iTunes 9.0.3 Dark Background

Okay, so I don't have an iPod, iTouch, or iPhone but I use iTunes to store and organize all of my music because it syncs with my Blackberry via Media Sync. A few updates ago iTunes had a great dark background for the grid view when you are looking at all of your albums' cover art. When the new updates came out they only had a plain white layout.

Now with this new release, you have the option to switch back to the dark layout. The darker background seems to be a lot easier on the eyes.

All you have to do it go to Edit->Prefrences and in the General tab change the drop down box next to Grid View to Dark.

And there you have it...a much easier viewing of your albums in iTunes. Hope this helps

Twitter

Alright so you may have noticed the little change that I've made over on the left hand side of my blog. Some of you may not have noticed. Under the heading "What I'm Doing Right Now......(via Twitter) you'll find one of the most up and coming social networking phenomena to hit the cyber highways.

Twitter is a social updating site that is based on status. Once you've created an account you can upload short 140 character updates about what you are doing and where you are at. You can also "follow" (subscribe to) other users and keep up with what they are doing.

This is best used in conjunction with your cell phone, where you can text in your update and all your "followers" are updated on what you just posted.

It's a cool, easy, and FREE way to keep up with each other.

You can check out my twitter page here.

Oh, and if you see a post saying that it is from TwitterBerry it is from my BlackBerry cell phone. Check out the link, and download the app if you have a Blackberry that is supported. It allows you to update without even sending a text message (it uses your data connection, though).

New CellSpin app helps me keep in touch

i just downloaded a new app called CellSpin that allows me to send blog posts straight from my cellphone. hopefully I'll be able to keep in touch a lot easier this way.

A Cool New Toy...Rediscovered

I've been running an optimization checklist on my computer to get the most out of my outdated laptop as I can. I got my Gateway back in 2002 when I graduated high school as a gift from my parents, so you can imagine how backdated some of my cleanup had to be.

Anyway, as I was cleaning out my registry, and doing hard drive defrags I came across a program that I had installed a while back but had closed down and forgotten about. I'm not sure now how I survived without it there. This tool, though many of you may already have it, and I think that Vista now comes with it installed from the factory is...Google Desktop.

This program allows you to put a customizable sidebar onto you desktop that stays there as you work on your other programs. What is really cool about this is that you can download hundreds of "gadgets" to add into the sidebar to help you with everyday life.

Gadgets I currently have installed are:

+Google Calendar: Automatically syncs with your online Google calendar allowing you access with just one click.

+Weather Bug: Give you live weather in your local area, forecasts, live radar, and cameras.

+Google Maps: Allow you quick access to Google Maps from you side bar. When not paused it will throw up satellite photos of famous places from around the world.

+Scratch Pad: Saves notes that you would like to jot down. No more looking for sticky notes.

+To Do: Simple Check list of things to do, allowing you to organize your day.

+Web Clips: RSS reader for all the blogs that you read. Customizable for the number of clips per website, and how you want them displayed.

Google Desktop is designed to run in the background continuously updating your selected gadgets, but it doesn't seem to put a lot of strain on the system. One great thing is that you can minimize the sidebar to a search bar on you windows task bar and regain full screen features whenever you like, then pop it back up when you are done.

Well, enough of my rambling. I'll be back on Tuesday with another post. C ya!!!