Just wanted to say congratulations to Miss Erin Standley! She just won the Cut & Paste Chicago design competition! Now she’s off to New York in June to compete again. She’s quite the badass.
Way to kick ass, Erin!
Continue or Comment...In celebration of it being Friday, I’m posting a song for everyone to listen to. What song is more appropriate on a Friday during lent than Rasptutina’s “Rats”?
Enjoy. Have a good weekend.
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Continue or Comment...Happy post Saint Patrick’s day.
So maybe I was optimistic (or pessimistic, depending on how you see it) about Tweply and SMS functionality. Like other projects I’ve thrown together I felt a need that I couldn’t find elsewhere, and then offered it to others. Except this time it’s costing me more than I expected with people signing up for it.
I love that people find it useful, but unfortunately I’m paying much more than I expected.
So the other day I added Direct Message support. This allows you to get your Tweply notification using Twitter as the notification method. Make sure Twitter is sending DMs to your phone and you’re good to go.
All you have to do to make this work is delete your old Tweply watch and create a new one using your username as the alert method.
Let me know if you have any questions. At some point down the road I’ll probably disable SMS notification all together, but I want to make sure I have the proper options in place so people can still use the service the way they want to.
Continue or Comment...It’s a really exciting time right now. It’s South by Southwest conference/festival time! And you know as well as I do what that means! Nothing.
I get really bitter this time every year. All the professional “consultants”, “media experts”, and “freelancers” all converge in Texas to talk about awesome things. While us lame kids with corporate jobs sit in our cubes and listen to them talk about how much fun they’re having.
It’s probably just jealousy. But I also think it’s nothing more than a circle jerk. A circle jerk I’d love to go to. But unfortunately that’s not my scene and not meant to be.
On the home front, there’s plenty other stuff going on. I got to see Richard Dawkins speak the other day. That, in itself, was a mind blowing, possibly once in a lifetime experience. However, the situation around it set off nothing more than a chain reaction of events that led me to lose the person closest to me here in Omaha.
I won’t go through details, but the self-realization surrounding my relationship with her became clear and I had to make decisions. I really, really wish it could be different. But I’ll eventually move on, it’ll just take a while. It’s hard that the one special person i’ve had since I’ve moved here is now gone.
On the bright side of the week, I saw Har Mar Superstar last night. He put on an awesome show. Just really badass. It was full of new material that was great, I can’t wait for his new album. Plus I hung out with him outside for a while just chatting. Turns out he comes to Omaha a lot and really likes it here. Cool.
Hope your week was better than mine. Stay r33t.
Continue or Comment...Just as a quick information dump, with regards to real apps (not jailbreak utils for the console) here’s what I have on my iPhone so far:
Utilities:
* SBSettings
* Winterboard
* Backgrounder
* IntelliScreen
* Supreme Settings
Apps:
* Facebook
* MySpace
* Last.FM
* Pandora
* Twitterific
* Tweety
* NetNewsWire
* Colloquy
* Yelp
* Urban Spoon
* Wiki Mobile
* Shazam
* MCleaner
* Simplify Media
* Evernote
* Cydia
Games:
* iBurn
* Lightsaber
* NES Emu
* Tap Tap Revenge
* Bowl Lite
* iSteam
* Bubble Wrap
* That’s What She Said
* Zippo Lighter
