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The evil genius behind these Twitter related Current Super News cartoons is spot on.
This weekend I downloaded a new iPhone App called Bump. It’s a really simple and very cool app that lets you trade contact information by “Bumping” two iPhones together. Here is how it works: If there is a wireless network in range, both phones need to connect to it. Once connected you select your contact info, or the contact info of someone else on your phone. The other person does the same, and when you are ready, you both bump phones together and like magic, you now have the other person’s contact info!
I did this a few times over the weekend and it worked just like it was supposed to. This is a faster way of getting a persons contact info than manually typing it in yourself. You can also choose how much of your contact info you will send the other person. You can give them all the info, or just the phone number. Whatever you want to share is up to you.
Granted, you might look silly, fist bumping phones together, but the end result is very cool. If you’ve got an iPhone, download this app now. After all, it is free.
UPDATE: I was just notified that Bump doesn’t require that you both be on the same WiFi network. You can Bump over Edge and 3G as well. Thanks David, Co-Founder of Bump!
I think my roommate PJ should watch this…
I spent this past weekend in St. Louis because one of my best friends from college was getting married. I had known Shawn since my Junior year at Butler. By that time, he had already been dating Moira, and back then, I had no idea that they were one day going to get married.
The weekend was a great time. Griffen and I got to hang out with a lot of our old college friends. Being with all of them again made me wish we all still lived in the same city. Well, I will see them all again in a few weeks for Paul’s wedding.
For now, here are some of the pictures I took while in St. Louis.
I love great videos, and this one has a very cool style to it. So just watch.
Khoda from Reza Dolatabadi on Vimeo.
Thanks to @johnwright for the link.
I know one day I won’t get excited about having my name in the credits of a movie, but for now, I am stoked!
So for those of you who don’t know, this past Sepetember I worked on the film “Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations”. This was the first big film I have ever worked on, and I finally saw the film last night, and it was pretty good. I have kind of a slanted view of the film though, because I worked on it. Regardless, it was really cool to see how everything ended up.
As you can see, I was the Post Production Assistant on the film and I got to see how some of the film was being put together by the editor, Ed Marx. There were a few changes from the scenes I worked on and how they ended up on film. It was really cool to watch the movie, and remember logging all of those scenes and seeing what made the cut.
The movie comes out on DVD tomorrow, and I am going to pick up a copy. How can I not own the first movie I ever worked on?
My buddy John (@johnwright) Re-Tweeted this from his brother Mark (@emaredubyou). This video is stunning. It was shot in one day, but took 2 years to do all the visual effects. Enjoy!
World Builder from Bruce Branit on Vimeo.
Check out this funny cartoon about Twitter. So true…
I am not going to go into what Twitter is in this post. If you don’t know about Twitter, then go here. What I am going to talk about is a few applications I use for updating my tweets. Lets start with the desktop applications first.
There are a ton of different applications for your desktop to update your Twitter posts. I have used two Adobe Air apps that I ended up liking a lot. First of them is an app called Twhirl. This little app looks sort of like your standard Instant Messanger window. Nothing really fancy about it, but you don’t always need those bells and whistles. Whenever someone that you are following sends out a tweet, you get a little popup window on your screen telling you who said what. That way you can be working on something else, and not have to worry about missing any tweets.
If you wanted to go a little more indepth, I would suggest using TweetDeck. TweetDeck gives you a ton of options! It defaults to a three column view of your standard twitter feed, direct messages, and TwitScoop.
You can see a snapshot of how I have my TweetDeck laid out below.
The TwitScoop is an interesting feature. What it does is check all of Twitter to find out what some of the most common buzz words are. This gives you an insight on what people all over are talking about. When Apple updated their computers the other week, Apple was a big buzz word on Twitter. The bigger the word appears on TwitScoop, the more people are talking about it. I don’t use that feature that much, but it is cool to know what is on the minds of fellow Twitter users.
I have added a column called local friends. I went through and made a group of just the people I follow who live around me. I could make more groups and fill them with anyone I want. You can also click on someone’s icon and from there view their profile, send them a direct message, re-tweet them, or just respond to something they have said.
Now if you have an iPhone, there are a ton of apps you can use to update Twitter. Recently I have only used two, and I have beef with one of them. Twinkle and TwitterFon are both free apps and bring a little something different to the table. They are both pretty standard when it comes to viewing your Twitter feed and sending out tweets, but Twinkle does something a little different. With Twinkle you can monitor people who are Twittering around you. It uses the GPS in the phone to know where you are, and then look at people within a certain radius around you. Kind of cool if you want to start find new people to follow. Another cool feature with Twinkle is if you tilt the phone on its side. You get a map of the world, and it will randomly select someone around the world, and show you their last post. Cool feature, but I don’t use it that much.
With all that said, I have a problem with Twinkle. The app is SLOW. It takes a long time for it to update, and then once it does update, you have to wait until you can scroll through your tweets. It is because of its slowness that I switched to TwitterFon, which I have found to be MUCH faster.
TwitterFon does all the standard Twitter functions, but in a very clean style that I like. Here, just read what the website has to say;
“TwitterFon is a simple, clean, easy to use, and super fast Twitter client for your iPhone and iPod Touch. TwitterFon is focused on 80% of your task of Twitter such as check friends/replies timeline, check direct messages, send a reply and/or a direct message, and search. It also focused on easy to use. It has very clean user interface, very fast response and scrolling. You don’t need any hassle.”
It is simple, fast, and clean. Perfect for browsing Twitter on your iPhone.
So now that you know of some cool Twitter apps, try them out and start following me on Twitter, @jimiradcliff. Let me know if you have found any cool Twitter apps in the comments.