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.
Category: Announcements
Blipping: Not just for small screens anymore!
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:
Who put their twitter in my iBlipper?
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)
Now with flashy fades
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.
Control Speed & Number of Repeats in v0.4
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.

We’ve also expanded the REST api:
- q: the to be blipped phrase
- d: milliseconds per word
- r: repeats
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.
Vote the the iBlipper tagline

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.
Blip, Blip, iBlipper!
The alpha of iBlipper is out! It’s a web-app that uses rapid serial visual presentation to turn your iPhone into a handheld billboard.
Check you the youTube:
Do you Digg It?

