President 2008

While at the MIMA Summit on Wednesday, I got to talk with Ryan Evans.  Little did I know at the time, he was running for president!

Since I’m still an undecided voter, Ryan Evans is as good as any.  His lack of political experience and ability to dodge questions is on par with any other candidate.  He takes on real topics too, like the Facebook re-design.  Plus he’s a local guy (Minneapolis) so I guess that makes him an even better choice.

If you want to check out Ryan Evans, go to www.helpryanevans.com and vote for your right to not change a thing.

With Halloween coming up, a Nightmare Before Christmas wallpaper for an iPhone or iPod Touch is a must have!  Here is the first one I’ve come up with featuring Jack Skellington himself!

It’s already at the correct iPhone size and the placement of the graphics is optimized for for the iPhone as I left space at the top for the time and date and Jack is nicely centered on the iPhone screen.

Enjoy Nightmare Before Christmas fans!

Also, be sure to check out my Firefox theme HalloFF featuring Jack Skellington.

Have you heard about Twitterkeys?  It’s a site that puts together a list of special characters that you can just copy and paste and put into a Twitter post.

Where as they are marketing to Twitter, these symbols work great for Plurk, ReJaw, Facebook, email or whatever you want to use them with.

Twitterkeys offers lots of different symbols from hearts to stars and even a snowman.  I think there are about 200 symbols to choose from.

Check them out as it may come in handy.

The Online Marketing Blog recently posted about Wordle, a tool that scans a webpage, picks out the most used words and creates a nice visual representation of your content.  I ran my blog homepage though Wordle and it seems that I’m all about bacon at the moment.

If you look close I think you can see a hidden message that says “Enjoy Bacon and Beer.”

Give Wordle a try. It’s just a fun little tool to play around with.

As I’ve been socializing on Plurk, there is one topic that just seems to grab a lot of attention.  And that topic is bacon.  Everywhere I turn, there are more and more bacon lovers sharing their interesting bacon finds.

I thought I’d put a few of those together to share with all the bacon lovers out there.

OMG Bacon

Bacon Dispenser

Bacon Vodka

Wake n’ Bacon Alarm Clock & Cooker

Bacon Ice Cream

Chocolate Covered Bacon

Bacon and Cake

Canned Bacon

A few days ago Plurk came out with the ability to customize your profile with your own CSS code.  I put my skills to work and created my first Plurk theme!

It’s a bit darker, to match my website, and comes with rounded boxes, a unified timeline and colors that pop.

You can get a better feel for it by viewing my Plurk Profile.

Want the theme?  No problem.

Install TwisterMc’s Plurk Theme

Want to edit the code?  Go ahead.  Just remember to give me a little credit for the time I spent creating the theme.  You can grab the code by installing it and then editing your Plurk profile and customizing it.

I was excited to see iTunes 7.7 this morning and then TUAW tipped us off as to how to get into the App Store.

Excited to check it out, I found a few free applications and downloaded them. Nothing to exciting but the Remote application does let me control iTunes or Apple TV (if I had one) from my iPod.

I did see some nice checklist applications too, which I do want, but I’m waiting for one from Remember the Milk or some other system that can sync online.

It seems a bit empty right now, but exciting none the less!

I realized that the code I wrote for SocialAddict on Adobe Air could easily translate into a web application.  So I tossed the files up online and now it’s accessible everywhere.

Check it out: http://twistermc.com/s

What’s cool about this is you can use it in a few different ways.

1 - Use it without Adobe Air.

2 - Load it in Firefox’s sidebar.  Just visit the URL above, bookmark the page and be sure to check the ‘Load in Sidebar’ box.  Now whenever you click on the bookmark, it’ll pop-open.

After my recent success with Plurkit, I decided to take the idea to the next level and add in more social sites.  The outcome is SocialAddict which has 11 social sites within one Adobe Air application.

What SocialAddict does is loads the mobile or iPhone version of each site for easy access.  Again, I didn’t tie into any APIs or do massive re-construction.  These are all previously available applications that have been tied together to make it quick and easy to go from one to the next.

Within SocialAddict you’ll find:

• BrightKite
• Facebook
• FriendFeed To Go

Lets set a record today for the most times a piece of software was downloaded in 24 hours!

Needless to say, you also get Firefox 3 and all the good features that come with it!  Click on the badge above an be a part of history.