Rodfather Mobile

From Mashables:

Utterz is a new mobile blogging community launched by RPM Communications, the same company that brought you Foonz. In conjunction with the launching of Utterz, RPM Communications is also announcing its Series A round of funding for $4 million, led by Morgenthaler Ventures.

With utterz, you can blog with your cell phone while you’re away from a computer. Within the Utterz network, your profile resembles a Twitter micro-blogging stream and shows all of your entries. These can be sorted by date, rating, and popularity. An utter blog entry can include audio, video, images and text. These can be created online or with your mobile phone. Utterz provides a phone number for you to call in and “speak” your blog entry, which appears as an audio file on your Utterz stream. This number can also be used for listening to Utterz, and responding to another user’s Utterz can be done via mobile phone as well. The Utterz community also has channels where you can participate with other users on a given topic.

There are also a handful of widget options for you to plug-in your Utterz updates into existing networks, including TypePad, Blogger, Xanga, MySpace, LiveJournal and Facebook. You can also grab the code for a widget to be placed on your personal website. There are three different widget options that vary in size. The most convenient aspects of Utterz is the number that can be dialed in order to leave a voice blogging entry, expanding the use of its service to those that may not have recording features on their cell phone, and removing other size limitations a mobile user may have for recording and sending an audio file from the hand set. The widgets also offer a good format for distributing Utterz on a cross-platform level.

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I just joined.

Since I’m using the iPhone most the time, no video utterz for me..  I’m left with text, images, and audio.

Seems like a mashup of all the other twitter clones except this supports all media and comments.  It’s without file transfers like Pownce.  Too bad it doesn’t do voice to text translation like Jott.com but I’m sure Jott will support it eventually.  It’s pretty cool you can reply to utterz all from you phone.

I’ll most likely stick with twitter since I like its simplicity and already have ‘friends’ on there.

I’ll try it out though.  I added a Utterz contact to my iPhone and put it on my Favorites list.  Add me if you want.  I’ll be lurking the utterz in case something interesting happens.  Or maybe send a voice message while I’m drunk on stage singing  ‘Purple Rain’ on karaoke night.

Via Mashable

modmyiphone.com is supplying a list of native iPhone apps.

http://www.modmyiphone.com/nativeapps/the-list/

Josh Bancroft also posted a list of apps he’s installed on his and gives a short explanation of each.

I modded my iPhone a few weeks ago with iBrickr for the Windows. The original motivation was to put Chocolate Rain as my ringtone.

After installing the ‘Installer’ app, it’s a breeze to get apps on the iPhone. So far I have:

• ApolloIM: Very nice AIM client.
• MobileChat: Another AIM client. Can’t decide which to use.
• NES Emulator: So sweet. I copied the Maniac Mansion ROM and it works great.
• MobileTwitterrific: Twitter client. Not so good so far.
• Sketches: Inking on the iPhone! Can ink over photos too. Just shake the iPhone to clear the screen.
• SummerBoard: Allows you to scroll the main screen in case you install too many apps!
• iLight: Makes you iPhone screen bright white to use as a flashlight..

I’m happy with my iPhone. One thing that pissed me off with Windows Mobile is that every little app had a cost to it. I felt it was ridiculous paying $40 for an instant messenger application, for any platform, and the ones offered for Windows Mobile basically sucks compared to what we get for free on the iPhone.

Gizmodo got some hands-on goodness with the iTunes WiFi Music Store. One thing I would really like in the Sansa Connect is search and the iTunes WiFi Music Store has it. Bad news, you can’t download DRM-free tracks.  Maybe we’ll see subscription music in the near future?

I hope you can download songs through the EDGE connection with the iPhone..

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Bowling

Kevin wanted to bowl. Last time before knee surgery.

SHAPE Services has announced the availability of IM+ for Skype for iPhone, the Safari web application for accessing Skype ecosystem from the mobile environment. The application is designed especially for iPhone’s touch screen and complements the design and interface of Apple’s masterpiece. For a limited time IM+ for Skype iPhone version is being offered free of charge to all iPhone users.

Via Mobility Site

Even if you don’t have an iPhone, it could be an easy way to create mpeg4 video.

• Add your photos or videos. With a single click, you can touch-up, crop, or rotate pictures and videos. It’s that easy!
• Choose from variety of transition & ken-burns styled effects. Add soundtracks, and your own voice narration to your photo stories. Then, personalize them with titles and captions.
• Generate to MPEG-4 format and share your home videos on iPhone anytime, anywhere!

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I will definitely use this the next time I’m checking out karaoke at the bar.

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Maybe I can do better at ink blogging… by using photos as my ink canvas.

For this, I’m using the iPhone to take the photo. Emailed the photo to myself. Inked on the photo using paint.net. Emailed the edited photo to flickr where it ends up cross posted to this blog.

Edit: Well, this is going to take some work. Tried three times before I could successfully get Flickr to crosspost this entry.