Must Have OSX Software This is a repost from my old blog, but I think it was useful enough to post it again. Here’s a little list that Doki and I came up with a while back. IScrobbler is a useful utility, especially if you want to find similar artists to those you already like through last.fm. The interface has been simplified a bit. I held off on 5 stars however. IScrobbler is a Mac OS X client for gathering information about your music playing history and submitting it to the audioscrobbler.com servers for inclusion in their database of music tastes. It supports iTunes and other Applescript-able MP3 players. AudioScrobbler is a project designed to form music recommendations by sampling 'currently playing' data from the user's media player software. In a nutshell, Audioscrobbler endeavours to be your personal music advisor. It grows to know what music you like by monitoring what songs you play on your computer.
Here’s something I’ve been wondering about. Ever since Apple released the roadmap of iPhone development and the SDK details, they mentioned that third-party apps can’t run in the background. After avoiding it for months, I finally did the jailbreak on my iPhone last month because I realized I listened to music/podcasts constantly on the device, and none of that data was reaching my last.fm account. I opened up my iPhone to third-party apps just to get MobileScrobbler running, and it works great.
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But it does the magic in the background (even over EDGE, which I optionally allowed). You play songs as normal, and every so often a tiny ping goes out to last.fm, logging the music played. I imagine that won’t be possible with the official SDK but I haven’t seen anyone mention this app specifically.
So mac/iPhone nerds: will I have to keep a jailbroken out-of-date iPhone to keep using MobileScrobbler come June when the new iPhone stuff is released?
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Data::Timeline::Formatter::HTML - Print time line entry types side-by-side in an HTML table
version 1.100860
This class is a time line formatter. It takes a time line containing entries of one or more entry types and a column definition. The column definition says for each column which type of entries it should contain. The formatter's format() method will then print a simple HTML table containing the requested columns, with a column for the timestamp at the beginning.
The column definition is a list of entry type strings. pairs. So for the example in the synopsis, the first column would contain the timestamp, the second column would contain iscrobbler entries, produced by Data::Timeline::IScrobbler, and the third column would contain svk entries, produced by Data::Timeline::SVK.
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No bugs have been reported.
Please report any bugs or feature requests through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Data-Timeline.
The latest version of this module is available from the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN). Visit http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ to find a CPAN site near you, or see http://search.cpan.org/dist/Data-Timeline/.
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The development version lives at http://github.com/hanekomu/Data-Timeline/. Instead of sending patches, please fork this project using the standard git and github infrastructure.
This software is copyright (c) 2007 by Marcel Gruenauer.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
To install Data::Timeline::Formatter::HTML, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
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