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50 Songs on Playalong

Monday, July 12th, 2010

Play along to 50 songs!
Supernifty’s Playalong has reached the milestone of 50 songs.

Playalong started out as a way to play along to Elvis on your ukulele. Nowadays, Playalong offers quite a bit more.

We now support

chords for the guitar,
chords for the banjo,
an iPhone app, and
50 songs!

Supernifty’s Playalong has songs from each of the last seven decades.

Here’s a selection of tag counts from Supernifty’s first fifty songs.

Play along songs by tag

Thanks to everyone who has contributed to Playalong… it’s fitting that the 50th song to be added is Israel Kamakawiwoʻole’s ukulele classic Over the rainbow – Enjoy!

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Google Chrome Extension for Speed Scrabble

Friday, July 9th, 2010

If you’re a Speed Scrabble player, and you use Google Chrome, you may be interested in the Speed Scrabble Chrome Extension.

Sometimes it’s difficult to know when your playing partner is going to be online, or how much activity there is at the site, without having to stay on the site all day. This extension solves that by showing at a glance how many players are on the site.

Here’s the extension in action:

Speed Scrabble Chrome Extension Screenshot

If you’d like to try it out, you can install it at the Chrome Extensions Gallery.

Just remember that if you’re always watching from Chrome, your friend might be too, so you won’t see each other! Make sure you pop in for the occasional game!

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Tune your banjo with alternate tunings

Sunday, June 20th, 2010

Banjo
Good news, Banjo players!

A number of new Banjo tunings have been added to
Audio Tuner and Audio Tuner mobile.

To quickly and easily tune your Banjo to any of the common tunings, check out the latest version of Audio Tuner.

We’ve added the following new Banjo tunings:

Standard
A tuning
G modal
A modal
C tuning
Double C
Double D
Open C

All versions of Audio Tuner will be updated with these changes over the coming weeks. To comment on these updates, or to request a particular version be prioritized, please contact us.

Note that Audio Tuner is not only available for PC and Mac, but most mobile platforms as well, including iPhone, Android and BlackBerry – keep your Banjo in tune no matter where you are.

To learn more, check out Audio Tuner home.

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Top 500 songs of all time – visualized

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

A radio station recently ran a survey asking listeners vote for their favourite songs, the result being a 500 song countdown of the “greatest songs of all time”.

Supernifty has produced a handy tool for you to play with the results, with a simple search function, charts of the most popular artists, and a breakdown by decade of the greatest songs.

Can you guess who the most popular artist is? Wondering if your favourite made it? Check it out.

Although the results are in many ways a reflection of the listeners’ demographic, it’s still pretty fun to play with.

See the top 500 songs of all time.

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Vancouver Olympics – Comic #4

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

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Self-Reference – Comic #3

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

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Word Nerd – a crossword solver and dictionary for the iPhone

Monday, November 16th, 2009

Supernifty is very pleased to announce the release of the Word Nerd Crossword Solver on the iTunes App Store.

Word Nerd is an essential tool for any keen puzzle solver, especially crosswords. It also makes a great dictionary, containing famous people, events, cities, landmarks and traditional “words”.

Features:

Fully searchable offline dictionary containing over 140,000 words and 200,000 definitions
Search for specific words using wild cards e.g. h.rse
Search for anagrams, even using wild cards!
Search definitions to find related terms and synonyms.

All available wherever you are, as long as you have your iPhone.

To learn more, see screenshots, and to obtain Word Nerd, go to iTunes

Or read more on the Supernifty Wiki.

As always, Supernifty welcomes feedback and ideas – contact us with your thoughts.

Now go be a Word Nerd! fun

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Play Speed Scrabble on your iPhone

Sunday, November 8th, 2009

Supernifty is very pleased to announce that Speed Scrabble is now available on the iTunes App Store.

Speed Scrabble (aka Take Two!) is a fast, fun and challenging word game, enjoyable either as single or multiplayer, now playable on your iPhone.

Features:

It’s soooo much fun
Single player mode – race the clock, beat your high score, get longer words
Multiplayer mode – compete online against other Speed Scrabblers

If you’re not familiar with the game, try Speed Scrabble Online, join the Speed Scrabble Facebook Group or learn more.

To see more screenshots, details and to get Speed Scrabble, go to iTunes

Or read more on the Supernifty Wiki.

As always, Supernifty welcomes feedback and ideas – contact us with your thoughts.

Now go get Speed Scrabble! fun

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Comic #1 – Ants’ Revenge

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

Supernifty Comic #1 - Ants

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