Web 2 accounts, coffee addiction, develope iPhone app

Well I've been working on getting all my web things in sycn, ie: facebook, flickr, You Tube, Photrade, the Otto Phokus blog, and I was wondering what would ever happen if these services went out of business. Not only these Web 2 social sites, but some of the others. People have put a lot of work into setting up, and maintaining their accounts, it would be a catastrophe in the making should some go out of business. Hmmmm, that reminds me, I wonder how Photrade is doing, I will have to check and see if they have any new messages to the members about the site. They had lost a lot of their Venture funding when the financial crisis hit, and are looking at any way possible to stay in business.

If you read my blog before you know of my caffein/coffee addiction, but it is going pretty good, I have been drinking about 2/3 or more decafe coffee, and about 32 ounces a day instead of 64 ounces. I did have a Red Eye today at Starbucks on the way to work. I don't get the heebie jeebies anymore like I used to, matter of fact I get pretty darn tired around noon if I have only been drinking decafe. Have to start drinking more water too!
My picture from CC's Wooden Grill still hasn't gotten any views on Flickr, and I really kinda like that picture. Just when you least expect though, there will be gazillion views one day when I check the stats.

I have a pretty good unique idea for an iPhone application, so I have been hitting the books, and trying to get my web and coding skills up to date. I hope to have something possibly to put on the app store by Fall. I think I am going to have to spend some time at the library, or even stay at work to work on this, and also some of my Art projects. Too many distractions at home.

Cheetah3D "Hello World" first program

Well it's been a long time since I posted anything, and I know how I dislike browsing to old blogs, so I will try to keep updating at least once a week. This first post is a test post to see if the first program I made with Cheetah3D, Hello World" works when I post it up to the blog. It works for me on my computer. So here it comes;



I hope it works, it is in the format for an iPhone.
I hope to do some 3D Modeling of people, body parts etc...,and other objects and animation too!

iPhone Home Page 3 - Japanese Language and Photography reference page

Here is a screen shot of my iPhone Home page number 3. I have a lot of useful Japanese Language reference applications, and study aids. This along with my "Kanji as Art" theme is helping me learn a little bit of Japanese, and also Chinese languages. I also have some books, texts that are very good too. I should have my Art table cleared off this weekend, then I can start practice writing the Kangi, and Kana scripts. I also have two photography reference applications on this page. The one marks your gps location for later use with the picture, and the other helps you choose the correct exposure, aperture, ... and almost made for film, but very helpful for taking manual pictures with my DSLR. The iFlippr app has some Japanese, and Chinese flip cards.

I blogged about this earlier, about how I verified for a guy that his Tattoo in Kanji, actually meant "Eternal Life" in Chineese too. I used my iPhone application, Jishabot.
The iPhone screen shot at the top today is of the Kanji Flip iPhone application. The Kanji shown is "South".

Lilly, iPhone, Kanji,

Edited the Blog title, added one of my drawings from life drawing class. Just changing things up a bit, see what works out best. 

This morning I can't decided what picture I want to spotlight from my Photrade Gallery. And when I choose one, and write about the picture, in the future it won't be attached to the blog in the Archive, but still in the Photrade Gallery website. So, I will always have to make that reference to view the picture on that site, if reading from the Archive. 

Not much happening from the Apple Special Event September 9, 2008 that was earth shattering,  but nice upgrade to the iPod/iTouch line, and iTunes 8. Now I can hopefully add the 97 apps I downloaded back onto my iPhone and it won't crash. I was restoring my iPhone and backing it up too much, and it was taking up most of my time. I felt like I was back in pre Apple Computer days of 1999 before I switched to Mac. I was constantly having to restore the Operating System software, and then the applications, and any data I could salvage. With the iPhone 2.1 OS coming out on Friday, Steve Jobs said at the Keynote, that these issues were addressed.

The iPhone issue is causing a Domino effect on everything else in my life, I am 2 weeks behind on the 2 Web classes I am taking, and new classes come out on Wednesday and Friday. So I have a lot of catching up to do, and that is just the beginning.

A quick word on the Japanese Kanji as Art. I think taking the art approach as I am with Kanji will help get back into painting, more specifically Watercolor, and Pen & Ink. I really miss it, and the digital photography has filled that creative gap so far. Plus the photography is instant gratification. 

Time to get ready for the day job, the picture for today will be Lilly, the farm dog. She is so fast it's hard to get a picture of her standing still. I like this one I took, almost like she is posing, vouge, for the picture. I have some more of her in my picture gallery's too. (Oh good, I just figured out how to edit my post's. I'm still finding my writing voice and style, and going through a little learning curve with the blog)