Blog
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The New ItemBrowser is Almost Here
The new ItemBrowser is launching soon. Without David, the site would be a crappy, manually updated mess. The stuff he’s done to automate the site is nothing short of phenomenal in my book. When I first set out to make the site, I wanted to push myself to learn PHP better. I did accomplish that early on, but I also realized that getting to where I want to be with PHP was going to take far longer than this little project required.
Some stuff you can expect in this release:
- Geo-Location. Explore nearby spots. Find items nearby. Find specific spot types nearby.
- Full-screen web app capable. (Aside from an annoying refresh-on-load issue, the site works swimmingly well full-screen.)
- Large, beautiful artwork. We wanted the site to look gorgeous on retina displays.
- Optimized for mobile first. The site will work well in modern desktop browser, but the experience is custom-tailored for iPhone use. Alternate (responsive) layouts will come after launch.
Want to be one of the first to be notified when ItemBrowser v3 launches? Join our email list.
(I don’t have exact launch date, but signs are pointing towards the end of next week…)
PS. If you sign up for notifications, some of you may get early access to the site. Just sayin’… ;)
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WallaBee Item Browser
WallaB.ee is a new location-based item game that I’ve become quite enamored with. Over the past couple of weeks, my friend Will McCain and a few others have been working on a Google Doc that documented all of the available items and mixes/recipes that are available in the game. This weekend I took the idea a step further and created a visual guide: ItemBrowser.com. (It started in a subdirectory on this site and then I decided to move it to its own domain.)
Right now it’s all updated manually. WallaBee has an API that I hope to leverage to automate the site in the near future.
Since it’s an iPhone game, the site is geared towards that device. Got any feedback or want to see something done differently with it? Let me know in the comments, or hit me up on Twitter: @itembrowser
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Viggle
I’ve been using GetGlue and Into_Now for a while to track my tv viewing. Glue let’s you check into pretty much anything, and you get stickers for doing so. Into_Now works by listening to whatever’s on your tv – whether live or DVR’d. But now there’s a new app in town, and while it still has some growing up to do, it’s the app to beat. Why would you want to keep track of this kind of stuff?Viggle works like Into_Now in that it listens to what’s currently on TV and then checks you in.
(Unlike Into_Now, however, Viggle only works on live broadcasts.)Viggle works with live broadcasts and can identify DVR’d shows up to seven days old. If Viggle can’t find the show you’re watching, after two failed attempts you can manually check into the show.The number of points you can earn varies from show to show. Some shows like American Idol can net you as many as 400 points. Special events like the Super Bowl or the Grammy’s have up to 10,000 points up for grabs. Once you’ve earned a few thousand points, you can redeem them for gift cards or donate the points to a charity. 14,000 points can be redeemed for a $10 iTunes gift card. (There are quite a few other rewards available as well.)
Stickers seem kind of lame in comparison now.
Sign up for Viggle
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Super Ginormous Alpha
It’s far from complete, but Super Ginormous is available on GitHub. It requires a fork of Tersus that will soon be merged – if approved ;) – into the core theme code. Check it out if you get a chance. I’d love to hear what you think. Got any specific requests on what you’d like to see in a child theme or the parent theme? I’d love to hear them.
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Tersus Development
Over the next few weeks, the design of this site is going to evolve. I’m working on the first of several child themes for Tersus. Our original plan was to include several “flavors” but they did too much and limit others and their ability to build on top of what we’ve done. If you have any feedback on how you’d like to see things built out, by all means leave feedback here or chime in on Github. -
One Year Later
What a difference a year makes…
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DropPress
DropPress. Add photos to a Dropbox folder and have them automagically appear as a post on your WordPress site.