While it's been possible for ages to record keyboard and mouse commands as macros, quality assurance teams sometimes can't have any tracking software running -- a real pain when trying to recreate a bug in an online RPG or other input-heavy apps.

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The Sun Kil Moon version of "Convenient Parking, " from what might be Modest Mouse's best record, 1997's "The Lonesome Crowded West, " definitely gets the song's slow-burn intensity, teasing it out on his acoustic guitar as if over the course of making this record Isaac Brock's high-strung delivery has gotten under Kozelek's skin.

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With a single mouse click, you can arrange to record a program to the hard drive.

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His music also caught the ear of Isaac Brock, the frontman of Modest Mouse, who promptly signed him to his own record label.

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After recording with Modest Mouse and The Cribs, Marr releases his debut solo record, The Messenger, two days before the music magazine's annual ceremony.

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The Shins' latest record was long done and so were the tours, and for Danger Mouse, his band Gnarls Barkley was between records, as well.

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Some of Modest Mouse's more hard-rocking fans may conceivably hate this record, but some may like Kozelek's versions better than the originals.

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For the massed ranks of the middle-aged who have neither the time nor the inclination to hang out in record stores, rubbing stubble with the hip, it means pure joy: at the click of a mouse, they will be able to download that seminal Beach Boys album.

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