We’ve been having fun with the new CSS Transforms in Safari and the hardware accelerated animation versions for the iPhone. Support is coming for CSS transformsin Mozilla as well.
So, check out a couple of work in progress demos:
(Note: You’ll need to be on the iphone to see this in action)
These versions are also trying out a fixed-width font to make sizing a bit more consistent. Let us know what you think in the comments or at our UserVoice page.
While an serious change to the animation modus operandi is forthcoming to get the layout pixel perfect, a quick tweak of the layout parameters to full respect screen size makes iBlipper much more suitable for cross-office or laptop based visual communication.
Returning to the twitter heckling theme of yesterday, why just hold up your iphone to heckle a speaker?
Want to make a private comment in the office? Just get your recipient in view of your monitor and blip it.
Try it out on your desktop, Safari or Firefox please. Sneak a bookmark into your favorite blip and fire it up when the appropriate situation arises!
Here are some office phrases to get you going:
Reading blogger extreme Robert Scoble talking about Twitter as the new domain for heckling conference speakers, yet another usage scenario for iBlipper came to mind…
Highly beta, visit twitter.iblipper.com to quickly turn your tweets into blips. Just type in your user name and you’re one click from flashing your tweet to the world around you.
(Hat tip to damn ralph for the jQuery + twitter json starter code)
Got a toddler who’s mastering their ABC’s or 123’s?
Try practicing with the help of one of these blips:
We’re eyeing the use case for sing alongs like “mary had a little lamb” in which you want a bit more individual word level control of timing and pauses. Stay tuned.
While we didn’t quite get to the special iPhone hardware accelerated CSS animations, jQuery pulled through just fine to add a touch of visual pizzaz to the animation. A simple fadeout adds a lot to the experience.
Here’s a little movie:
We’re still playing with the visual parameters, but the right animation should help “burn in” the blips to their recipients brains. Word recognition is, in psycho babble terms, automatic — involuntary, without conscious control. The tagline candidate, “pre-attentive reality hacking” refers to the inability of persons with visual focus on your iphone for the message duration to not perceive it’s meaning.
You can now click (or tap!) the screen during the blip animation to gain access to the control panel for restart, new message, or speed & repeat controls. Here’s a pic.
Shout out to the sites AppSafari: Web Apps for the iPhone, Dribbr App Directory, and the iPhone App Directory. An especially big thanks to Dribbr for choosing iBlipper as the featured app.
We’re also now listed at iUseThis.
We’re just getting the hang of this iPhone application development thing! Just added a custom icon so that if you “Add to Home Screen” you’ll get a pretty icon.
We’ve done a new iBlipper logo, utilizing some expressive typography.
Now it’s time to lock the tagline. Take our poll… hop on over to the blog sidebar.
