I AM The Universe: Random Thoughts

So, I was watching this episode of How I Met Your Mother, where Marshall keeps on pointing flaws in Barneys theories, and then says “BAM! You’ve been lawyered!” So, I got to thinking – if people as boring as lawyers can do it, why not engineers! So you come up with a nifty little methodical shortcut for doing things, or optimize someone elses process, and then you go “BAM! You’ve been engineered!” That’s cool, and it can be used as an innuendo when used correctly

Anyway, so people who follow me on Twitter know that I use a service called twt.fm to share music from time to time. But I got tired of using their website, so I decided to write myself a little script. I used Doug’s AppleScript to get the current playing track information from iTunes (credit to him for that), and then wrote an Automator script to get the twt.fm URL from their API and post it via Tweetie.

You can download the script here. You can put it in your Scripts folder so that it appears in the menubar, or you can put it in the Applications folder. Just launch the script when your song is playing in iTunes, and the script will get the twt.fm link and open a new post in Tweetie with the content. You can tweak the way your message appears by opening the script in Automator.

The only configuration required is opening the script in Automator, and entering your Twitter username and password. That’s it. And there you go.. BAM! You’ve been engineered!