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I’m putting the finishing touches on porting DCSquares to the iPhone. I’ll have more info soon, but in the meantime here’s a teaser:

Last.fm for iPhone and iPod Touch version 1.0.2 is now available on iTunes. Here’s what’s new:

* Bug fixes and stability improvements
* Defer error popups until device is unlocked
* Disable auto-lock during playback
* Improve playback of tracks while device is locked
* Start buffering the next track near the end of the current track
* Fix display of events for non-English locales
* Properly display ampersands in radio station titles

To install the update, click “Check for updates” at the bottom of your iTunes Applications list, or tap the Updates tab of the App Store on your device.

Last.fm for iPhone and iPod Touch version 1.0.1 is now available on iTunes. Here’s what’s new:

• Better recommendations
• Support for multiple playlists for subscribers
• Support for My Library
• Song name on lock screen
• Less buffering over 3G
• Retain the search results if you come back to them
• Bug, stability and performance fixes

To install the update, click “Check for updates” at the bottom of your iTunes Applications list, or tap the Updates tab of the App Store on your device.

Also, we’ve set up an official group for support requests and feedback here: http://www.last.fm/group/Last.fm+for+iPhone+and+iPod+Touch

We are pleased to announce the launch of Last.fm on the iPhone and iPod Touch! Sam Steele, our iPhone development army of one, has been cranking away at a full blown Last.fm app on Apple’s mobile platforms for months now and the results are nothing short of insanely great.

Read the rest of the official announcement over at the Last.fm blog and grab Last.fm from the iTunes Store (US, UK, Canada, France, Germany, and Spain for now).

Listen to free streaming radio on your iPhone with Last.fm. Last.fm allows you to listen to your favourite artists, discover new music, and share music with the friends in your iPhone contact list. (http://www.last.fm) Coming soon to the iTunes App Store! Listen to more than 4 million songs over EDGE, 3G, or WiFi.

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For anyone using Trac with the MySQL database backend, check out this ticket: http://trac.edgewall.org/ticket/6986

I applied the database schema changes on the MobileScrobbler trac site, and it’s reduced the time it takes to modify or create a ticket from several seconds down to less than a second. Finally, no more error 500 pages when an operation takes too long to complete!

Yay! I beat adventure mode in Peggle! Final score: 15,659,720!

New Features

• New radio player HUD contributed by Smooquai
• New radio icons contributed by CompC
• Add an option to queue tracks while device is asleep
• Updated French, German, Italian, Norwegian, and Russian translations

Bug Fixes

• Fix a crash that can occur when playing a non-existant playlist
• Fix a crash that can occur when the last.fm server is unreachable
• Stop caching playlists
• Improved detection of duplicate scrobbles

Head on over to the MobileScrobbler website for installation instructions, screenshots, and more!

I’ve updated my MythTV Upcoming Recordings dashboard widget to work with the latest changes to the MythTV protocol. You can grab the latest version from http://dev.c99.org/mythupcoming/

General Tso’s Shrimp = AMAZING