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Lo and behold, Omni Group’s OmniFocus beta used to have a web application built in to allow folks to, say, expose a web server via dynamic DNS that provides web access to their OmniFocus’ projects and contexts.

That app is written in, you guessed it, Ruby on Rails!

The current version of the web application is available here.

Oh, and I just double-checked with Omni: they’re AOK with starting a project up on RubyForge to maintain the OmniFocus web application under an MIT license.

I know what I’m going to be playing with for the next several days/weeks/months now….

Ok, I’ve been a bit compulsive about having artwork for my movies and music in iTunes since we got our AppleTV. Ok, maybe more than a bit. Even so, this little Rails application should give you some idea of how simple it is. It uses Amazon’s web service (which, it turns out, I misjudged), to look up candidate artwork for each album and displays them to you. You simply click on the desired image (higher resolution is typically better) and it will insert that artwork into iTunes for each track in your album.

I won’t pretend that this is the cleanest implementation but it gets the job done. If any of you watching at home want to play along, you will also need ruby/amazon installed.

FYI: Amazon’s search engine may not resolve all of your album names. You may want to manually search Amazon, in the case of stubborn albums, to determine what Amazon calls the album. However, more often than not, this shouldn’t be a problem if you ripped using iTunes.

Finally, this program could be easily adapted for hunting down artwork for your movie collection as well.

Code follows:

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