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Audio Tuner for Android is a mobile application that enables you to tune a wide range of musical instruments, using spectrum analysis and pitch generation. Audio Tuner for Android has, at last, been updated to version 2.0. Some major updates in this new release: Spectrum Analysis! This is the big one. Play your musical instrument into [...]

If you’re using Safari as your web browser (Apple users, this means you!) you may be interested in the Speed Scrabble Safari Extension. Speed Scrabble is a fast, fun word game, suitable for single player, but often more fun as multiplayer. This Safari extension enables you to see when there are players waiting to play on [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

If you’ve tried to build a client application with Python 2.6 and wxPython, you might hit a problem. Python 2.6 no longer includes the Visual Studio dependencies required by wxPython. These dependencies may not be present, either on your build machine, or the target user’s machine. When building with py2exe, you may encounter an error similar [...]

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 [...]

Supernifty is pleased to announce OpenID as a login mechanism on its website. OpenID is a scheme that allows users to login to Supernifty, by entering their login details at another site. So if you already have an account with Google, Yahoo, AOL, or any other OpenID provider, you can now log in to Supernifty without having [...]

Some stats from ComScore illustrate the state of the mobile market. This post provides some simple charts of the data. What’s the breakdown of smartphone market share? Clearly BlackBerry are doing incredibly well, covering almost half the market. Which platform’s been growing the most over the last 3 months? Somewhat surprisingly, BlackBerry continue to consolidate their position, taking most [...]

“Remember me” functionality was recently implemented on the Supernifty login screens. The PHP documentation is surprisingly non-obvious so here’s how to do it. If you’re already using the $_SESSION variable, the default is for this variable to live only for as long as the browser. Once the user closes the browser, the cookie will be deleted, [...]

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 [...]