Over the weekend, I discovered this very cool application that allows Mac users to listen to Pandora without having to keep a browser window open. So I'm bogging here to tell you about PandoraJam.

I love Pandora. I've been listening to some very cool music thanks to the music service, and I'm going to be subscribing to Pandora at Home in the near future (i.e. when my subscription trial runs out) to the tune of $36 per year.

What I don't love about Pandora is having to keep a Web browser running, since the player is in Flash. It never fails that I'll be at work or doing something else when my browser will crash, or I'll accidentally close the tab with Pandora in it, and I'll lose my music.

With PandoraJam, I don't have to worry. This little application loads the Pandora interface in it's own application, presumably using the WebKit engine built into the Mac OS.

In addition to that, PandoraJam has some very cool features. For one, it will capture the music streaming into your computer and save the music files directly into your iTunes complete with album art!

PandoraJam is also completely compatible with the Apple Remote, a huge plus for us Mac users.

Some users have had a problem with PandoraJam after the service made some changes to their system last week. But so far, I'm not having any problems at all. It is even updating my AdiumX status to display the song and artist I'm listening to at the time.

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