I went with my husband (boyfriend at the time) to the Apple Developers Conference in 2000. He won a prize during a raffle. It was an MP3 program called Sound Jam. Available only for Mac OS 9. Sound Jam was pretty popular. Pretty cool. Before we got this, J and I would just double click on an MP3 and it would load in quick time. Of course, this was during the days when you could just email MP3's back and forth with ease. I don't know if it's still easy, haven't done it in a while.

Anyway, eventually Apple purchased Sound Jam, and turned it into iTunes. The equalizer and visualizer program in iTunes, all taken from Sound Jam. You should look up pictures of Sound Jam. If you weren't familiar with Mac OS 9, or early Mac OS X, you may not see the similarities between Sound Jam and iTunes. But trust me, without Sound Jam, we wouldn't have iTunes as we know today, for either the Mac or Windoze.

I've been hunting for the Ting Tings since I heard the iPod commercial. But the album's not out yet, nor has it leaked onto torrent sites. I'd grab the free song off of iTunes, but I uninstalled it because the Windows version is teh suck, and I don't want that damned unnecessary iPod service eating up my resources.