Kristian Freeman kristianfreeman

A simple TextExpander snippet for pasting a nice-looking version of your "Now Playing" from iTunes. Uses Applescript — if you have a different music player (Spotify, for example), it probably has similar Applescript support.

For example: ♫ "My Favourite Things" - John Coltrane (The Very Best of John Coltrane, 2000)

set the_string to ""

tell application "iTunes"
   if player state is playing then
      set the_string to "\"" & name of current track & "\""

if artist of current track is not "" then

The Apple TV has some nice pictures for screensavers, but there's only about ~20 on average for each screensaver set. Luckily, with a jailbroken Apple TV, we can replace them pretty easily.

The screensaver images are located at /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/AppleTV.framework/Default[Album]Photos. I like SFTP'ing in with Cyberduck.

There are multiple screensaver sets — if you have a set you like the least (maybe "FlowerPhotos"?), replace those.

The files are in a pretty basic format:

01.jpg
02.jpg

Trying to regex in ruby using this: /UTC\s.\d{4}/

This picks up both

UTC +0000 UTC -0800

The codebase I'm working with uses: /UTC\s\-?\d{4}/

	require 'json'
	require 'date'

	json = File.read('appnet.json')

	parsed = JSON.parse(json)

	f = File.new("dayoneappdotnet.txt", "a")

	# requires "appnet.json" (exported from ADN) in the same folder

	require 'json'
	require 'date'

	json = File.read('appnet.json')

	parsed = JSON.parse(json)

	f = File.new("appdotnet.txt", "a")

	#!/usr/bin/ruby

	# Fix for Slogger and Ruby 1.9
	#
	# require 'ftools'
	#

	require 'fileutils'

	curloc = File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__))

	# Disable wifi

	rm -rf /Volumes/Kindle/system/.assets
	echo "Disable WiFi on your Kindle - it will download new ads if you don't."
	echo "If you want a more thorough (permanent) method of removing ads, see Yifan Lu's work."

	/* create tables to store itunes music library data for quick access
	- rkumar 2010 July
	*/
	drop table tracks;
	create table tracks (
	album_artist VARCHAR(50),
	album_rating_computed INTEGER,
	album_rating VARCHAR(50),
	album VARCHAR(50),
	all_items VARCHAR(50),

	html {
	zoom: 1.5;
	}