I have been thinking alot about my blog lately. I want to get it rolling full steam but I really think that means a start from scratch. I also wonder if my idea of a blog is worth reading. Do other people really want to hear about all my random things going on or should I post on a specific topic only? I guess this leads me to ask myself if my blog is for me or for others.

First off, please Wordpress for iPhone application developer, let me type in landscape mode on my iPhone.

Today while laying in bed I though of about five great ideas for real quality iPhone applications. I want to create an iphone application that is full featured and release it on the app store but until now lacked ideas. I did not want to create any crap applications that are useless and would probably never get accepted by apple. I used the notepad app on my iPhone for the first time so I would not forget my ideas. I came up with these ideas while I was laying in bed, I was very bored. I picked up my phone and wanted to do something with it but the only thing I could do was go on the facebook app. I did not see any of my friends online and I was bored with facebook lately also. I started to think of things I wish I could do with my iPhone and realized I just thought of application ideas that were real useful ideas. I didn’t start out the thought process by saying what kind of app can I write. I started by coming up with a wishlist and then realized I should just create them myself. I will get into what these ideas are once I fully think them through. I also want to double check the app store too make sure I am not reinventing the wheel here.

I have been on the iPhone bandwagon since the first day of version one. The phone is is great for everything I throw at it. One of the best features is the installable applications from the app store. Today I downloaded the Wordpress application so I can blog from anywhere now! This is probably going to be good for me because there is alot if times I wish I was able to write because I had time but I did not have a computer handy. My blog posts may be a little shorter because typing on the phone in non-landscape mode is tough, add landscape mode typing please!

Lets face it, video on the web is here to stay. Video makes our user experience better and more entertaining. Flash video is the best choice to deliver all around video to our end users. I have been on a quest to produce the best flash video that is avalible using open source tools. I can easily purchase licensing for some commercially available products but the main reason that I do not is the speed of the encoding process. FFmpeg and mencoder are blazing fast and test encode are some times 3 to 4 times fast than the best commercially available solutions. There is one major problem here with these two products. There is not one command line that will encode any video to flash video perfectly. Each codec and file extension needs its own set of procedures to get the perfect flash video. I am referring to something like Qdesign audio codec in an “mov” container, this file needs to be first converted and audio track ripped before you can add that audio track to the flash encoded video. If you do not follow that procedure you are likely to get horrible audio sync issues.

What I am going to do is develop an encode class in php that will handle any file type with out the need for the developer to know the inter workings of codec and video encoding. I will release this on my blog so that I can get the appropriate feed back that is necessary.