FINALLY. Now I'll upgrade my hand-full of songs I want to. But geez, I'd be ticked if I had upgraded them all and paid for it!

@ErinPeitho: According to the nightly news on NBC last night, they're suggesting Tuesday because it's currently the slowest mail day—largely in part to the fact that not much business mail goes out on Saturday, so there's not much to deliver on Tuesday.

@mynamesafad: Mine is a 3.0

I absolutely love Word 2007, but it would take me a lot to upgrade to anything higher. It's a sleek, easy-to-use program and, quite frankly, everything I need.

@DevourerKwi: I agree. The first thing I thought when I saw it was that they were trying to look like the Windows logo. Why in the world they would choose a logo with four colors in windowed quadrants is beyond me.

LOL just deleting your old entry and adding the new one through Mycroft is SO much easier than going to the folder. Took me about 10 seconds.

@Troy F.: Excellent post. Thank you!

@Jash Sayani: I agree, and yet this is incredibly useful. Hmm...pretty or practical? Decisions...decisions...

Vote: TiVo.

I downloaded the Thriving on Less ebook when it was last posted about and have read many of Leo's blogs since. This really is good stuff. I understand some may be cynical as there's a LOT of this sort of "common sense-simplifying" going around.

@Atheena: I totally agree. The kicker is, if they'd allowed me to choose, I would have upgraded about half the songs I'd purchased, just so I could be done with it. But I'm not going to pay for a bunch of songs to upgraded that I no longer listen to. With the current situation, it's all or nothing, so they get nothing.

@johnhorneguitar: Right it indicates that that song has no DRM and is recorded at the higher bitrate. It's just an icon; it doesn't do anything.

So get this: It will NOT let you select which songs to upgrade. So, for instance, I have several albums I bought years ago on iTunes which I have since then received the CDs for. It still REQUIRES me to upgrade these full albums at $3 each DESPITE the fact that I own the CD and don't want them from iTunes anymore.

@JuryDuty: Ah—I found it. It's in the iTunes store, right side, under "Quick Links," then "Upgrade My Library."

I'm sorry, but I can't figure out how to do this. I select a track I know I bought from iTunes and it asks if I want to purchase the track. I don't want to be charged 99 cents if it can't tell that I had it.

LOL! Don't waste your time. It offered me $4.44 for an excellent condition high-end PDA that's only about 3 years old. It goes for at least $75 on ebay.

It makes it more tempting, but the quality is still better through Amazon and even better through buying your own CDs.

Glad to see Gina sticking around and Adam taking over. Grats to you both!

I read the companion ebook when Lifehacker recommended it last week. It really is a VERY good ebook, not like a lot of these knock-offs we've been seeing. I'm pretty tempted to get this book—one of the few self-help books I'll have bought in recent years.

@dudeami0: Thank you!