The internals

Carrying forward from yesterday, let’s take a behind-the-scenes peek at the “Now Playing in iTunes” album art feature you see in the sidebar.

Here’s what you’ll need: 500 gms Mac OS X (sorry Windows people), 50 gms AppleScript, 2 tbspn Shell Script, 1 tbspn FTP, 1 Amazon developer ID, 250 gms PHP and 1/2 tbsp Cron skills.

Here’s how it functions. We schedule a Continue reading “The internals”

Now playing!

Long time no see!

I don’t know about you, but I saw so many pranks flying around on April Fools’ Day, that I couldn’t be sure what’s for real and what’s not. For a moment, I was dead sure April was going to announce Tiger on the 1st, which happens to be their (Apple’s) anniversary I’m told, unless of course that was a smart ass’s idea of a joke.

Another reason for not much activity around here is Continue reading “Now playing!”