The week of August 2nd 2005, iTunes’ free single of the week was a song called Bad Day by unknown artist Daniel Powter. A few months later, American Idol shot the song to #1 by using it as the shows signature song for the 2006 season.

Before American Idol though, there was a very clever music video that includes a guy and a girl who seem to be stuck in a rut. And yes, they do hook up in the end.

Check out the video (with no American Idol references).

I’ve got FreeMacWare in my RSS reader and the software they find is amazing. The other day they suggested AOL radio.

My first thought was why? But it had a cool icon (yes that’s a determining factor), and uninstall is a snap with AppZapper, so I gave it a try. Much to my amazement, it’s great!

It’s a small simple Mac application. It comes with five preset buttons, like your car radio, so you can save your favorite stations. All are just about commercial free. One commercial here or there hardly fazes me compared to regular radio.

I’m not sure how long ago Apple added an iTunes screensaver but I just got around to playing with it. It’s kind of fun. It loads up all your album artwork and displays it on the screen. Then albums flip and change into new ones. It’s like an iTunes ad for your personal music.

What would be really cool is if it were to be like the iTunes TV ad where the album covers build up a city and then scatter. How great would that be?

American Idol’s Katharine McPhee now has music available. Her single has been released via .

Included is her original song My Destiny and the beautiful Somewhere over the Rainbow.

Each song can be downloaded for 99cents or both for $1.98 and are available today on

Taylor Hick’s first single is now in iTunes for you to download.

The American Idol winners mini album contains two songs and they can be downloaded at 99cents each or $1.98 for the album.

Tracks include the single, Do I Make You Proud and Takin’ It to the Streets.

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It doesn’t matter if you have a video iPod, iPod Nano, Shuffle, Mini or a basic iPod, there are thousands of accessories out there. From cases to fm transmitters, car integration and speakers, there are plenty of iPod accessories to match any taste and price range.

There are so many accessories available that it can make your head spin. Good news though, iLounge is giving away a free iPod Accessories Book that you can download today!

It’s full of iPod addons that you’ve never heard of any plenty that you have heard of. I can almost guarantee that there is something in this free book that you will think is the coolest iPod accessory yet.

Cowboys Are Frequently Secretly (Fond of Each Other) by Willie Nelson is making a HUGE shock in the music business. Why? Because it’s a gay cowboy song.

That’s right, inspired by the blockbuster movie Brokeback Mountain the first gay cowboy song is now available. Ok, so it was written years ago but Willie Nelson decided that now is the time to bring it to the world. And he has.

I doubt I’ll ever hear it on the radio, except maybe once or twice for shock value, but you have to hand it to Willie for taking the chance even though the feedback is probably going to be worse than he can imagine. Lets face it, Cowboys (or anyone) are ready to hear that they are all secretly gay.

I’ve had Butler on my machine at work for a while but I really haven’t started using it until about a month ago and am I ever impressed. It has brought a whole new level of productivity to my day and I’m still learning the ins and outs.

Here is a screen shot of my Butler setup.

The first big feature that brought me in was the ability to assign applications to function keys. I have a nice Mac keyboard but F1-F8 & F16 don’t do anything. So I opened up Butler and assigned the function keys to have the following purpose.

It’s that time again, time when iTunes counts down (or up) to a record. This time it’s for 1 billion legally downloaded songs.

Better yet, Apple is giving prizes to at every 100,000th song mark. The lucky downloaders will receive a prize package featuring a black 4GB iPod nano and a $100 iTunes Music Card.

If you get the 1 billionth song you get 20-inch iMac, 10 60GB iPods, and a $10,000 iTunes Music Card!! I’d love that!

So get downloading and maybe you’ll win an iPod or the grand prize!!

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I was checking out the Spring Break Shuffle from the iTunes music store and this is one good playlist. It has everything from Big and Rich’s Save A Horse (Ride a Cowboy) (Dance Mix) to 50 Cent’s In da Club. Includes Kelly Clarkson’s Since You Been Gone and Justin Timberlake’s Rock Your Body. There is something in this mix for everyone and would be great music for any party. The 199 song playlist is available on iTunes for $117.81. However, you could just pick out the songs you really want and create your own iTunes Spring Break music.