Breakaway: Avoid awkward music slip ups
So you’re sitting in the coffee shop, surfing the web with trained skill, white Apple headphones trailing from the headphone port of your MacBook Pro, rocking the Rocky 4 soundtrack. You’re oblivious to all those around you, as they are to you. You go to take a sip of your Shot in the Dark, and you accidentally pull on the headphone cord.
Out pops the cord from your computer. And “Eye of the Tiger” steals the focus of everyone in the room.
Embarrassing? Maybe. If you’re a normal human being, I guess.
Well, here’s a simple program to avoid that embarrassment: Breakaway.
Breakaway will pause your iTunes music if the headphone jack is removed, whether intentionally or unintentionally. It’s free, and easy to install and configure.
Check it out: http://mutablecode.com/apps/breakaway
And, for nostalgia’s sake, here’s a link to a song from Rocky 4. If I remember correctly (and having seen it dozens of times as a young, impressionable adolescent, I know I do) this is from the scene where Rocky is roaming the streets in his hot sports car, intercut with a moving montage of his enmity and then friendship with Apollo Creed.
