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Comment on Deep Linking into YouTube Videos by gutscheine

gutscheine — Sun, 27 May 2012 13:34:14 +0000

Thanks for finally talking about >Deep Linking into YouTube Videos

Comment on Last Genius – A last.fm hack day project by Denver Weckwerth

Denver Weckwerth — Thu, 17 May 2012 06:53:58 +0000

Thx for information.

Comment on Adding a vCard to your iPhone Address Book from a web page by John

John — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 03:43:13 +0000

I dont have an iphone, I have an android. Which makes testing exciting! In light of all the posts, and the time since this was coded, is this still a needed piece of code? Or are all you apple users now able to import vcf files? Either way, thank you Neil for your work, and for sharing it so generously. Its very much appreciated, and thank you to all the above who added. I truly appreciate all the time you have all given so willingly and freely.

Comment on Adding a vCard to your iPhone Address Book from a web page by Kerem Erkan

Kerem Erkan — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 13:04:23 +0000

Hmm, sorry if my comment looked like it was written in full smugness, I was trying to be more friendly. Anyhow, point taken!

Comment on Making PHP CodeSniffer use JSLint via Rhino by Glenn

Glenn — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 19:30:01 +0000

Just what I needed. Thanks, Neil.

Comment on Using last.fm tags to make awesome playlists in your local iTunes library by Jobot

Jobot — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 00:07:44 +0000

Hey Neil,

Just found this... I've been looking around for something similar for years! Why has the music distribution industry picked up on how users would absolutely love to tag and sort their music similar to how they tag and sort photos? It only makes sense.

Problem is I'm pretty awful with any kind of code related things... but I find that your approach definitely makes sense (from what I can understand of it.)

Is there any sort of tutorial for it? I'm really interested in it. This functionality should be built in to modern music organizing applications, IMO.

So I'm wondering if you may have had any leads on a current solution to this conundrum we've been faced with... or if you're able to point me towards a tutorial or give me some insight on your methods.

Any response is greatly appreciated!

Comment on Hacking my body with the Wii Fit by Thomas Käfer

Thomas Käfer — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 20:54:10 +0000

Well actually I found its not that hard to extract the data from the wii fit savegame, the hard work was done by others before me

First, as Tobias already stated, you need to decrypt the savegame, which can be done with the tool called “tachting” from here: http://git.infradead.org/?p=users/segher/wii.git

Then you can use the python script on your unencrypted savegame data, to convert this binary into a nice xml file –> http://code.google.com/p/wiifit/

Comment on Adding a vCard to your iPhone Address Book from a web page by atdotcom

atdotcom — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:10:52 +0000

Thanks very much, Neil. This is really helpful!! Also thank you Jan-Hendrick. I didn’t think of that at all. Kerem Erkan, Thank you, also. I love that Qrafter finally does this correctly (allegedly – I havent tried it yet)… but lose the smugness (and it’s customary here to disclose when you are pushing your own app). We are the vcard publishers. Not the people with scanners. It doesn’t matter what scanner we have. It matters what scanner the people we meet have. And when I get really lucky and stumble into someone that knows what QR is, sadly they typically don’t have your scanner.

Comment on Geolocation & Beer: Part 1 – Finding the user by Eli

Eli — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:35:20 +0000

Hi Adrian,

I'm looking for a solution for the same issue. Did you find anything? what did you eventually do? My email is eli (at) manobella.com. Appreciate any help in this subject as I could not find any solution on the web. Thanks Eli

Comment on Adding a vCard to your iPhone Address Book from a web page by Eric

Eric — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:39:01 +0000

The problem with creating a QR code for your downloadable contact information is that a high percentage of users are NOT trying to get your contact info directly from your printed business card they are trying to get it while already on your mobile site. So unless they happen to carry around 2 iphones (one to pull up the QR code and one to snap it) it is useless for this use case. Its actually not even a problem with iOS its a problem with the safari browser. Even the android browser had difficulties with this that haven’t been corrected at the browser level. At least with android a simple .htaccess correction fixed the problem and allowed you to download .vcf files to the contacts. With safari though this is still a problem and the php solution to email the .vcf file is the only working solution that i have heard of or seen. Using google maps to get what you want is a clever solution but lets face it if iphone users were clever it really wouldn’t be that hard for them to get your contact info into their phones so as developers we keep drudging through work arounds to get people that think their phone is amazing to keep believing it! Good luck i look forward to this being the next standards issue for cross platform development, lol.