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Twitmo iPhone app
Feb 20th
I’ve been working on an iphone app called Twitmo which lets you take a bog-standard iPhone photo, and turns it into something a bit more interesting. You can then write a tweet by tapping on the image, and send the whole thing off to Twitter. Well, to Twitpic actually, but it’s effectively the same thing.
The philosophy behind Twitmo is the same as my earlier app, Phlomo: take quick Lomo style snaps of whatever tickles your fancy, and upload them quickly and easily to a social networking site. In this case Twitpic and Twitter.
It’s been a long, hard fight getting this app ready, mainly because of problems with image processing. Basically the iPhone has a very weird way of knowing which way up a photo should be. If you want to do real image processing this creates real headaches. I got round it in Phlomo by letting the user use the iPhone’s built-in crop, just after a photo’s taken. I don’t know how this fixed the problem, but it did. But a number of people complained that the resulting image was small and poor quality.
So, with a lot of late-night trial and error I finally got the image processing sorted.
Uploading an image to twitpic is easy. Although I’m slightly concerned that twitter are phasing in OAuth, but twitpic have made no noises about when they’re falling in line with twitter. I guess sometime later this year I may have more coding to do…
Phlomo
Nov 21st
ok so I’ve renamed Flomo to Phlomo (there’s a toy company in the states called Flomo) and I’ve submitted the app to Apple. Fingers crossed. The whole testing and submission procedure was a bit of a pain. But now I’ve done it, it doesn’t seem too bad.
I can’t think why the app might not be accepted, although Apple are notorious for accepting the most incredible dross and rejecting perfectly good apps on minor technicalities (such as incorrect age ratings based on their bizarre criteria).
I’ve also set up Phlomo.com.
Oh and I’ve tried out this new theme, which I think is somewhat better than the last.