I've been working on a way to allow users to log into their Apple accounts on iTunes through cloudTunes. I've been Telneting the iTunes Music Store server through port 443 but I'm not sure I'm sending my request to the right place or whether I'm missing some credentials cos it doesn't respond.
more »This is the link to the Wimbomedia Sandbox...
http://www.petrosalema.com/wimboVery rough, but communicates my ideas...
more »I promised to post up the work just finished for a client so here it is:
It's been a while since I've written anything — anything that wasn't code that is... I've been really busy with a project for a client. I'll have a link to it up once it's cleared.
I've also been at work on something really neat this week: flyTunes. flyTunes allows you to browse albums from the iTunes Music Store on your browser.
I've seen lots of people asking for this, so I'm posting a recursive function that iterates through a directory and subdirectories, and lists all the files contained within.
This function takes one parameter, the directory you want to list. The function then continues looping through itself until it runs out of subdirectories and files within this directory. The function returns a string containing the files and folders contained in the directory displayed in a tree. more »
This article demonstrates how to use PHP to generated title and caption images on the fly...
When a web designer wanted to display text as an image, the procedure would commonly begin with something in the vain of "open Photoshop..." But in the new web of dynamic content and massive scale, this approach won't work.
In most cases, an image text is used to display titles and headings. The example below is of the Apple's iPhone Developer Center.
This article will show you how to create thumbnails dynamically. For example, these three images have been dynamically generated from the same source.
The above images are generated with a URL like this one: www.petrosalema.com/blog/articles/burger_thumb_100.jpg; where 100 is changeable.
The benefits of being able to dynamically generate images of varying size from a single source file are too obvious to get into. But I will mention that I'v done some research and websites like Amazon, Wikipedia, IMDb, iStockPhoto, and Flickr, where there are large numbers of images to manage, all use this approach.
Below are images of varying size dynamically generated image from Wikipedia using this URL pattern: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Hamburger_sandwich.jpg/100px- Again, to generate each image 100 is simply changes to the desired width which in this case was 200 and 300.
Made some changes on the design of the "Browsing" section. Search results brings up artist images. more »
A useful function to convert a hexadecimal color value to an array of RGB values.
function Hex2RGB($c)
{
if(!$c) { return false; }
$c = trim($c);
$rgb = false;
if(eregi("^[0-9ABCDEFabcdef\#]+$", $c))
{
$c = str_replace('#','', $c);
$l = strlen($c);
if($l == 3)
{
for($i=0; $i<3; $i++) { $c6 .= substr($c, $i,1) . substr($c, $i,1); }
$c = $c6;
}
unset($rgb);
$rgb[0] = $rgb['r'] = $rgb['red'] = hexdec(substr($c, 0,2));
$rgb[1] = $rgb['g'] = $rgb['green'] = hexdec(substr($c, 2,2));
$rgb[2] = $rgb['b'] = $rgb['blue'] = hexdec(substr($c, 4,2));
}
else { $rgb = false; }
return $rgb;
}
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When you save a track on your playlist, and it subsequently gets deleted, it now shows you that the track is gone on your playlist menu. It doesn't remove the track from your playlist though. I figured that would be a little annoying.
An I idea I'm toying with is to have the deleted song replaced by another version of the same track if one is available.
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Rolling out a new feature called "clipping" today. This enables you to temporarily bookmark (clip) tracks onto a clipboard and paste them into your comments.
Anything with this
Clippings can then be pasted into posts and comments by clicking the "Insert Clip" button below the comment boxes which brings a menu of all the items you have in your clipboard. Check it out at Wimbomedia. |
Finally finished work on the playlist functions on Wimbomedia. You can now drag and drop to rearrange the song order, you can save it, rename it. I also fixed the bug with the play modes. more »
Wimbomedia now remembers your volume setting even when you close the browser. more »
Logarithm to change file size string like this 1234567 one to human-readable format like 123 MB.
clipping icon can be saved to the clipboard by clicking the icon. User profiles, playlists, and tracks can all be clipped.
function formatSize($s)
{
$units = array("Bytes", "KB", "MB", "GB", "TB");
$count = count($units);
for($i = 0; $i < $count && $s >= 1024; $i++) { $s /= 1024; }
return (round($s, 2) . " " . $units[$i]);
}
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Did you notice? You can now check out what tracks your friends have been listening to... Just click the "playlist" tab on their profile and it should be the very first playlist on their list.
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| 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 |
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