iChat and Time Zones

Just another addition to my wishlist for Apple.

Dear Steve,

I really wish that iChat would allow me to see the local time of a contact next to their name in my buddy list. I have friends who live all over the world and when I know the time zone difference (like +12 hours for Japan) it’s easy to figure out, but I don’t know the difference for Hong Kong, Australia, or some of the other places.

Just an idea. Feel free to use it if you wanna. ;^)

Your loyal fanboy,

Jeff

P.S. I’d still love to have tabs in iTunes.

iChat, iTunes, and status updates

When I tell iChat AV to use my current iTunes track as the status, it should change the status to “Paused” when I pause iTunes. Right now if I pause a track it stays as the status for hours sometimes and it’s just annoying.

iChatStatus used to do this but now that app is mostly redundant since Tiger was released.

Updated: Apple/iTunes should give credit for partially purchased albums

Update:

MacNN reports that Apple is going to begin to credit users for the singles they’ve purchased if they buy the whole album within a certain amount of time:

Apple, in conjunction with several music labels, is planning to offer iTunes users credit for songs already purchased when they choose to buy an associated album within a certain time frame, according to the New York Times.

MacNN | Apple may credit iTunes album purchases

Original post:
Another post about the iTunes Store.

I’ve previously bought four tracks from an album. The album costs $9.99. I’ve paid $3.96 already, but if I want to go and buy the whole album (instead of buying each track individually), I’ll be charged a full $9.99 and then have duplicate tracks. To avoid the duplicate tracks I’ll have to buy each track separately for a total of $8.91. When you total what I will have paid, I’ll have paid $12.87 for a $9.99 album.

iTunes knows what you’ve purchased already (it warned me when I clicked “add album” that I had already purchased portions of the album), and it should just go ahead and subtract those tracks from the total price of the album and prevent you from re-downloading them. How hard could that be?

Perhaps it’s my own fault for not buying the whole album in the first place, but I didn’t want the whole album then. I do now and I’ll probably wind up paying the extra money for the whole thing, I just don’t think I should have to.

For anyone who cares, the album I’ve partially purchased is The Grascals.

I want tabs in iTunes

The title pretty much says it. I want tabs in the iTunes Store browser. It’s essentially a web browser embedded into iTunes so why can’t (or won’t) they do it. I can’t count the number of times that I’ve Command-clicked because I forgot that I was in iTunes and wanted to open a link in a new tab so I could avoid having to click the back button so often.

So I want tabs in the iTunes browser.