Love your Starbucks coffee? Maybe those awesome breakfast muffins and wraps they have? Yeah, I do too. I also love the music they usually play in Starbucks, and wind up wishing I could get my hands on it. I’ve been known to peer at the CDs that most Starbucks have for sale while my coffee is being prepared, and to look interestedly at the iTunes gift cards that usually live in front of or next to the registers.

Well, according to the fine folks at the Cult of Mac blog, Starbucks is tired of taking the monetary hit that comes with trying to sell physical CDs in this market, and all of those things – with the exception obviously of the coffee and snacks – will be gone from most Starbucks stores by September. So say goodbye to all of the Motown compliations and Jazz CDs that adorn the displays next to the cashier.

The move isn’t entirely unexpected; Starbucks’s financial position has floundered a bit last year, and executives and shareholders are eager for the company to focus on what it knows how to do exceptionally well, and that’s make coffee. They’re not particularly interested in being the potential harbinger for a new age in decentralized music sales, for example.

That being said, Starbucks said they are interested in possibly taking their music sales online, a possibilty I would strongly encourage them to look into. I’ve always loved the music in Starbucks stores, and while I can’t say I frequently purchased their CDs (thus proving the point that they should stop selling them), I have lingered in a Starbucks with my laptop long enough grooving to a song that I would consider hitting up the iTunes music store and downloading a song from a Starbucks featured music page if the song I were hearing in-store were available.

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The fine folks at Lifehacker have an amazing wrap up on ways to get files that you may have accidentally deleted back without having to resort to an expensive software suite that may or may not work.

Most commercial file recovery applications do essentially the same things that most free applications do, perhaps with a cleaner interface and some real-time file protection. Even so, keep hope! If you’re prone to accidentally deleting files that you realize a moment or two later that you really should have kept, there are ways to maximize the chances that you’ll get those files back in good order without having to pay a cent for the apps that’ll get them back for you.

First and foremost – whenever you realize you deleted something you actually need, stop working – the less you do the higher your chances that your system won’t overwrite the space on your drive where the file actually lived. From there, Adam Pash (Lifehacker Editor) has some tips on how you can find the right application to try and save that file. And when it’s all said and done and you actually do get that file back? Adam also has some tips to help make sure you don’t wind up in this situation again – and yes, part of that advice is settling down your itchy delete finger.

[ Lifehacker :: How to Recover Deleted Files with Free Software ]