Ryan Wofford

Looking back through the posts I’ve shared on here, it seems that change, loss and regeneration have been underlying topics floating through a lot of the messages on my blog. Whether its a new app or piece of technology, or a life event… I am finding that Change is often the factor that leads me back to this forum to share with you.

Colby's "money" smile

About a year and a half ago, I lost my mom to a 17+ year battle with cancer. My big recent change involves another saddening loss… the loss of my dog, and long-time companion, Colby.

Folks who know me, probably knew Colby as well. There was a time (in college) when she rarely left my side. We traveled on road trips between Auburn and Athens, GA frequently to visit our friends up there. She was pushing 18 years old and was a great and loyal companion over the years. She will be missed dearly. Here’s a Facebook album of pics of her over the years, and the video below is a clip of her resting place. I decided to take her back “home” to Chewacla State Park in Auburn, AL. It’s a beautiful place I look forward to returning to more often to visit her.

In other news, things are going great with Adria & I. We are setting in nicely to the new home, and loving it. I’ve got an ever-expanding “honey-do” list of things to do around the house. To keep this loosely tech related, I’ve been using the “Task This” app to keep track of everything. Another handy little app is the iHandy Level to keep things straight (literally).

Our wedding plans are coming along. We’ve announced our date (save the dates going out soon) and have some registry info over on our wedding site.

Life at Deposco is going well. The company is in a growth period, with new customer acquisitions, as well as expansion in staff. My role continues to challenge me and present new opportunities. I will be traveling a bit in the coming weeks as I head out to strengthen our customer relationships, and meet some of the users and buyers of our services. I’ll be documenting all of this with videos and more over on our blog.

Stay tuned, and remember to embrace change… it’s what helps us grow!

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Hi I am posting this blog via the new dragon dictation iPhone application. This app allows you to speak words into your microphone and have them translated to text. You can then select all, and copy and paste into another application such as SMS or e-mail.

Here I’m going to try to post this to my WordPress blog…

edit: So, the above was posted via the Dragon Dictation app successfully. I did have to try a few times to get it to work, primarily because I believe I was probably speaking more words than it could process at a time (it did not specify any sort of limit). What I found I could do to work around it was speak a sentence, hit “done” and let it process, then continue recording and repeat that process until I finished what I wanted to say. Maybe not the ideal way to write a blog post, but certainly cool for shooting off a quick email or SMS message.

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Earlier this week Apple approved the first live streaming video app for the iPhone. Pointy Heads Software’s Knocking Live Video app is now available in the App Store and basically it allows iPhone-to-iPhone users to share and stream video between each other’s handsets.

I personally downloaded it right away and found it to be quite buggy at first. Initially when I downloaded it, every time I launched the app it would just hang at the initialization screen. I uninstalled it & tried again several time to no avail, so I just left it on my phone. The next day I launched the app and got as far as to set up an account and search for / add some friends, but when a buddy and I tried to get it to connect, nothing happened. Today I went back in and allowed “notifications” from the app and we immediately were able to “knock” and connect to one another. I never saw anything in the notes / reviews that you needed to do so, but maybe you need to allow those notifications for it to work.

At any rate, the video stream shows a little latency but it is still pretty cool. Currently there is no audio support for it, and it’s only a one-way connection, so even if the iPhone had a camera on the “business” side of the phone, you still wouldn’t be able to use it for a video conference. All said, it’s a neat little app that will surely pave the way for much greater things to come. Already in the works is audio support, recording, and ability to connect with users on non-iPhone handsets.

See it in action here.

What else is cool is the back story of how the app got approved… check related articles below for more on that.

Related articles

• Steve Jobs Approves App Personally

TweetDeck (for those of you who aren’t familiar with it–is a great tool for aggregating your social media accounts in a “dashboard”-type application) has launched an update today for the desktop version of their app that contains loads of new features and fixes.

One major feature for the push includes LinkedIn integration, so you can now update your LinkedIn status, view your connections’ status updates, and comment on updates from the TweetDeck dashboard.

Also included is Twitter list support, support for both the new and “old” retweets, and geo-location support (which adds a cool inline map for those geo-supported tweets).

These are all welcomed features strengthening an already excellent application for the management of your social media accounts and status updates. Hopefully they will push these updates to the iPhone app soon as well, but if history of past releases is any indication, we could be waiting a few weeks / months before it trickles down.

I just installed the WordPress app for iPhone and linked it up to my blogs, so I thought I would give it a go. As you can tell, I can update my blog but I see no way to add HTML links or images without hard-coding them. Let’s try a link to my Twitter account.