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iMeetzu Meetzing the iPhone VERY soon

30
Oct 2009

My iMeetzu app has been sluggishly working it’s way through the approval process of what seems to be 1/2 of an employee at Apple approving these things. Just Joshin’ ya Jobs, but it honestly was under approval for about 8 weeks before we got a response telling us to make some changes before it can be accepted.  Making changes to an app means getting to the back of the line to be approved again.  The required adjustments have been made and we’re sitting in line again waiting for this thing to get pushed public.  Since I’ve had all this time to think about the app, I cleaned it up a ton and made a short video demo attached here at the bottom of this post.  Check it out and let me know what you think.




I changed the layout quite a bit. The colors match the new iMeetzu site and I did away with the iPhone style chat bubbles. I thought the bubbles were going to be great, but I realized the only thing awesome about them was how hard they were to build in CSS. They made the app look cheap, and its not! So I had to get rid of those and simplify the chat box with a white background and a single line between messages. Plus I like having it say “You” and “Stranger” in the all too infamous red and blue colors.

My final thought on the app is to add in some of the advanced features from the site such as smilies and images. I haven’t decided on this yet, but I imagine some of these cool features from the full version of iMeetzu will find their way to the iPhone app. Luckily most of the changes to the app can be done via some files hosted on one of my servers, so we won’t always have to wait 2 months in between versions!

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New Site: Scrabble Word Machine - Cheater Cheaters

2
Sep 2009

I made this new site Scrabble Word Machine, which is a Scrabble Word Builder. This handy tool will help all of you Scrabble players build words when you get stumped. The tool goes as far as to match your tiles with letters on the board if you’d like to find out which words you could use in a certain spot.

Have fun all my cheaters out there! I know I’ll be using it!

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iMeetzu Hits 100,000 Conversations

28
Aug 2009

iMeetzu has officially hit 100,000 conversations logged in the last 3 weeks!

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iMeetzu meets the iPhone (Very Soon)

20
Aug 2009

After pondering the idea of putting iMeetzu into an iPhone application for awhile, I found someone that helped me do just that.  In a couple of weeks you should be able to download the iMeetzu app from the app store for FREE! Thats right, no charge! I took some screen shots from the demo app we’ve got put together so far.  You can see them at the bottom of this post.

I decided to skin the app much like the SMS application for iPhones.  Your messages will be skinned in the SMS chat bubbles.  This should make for a cool iPhone app! The best part of the app is that your conversations will be through the same network as the main site.  So you can chat from your iPhone with another user using the main site, or even another user on the widget!

Keep checking back here for a release date!

Home Screen Icon View:

Chatting With a Stranger:

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Old Flash Video I made - William Hung

12
Aug 2009

Anybody remember William Hung? The crazy Asian guy that probably holds the crown for the worst / funniest American Idol audition of all time? I made a cartoon video of this in flash right after his audition became famous. This was probably the first animation I made in flash, not bad for learning, eh?



I even dug up the actual video so you can see my inspiration:



iMeetzu Widget - Chat with a stranger on your own website

10
Aug 2009

I got a great idea from a fellow webmaster this weekend to make a widget out of my iMeetzu application. What a great way to spread the word around about the site. I spent a better part of my day Saturday making a lightweight version of iMeetzu that anyone can put on their site with just a small snippet of code. I actually have put this widget here on my blog as well. You can check it out on the right side of the page. The widget is integrated with the main system, so you could potentially chat from the widget with another user on the main site. Also you could be chatting through the widget from two separate websites. My hope is that the widget will get picked up by a lot of bloggers and help iMeetzu grow considerably.

Visit the iMeetzu Widget page to put iMeetzu on your site. The widget allows an adjustable size to fit nicely into your site.

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Frustration Gates v.2 - iMeetzu Promo

7
Aug 2009

I did a quick remake of my frustration gates flash game to promo my iMeetzu.com project. The game is a bit harder in this version. You have to get the box back and forth instead of just across the screen. Flash games are very commonly ’stolen’ from game websites and put on thousands of small sites. Some game developer hate this, but I’m using it to my advantage with the obvious iMeetzu.com promotion in the game.



Have fun!

Frustration Gates Flash Game

7
Aug 2009

I made this flash game here. Simple and challenging. GOOD LUCK




How far did you make it??

Sliding Photo Gallery - Javascript Only

7
Aug 2009

I made this sliding photo gallery awhile back in javascript. I wanted something half way fancy to display photos with on my website without using flash. (I HATE flash). So here is what I ended up with:



That’s that. Pretty basic, but it works well and is super easy to use. I put up a full size demo here: jGallery Demo. You can also download all of the source files here: jGallery Source Files. I’ve used this in combination with lightbox and left some commented code in the source files to do so. Play around with it. You can adjust the speed the images move, how many images are shown, and the images’ size of course. Have fun and if you use it post a link to your site in the comments here so I can check it out.

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Now Anyone Can AJAX

6
Aug 2009

I wrote an AJAX function awhile back that I use in a lot of my website projects. I use it because I prefer it to using an entire javascript library just to get the AJAX functions out of it. This is incredibly simple and is great for just the basic AJAX applications. Just about anyone with basic web building skills should be able to implement this into their site for some extra jazz.

I put together a simple demo here: Ajax Demo. Check it out for basic usage and to get the javascript source code. You can download the entire demo here: Ajax Demo Source Files. Upload these file to your server and you’ll be able to figure out how this works in no time.

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