This week, courtesy of Starbucks Pick of the Week, comes House and a Mouse. That would be Hugh Laurie who stars in House M.D. and SPY Mouse which also happens to be the App Store’s Game of the Week.
Stop by your neighborhood Starbucks, pick up a drink, toast the good fortunes of others, and get yourself a House and a Mouse for free.
Look what made its way to your neighborhood Starbucks. It’s the new and free Pick of the Week App from the iTunes Store. The inaugural app is none other than the amazingly useful Shazam Encore.
Although it is a bit tricky tapping in the redemption code on an iPhone, you can, of course, always redeem the app’s code using iTunes on your computer.
Forget buying a Starbucks Frappuccino in order to get a summer sampler of songs. You can now get the songs sans the Frap. Starting on June 6, any Frappuccino indulgence indulged you with 10 free songs for summer. Now, you can just pickup a card with the code for the tunes or if you’re in the store, hop on their WiFi and download right then and there.
Thanks Starbucks (and iTunes)!
The poor distribution of the Starbucks and iTunes powered musical Pick of the Week has gotten better. I initially saw Eddie Vedder’s Longing to Belong in the Aloha State, and here it is in the Golden State.
When you stop by Starbucks, pick up the free code for Starbucks’ Song of the Week. This week’s sampling is from Eddie Vedder’s Ukulele Songs.
Did you cash in on the American Express deal for five free songs from iTunes? Not yet? You have until March 15 to register your AmEx card and get free tunes.
Here are the songs I purchased (and please don’t judge):
Oh just what does this countdown timer mean on Apple.com?
iTunes 10.1 was released last week so it ain’t that. What does it mean?!?
Big Boi’s latest release, Sir Lucious Left Foot, the Son of Chico Dusty is out, and you need to get it just because. How can you resist with a title like that?
272 iTunes fans have rated Sir Lucious Left Foot five out of five stars!
Walking through Borders at Windward Mall (you know, the mall that cares), I saw a new book by Seth Godin called Linchpin. Here’s a snippet from a review of Linchpin:
We need linchpins to solve our problems, keep us connected, and inspire us with art. People who are linchpins are creative, good at connecting with others, and able to see solutions like no one else. They truly are indispensable.
I was immediately sold but… I didn’t want to pay full price for these words of wisdom. Go figure. So I did some price checking on Linchpin, and here’s what I found.
Hmmm, listening to audiobooks is convenient during the drives to and from work. The Hawaii public library system actually does have one copy of the book and audiobook (yes, only a single copy and you can’t borrow the electronic audiobook until it’s been “returned”), but there is a waiting list of five. The discounted book cost at Amazon is reasonable, but that eBook format is intriguing. I’ve never tried that medium before. So of course, my rationale is to buy an iPad in order to read Linchpin at the median cost of $13.
Makes sense right? Work with me people.
This week, Kaskade released their latest CD, Dynasty, and after great reviews on iTunes and making the top albums list, I decided to pick up a copy. It’s a great pickup at $10 for 13 dance tracks. You can hit play and lose yourself in the music.
For whatever reason, Dynasty isn’t available on Amazon until May 11 and doesn’t feature the bonus track available on iTunes. So head on over to iTunes for Dynasty.
