Yesterday I’ve released hashr extension for Google Chrome. This is the first version, and it was just to try out the extensions platform for Google’s browser.

So basically this extension does the same as the Firefox addon, and the website, but in Chrome. Here’s a screenshot of it in action:

You can find more screenshots, info and install it at the Extension Gallery page. Or you can just check out the source at GitHub.

On my spare time I’ve been learning the Ruby language. And Tinyscrobbler is the first result.

Tinyscrobbler is a lightweight Last.fm scrobbler library. It can be used to implement the track scrobbling feature in a ruby player app.

You can find the source (GitHub) here and install the ruby gem from Gemcutter.

If you opt to install from Gemcutter, you need to add it to your gem sources. Just type the following in your terminal (depending on your system you might need to execute these commands with sudo):

$ gem sources -a http://gemcutter.org

This will add gemcutter to your gem sources. Finally to install the gem just type:

$ gem install tinyscrobbler

Tinyscrobbler contains a helper class to read the audio files metadata, but for now it only supports .mp3 files. I’ll be working on extending the support to other file formats like .ogg, .mp4a and .wma.