“This is the first time in tech history that you have this many companies with CEOs approaching 60 that don’t have any obvious successors,”

Laughable. But true.

Tunesque helps you find apps, music, movies, and books on the iTunes store without having to launch iTunes or the Mac App Store app.

It's easy, cool, and—yes, free.

How it works

Tunesque sits quietly in your system menu until you call it into action. Simply click on the Tunesque icon, and start typing your search query; Tunesque will do the rest.

Find what you’re looking for

Tunesque can find music, apps, movies, and books—but you get to decide what kind of results it shows. Plus, it works with your local iTunes store, anywhere in the world.

It's even faster to search for content using Tunesque than actually searching in iTunes or Mac App Store. It's just right there on your menu bar and works like Spotlight.

When you click on the menu icon (reading lens with a music note in it), you are presented with a very simple search bar.

Type in key words and it will quickly show you related songs, apps (both Mac and iOS), ebooks, movies and TV shows.

If you are a regular customer of iTunes and the Mac App Store (even if you're only looking for free content), this should make searching for content easier and faster for you. Try it.

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Check out another simple yet practical app for Mac, Keyboard Cleaner.

In a new study, researchers at USC, Stanford Graduate School of Business, and the Kellogg School of Management have found that individuals in roles that possess power but lack status have a tendency to engage in activities that demean others. According to the study, "The Destructive Nature of Power Without Status," the combination of some authority and little perceived status can be a toxic combination.

The research, forthcoming in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, is "based on the notions that (a) low status is threatening and aversive, and (b) power frees people to act on their internal states and feelings."

To test their theses, the authors conducted an experiment with students who were told they would be interacting with a fellow student in a business exercise and were randomly assigned to either a high-status "Idea Producer" role or low-status "Worker" role. Then, these individuals were asked to select activities for the others to perform from a list of 10; some of the tasks were more demeaning than others.

The experiment demonstrated that "individuals in high-power/low-status roles chose more demeaning activities for their partners (e.g., bark like a dog three times) than did those in any other combination of power and status roles."

Sound familiar?

You see this a lot in government agencies. When they give you the rude treatment as if you are not the one paying their salaries (being the taxpayer), you wonder, "What the f*ck is up their ass?!"

I created Keyboard Cleaner. It comes in handy when you want to clean your keyboard, but you are afraid you might trigger a command or change or delete some of your current work beyond repair and undo. Of course you could save and close everything. Sometimes however, it is just not what you want.

Enter Keyboard Cleaner. It shields your desktop and intercepts every keystroke you might accidentally make — except for Command-Q.

Happy cleaning, y'all.