AAAAH! Love your App! I already had the BadMonkey Background on my iPhone. Now, I have Ask Dave! Really nice idea! GREAT! COOL! BRILLANT! Thx to David Syzdek and you!
Posted by FirstLadyPatate on May 10, 2009 | Reply
Happy Mother's Day to all the mommies out there! It's yet another Bullet Sunday, this time from beautiful Savannah, Georgia!
• Blogiversary. Okay, okay... I realize that April 18th, Blogography's six year anniversary, blew by and people are wondering what happened to my annual Kick-Ass Blogiversary Celebration (especially since last year was such a huge success). Well, I had big plans for the event, but everything kind of fell apart when the economy tanked. One company doubled their price in-between the time I asked for a price quote and the time I submitted the project. Another company that was working on one of my most favorite Blogography products ever has (literally) disappeared off the face of the earth (and took my deposit with them). Other companies I deal with have gone out of business or been sold. Add in TequilaCon, Davedon, Davenburgh, kidney stones, work, and non-stop travel... and, well, you get the picture. So instead of concentrating all my Blogiversary projects into one week, I'll be sprinkling them throughout the year as I manage to complete them. Starting with today...
• Ask Dave! Some of you may remember my "Ask Dave" Dashboard Widget for MacOS X. It's a tiny app that allows you to ask Lil' Dave a question, and he'll shake his magic screen to have an answer appear. It's thoroughly useless, but ever since Apple allowed apps to be built for the iPhone, I've wanted to convert it over... so I could have something SIX TIMES MORE USELESS! Introducing Ask Dave! for iPhone and iPod Touch!
It's pretty sweet and has some cool features... but, best of all, it's FREE! If you have an iPhone or iPod Touch, head on over to the Official Ask Dave! Page and get it! And if you don't have an iPhone or iPod Touch, now you have an excuse to go buy one!
• Bindle Binaries. And the reason that the Ask Dave! app is free isn't because of me. It's because of David Syzdek of Bindle Binaries. When I realized that I wasn't smart enough to create the app on my own, I started looking for a company that I could hire to build it for me. As the price quotes began to roll in, my heart sank when they ended up being way outside my budget. I would have to either abandon the project or charge for it. But then I got the idea that maybe it would be cheaper to find somebody who already had a "Magic 8-Ball" app and have them put my graphics on top of their existing code. I downloaded every free "Magic 8-Ball" app I could find, picked my favorite one, then wrote to the author with my idea. The rest is history. David liked the project, agreed to release it for free if the code could be open-source, and started work on the app immediately. So, if you enjoy Ask Dave! don't thank me. All I did was draw some cartoons. David is the one who figured out a way to put it together... came up with a way to animate the backgrounds... added all the little touches that makes it feel like an iPhone app... put in untold hours squashing bugs and getting it to work... it's all him. Thank you, David!
Sadly, this is my last day in Savannah. I'd be upset about that, but tomorrow I'm off to new adventures...
AAAAH! Love your App! I already had the BadMonkey Background on my iPhone. Now, I have Ask Dave! Really nice idea! GREAT! COOL! BRILLANT! Thx to David Syzdek and you!
Posted by FirstLadyPatate on May 10, 2009 | Reply
Thank goodness for the iPod touch so that those of us that don't have iPhones can enjoy in the goodness that is Daverific.
Posted by martymankins on May 10, 2009 | Reply
This.
This is brilliant.
You know what else would be brilliant? Lil' Dave wallpapers for iPhone/touch.
Posted by Jeff on May 10, 2009 | Reply
I just bought my iPhone 3G two days ago, am and very chuffed that I now have a Blogography app on it to go with the Blogography wallpaper!
Posted by Yun-Huei on May 10, 2009 | Reply
That is so cool I just can't even stand it. It's like, wicked cool.
Posted by floating princess on May 10, 2009 | Reply
Dave! This is so cool. I just downloaded it and I can't wait to sync and try it out. And rate it! Thanks!
Posted by Long Story Longer on May 10, 2009 | Reply
Happy Blogiversary, and thanks for the iPhone app, Dave and Dave! The Ninja and I are loving it.
Posted by Atomic Bombshell on May 10, 2009 | Reply
Awesome! Your Ask Dave widget for MacOS X is how I found your blog years ago! I use it daily—when someone asks for a rush project, I say "Let's ask Dave," and then they have to click the screen to see if their project can be completed on time. Can't wait to download this!
hey, cool! Will have to check to see if there's any room left on my iPhone (they need to make a 32G version...)
Posted by whitenoise on May 11, 2009 | Reply
This application has totally made my iPhone the sexiest in town! Thanks for sharing more of your fabulous Davetoons.
Love
Robyn
Posted by borysSNORC ™ on May 12, 2009 | Reply
Since you're a fan of Obama's socialist and communist policies, should you either release an app for the Blackberry or at the very least, provide free iPhones to everyone who doesn't have one? Why are you so exclusionary, catering only to the iHave's and not the iHaveNot's?
Blackberry does, after all, own 50% of the smartphone market as of Q1 2009. All by itself! The iPhone and *all* other smartphones make up the other 50%, or as it's more commonly know, "the lesser half."
Shouldn't you be serving your fellow comrades?
(Note: I may or may not be hiding my jealousy behind politically charged context)
Hey, I did my socialist duty by releasing the app for free under open source. And I did my communist duty by by going through Apple to distribute it. Now I'm electing to do my capitalistic duty by telling people to get their own damn iPhone or iPod Touch!
Just you wait until I start doing my dictatorship duty! You're going to LOVE that!
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