iBlipper’s new control panel, rotate to landscape to restart. Hit the bookmark button for a permalink.

Nothing’s geekier than sitting around waiting for your iPhone to load a page. Previously, iBlipper made a round trip to the giant computer in the sky between your request to blip and the subsquent visual sizzle. Now, this happens immediately without another network request.

The only downside is that you can no longer bookmark just any iBlipper url. If you want to create a shortcut to your favorite message, just rotate the phone to get the control panel and hit the bookmark button to get a unique URL.

If you add a bookmark, you’ll have the option to add to your homescreen for super fast blipping.

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Minor SuperBowl edition bug fix tonight… Here’s your quick link for Go Steelers or Go Cardinals blips.

The latest release features a new way to access the Control Panel and to precisely control the timing of your message starting. iBlipper is designed to communicate over a distance in landscape mode. Rotate the iPhone to vertical — standing up aka portrait mode — to access the control panel. When you’re ready to blip, rotate back to horizontal and your message will restart.

You can also change the speed, animation, and number of repeats from the control panel.

Here are some happy new year blips to help get your groove on:

• Happy New Year!
• Party Like It’s 1999!
• What’s your reso- lution ?
• Auld Lang Syne

(Note: These links only work on the iPhone or a very fresh Webkit browser build.)

PS – iBlipper is now on Facebook, become a fan today!

We’ve released some of the technology behind iBlipper as an open source Library. tyPhoGraphic allows you to augment HTML content with a few custom attributes and have it animate with all the wiggle, waggle, wobble, and zoomy goodness of iBlipper.

Minor update to the iBlipper application, version 0.7.2:

• New effects: wiggle, waggle, and spinaway
• Bugfix to make sure animation is intact through rotations

Tip: Tap the screen during an animation for a control panel. It needs to be a really *quick* tap.

iPhone users can visit the live, hardware accelerated collection of holiday messages guaranteed to stir up the holiday spirit (or visit blog.iblipper.com if you have to type!).

For those without a fresh build of Webit, here’s the movie:

More on the the technology behind this — a declarative animation specification & renderer soon.

Here are some holiday messages for your blipping fun:

• Happy Holidays
• Ho Ho Ho!
• Have you been naughty or nice?
• Got to go shop, shop, shop!
• Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle All the Way!
• I want a pony.

Enjoy the season and thanks for using iBlipper!

We’re upping the ante with iBlipper real soon now. Here’s a nice slow-mo capture of the new hardware accelerated “trans formz” in action:

We’re playing with bouncing, zoom, wobble, fade, and shake. Check out the CSS (beta version). We haven’t even begun with color transforms, smooth scroll, or putting each word in a span to for letter level control.

Release is coming soon, you can try a build of the beta. These effects are now live!

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:

• This one slides diagonally
• This one slides left to right

(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.