His Dark Materials

Looks Like Jeline was right, I’m now engrossed in Philip Pullman’s “His Dark Materials” trilogy. I’m currently listening to the second book “The Subtle Knife.”

And in case you’re reading this Jeline, to address your curiousness as to the “caliber” of the audiobook; It’s read by the author himself, along with a full cast 🙂

Again, thanks for the recommendation.

iTunes 7 – looking good!

I finally had the time to upgrade iTunes to version 7, I must say that the improvements in this build are pretty impressive.

The Good

Tasks View

What I particularly like is how they separated the “current performing tasks” into it’s own page rather than having to click and cycle through the main display. This can get very irritating if you’re downloading a lot of podcasts, then are listening to something. Say you want to change the playhead position on that song – you’ll have to cycling though the different tasks until you see the “task” for the current playing song.

Apple has solved that by putting it on a separate page view:

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