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Archive for December, 2008
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Last Genius – A last.fm hack day project
Posted on December 18th, 2008 by Neil Crosby. Filed under Blog Posts.
Gosh, it’s thursday already? Last Sunday I attended last.fm‘s first open Hack Day near Brick Lane in London with the intention of building a system to allow creation of Genius Playlists using last.fm’s data. For those of you who aren’t sure, a Genius Playlist is a playlist of music that all “works together” that’s created […]
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How to make a stop-motion video from automatically taken photos
Posted on December 9th, 2008 by Neil Crosby. Filed under Blog Posts.
About a month ago now I showed you how to set up your Mac to automatically take photos. Hopefully by now you should have a good selection of photos, and you’ll be wondering what you can do with them.
The answer? Make a video!
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How to get more than the last 10 Recently Played Tracks from last.fm
Posted on December 1st, 2008 by Neil Crosby. Filed under Blog Posts, Tips & Tricks.
I don’t have time for a full entry today, so here’s a quick tip for last.fm users who are making use of their “Recently Played Tracks” RSS to do cool things. It turns out that you can increase the number of tracks returned by the feed simply by adding a limit=somenumber parameter to the URL. […]