My Music App

I recently backed up my music to a private Amazon S3 Bucket just in case my HDD failed or I lost my music some how and most of the sites where I buy my music from only let you download it once.

I found a really groovy PHP Script that would allow me to upload and show the files in the bucket. I had an idea yesterday that I could listen to my music on my iPhone from Amazon S3. So I began to get some of the S3 Apps from the app store.  The apps in the app store would not play music from the S3/ They would only let me upload pictures and change the permisions but that was about it, so I decided create a little Web App.

I had already had a php script that I found on net tuts+ that would list the files in the bucket and allow uploads via a basic form. I use this script when I’m out and about and don’t have access to my music on my computer.

I found a site iPhone Web App Template I came across on Mod My i that I edited to fit my needs. I removed the iphonenav.js since that was not needed and I then had to remove some of the pre made content and set the title Storm’s Music (S3).

I then inserted PHP Code that I downloaded from net tuts+ into the iPhone WebApp Template. I then had to remove the the upload part since that is not needed.

I was looking on the internet for some icons for the web app and I came across some nice ones at E-maniacs which where free to use. I edited the one I wanted, saved it as apple-touch-icon.png and uploaded it to the root directory of where the files would be all stored.

I then added this one line of html in the header tags on my page

<link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="apple-touch-icon.png"/>

I now naviagted to my site (I wont give this out since it’s private and for me only) on my iPhone and then added a shortcut to my Home Screen.

Loading Screen of My App.

I didnt like the Address Bar or the Safari Shortcut Bar to display when I loaded the site, since I don’t have access to a mac for a while I got my friend Houdini7 of Shift Key Software who kindly developed a little app for me with a nice loading screen. This solved the problem of the Address Bar and the Shortcut Bar from displaying.

Thats it done!

NOTE: This app is private and will NEVER be given or sent to anyone else. It will NEVER appear in the iTunes App Store as this would be agaisnt the law. Please DO NOT ask for it since I am the only person who will be using it. I just wrote this blog post as people may be intrested in creating their own.

VIP Access iPhone App

I recently found out of the VeriSign Identity Protection (VIP)  App for the iPhone. This works the same way as the Key Fob what you can buy from VeriSign and Paypal. You can protect your PayPal and eBay accounts by using the VIP or Key Fob by using a security Code with your username and password when logging in to these services. I think this is a much better for me since I always carry my phone and sometimes forget the key fob when I need it.

The VIP app will only work on the iPhone since you need to receive an SMS message to activate the app unless of course you do a little ‘Hack’ to get it to work on the iPod Touch. To do this hack you will need a mobile phone to receive the SMS message to activate the app and some software like 7Zip or WinRAR to be able to edit a file in notepad

1. Unplug your iPod Touch from your computer
2. Download the ‘VIP Access’  App from the iTunes App Store
3. Click ‘Applications’ on iTunes
4. Right click the ‘VIP Access’ app and click ‘Show in Windows Explorer’
5. Open the file called ‘VIP Access 1.0.0′ in 7Zip or WinRAR
6. Open ‘iTunesMetadata.plist’ in Notepad
7. Find the following:

   <key>softwareSupportedDeviceIds</key>
   <array>
   <integer>2</integer>
   <integer>4</integer>
   </array>

   and replace it with

   <key>softwareSupportedDeviceIds</key>
   <array>
   <integer>1</integer>
   </array>

8. Save ‘iTunesMetadata.plist’
9. Restart iTunes, Plugin your iPod Touch and Sync your iPod Touch.
10. Load the ‘VIP Access’ app
11. Enter your Mobile Number
12. Close the App
13. Once you have received the SMS on your phone load Sefari and type in the URL that is displayed in the SMS Message that you have just received. This should reload and activate the app and you will be good to go Be sure to type the  URL as it is wrote in the SMS Message otherwise it will NOT work.

This should work for all applications that are limited to the iPhone but you will only need to do Steps 1 to 9 =]

App Information
Name: VIP Access
Price: Free
Category: Business
Requirements: iPhone