Just letting you random googlers(that’s what most of my visitors are) know that I’ve got 7 Spotify invites left over. Want one? Leave your email address in a comment
Edit: Use your invitation when you receive it. I’ve got a bunch of sent out invitations that have not been used yet. I’ll send those to other people who wants it. So there’s still a bunch left…
Last night me and my girlfriend went to watch the movie Up. In case you didn’t know its a Disney-Pixar animated movie. We watched the 3D version of it. I have to tell everyone reading this blog about it, because I really loved the movie! It has a very moving story and lots of fun scenes. The 3D thing was really great actually. I expected we’d be getting that kind of paper glasses from way back, but the glasses we got were really good.
I love the movie, there’s no other movie like it in my opinion.
But thats just my opinion - it’s current rating at IMDb is 8.6/10, so not everyone agrees with me. (I gave it 10/10)
I think everyone should watch it, and I recommend the 3D version of it.
I’ve been quite fascinated by Despotify lately 
Its an open implementation of the Spotify protocol. A video of Spot(the video below), an iPhone Spotify client built using it has been floating around the Internet for a while. I just now found out that version 1.0 has been released. Get it from the modmyi Cydia repository: http://modmyi.com/cydia/package.php?id=10164
Its available only for jailbreaked iPhones and iPods… And only for Spotify premium users.
Haven’t tried it out yet, my iPod is currently not jailbreaked. Anyone else tried it out yet? What do you think?
I’ve got a couple of Spotify invites left over. If anyone want one just let me know in the comments. I wanna get rid of that annoying “you have invites” bar 
Spotify is a music streaming service available in Scandinavia(I think). But you if you’re outside Scandinavia you can still use it, all you have to do is to follow these easy instructions found at TechCrunch:
1) go to http://www.daveproxy.co.uk/
2) enter the following URL: https://www.spotify.com/en/get-started/
3) Create your account, for UK postcode - check http://www.postcodesearch.org.uk/
Spotify provies an API for developers. Thats so cool! There’s so many interesting things you can do with it. Unfortunately though, it is as to the date of this blog post only available for the Linux platform. I’m on a mac, plus I prefer to write platform-independent code.
I found Despotify, which is an open source project providing a cross platform Spotify API. It only works with Premium accounts(unless you modify it’s source code), but I’m totally fine with that. So I attempted to get it to run on my mac. Found some binaries, but they were outdated. Tried to compile by using macports. Outdated…
So how do I build Despotify on Mac OS X?
You could compile all the dependencies manually. Or you can do what I did:
Install despotify using macports. Doing this because macports will build the dependencies.
sudo port install despotify
Manually compile libvorbis and libogg. They can be downloaded from here.
This is a bit nasty, but I did this because they are installed to some odd path by macports, and I did not succeed in specifying the path. You can uninstall the libvorbis, libogg and despotify ports.
Check out and compile despotify
svn co https://despotify.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/despotify despotify
cd despotify/src
make
If someone follow these instructions, please let me know how it works out.
A friend sent me a funny video, and I kept digging to find some more. A genius took famous music videos and recorded the same song but with another text over them, making fun of the original music video, yet it sounds like the same song. I like “Its hard to play a guitar through your tie” in the 2nd video 
Check out some videos:
You can find more at the creator’s Youtube channel.
Sharing a couple of cool videos I’ve found lately. Its laptops transforming…
While on the subject I recommend watching the movie Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen(and the previous Transformers movie if you haven’t watched that one).
Check out the videos:
I’ve been playing around with a new site - I created www.typeupsidedown.net. It is a website where you can type something and it will be flipped upside down. Using it to experiment with search engine optimization.
Last night I noticed that Google’s “I’m lucky” search functionality no longer works as expected when it is used programmatically.
Using it from google.com works just fine, but there’s cases when you wanna use it by going to it’s URI.
If you want to do a I’m lucky search programmatically go to http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=<search query>&btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky&aq=f&oq=
(Don’t forget to replace <search query>)
What’s wrong with it?
Well, I tried finding my blog by doing an I’m lucky search for asdasd - by going to http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=asdasd&btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky&aq=f&oq=
Did it work? No. But try searching for test - http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=test&btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky&aq=f&oq=
Now it worked!
Why!?
Using multiple words work too, for example the search query red+car
However the search query Niklas+testing do not work!
Seems to me as if Google sends you to the website if they think its relevant enough to your search.
I believe it hasn’t always been like this? I have not noticed it before.
What’s the big deal with doing I’m lucky searches programmatically anyway?
Well it can be very useful. For example when using a browser plugin allowing you to type something like “g asdasd” in your address bar to search google for asdasd.
I’m using this kind of plugin, namely Parang. It is a small plugin for Safari(Mac version).
If you’ve got a Mac you should check it out - http://hannesp.se/software/.
Don’t let the old-fashion “design” scare you!
I were going to add a search for something like
The possibilities are endless. I think I’ve got more than 50 “custom search shortcuts”.
Hello. Thought I’d introduce a website Im working on. Lately I’ve been busy in school because Im doing my thesis right now, so I haven’t worked on it in a while. But I hope to finish this website later. I find it very useful in its current state anyways.
It is a online chinese dictionary. What makes it different is that it is focused on spoken chinese - prioritizing words commonly used in conversations over formal language. This is not implemented yet though, but now its “just another chinese dictionary”. I do think it is still a good alternative to other online dictionaries though - because I like the prioritization of search results, it can translate texts written with chinese characters to pinyin and it automatically detects which language(simplified chinese, traditional chinese, pinyin or english) that you are translating from.
Hope there are other people out there who might find it useful. Check it out at http://spokenchinese.org!