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Posts tagged ‘songza’

Mar 20
2010

Songza​.fm has moved to Songza​.org, so I’ve rewritten the old Songza Lucky Link Service for Snow Leopard to match. This new version of the service runs without dependencies, so it should work for any Snow Leopard setup right out of the box. It’s a bit silly, but what it does is take your selected text and run it as a query on Songza​.org, parse for the first result (if there…

Mar 17
2010

Just a quick note for those who may have missed it: Songza is back at http://​songza​.org! This is exciting to me personally, as I had been having a lot of fun searching and automatically creating links to Songza pages, mostly just to back up obscure music references when I pushed them on unsuspecting victims. Hooray!

Jan 29
2010

I apologize for the recent downtime, which also affected the Clippable bookmarklet’s ability to work. Dreamhost has been pretty awful with downtime lately, and my attempt to switch to a different physical server resulted in a horrible mess for myself and several clients. I have to say that Dreamhost support was extremely helpful in repairing the situation… their support is the main…

Nov 12
2009

This is a quick and dirty Snow Leopard Service that scrapes Songza​.fm to find a song related to your selected text in most applications. It replaces the selected text with an is​.gd shortened link and the name of the first song it found (just to be sure you’re on the same page… literally). The code is also available as a TextMate command for those interested. Update: TextMate…

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