Sometime yesterday I downloaded a great extension, FoxyTunes, for the Firefox browser. It lets me control iTunes (and other media apps) from a little toolbar that I can position in various places in the browser. Almost like the taskbar mode for Windows Media Player, but more customizable. Too bad it can't run in the taskbar, though, because there are times I'm working in other applications without having a browser running that I'd like to control the player. There are a few criticisms I can make about iTunes, but the only one that is consistent is that the interface is rather clunky. Apple can make very elegant hardware but their GUIs lack the smoothness of goo.