{"id":3651,"date":"2006-01-10T19:53:55","date_gmt":"2006-01-11T03:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/01\/10\/itunes-ministore\/"},"modified":"2019-12-19T16:05:49","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T00:05:49","slug":"itunes-ministore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/01\/10\/itunes-ministore\/","title":{"rendered":"iTunes MiniStore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Along with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/support\/downloads\/macosxupdate1044.html\" title=\"Apple: Support: Downloads: Mac OS X Update 10.4.4\">Mac OS X 10.4.4<\/a> update that was released today, Software Update notified me of two other updates to install: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/support\/downloads\/quicktime704.html\" title=\"Apple: Support: Downloads: QuickTime 7.0.4\">QuickTime 7.0.4<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/itunes\/\" title=\"Apple: iTunes\">iTunes<\/a> 6.0.2 (which doesn&#8217;t seem to have a support document listing the updates made to the program).<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, one of the changes made to iTunes was <strong>more advertising<\/strong>! <em>Yay!<\/em> I was just lamenting the fact that I didn&#8217;t see enough ads while deciding which song to play next, and here Apple&#8217;s gone and taken care of that for me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2006\/01\/graphics\/itunesministore.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2006\/01\/graphics\/itunesministore-tm.jpg\" height=\"366\" width=\"495\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" alt=\"iTunes MiniStore\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, there&#8217;s a new little button added to the group at the lower-right that allows you to toggle the MiniStore on and off, so I can kill this little monstrosity. Still doesn&#8217;t make its inclusion any less obnoxious, though.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\" title=\"Get iTunes\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"iTunes\" border=\"0\" width=\"61\" height=\"15\" src=\"http:\/\/images.apple.com\/itunesaffiliates\/logos\/iTunes_sm_bdg61x15.png\" \/><\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/ad.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/show?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;bids=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\" alt=\"\" \/> &#8220;<a title=\"Search for 'Jerry Springer' on the iTMS\">Jerry Springer<\/a>&#8221; by <a>Yankovic, &#8220;Weird Al&#8221;<\/a> from the album <em><a title=\"Search for 'Running With Scissors' on the iTMS\">Running With Scissors<\/a><\/em> (1999, 2:46).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, one of the changes made to iTunes was **more advertising**! _Yay!_ I was just lamenting the fact that I didn&#8217;t see enough ads while deciding which song to play next, and here Apple&#8217;s gone and taken care of that for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2039],"tags":[65],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3651"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}