Finally, I have my app, called iCanHasLOL published on App Store!
Actually the app was reviewed within 24 hours by Apple, although I’ve heard it would usually take 2 weeks.

I mentioned that I had been writing an iPhone app using Appcelerator before, and an app was almost ready to go. However, I was not able to publish it with the particular contents so I re-wrote the app and re-created some graphics to finish up this brand-new app.

This is free of charge also ad-free (for now, at least!) so get your copy now!

Hello, I have neglected my blog since September although there have been some blog-worthy events like N900 meetup (plus Droid experience and new Fennec demo. See the videos by Tnkgrl from the link!), California Data Camp, release of Net2Streams Pro (the streaming radio app for Palm WebOS I helped writing) etc… Well, I keep microblogging on Twitter almost daily basis so follow me if you’d like!

One of the interesting I have been independently doing is that writing an app for iPhone with JavaScript, and this time, not an web app but a “native” Cocoa app. Yes I said a native iPhone app in JavaScript! But how? -I used this excellent open-source platform, called Titanium by Appcelerator! Without bothering Obj.C or Java, Titanium allows developers to write iPhone and Android apps with the familiar web technology.

So, as a test run, I have created the iCuteoverload app for iPhone again. (Originally, I made the web app for iPhone, using iUI in 2007)
I will not release this app on AppStore -not because of the technical issue but the agreement with the business decision. (Yes, this app contents are not mine and copyrighted!) But I should be able to show the video capture as a demo to tell you what Titanium can do for web devs like me!

Can’t have enough cute!
Instead of upgrading my previous app, iCuteOverload for Palm, I have created this power-up version of cute app called, PREtty Cute Suite.

This app is more offensively and obnoxiously cute with more cute-related rss feed and flickr pics.
Included feeds are:

1. Cute Overload
2. I Can Has Cheezburger
3. Cute Obssesion
4. Epicute
5. Super Cute Kawaii
6. Cupcakes Take Tha Cake

Also, a bunch of cute picture streams from Flickr.


This app allows you to save the pix/feeds you like as your favorites, also share the links via email.

Currently available as a “Homebew” app on PreCentral.net for free.
I have no plan to submit this to the Palm official app store in this moment, at least for this version 0.9.

As a front-end web developer, also a mobile-web developer, the Palm’s new WebOS SDK for Pre sounds very attractive, and I could not wait to create some applications although I am still a iPhone user and haven’t been convinced to switch a service provider.

Then I felt like, I already got this web app, iCuteoverload for iPhone but yeah why not for Pre? So I decide to re-create the same app from scratch. Sure, the existing app is a web app that wrote with JavaScript framework iUI and PHP, does run fine on Pre’s web browser since Pre is based on Webkit browser. However, I wanted to make this app a standalone client with Mojo framework so I needed to code from scratch.

Anyway, here it is, iCO for Palm is now available at PreCentral. The official store is not yet open, so the installing the app may require a bit of geeky skills, but if you happen to be a Pre user and would like to try, follow this tutorial on how to install homebrew apps on Pre for Mac users (And this is for Windows users instruction).

By the way, I keep this app name begins with i, because I already have named so for iPhone and wanted to keep it for consistency. However, in Pre community, this seems to be a pretty bad thing to do. People see me as a clueless Apple fan

Ta-da, finally there’s an app for that! – I mean an iPhone native app that I involved is available on App Store!

This app is called, MuniApp, and this gives you access to San Francisco’s MUNI transit system on the go with real time predictions for buses, metro and cable cars.

I have worked on some UI and icons, while my friend Alberto has coded all the Obj.C. We are both SF residents and rely on MUNI pretty frequently and we do use this app on daily basis. Honestly, this is really simple and useful app

The official website for MuniApp is at www.obapp.com/muniapp

To directly go to App Store on iTunes, go to this link!

I had a plenty of time to stay home and play with code right now so I mashed Twitter trend API, mixed with some BOSS news and image search stuff I used before, also Microsoft’s new Bing search results to create some silly and handy web app called TweetTrendDunno.

Basically, this grabs Twitter “trending topic” terms, and as a user click on each term you want to know about, it displays news articles, images, and Bing results (usually summary from Wikipedia helps you to figure out what the term means in general).

If you are Twitter user and ever wonder what people are talking about, give TweetTrendDunno a try!

Now iCuteoverload is on Apple’s iPhone web app directory, and girliemac.com has gotten new visitors.
Thank you!