks are priced from 79p, albums from £7.99. It could've been lower, but at least they didn't just turn 99 cents into 99 pence.
I'd still rather buy the album so I can listen to it on my hifi, but it's a great way of picking up one-offs and curious oddities.
Time will tell exactly how much stuff's on there - I did read yesterday that there were problems agreeing a deal with some of the UK independents - it'd be a shame to miss out on *exactly* the sort of music that I'd be most tempted to try a track at a time.
I've already bought my wife a voucher to get her started/control her spending ;)
The process was almost too easy:
enter value, recipient's email address, message etc.
login using apple id
done, the recipient receives a voucher in their inbox
As Apple have my payment details already the whole process was nearly immediate.
Purchasing a track myself was equally easy. I did have the option to disable the 'do you want to buy this?' warning that would have provided an Amazon-style one-click purchase - but mindful of my credit card I decided to keep it as a kind of conscience dialog.
There's audio books too, iMix (publish playlists on iTunes for others), interviews, to name just a few things worth exploring.
However, as I'm still at work, I'd best leave that for later...
I'd recommend taking a look at iTunes Music Store - Europe today.
Email update - testing, testing...
I just posted this from my work email account. This was one of the
blogger attractions for me - being able to update, easily, by email. Maybe this feature will ensure I post updates more frequently than the last blog that only received bi-annual updates ;)
"My spoo has too much what?"
Nothing of much interest here just yet, but if you keep checking back you'll find all kinds of interesting stuff I discover in the course of my geekery.
As a software developer I have to keep a lot of stuff in my head all at the same time. In the process of juggling all that stuff I often forget interesting things. Not any more. Now I'll just post them here. This way we all win: I don't forget stuff; you don't forget or miss stuff. The Marketeers at my work would refer to this as Win-Win.
