Jeff Rock

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Co-founder of Mobelux and the biological father of Tumblr for iPhone.

I love good beer and hate Zapfino.

Looking for Dashboard Radio? Get it here!
  • July 30, 2010 6:50 pm

    Dashboard Radio 1.0.1

    Well, that was fast.

    New:

    • Hover over the track name to see who posted it and how many plays it’s gotten without having to click through to the full post.

    Fixed:

    • A bug where the extension could lock during buffering.

    The update should proliferate through DNS and appear in extension updates soon, but if you’re impatient:

    Download Dashboard Radio 1.0.1.

    On a side note, it’s remarkable how convenient it is to deploy software without having to go through official app review first. It’s almost enough to make a fellow think about writing some non-mobile software.

  • 9:58 am
    Dashboard Radio

I’m a huge music-nerd and a huge nerd-nerd so I wrote a Safari Extension that allows you to listen to your the music in your Dashboard, iTunes style.

Features:



Transport controls. Play, pause, next and previous track.

Liking. You can like and unlike right from the transport controls.

Reblogging. Love a track? Put it on your blog.

View original post. Clicking the track name opens a new tab and loads the post that the track originated from.

Autoload. When you get to the end of the tracklist Dashboard Radio gets the next set and keeps the music playing.
More features coming soon…

Hope you enjoy it!

Download Dashboard Radio (requires Safari 5.0.1).

After installing be sure to set your Tumblr account details in Safari > Preferences > Extensions. View high resolution

    Dashboard Radio

    I’m a huge music-nerd and a huge nerd-nerd so I wrote a Safari Extension that allows you to listen to your the music in your Dashboard, iTunes style.

    Features:

    • Transport controls. Play, pause, next and previous track.
    • Liking. You can like and unlike right from the transport controls.
    • Reblogging. Love a track? Put it on your blog.
    • View original post. Clicking the track name opens a new tab and loads the post that the track originated from.
    • Autoload. When you get to the end of the tracklist Dashboard Radio gets the next set and keeps the music playing.
    • More features coming soon…

    Hope you enjoy it!

    Download Dashboard Radio (requires Safari 5.0.1).

    After installing be sure to set your Tumblr account details in Safari > Preferences > Extensions.

  • July 28, 2010 4:18 pm
    The Staff Blog:

Borked ID3 tags got you down? Now you can edit your Audio post’s track info and album art! Sweet.

This made my day. I can’t wait to show you why.

    The Staff Blog:

    Borked ID3 tags got you down? Now you can edit your Audio post’s track info and album art! Sweet.

    This made my day. I can’t wait to show you why.

  • July 23, 2010 1:42 am
    [Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.] 650 plays

    HEALTH – USA Boys.

  • July 19, 2010 2:37 pm
  • 12:42 pm

    Staff:

    iPhone users: Grab the update to Tumblr for iPhone 1.2.1 for more multitasking support, Retina graphics, and bug fixes!

    In particular, Tumblr for iPhone now supports posting in the background. Large photo posts in areas with low bandwidth be damned! Now you can at least post on Twitter about how long your photo post is taking to post while your photo post is taking a long time to post.

  • 11:50 am

    A Notice Wherein I Try Not to Be a Dick but Probably Sound Like One Anyway

    Please don’t send me bug reports through ‘Ask a question’. I really hate to be rude but there are very good reasons you shouldn’t do this:

    1. I have no way of answering you privately. The question feature does not provide me with a direct method of communication with you so my only option is to post our conversation on my blog (which isn’t going to happen).
    2. While I have no problem helping out it doesn’t allow Tumblr Support to log the issue or give them a chance to help you first. If you’re having trouble using the app or have found a bug, email support. They send me any Tumblr for iPhone issues that they don’t have an immediate answer for.

    That said, the link does say ‘ask me anything’ so I have to take some responsibility. What would really be awesome is if Tumblr enhanced the ask feature to include private responses… :]

    UPDATE:

    Fixed.

  • July 16, 2010 2:06 pm

    iOS developers: Tumblr supported in ShareKit

    developers:

    ShareKit is an open source drop-in for iOS apps that allows users to share URLs, images, and text with various services. Thanks to Jamie Pinkham, ShareKit now supports sharing with Tumblr!

    Download the latest release.

    That was just a weekend project. Wait until you see what he’s really been working on.

  • July 14, 2010 12:15 am

    ShareKit

    nikf:

    This looks super-handy: a drop-in web service sharing for iOS apps (think posting items to Twitter, Facebook, Delicious etc). It’s open source on GitHub, and entirely customisable. Whilst it’s intended to be used in its entirety, if you’re wanting to (say) implement Twitter sharing in your own iPhone app with xAuth login you can still use ShareKit to implement the service on its own.

    Jamie added Tumblr support to ShareKit over the weekend. Check it out!

  • July 7, 2010 2:14 pm
    The Mobelux Blog:


Do you have an Android device?

Is it running 2.1+?

Do you like playing with stuff before it’s released and reporting bugs?

Perfect! Email us to get in on the fun.

    The Mobelux Blog:

    Do you have an Android device?

    Is it running 2.1+?

    Do you like playing with stuff before it’s released and reporting bugs?

    Perfect! Email us to get in on the fun.

  • July 4, 2010 1:07 pm
  • Anonymous:  Jeff, In your latest post you said the following about the current Tumblr iphone app:

    "It was my first foray into software development and taught me a great deal of patience."

    Does that mean that you never developed a phone app for before?. I guess that to develop those apps you need some knowledge so my final question is, What is your exactly your background that allows you to create these programs.
  • No. I had never developed an iPhone app before. In fact, I had never developed any application before. Up to that point I was an interface designer working on government CMS software (woof). The deepest I’d ever gotten into actual programming was a few “hello world” level programs in Ruby.

    When the iPhone SDK was announced I knew that a mobile client was perfect for Tumblr, where I had just recently started blogging. Around July of 2008 Tumblrette started as a design exercise for what an iPhone Tumblr client might look like. Then it kind of became a personal goal to make the design into a working application. I talked with a few engineers to see if they would like to take it on as a side project but they were either too busy, thought iPhone development was never going to take off or thought I was an idiot. In their defense, in August of 2008, most developers probably shared the same sentiment about the iPhone as my colleagues shared about me.

    So back to your question, my background in programming started with Tumblrette. I picked up a copy of Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X (since there were no iPhone OS programming books at the time) and started absorbing Objective C and Cocoa. I learned by committing to a goal and sticking to it, and within a few months I had an app on the App Store.

    This story, however, is not unique. I know many designers that did the same thing. Eddie Wilson, who makes Snow Reports has a similar story. The iPhone was very striking to design-minded people from the day it was announced and we all learned whatever we needed to know to see our designs come to life on that screen. The iPhone tends to attract people that care about interface and experience. Perhaps that’s the reason that the iPhone is where it is today. I’m proud of the fact that I’m a very small part of that story.

  • July 3, 2010 1:34 pm
  • bxlewi1:  Are you seeing any issues with the Tumblr iPhone app with the iPhone 4? It's early and anecdotal, but I find my phone needing a hard reset some time after using the app. Nothing pointed in crash reports, but just odd.
  • There are a few bugs with 1.2 that are being addressed in a maintenance update that will be submitted shortly (along with Retina Display graphics!).

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  • July 2, 2010 9:10 pm
    The quintessential 21st century date. View high resolution

    The quintessential 21st century date.

  • July 1, 2010 2:32 pm
    Tumblrette 1.0 from back in August of 2008, which eventually became Tumblr for iPhone.

It was my first foray into software development and taught me a great deal of patience. It also helped me understand why engineers are all a little nuts. View high resolution

    Tumblrette 1.0 from back in August of 2008, which eventually became Tumblr for iPhone.

    It was my first foray into software development and taught me a great deal of patience. It also helped me understand why engineers are all a little nuts.

  • June 29, 2010 6:24 pm
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