Posted in Software, Web Dev on November 17th, 2009 by Ruxton
It seems there may have been a minor issue in the last release of my iTunes Affiliate Link Maker wordpress plugin. Quite simply, if you had an existing install and didn’t have any links in it yet, you may continue to see the upgrade warning/notification no matter what you do. The man known to me only as daykilla has found the bug and nailed a quick solution (top work!) that’ll get you going for now.
If you need to work out what’s going on and how to fix it, head over and check out the post describing it. In the mean time I’ll be releasing an updated 0.5.2 later this evening with that fix and maybe a few extras.
Posted in Software, Technology on November 16th, 2009 by Ruxton
I thought it might be a cool idea to get through a list of applicatons i’m using on the iPhone and what each application does. Sometimes it’s hard to get an idea of what iPhone apps you should try out, so here goes my list.
Posted in Software, Web Dev on October 19th, 2009 by Ruxton
I’ve just pushed version 0.5.1 of my WordPress plugin iTALM into the WordPress SVN, it should arrive soon enough. If you have any problems please let me know.
The system now works around the shortag [itunes] with the following attributes:
- url – a mandatory attribute, this a clean itms store url, fetched via link maker or your itunes client
- title – the string in this field is passed into the output link as the alt tag on the image/title of the link
- content – if you don’t use this field, the itms link image from the settings page is displayed, if you do use this attribute the string is output instead.
Saying all that you don’t need to type this stuff anyway, because that’s the beauty of the button being in both editors. Select text (it’ll be output as the content attribute) or don’t, click the button, search for what you want (or click manual url) and be quickly prompted through the process. If you enter nothing in the box? It’ll still enter someting like <Artist Name>-<Album name> out for you.
I think this is a nice step forward for the plugin, your feedback is appreciated, the general consensus seems to be to drop feedback over at the article page but i’m now closing that, so please leave your feedback on this post.
Posted in Software, Technology on August 12th, 2009 by Ruxton
Original post date: 2008-07-05
Recycled for Recycle A Blog Post Day
Something just occurred to me this evening and it has to do with software companies and the monopoly ‘lock in’ tactics that some use. Microsoft was pulled up over forcing Internet Explorer on people in XP many moons ago now and I’m sure we’re all completely happy with how it eventually turned out, most of us use Firefox and Windows now recognises something called a ‘default browser’.
Fast forward a few years and we’ve seen Apple since day one, ram iTunes down the throat of every ipod owner in the world. This was understandable, after all it’s a portable music player and it only ran on OSX to start with, so it’s ok to force a music player that’s already installed on the operating system along with the device to provide sync support, in fact it totally makes sense. That is until they released on windows and iTunes wasn’t that great, also for years we’ve all been using Winamp or Windows Media Player and have no desire to switch to iTunes.
Posted in Software, Technology, Web Dev on May 31st, 2009 by Ruxton
Got a worpdress blog? do you link to the iTunes Store with or without an affiliate program? this plugins for you!
The plugin adds an itunes button to the visual editor which when clicked brings forward a dialog containing a search for the iTunes store link maker.
After searching, clicking on any link will ask for a title for the link and insert it into the content editor. The link also enables the ability to directly link to albums, something the standard link generator does not normally do.
Enough gaff, if you want it, it’s here. It’ll be on wordpress.org soon enough.
Posted in Software, Technology on July 15th, 2008 by Ruxton
Something just occurred to me this evening and it has to do with software companies and the monopoly ‘lock in’ tactics that some use. Microsoft was pulled up over forcing Internet Explorer on people in XP many moons ago now and I’m sure we’re all completely happy with how it eventually turned out, most of us use Firefox and Windows now recognises something called a ‘default browser’.
Fast forward a few years and we’ve seen Apple since day one, ram iTunes down the throat of every ipod owner in the world. This was understandable, after all
