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First I must admit I am not a huge Twitter user. I do see the use for it and enjoy checking on a handful of people, but I just don’t have time to check it every hour. But if I wanted to there are a ton of apps out there that allow you to quickly tweet and check the people you’re following. One of those apps is ChillTwit.

ChillTwit is a pretty standard Twitter client. It has all the basics – ability to view the people you follow, view replies and direct messages. It has a similar layout to the way texting is done with conversation bubbles. One of the highlighted features that makes this client different from others is the ability to change the background and conversation bubbles. (BTW: the default colors and background is hideous)

There are a few issues with the app that need to be addressed though. The only big one is the ability to quickly follow someone. Most other apps allow you to do this and it should be standard. The other minor issue is how it handles double quotes. It does not properly convert the HTML code to double quotes. This is a minor issue since it should be a relatively easy fix.

If you’re looking for a new Twitter app with a new fresh user interface, I would definatly recomend checking out ChillTwit – especially since it’s FREE.

Download ChillTwit from iTunes

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I almost fell out of my chair watching this video. Enjoy!

World’s Largest Cheeto and the Optimus Maximus from Gizmodo on Vimeo.

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Just a quick collection of silly dogs. Check out fropki.com for more funny pictures.

My mother taught me ‘TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE’.
“If you’re going to kill each other, do it outside. I just finished cleaning.”

My mother taught me ‘RELIGION’.
“You better pray that will come out of the carpet.”

My mother taught me about ‘TIME TRAVEL’.
“If you don’t straighten up, I’m going to knock you into the middle of next week!”

My mother taught me ‘LOGIC.’
“Because I said so, that’s why.”

My mother taught me MORE ‘LOGIC’.
“If you fall out of that swing and break your neck, you’re not going to the store with me.”

My mother taught me ‘FORESIGHT’.
“Make sure you wear clean underwear, in case you’re in an accident.”

My mother taught me ‘IRONY.’
“Keep crying and I’ll give you something to cry about.”

My mother taught me about the ‘science of OSMOSIS’.
“Shut your mouth and eat your supper.”

My mother taught me about ‘CONTORTIONISM’.
“Will you look at that dirt on the back of your neck?”

My mother taught me about ‘STAMINA’.
“You’ll sit there until all that spinach is gone.”

My mother taught me about ‘WEATHER’.
“This room of yours looks as if a tornado went through it.”

My mother taught me about ‘HYPOCRISY’.
“If I told you once, I’ve told you a million times. Don’t exaggerate!”

My mother taught me the ‘CIRCLE OF LIFE’.
“I brought you into this world, and I can take you out.”

My mother taught me about ‘BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION’.
“Stop acting like your father!”

My mother taught me about ‘ENVY’.
“There are millions of less fortunate children in this world who don’t have wonderful parents like you do.”

My mother taught me about ‘ANTICIPATION.’
“Just wait until we get home.”

My mother taught me about ‘RECEIVING’.
“You are going to get it when you get home!”

My mother taught me ‘MEDICAL SCIENCE’.
“If you don’t stop crossing your eyes, they are going to get stuck that way.”

My mother taught me ‘ESP’.
“Put your sweater on; don’t you think I know when you are cold?”

My mother taught me ‘HUMOR’.
“When that lawn mower cuts off your toes, don’t come running to me.”

My mother taught me HOW TO ‘BECOME AN ADULT’.
“If you don’t eat your vegetables, you’ll never grow up..”

My mother taught me ‘GENETICS’.
“You’re just like your father.”

My mother taught me about my ‘ROOTS’.
“Shut that door behind you. Do you think you were born in a barn?”

My mother taught me ‘WISDOM’.
“When you get to be my age, you’ll understand.”

And my favorite: My mother taught me about ‘JUSTICE’.
“One day you’ll have kids, and I hope they turn out just like you!!!

I’m just trying out this new app for the iPod Touch that allows some basic ways to manage a WordPress blog. So far I can write a add/edit posts as well as pages. Can also manage any comments that come in. No way to create styles like bold or italic. (may be able to use HTML though)

Update: You can add HTML formatting but you have to do it by hand (no WYSIWYG) which is a real pain with the touch keyboard.

Just added a picture but I’m not sure how it is going to be placed into the post. (will update later)

Update: Adding pictures is as easy selecting the image and hitting next. But there is no way to add an image to a certain area. Like the image above I had to go back in and add later. The app sticks all the images at the bottom which is fine for basic editing.

That’s it for now. Will post link to app in iTunes tomorrow as well. (Download now from iTunes)

main screen when you setup a blog. You can setup multiple blogs.

Showing the posts that can be edited. You can even save a local draft to update later

Interface to add pictures to blog. If I had more pictures in this post at the time, they would all display here. (also very nice)

The actual interface to writing or editing a blog post.

Earlier this week I had an interesting problem. I needed to have some javascript code run from within the page being called via AJAX. The javascript relied on the values being set in the page being called so it could not be setup on the page before hand. It had to be called afterward.

It basically came down to having to eval() the XMLHttpRequest data being sent. But thanks to developersnippets.com they wrote a very helpful article that fixes the issues I was having.

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Below is an explanation of the files included in the demo. We first need to make a generic page that has a single link that when clicked loads a separate page through an AJAX request.

// index.php


	some content that is here when the page loads

	change div

Next we need to create the page that will be loaded via the AJAX request. Now the key here is that the page being loaded has Javascript that needs to be ran. So for our example we will launch a simple alert() commend that will show us a message along with a passed $_GET variable.

// load_page.php

Page has been succesfully changed []

change div

And that’s it for the very basic example of how you can use this. (not practical but should give you the concept) Please leave a comment below if you have any questions or need any help with this.

1) Do not get into trouble

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