Earlier today in the iheartmacs link feed, I mentioned a piece of software that I found through The Unofficial Apple Weblog, it’s called CoverSutra and it’s got a very attractive interface.

CoverSutra is also a last.fm scrobbler client. Which is to say that this application can submit the song and artist name of the track you are currently playing to your last.fm profile. Using CoverSutra as a last.fm client is an alternative to the freeware iScrobbler, which does it’s job just fine, but I’ve already a menu bar full of icons, and I don’t want another one that’s just there to communicate with an internet server in the background, CoverSutra brings a welcome amount of feature consolidation in that regard.

CoverSutra is more expensive for Americans thanks to the poor value of the US dollar, CoverSutra is around $13 USD with the current conversion rates.

Interesting side note, the developer of CoverSutra is Sophia, a woman in Germany. I’m glad she’s at it, CoverSutra is a fun and useful app that sets up easily, even for users like me who are picky with their iTunes keyboard shortcuts.

Inessentially Essential

I enjoy just about everything posted to Brent Simmons’ weblog Inessential, the frequency of his posting varies, and it seems to depend on his development cycle. I paticulairly enjoy reading anything Brent has to say in regards to design, and watching the maturation of the great NetNewsWire which he develops from day to day. Today, Brent posted something very relevant in regard to Twitter, the web service that has been getting lots of press lately.

Brent writes:

“So then there’s Twitter, which is, basically, a service where you type into some little text field, and it appears on the web, and everyone can read it. Easy and delightful.

Sometimes I see feature requests for Twitter, and this makes me nervous. I hope that it adds zero features.”

Very well put Brent. As someone mentioned in the comments on inessential, the only feature I wish Twitter would add would be a way to only allow certain Friends messages’ to make it to your phone. I don’t need to be interrupted constantly throughout the day by the bloggers of the world, I get that enough already from the people I actually know in real life.