MyVogonPoetry

UPDATE: I found an even better way to download music from Seeqpod - use sadsteve.com - it has the ability to download built into the site. I use it all the time and never use Seeqpod any more. Give it a try.

So, there’s this site called SeeqPod that allows you to play just about any song you can think of but doesn’t allow you (easily) to download them. So, I fired up Firefox and used the LiveHTTPHeaders addon to see what was going on. Sure enough, the URL to the file is there, but it’s somewhat of a pain to get to and download the file. So, I saw another URL go by with /api/ in it. I poked around and figured out a pretty easy way to use it to download songs. Here’s how:

First, you’ll want to have the linkification plugin installed in Firefox. One of the things it does is make URLs in XML clickable. We need that functionality. Once you have it installed, do this:

Bookmark this link in Firefox (don’t click it, just bookmark it - there is nothing interesting there yet). Now edit the bookmark and change the CHANGETHIS to %s and put in something for the keyword. I used sp for seeqpod.

Now, suppose I want Weird Al’s White and Nerdy song…. I just type
sp white nerdy
in Firefox and I get an XML document with links to the song. With the linkification plugin, I can just double click on the URL and it will download the song for me.

This trick will work in IE, you just have to do some of this by hand (the initial search, copy paste the MP3 URL, etc). It’s just much easier with Firefox.

If this news gets out, I expect Seeqpod to change the way they do things pretty quick so enjoy it while you can - not sure why I’m even sharing this. if someone were really motivated, you could write a plugin that gives you a webpage full of links or download the first hit automatically or something - again though, they will probably close this loop soon now. If you liked this article, check out the original article I did that discussed most of these techniques:
How to find and download hidden music from websites.

Tags: mp3, mp3s, freemusic, seeqpod, download, downloads

A momentous day - Akismet has now caught over 100,000 spam comments on Candy Addict. Crazy.

Tags: geek, spam, akismet, wordpress, candy

How have I not heard of this before? Google has a registry hack (for IE only, sadly), that allows you to see what ads Google would put on a site if AdSense were to be put on it - even if it currently has no ads. Very cool. If used on a site that does have AdSense, you can use it to get the links from the ads so you can visit the URLs without clicking on your own ads.

• Google AdSense preview tool

Tags: geek, webware, software, tips, tricks, google, adsense

What the hell is Linkie Winkie? I saw it in my Candy Addict logs today. Weird. It says:

Linkie Winkie is a bit of a social experiment and we want to see what happens. We’re not going to tell you much about it, except that its a very altruistic little site and loves to be talked about.

So if you can work out what it does, and get your timing right, then Linkie Winkie might help you out for a while.

So, what the hell is it? Anyone know?

Tags: geek, linkie winkie, wtf

http://www.sternestmeanings.com is a simple anagram site. Give it some text and it replies with an anagram.

• Myvogonpoetry = Groovy! Empty on!
• George W Bush = He grew bogus
• What a way to go = A two why a goat

Pointless, but mildly entertaining for a few minutes. You can also reach it via AIM: (aim id sternestmeanings)

Tags: geek, anagram, anagrams

TipMonkies, a great site for useful tip and tricks (and one that I write for every now and then) seemed to be dead for the last few months. Martin (the owner/editor) had some serious family problems, but he’s back now and ready to go. He’s already posted some great stuff in the last day or two. Check out TipMonkies if you haven’t already.

Tags: geek, windows, software, tips, tricks, webware, web, website, websites, tipmonkies

I don’t actually play Blogshares like some people do, but I check out how my blogs are doing from time to time and check how some other blogs I read are doing. I admit, I don’t totally understand the blog stock market. I checked on Candy Addict on Blogshares the other day and its valuation had past 100,000 B$! Cool. Also, outgoing links from Candy Addict are now worth 25K B$ (that’s the maximum) it’s the same as an outgoing link from BoingBoing! Again, not sure what it all means but I thought it was cool.

• Candy Addict on Blogshares
• Candy Addict
• BlogShares

UPDATE: The stock value has come crashing down and it’s only worth just under 40K now, though the stock price (B$8,276.74) and outgoing link value (B$19,597.80) is still pretty high.

tags: geek, blogshares, blog, blogs, BoingBoing

I was poking around today and found this list of del.icio.us pioneers. It shows who first links to pages that make the popular list. i.e. “Who keeps posting the most popular links?”. Oddly enough, *I* am on the list with three posts! Weird. Who knew?

del.icio.us pioneers

Tags: delicious - links - popular - pioneers

Here is another cool image generator found at The Generator Blog - this time it’s the Einstenin Chalkboard Generator. Be sure and browse through the saved images that other people have done - some of them are pretty funny.

Einstein Chalkboard Generator [via The Generator Blog]

einstein image generator science

Check out the demo at Bindows.net. It’s really impressive - it’s a complete “application” done in AJAX. It looks and feels almost exactly like a real Windows application. Give it a look.

geek, AJAX, programming, websites