For the past couple months I have been hard at work on my first big post-Font Burner project. This one is called Phone Feedr and it allows anyone to create an iPhone optimized version of their web site. All you have to do is plugin the address of your site’s RSS feed and pick a custom .phonefeedr subdomain name. This is called a feedr. Think of it as an iPhone web app for your website. Adding it to your phone’s home screen even gives you a nice app icon that you can replace with any image you want.

The site is live, so head on over to phonefeedr.com and test it out. You are some of the first eyes to see it, so if you find bugs or mistakes please let me know!

As a side note, any visitors to this blog will automatically get redirected to my feedr. If you are curious about how to redirect iPhone users to friendlier versions of your site, you can find the script I use here.

For the technically curious, Phone Feedr was built using WordPress MU. The RSS parsing is handled by Simple Pie and the iPhone interface uses iUI. I call the Simple Pie and iUI concoction Pie.ui and have made it available to anyone interested in reusing it.

This week I have been sorting through all the timelapse movies I have made over the last 3 years. It’s a surprisingly big job and man, time flies! Most of them are just sunsets and clouds, but I have also made some driving movies and other random stuff. I will be uploading them all to YouTube hopefully this weekend. I probably won’t make a post for each video I am going to uplaod, so you might want to check my YouTube page if you like my work. Here are some of the more interesting ones:

Here are some clouds taken in our back yard:

Another sunset from our office in Loveland:

Geese on a frozen lake:

My commute to work:

Stars moving in the night sky:

Driving to Nebraska over Thanksgiving:

Rian wanted to make a movie today so we hooked up the camera, got out his Star Wars guys, and started playing. He had the idea of using the printer as a spaceship and this is the movie we came up with. Enjoy…

My latest side project has been to build an archive of over 1000 fonts that anyone can use on their website. The project is called Font Burner and it makes it super easy to change your website’s headlines from boring system fonts to beautiful creative fonts. All you have to do is copy a chunk of code into the head of your webpage. Head on over to www.fontburner.com to check it out.

Technically the site launched last weekend but I was still working out some bugs so I haven’t started promoting it until now. I am really excited about the possibilities of the site so please let me know what you think of it. Also, if you use Font Burner on your site let me know!

I finally got around to posting the other Star Wars stop motion movies that Rian and I made together. Enjoy.

Rian and I like to make short stop motion movies with his Star Wars guys. We have half a dozen or so little films now and I thought I would put them on YouTube so I can share them with you. Here are a few of our first attempts at movie making:
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Before we went trick-or-treating I had a special chocolate-covered treat for my son, Rian. He made it through a cricket and a larva before… well… see for yourself. Here is a YouTube video:

I checked my YouTube stats yesterday and was surprised to see that my timelapse construction movie has been viewed over 25,000 times. That is enough to motivate me to start getting more of my timelapse movies online. Here is a link to my YouTube page, and below is another construction video that shows some cranes dancing around: