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I’ve bought music online before plenty of times.  Pearl Jam live albums, rarities, digital only compilations, things like that.  But today for the first time I bought a legit normal full length album from Amazon instead of going to Best Buy to get the physical CD.  I have a slightly embarassing obsession with the Killers for awhile and their new album is full of ridiculous 80’s synth pop goodness.  I was pleasantly surprised at how well Amazon worked.  The album cost $3.99 (for 10 songs), the MP3’s are variable bit rate 256k with no DRM and the little program thingie automatically added them to iTunes and started playing after 1 click on the website.  I’m still hesitant to buy through iTunes with all the DRM garbage and I feel like Apple already owns enough of my soul but for $4 I can definitely get use to this.  I especially enjoy that you can stream pieces of all the songs right before clicking on buy which has gave me second thoughts about buying the new Kanye - what is with all the singing? Lame.

It seems like a lot more people are getting Mac’s theses days (Pat just got one and Paul from work just got a new one…even my Mom has a temporary one for editing her book).  So for fun I thought I’d list a bunch of applications I’ve come to love.  I used a Mac for web design all through college but I didn’t switch my primary computer at home to one until a year and a half ago and now I have one at work as well.  Most of the applications are free so a quick search should bring them up if you want to download.  Anything killer I’m missing?

In the dock:

• Cyberduck (free FTP client)
• Firefox (browser, duh)
• Mail.app (use it occisionally just to download Gmail for offline use/backup)
• Entourage (work email)
• Adium (by far the best chat client)
• iCal (i mainly keep that there so I know the date since i use entourage for a calendar)
• iTunes
• ProTools (for the nowlikephotograph podcast)

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Inspired by last week’s poll I have started a business speak blog and wanted to use Tumblr so I could learn a new platform.

http://bizspeak.tumblr.com/

I’ll be updating it pretty frequently since I realize how many ridiculous things I hear in a day on the phone…