Blip Blog http://blog.iblipper.com iBlipper: Instant Messaging for the Real World Wed, 31 Dec 2008 06:20:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 en hourly 1 noiBlipper: Instant Messaging for the Real World Happy New Year Blips http://blog.iblipper.com/2008/12/happy-new-year-blips/ http://blog.iblipper.com/2008/12/happy-new-year-blips/#comments Wed, 31 Dec 2008 06:20:19 +0000 admin http://blog.iblipper.com/?p=104 Here are some happy new year blips to help get your groove on:

(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!

]]> http://blog.iblipper.com/2008/12/happy-new-year-blips/feed/ Open Source Code from iBlipper: tyPhoGraphic http://blog.iblipper.com/2008/12/open-source-code-from-iblipper-typhographic/ http://blog.iblipper.com/2008/12/open-source-code-from-iblipper-typhographic/#comments Fri, 26 Dec 2008 23:40:35 +0000 admin http://blog.iblipper.com/?p=102 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.

]]> http://blog.iblipper.com/2008/12/open-source-code-from-iblipper-typhographic/feed/ Wiggle, Waggle, Spin Away http://blog.iblipper.com/2008/12/wiggle-waggle-spin-away/ http://blog.iblipper.com/2008/12/wiggle-waggle-spin-away/#comments Sun, 21 Dec 2008 15:20:08 +0000 admin http://blog.iblipper.com/?p=94 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.

      ]]> http://blog.iblipper.com/2008/12/wiggle-waggle-spin-away/feed/ A Special Happy Holidaze Message http://blog.iblipper.com/2008/12/a-special-happy-holidaze-message/ http://blog.iblipper.com/2008/12/a-special-happy-holidaze-message/#comments Sun, 21 Dec 2008 06:16:20 +0000 admin http://blog.iblipper.com/?p=87 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.

      ]]>       http://blog.iblipper.com/2008/12/a-special-happy-holidaze-message/feed/ 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 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. Expressive Typography       Blipping Holidays! http://blog.iblipper.com/2008/12/blipping-holidays/ http://blog.iblipper.com/2008/12/blipping-holidays/#comments Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:54:09 +0000 admin http://blog.iblipper.com/?p=84 Here are some holiday messages for your blipping fun:

      Enjoy the season and thanks for using iBlipper!

      ]]>       http://blog.iblipper.com/2008/12/blipping-holidays/feed/       A Change is Gonna Come (to iBlipper) http://blog.iblipper.com/2008/10/a-change-is-gonna-come-to-iblipper/ http://blog.iblipper.com/2008/10/a-change-is-gonna-come-to-iblipper/#comments Fri, 31 Oct 2008 02:21:59 +0000 admin http://blog.iblipper.com/?p=76 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!

      ]]>       http://blog.iblipper.com/2008/10/a-change-is-gonna-come-to-iblipper/feed/ 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 verWe’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 [...]Expressive Typography, Uncategorized, animation, beta, cssTransforms       Experimenting with Native CSS Transforms http://blog.iblipper.com/2008/09/experimenting-with-native-css-transforms/ http://blog.iblipper.com/2008/09/experimenting-with-native-css-transforms/#comments Thu, 25 Sep 2008 02:05:46 +0000 admin http://blog.iblipper.com/?p=60 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.

      ]]>       http://blog.iblipper.com/2008/09/experimenting-with-native-css-transforms/feed/       Blipping: Not just for small screens anymore! http://blog.iblipper.com/2008/09/blipping-not-just-for-small-screens-anymore/ http://blog.iblipper.com/2008/09/blipping-not-just-for-small-screens-anymore/#comments Thu, 18 Sep 2008 03:01:58 +0000 admin http://blog.iblipper.com/?p=51 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:

      ]]>       http://blog.iblipper.com/2008/09/blipping-not-just-for-small-screens-anymore/feed/       Who put their twitter in my iBlipper? http://blog.iblipper.com/2008/09/who-put-their-twitter-in-my-iblipper/ http://blog.iblipper.com/2008/09/who-put-their-twitter-in-my-iblipper/#comments Tue, 16 Sep 2008 03:15:47 +0000 admin http://blog.iblipper.com/?p=47 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)

      ]]>       http://blog.iblipper.com/2008/09/who-put-their-twitter-in-my-iblipper/feed/       Games with iPhones and Toddlers: Favorite Blips http://blog.iblipper.com/2008/09/iphones-and-toddlers-favorite-blips/ http://blog.iblipper.com/2008/09/iphones-and-toddlers-favorite-blips/#comments Sat, 13 Sep 2008 11:17:43 +0000 admin http://blog.iblipper.com/?p=42 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.

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