Things I built and shipped.
A most sought out feature has been added to Groovylists.com by high user demand. It’s now possible to convert you Spotify playlists directly to Grooveshark. The usage is simple and is very close to how you convert iTunes playlists to Grooveshark.
Check out the video tutorial below for a quick run-down:
Try it out yourself on:
http://groovylists.com
I’m a coder, i scratch my own itch – that’s how we work. So when Grooveshark lacked an playlist import feature i set off in an endeavor to fix it myself, which proved to be quite the challenge.
The thing is that Grooveshark does not provide a public API, especially not a public API which allow you to write to their service. I was fortunate enough to get in touch with James Hartig who runs http://gsuser.com/ which is the closest thing to a public Grooveshark API though it doesn’t support writing to Grooveshark.
Through James helping hand i managed to get in touch with a Senior Developer at Grooveshark who gave me access to their internal API (Web 2.0 companies ftw, would this happen with Microsoft as an example?) and the project was on its way!
So, enough ranting – the service is available at http://groovylists.com/ – no bells and no whistles, but it currently imports 100 tracks from any iTunes based playlist. I’ll probably find some time this week to add m3u support as well, which pretty much make the project complete.
If you got any suggest and/or questions, either post them as a comment here or on the Grooveshark forums.
My new add-on Casey Case Converter was recently accepted into the public listing on Mozilla Firefox:
Congratulations! Your nominated add-on, Casey Case Converter, has been reviewed by a Mozilla Add-ons editor who approved your add-on to be public.
Casey is a moderators dream come true, it automatically format caps correctly. Which is a big hassle to do manually, especially on big posts. While it’s pretty limited in its current form (only Proper-case, UPPER-case and lower-case), i plan to extend it further. Especially now when the Mozilla peeps think it’s good enough for public release.
Check it out at:
http://addons.mozilla.org/addon/9920
Since my recent upgrade to the Firefox 3.5 betas i found that some of my Add-ons wasn’t working properly. Significantly Selenium IDE which i frequently use for automated website tests. So a bit of hacking and a with good portion of magic i managed to patch the current 1.0.1 release into a compatible Firefox 3.5 version.
I probably goes without saying that this is a highly experimental release with no guarantees what so ever. But I’ve been running all my tests on it and it works fine. So i you can’t wait for the official release, use this one:
Vi lever i Web 2.0 men tyvärr hänger alla inte företag med i svängarna. Så ibland får man agera barmhärtig samarit och styra upp ett och annat åt företagen. Västtrafik t.ex, dom var snabba med att bjuda på en RSS över akuta trafikförändringar, men dom har inte hoppat på Twitter/Tugg.nu-vagnen än. Så tja, man får väl göra det åt dom.
Alla trafikförändiringar synkas till http://tugg.nu/vasttrafik och vidare till http://twitter.com/vasttrafik, så är du medlem på någon av dessa kan du följa dem.
Om du hänger kvar i RSS-världen och av någon anledning inte vill köra på Västrafiks egna RSS kan du följa tugg.nus, http://tugg.nu/vasttrafik/rss
Urpremiären på Sveriges nya teknik-podcast bjuder på en ytterst välartikulerad introduktion av våra värdar, Jezper och Tommie. Men även en djupdykning i Apples In App Store, iPhone OS 3.0, DjHero och mycket annat. Så bänka dig dig framför datorn och slå på högtalarna, för Slashat.se Avsnitt 001 är här!
Så vad väntar du på, hoppa direkt till http://slashat.se och lyssna!
Håller på att experimentera lite med en svensk klon av http://twitter.com. Behövs verkligen det kanske du frågar dig? Tja, jag tycker nog det. Twitter.com är onekligen störst, men uteslutande på engelska (samt alltför ofta “over capacity”). Vilket gör det lite omständligt för oss Svenskar att hitta varandra där. Naturligtvis kan ni posta på Svenska på Twitter, men det trotsa syftet med siten lite. Speciellt om du har många amerikanska/engelskspråkiga personer som följer dig.
Framtida planer innefattar stöd för Facebook Status Updates (åt båda hållen, skriver ni något på Facebook publiseras det på Tugg.nu och vise versa), WordPress pluggar och plugins till andra blogsiter.
Sugen på att prova? Kolla in http://tugg.nu
It started out with a co-operated gadgetblog between me and Jezper. And it ended with 5 published items and realization of the dullness of re-write already published content. It’s more or less impossible to compete with the bigboys of gadgetblogging, so what do you do? Yepp, if you can’t beat em – join em.
Gearpilot is now a syndicated rss aggregator which tracks all changes on the nets gadgetblogs. Using top-of-the-line technology (by me! 🙂 ) its now possible for you to stay up to date with the, way to fast moving, gadget community.
When you thought it couldn’t get anymore geeky then this, Tommie comes up with icqSpy.
It’s exactly what it says, it’s an application which spy on my icq and submit who I’m sending messages to …
Utterly pointless, but pretty fun … 