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Faster Grooveshark Search Add-on for Firefox (auto-suggest feature)
Posted by Kieran McCarthy in Bits Of Code, Firefox, MP3, Music, Personal on September 12, 2009
I coded this firefox add-on to query the Grooveshark search site much quicker than their standard search tool add-on.
Grooveshark currently provide a useful search add-on, it installs Grooveshark search to your current list of search engines within Firefox. By searching for an artist or song you are directed to the Grooveshark website and results are displayed.
I re-coded their XML install file to include a live suggest feature pulling related words as you type from Yahoo to speed up your search query.
Examples:
1. The below image shows the default Grooveshark add-on, you have to type in the artist and song title and then click on the magnify button to complete a search: Read the rest of this entry »
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“Installation Failed” Fix for WordPress 2.8 Upgrade
Posted by Kieran McCarthy in Bits Of Code, Oddities, Personal, Software on June 11, 2009
Great news today that WordPress 2.8 “Baker” is available to upgrade for my blog. I am running a few Wordpress blogs that were currently at version 2.7 so took the plunge to upgrade and noticed a few problems along the way. The following is summary of the problems I faced and the work around I used to fix it.
Please note this fix worked for me on 2 upgrades but does not promise a fix for your own problem, these tips may help you but do so at your own risk! Before proceeding with any of the following please back up your site and database!
The Problem
On previous occasions I used the easy”upgrade automatically” button option with no problem but this time around I kept getting this error in the below image:
I then de-activated all plugins and re-tried the auto upgrade but still got the same error as the above image, this was not making any sense to me so I searched through the Wordpress Forum querying terms such as: Installation Failed, Could not copy file, upgrade failed etc. There was one interesting reply on this thread http://wordpress.org/support/topic/277858?replies=10 that suggested accessing your database using phpMyAdmin and repair your tables.
The Fix
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Google Maps – Animated Directions – Fun!
Posted by Kieran McCarthy in Bits Of Code, Google Maps on February 16, 2008
I have been playing around with Google Maps lately and have come across a few scripts I had from a few months back… This is a bit of fun!
[Click Here to try out Google Maps animated directions]
What this does is you input a start location and an end destination in the input boxes, press the start button and watch the journey animated with a small van icon.
It will display your current speed, mph, road names & routes as it plods along call it “sat nav” on the cheap… 
I have a preset journey leaving from Patrick’s St, Cork, Ireland going to The Square, Blarney, Cork, Ireland but you can change the start and finish locations to your own liking.
What’s also interesting about this map is it will take you across channels e.g. I put Rosslare as start and Swansea as finish and it took me across the proper channel route and then continued on the roads in the UK!
Popularity: 26% [?]
YouTube have blocked my download tool!
Posted by Kieran McCarthy in Bits Of Code, Oddities, PHP, Rants, Videos, YouTube on January 24, 2008
It’s less than 48 hours since I posted my last article “Free YouTube Video Downloader & Path To FLV Finder Tool” and today I noticed that the download tool has stopped working! At first I thought it was a code glitch, but no I checked everything out and it was clean? then I tried uploading the same scripts to a second server and yes it worked, I even tried the same scripts on a third server and it worked…. and one last shot was to try the scripts on a different domain but same server “Bump!” no joy…. 
Could it be that YouTube/Google tracked the script page because of the Adsense banner? (maybe)… and the fact that a heap of trackback links from crap blog scrapers featured the article….. What to do now… Should I remove the scripts and links to it…. I’m not sure?
Popularity: 32% [?]
Free YouTube Video Downloader & Path To FLV Finder Tool
Posted by Kieran McCarthy in Bits Of Code, HTML, PHP, Plugins, YouTube on January 23, 2008
Click here for the “YouTube Video Downloader & Path To FLV Finder Tool”
Click here for the “YouTube Video Downloader & Path To FLV Finder Tool”
This is a follow up article on my previous post “How to get the direct url path to .flv video files on YouTube for Free” it’s a collection of php scripts mashed together from around the web. It will enable a user to fetch the actual .flv path url to a YouTube video.
If anyone is interested in the code leave a comment request and I will contact you.
Hope this helps you!
Popularity: 29% [?]
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