Blogs

This weekend Sky Sports Now was available on the Apple TV for free. Normally costing £9.99 for a day pass, it allows users to watch all of the Sky Sports channels without a Sky subscription.

This is a great, inspirational post.

I’m one of those people who starts loads of side projects and never finishes them. Over the holidays I started a project based on Open Data from the Government. I want to finish it and feel the builder’s high.

An interesting post by Om Malik on what blogging means today after 12 years of blogging.

This looks interesting. Backed.

You can also browse the source code, but it will only be open sourced if the project reaches its goal.

Today I backed Jon Shafer’s At the Gates on Kickstarter. It’s an empire builder by the lead designer of Civilization V with some interesting ideas.

I have pushed out a new version of mp4meta which has the following fixes:

• Correctly set the long description attribute
• Fix movies being imported as ‘Home Video’s in iTunes 11

The fix for iTunes 11 should be a welcome one for anyone who has imported movies recently!

I’ve finally moved my blog (and site) from WordPress to Octopress. It’s not because I hate WordPress - Octopress is just a better fit for me (and I do hate looking after MySQL).

Here’s a neat piece of Apple Script that will import a file into iTunes:

osascript -e 'tell application "iTunes" to add file ":full:path:to:movie.m4v" to playlist "Library" of source "Library"'

This feature will soon be coming to mp4meta.

As promised, I have pushed out a new version of mp4meta which fixes getting IMDB data by using the IMDB API via WebService::IMDBAPI.

WebService::IMDBAPI is a Perl 5 interface to the IMDB API, a free service which provides a nice API to the IMDB data.