Yelp Me Out Here

So I love apps for my iPhone like Yelp, Loopt, Twitter, and other social networking apps that use the built in GPS to get your location and link you to friends and strangers alike around you. My only problem with apps like these is that no one uses them in small towns. Most recently I’ve started using Yelp and don’t get me wrong, there are a decent amount of reviews on places in my area but I’ve found a few places that I’ve had to add or only had one review and a single review on a place isn’t that beneficial or non-bias. So, I’ve taken it upon myself to review every place I go over the next month. I don’t go too many places but we’ll give it a try and see what I come up with.

Follow me up on:

Yelp, Twitter, and Loopt

Young Jeezy House Party Challenge Is On!

iPhone Blog Client, Desktop Blog Client, and Static

Before I start talking about Windows Live Writer, what I’m writing this post in, I’d like to do a little update on my last post. I just wanted to emphasize how disappointed I was in the blogging apps available for the iPhone. I wish I knew how to program and I’d try to come up with something. Sounds like a challenge for Magellan Arts (www.magellanarts.com) But enough on that, on to Windows Live Writer.

So the whole blogging platform is totally new to me, over time I’ve become used to the Twitter, locked down, 140 character posts that seem to be the norm now a days. To acclimate myself I’ve been trying to see everything that’s available, hence playing around on my PC and iPhone with what’s around. So far the iPhone was a let down with iBlogger and BlogPress. Out of the two I would go with iBlogger. It seemed to be the easiest to use.

Now I’m using the new Microsoft Windows Live Writer, which I really like. First off when I set it up I was able to provide all of my Blogger/BlogSpot information and as you can see in the screenshot it automatically pulled all of my blog info and set me right up.

It auto setup the background as black, font the light green, etc. Even to add that screenshot was extremely simple. I just pressed the ‘Print Screen’ key then the magical Paste combo of ‘Ctrl + V’ and poof, my screenshot was there and ready in my blog. It even automatically set it up as a thumbnail and the ability to click and open the pic in a new tab. Pretty cool I do have to say. Of course on the side of Live Writer you get all the obligatory buttons of Hyperlink, Picture, Photo Album, Table, Map, Tags, Video, Add a Plug-in, everything you’d expect to want to do with a blog posting. Well that’s all I have for now. I’ll play around a bit more and see if I can get an update out of Live Writer.

Now for static, this whole time I’ve been sitting here I’ve been hearing static through my speakers from my damn iPhone. I’m about to either smash it or attempt to cover it in aluminum foil to hopefully stop the static noise. Any one else have any ideas?

iPhone Apps

Well the wife is working today so I thought I'd try to mess around with some iPhone blogging apps. I've downloaded and tried BlogPress but it's pretty featureless. I'm currently typing this in iBlogger and I have to say it's also a pretty sad excuse for an iPhone app. They're both very plain. iBlogger does allow for geo-tagging, regular tagging, adding hyperlinks, but no photo support that I can see. At least not for Blogspot/Blogger accounts.

Mobile Blogging from here.

[Posted with iBlogger from my iPhone]

I finally made it!

So I've finally made it to the internet! Over the weekend I decided I wanted to mod my Xbox 360 by painting it. It just so happens that the week before a friend at work started a blog composed of all of his projects and mods he's currently doing or wants to do. When I was talking about my 360 he asked if he could post pics and a short story. Of course I obliged! Link to the blog below.

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