So you can imagine my excitement about this cool software I found called TunesTEXT. It’s an OSX Dashboard Widget that works with Itunes to automatically search for song lyrics to the song you are currently listening to. Not only that, it downloads those lyrics and copies them into the song ID3 info. It also shows you any album artwork attached to the file. You can also use this widget to advance the tracks or pause the music.

So anytime I’m working on something and I want to glance at the lyrics of the song that is playing, I just hit the widget key (F12) and suddenly I can sing until my voice is raspy. Below is a screen shot of the widget in action.

I have two complaints about it though. Sometimes it has trouble finding the lyrics to certain artists or albums. I guess it needs to search through more databases or something. The other problem is that usually when it is downloading the lyrics, it causes the music to skip for half a second or so. Not a deal killer, but pretty annoying. Other than that, it’s pretty great. I’d actually like to see this feature built right into Itunes.

Download it by going here: http://www.cyanworks.net/dboardTunesTEXT.html. The website is kinda sketch, but the app works great!

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Lyrics grabber: TunesTEXT

my current desktop click the pic for larger version

Also I spent a few hours sorting and reorganizing all the files on my laptop. I’m generally pretty organized but it was getting a little chaotic. I now have a beautiful clutter free desktop. You notice the dock thingie at the top of the screen? That’s a nifty little program called Ojectdock that essentially replaces your shortcuts and icons on the desktop and gives you a very customizable dock to put everything in. It’s pretty rad.

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Feng Shui

Woah… I just noticed a link to publish this text to a blog. This might be kinda cool for that, depending on how it handles HTML. I just inserted that picture up top and I’m not sure how well it will upload or what will exactly happen when i publish the image. Will it be part of the document or will it be hosted by google somehow?

I’m always looking for a different HTML editor to write my blog posts in… Perhaps this is my new one.

One pretty awesome aspect to it is the idea of adding collaborators to a document. That way I could share this document with someone and they could edit and save it. It sure would beat emailing various versions back and forth. And speaking of revisions, it looks like you can multiple revisions and choose which one you want to work on. So far so good!

docs.google.com

This post wouldn’t be complete without a quote!

“I think — tide turning — see, as I remember — I was raised in the desert, but tides kind of — it’s easy to see a tide turn — did I say those words?” –George W. Bush, asked if the tide was turning in Iraq, Washington, D.C., June 14, 2006

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Google Documents and Spreadsheets

I have been slowly learning how to use CSS lately to keep up with my wordpress sites. I still have tons to learn but I feel that I have made a lot of progess over the past two weeks. One item I recently discovered has helped out a little. This is a CSS cheat sheet. That site explains how to use it and has it in PDF and PNG format. You can also find the link to a Mac Dashboard Widget which would seem helpful if I used a mac for website development.

http://www.ilovejackdaniels.com/cheat-sheets/css-cheat-sheet/

There are a few more things I would like to change on this site before I release it to the world. I know of a few bugs and such that I need to fix and when those get done, be prepared for a huge end of the world style party.

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CSS Cheat Sheet