Category: Announcements

Open Source Code from iBlipper: tyPhoGraphic

Posted by on December 26, 2008

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.

Wiggle, Waggle, Spin Away

Posted by on December 21, 2008

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.

Blipping: Not just for small screens anymore!

Posted by on September 17, 2008

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?

Posted by on September 15, 2008

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

Posted by on September 11, 2008

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

Posted by on September 07, 2008

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.


Control Panel - Click or Tap during blipping to gain access to controls.

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.

Add iBlipper to your iPhone home screen

Posted by on September 02, 2008

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.

Vote the the iBlipper tagline

Posted by on September 01, 2008

iBlipper: Instant Messaging for the Real World
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!

Posted by on August 31, 2008

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?