
In an interview with Wired News, the Austrian developer who wrote the controversial PearLyrics widget for iTunes said he created the app to win the heart of a would-be girlfriend who moved to Hong Kong.
“I realized I probably would not see her again for a long time — even worse, I wasn’t even sure if she felt anything for me,” said Walter Ritter from Dornbirn, Austria. “In my despair, I turned to my second big love: music.”
Many mopey love songs later, inspiration hit. Ritter set to work on PearLyrics, a little program that serves as a helper tool for Apple’s iTunes. When a song is playing in iTunes, PearLyrics hunts down the lyrics on the internet and adds the text to the digital music file.
(this potential love story doesn’t quite turn out the way you’d want it to. i guess they never really do….)
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Awwww…everyone knows programming and not flowers are the way to a gals heart!
SCRIPT LANGUAGE=”JavaScript”
datetoday = new Date();
timenow=datetoday.getTime();
datetoday.setTime(timenow);
thehour = datetoday.getHours();
if (thehour > 18) display = “Evening”;
else if (thehour >12) display = “Afternoon”;
else display = “Morning”;
var greeting = (“Flowers_for_you_in_the” + display + “!”);
document.write(greeting);
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…ok – maybe a music widget is the way to go.
a bouquet of scripts will melt my heart. (and help my site!)
flowers are for suckers.