(Source: Spotify)
(Source: Spotify)
javierplumey asked: ShareTunes used to pick up on whatever I was already playing in the iPod app on my iPhone. Now it stops the music and prompts me to pick a song manually. How come?
In order to support background scrobbling I had to change the way playback works.
Unfortunately, it is not technically possible to support playback using the iPod app AND run the app in the background.
Due to feedback from users, I thought that most people would prefer background scrobbling over iPod app integration.
I just hacked together a simple script that uses Calibre to deliver your favourite news sources to your Kindle. You can use this with CRON to schedule daily delivery of the Sydney Morning Herald for example.
Radiohead - Lotus Flower
In the spirit of Christmas and to celebrate the fact that iTunes promo codes can now be redeemed worldwide, here are some codes for ShareTunes:
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Enjoy!
Awesome version of Landslide!
Check out the latest song from the Pumpkins: “Tom Tom”. It sounds like vintage Pumpkins!
Just a quick update on ShareTunes 2.0. ShareTunes has been in the App Store for just over 6 months now. During that time, we have had over 1000 paid downloads and 1800 downloads of the Lite version of the app (which has been live for about 2 months). I would like to thank all the users who have provided encouraging feedback. It’s really cool to hear from people all over the world who share the same passion for music. I appreciate it! I am pleased to announce a beta test for ShareTunes 2.0. I think this version is a huge improvement on the previous in terms of the user interface and the ability to share music with others. Here are some of the features:
I recently decided to use Git for my personal iPhone development projects. A lot of opensource projects seem to be using GitHub lately, instead of SourceForge or Google Code. For those unfamiliar with Git, here is a brief run down … Git is an opensource distributed version control system developed by Linus Torvalds as a replacement for BitKeeper (a proprietary SCM which was being used for the Linux kernel project).
In general, my experience with XCode has been fairly positive. I’m going to give my honest opinion coming from a Visual Studio background. Please note: I don’t proclaim to be an XCode expert and there may be solutions to some of the complaints I have listed. However, the goal of this post is to provide an insight regarding into the “out of box” development experience for anyone who is considering iPhone/Mac OS development. Whilst significant improvements have been made in the last few releases, I still think it is not quite up to scratch when compared to Visual Studio. Perhaps this can be explained by the fact that Microsoft has a much bigger share of developers than Apple and has spent more time and effort evolving their IDE. Here are some of the things I found frustrating with XCode, compared to Visual Studio: