First things first... Rigby smashed my iPhone. She was so cute when she did it too. She was playing on it, laying on the floor in the Rogers store while I was changing my airtime plan, shortly she became bored and wanted to go back to her game of 'Jump off the stand for the giant iPhone display'. Asking if she was done I reached out to take the phone from her when she tossed it to me, I watched in slo-mo as it took a dive about 3 feet in front of me on to the tile floor. That's when the screen cracked. It still works though.
In the end I got a new phone, the HTC Dream and am slowly unlearning the iPhone. The android system is quite good and I am slowly finding little apps in the market that work for my needs. The creep factor came in yesterday when I downloaded LAYAR. It's an app I am told exists on the iPhone too. LAYAR is a augmented reality application for finding what you need near you, restaraunts, subway, coffee, movies etc etc. I tried out a few of these and then came across the Tweep finder. This layer adds locals around you that are tweeting currently. From there you can point the phone in the general direction of them, see the GPS coordinates, distance to them from you, their picture, the time they tweeted and then you can open their twitter stream to see what is going on with them.
I managed to find some grade 10 girl sitting at the McDonalds who had just broken up with her boyfriend and was talking with a group of people online about how a) broken hearted she was b) annoyed with the bitch that he was with now and c) how she sucks at Math 10. Although I didn't actually go find her or anything, I could tap the GPS location and get the pin on the McD's across the street from my location.
Creep factor 12
I am now rethinking not only owning this application but the way that I tweet, like maybe only tweeting when I am about to run off to a different location.
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