What's Up Everyone: A Demonstration of Doodle Buddy

Hey everyone, it's John Render and Technobuffalo here to give you a quick demonstration of a pretty cool free download from the App Store for your iPhone and iPod touch. It's called Doodle Buddy, and I think you're going to love it.

Before we get started, let me give you a little background on how iPhones work. You might have heard that they use a capacitive touchscreen, which means there's no squishy feeling when you touch the screen. Instead, it makes its connection through a transfer of electrons from your finger to the screen. That's why you can't use an iPhone with gloves or wear it through your shirt - it needs to be a fingertip or some kind of skin on the phone.

On the other hand, there's something called a resistive touchscreen that you might have seen on Windows mobile devices. These touchscreens are a little bit squishy and make connections from two layers of film when you push down. It's interesting to see how different technologies can create unique experiences for users.

Now, let's talk about why I'm bringing this up with Doodle Buddy. The resistive touchscreens on Windows mobile devices use a stylus for drawing, which gives people more accuracy than they would get with just their finger. However, there wasn't a pretty decent or fun drawing application out there for the iPhone before Doodle Buddy came along. So, I'm excited to show you what this free app has to offer.

Let's Launch Doodle Buddy

Okay, let's go ahead and launch Doodle Buddy on our iPhone. Ah, here it is! Sometimes it's fun just when you're wasting time you want to draw a picture or something so you can send advertisements, obviously because it's free. And that's exactly what I'm going to do now.

As we start drawing, notice how easy it is to pick your pen and pen color, as well as the size of the pen. You can adjust these settings right here on the screen. Let me move this slider over a bit... Ah, looks good! How about I go with brown? Now I can start drawing.

Now that we've got our basics set up, let's say we want to draw a face. We're taking our finger and drawing a big circle - that's sort of a face right there. There's a little stamp button next to it, which gives us access to all sorts of other shapes and doodles we can use.

Let me pick one of these stamps... Ah, here's a mouth! Now I can add some personality to our character. Let me go back to my brown pen - you know, so I don't mess up my face drawing. Add a nose and some hair, and that's pretty good for a first try if I do say so myself.

Smudge Tools and Erasing

Now that we've got our basic shape drawn, let's see what other options are available to us in Doodle Buddy. Look at this - there are smudge tools! These allow me to soften or blur out certain parts of my drawing, which can really add some personality to our character. Let me show you how it works by smudging out the outline of my face.

And look - I can also erase parts of my drawing with a single tap of the screen. This is so easy and convenient! Now that I've erased what I want to erase, let's try something new. How about I go back to my original brown pen?

Backgrounds and More

One of the coolest things about Doodle Buddy is how much control we have over our backgrounds. We can change them from white or pick a photo from our own library - so there are plenty of options for us to choose from.

Let me show you some of these background options... Ah, here's a new one! I like this background. You can also change the color of your text or add more doodles and stamps to really make your drawing stand out.

Shaking to Clear

Now that we've got all our settings set up, let's try shaking the screen a bit to clear everything away from our original drawing. This is so much fun! You can shake the screen as hard as you want - it doesn't matter if you're doing 5 shakes or 50, it's just going to erase your entire drawing and start all over again.

And that's really cool about Doodle Buddy - sometimes it's okay to just let go of everything and start from scratch. You can use this feature whenever you need a fresh start or want to try something new. It's like having a digital eraser right in our app.

Writing Notes and Drawing with Others

Another feature I love in Doodle Buddy is how we can write notes in the margins or even draw doodles around them. This makes it easy for us to keep track of what we're writing about, as well as what kind of doodles we want to add to our drawing.

We can also invite friends to join us in drawing together using this app. It's just a tap away - let me show you how to do that... Ah, here's an invitation for one of my friends! They can come along and draw with me right now.

That's pretty cool, don't you think? Let's get our pen ready and start creating!

Conclusion

I hope you guys enjoyed this little tour of Doodle Buddy. As I said before, it's a great free app that lets us express ourselves creatively in all sorts of ways. We can draw, doodle, write notes, or even invite friends to join us for some collaborative fun.

So if you're looking for an app that lets your creativity shine through, be sure to check out Doodle Buddy today!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's up everyone John render and technobuffalo here and I want to give you a quick demonstration of a pretty cool free download from the App Store for your iphone and ipod touch it's called doodle buddy before i give you a demonstration let me give you a little bit of a background the iphone as you may have heard me mentioned uses a capacitive touchscreen meaning there's no squishy feeling and it makes its connection through a transfer of electrons from your finger to the screen that's why you can't use it with gloves you can't use it through your shirt it's got to be a fingertip or some sort of skin on the phone on the other side of the spectrum there's something called a resistive touchscreen that you may have seen on a lot of windows mobile devices these are the touchscreens it kind of seemed like if they're a little bit squishy and they make their connections from two layers of film and as you push down the film that connection is made and that's where the touch is registered now the reason I'm bringing this up is well the resistive touchscreens use a stylus and people sometimes like a stylist for drawing give it a little bit more accuracy than they get with just their finger and it really wasn't a pretty decent or fun drawing application out there for the iphone incomes doodle buddy this free application so let me show you what this looks like go ahead and launch it up there's doodle buddy sometimes it's fun just when you're wasting time you want to draw a picture or something so you can send advertisements obviously because it's free so we're going to go ahead and continue so you actually won the cool thing you can do right here is actually invite friends to draw with you but you know we're gonna head start drawing alone which actually sounds a little bit depressing they'll tap that and here you go this is sort of your canvas and your options you can pick your pen and your pen color and the size that you want it to be that little dot right there increases in size i move that slider over so we will pick right about there seems good how about i go with brown and now i can go ahead and start drawing i'll show you what the other options are in just a moment let's say i want to draw a face i'm taking my finger draw a big circle so there's sort of a face now there's a little stamp button right next to it here i can pick a whole bunch of different so let's go ahead and pay again I've off you can see that I was not blessed with any design or artistic ability whatsoever so boom eyeball boom I ball looks like something out of Spore more than a picture of a person but what are you gonna do let's give it a mouth give it a kind of Percy sexy mouth there go back to the drawing will go back to my brown a little bit of nose and that's good some hair hey just something you can have fun with and if you go back you can see these other options you can start doing some smudge tools you can erase I'll show you some of the smudge stuff to want to smudge your mouth make it look like she just had a really a long night and I want to let's say maybe put some feet down below here for I'm not sure what reason now write down then there's a pound sign hit that pound sign you get some options you can change your background you can change the white you can pick a photo or you can go right from the camera so there are decent amount of background that you can choose from you can see right there you can change it to white or you can go ahead and pick a photo for your photo library or just take one with your camera to actually kind of neat some of the settings that you get you can clear just by shaking which I'll show you you can say with your photo album you can draw with another user and then general options really are just turn the sound on or off and the sound is this really annoying scratching don't you get when you're drawing and I'll let you hear what that sounds like in case you are curious let's go ahead and go back to the drawing pick a color super annoying so you don't like your picture you want to race it just do a little at your sketch sort of shake and your picture goes away just a short video of a pretty cool application sometimes it's fun just to do it all or get some stress whatever you want write a note to yourself just sort of a fun thing to do hope you guys enjoyed for exclusive content should be give me a follow on twitter twitter.com / John for lakers if more information on technobuffalo check out technobuffalo calm I'll see you guys in the next video bye byewhat's up everyone John render and technobuffalo here and I want to give you a quick demonstration of a pretty cool free download from the App Store for your iphone and ipod touch it's called doodle buddy before i give you a demonstration let me give you a little bit of a background the iphone as you may have heard me mentioned uses a capacitive touchscreen meaning there's no squishy feeling and it makes its connection through a transfer of electrons from your finger to the screen that's why you can't use it with gloves you can't use it through your shirt it's got to be a fingertip or some sort of skin on the phone on the other side of the spectrum there's something called a resistive touchscreen that you may have seen on a lot of windows mobile devices these are the touchscreens it kind of seemed like if they're a little bit squishy and they make their connections from two layers of film and as you push down the film that connection is made and that's where the touch is registered now the reason I'm bringing this up is well the resistive touchscreens use a stylus and people sometimes like a stylist for drawing give it a little bit more accuracy than they get with just their finger and it really wasn't a pretty decent or fun drawing application out there for the iphone incomes doodle buddy this free application so let me show you what this looks like go ahead and launch it up there's doodle buddy sometimes it's fun just when you're wasting time you want to draw a picture or something so you can send advertisements obviously because it's free so we're going to go ahead and continue so you actually won the cool thing you can do right here is actually invite friends to draw with you but you know we're gonna head start drawing alone which actually sounds a little bit depressing they'll tap that and here you go this is sort of your canvas and your options you can pick your pen and your pen color and the size that you want it to be that little dot right there increases in size i move that slider over so we will pick right about there seems good how about i go with brown and now i can go ahead and start drawing i'll show you what the other options are in just a moment let's say i want to draw a face i'm taking my finger draw a big circle so there's sort of a face now there's a little stamp button right next to it here i can pick a whole bunch of different so let's go ahead and pay again I've off you can see that I was not blessed with any design or artistic ability whatsoever so boom eyeball boom I ball looks like something out of Spore more than a picture of a person but what are you gonna do let's give it a mouth give it a kind of Percy sexy mouth there go back to the drawing will go back to my brown a little bit of nose and that's good some hair hey just something you can have fun with and if you go back you can see these other options you can start doing some smudge tools you can erase I'll show you some of the smudge stuff to want to smudge your mouth make it look like she just had a really a long night and I want to let's say maybe put some feet down below here for I'm not sure what reason now write down then there's a pound sign hit that pound sign you get some options you can change your background you can change the white you can pick a photo or you can go right from the camera so there are decent amount of background that you can choose from you can see right there you can change it to white or you can go ahead and pick a photo for your photo library or just take one with your camera to actually kind of neat some of the settings that you get you can clear just by shaking which I'll show you you can say with your photo album you can draw with another user and then general options really are just turn the sound on or off and the sound is this really annoying scratching don't you get when you're drawing and I'll let you hear what that sounds like in case you are curious let's go ahead and go back to the drawing pick a color super annoying so you don't like your picture you want to race it just do a little at your sketch sort of shake and your picture goes away just a short video of a pretty cool application sometimes it's fun just to do it all or get some stress whatever you want write a note to yourself just sort of a fun thing to do hope you guys enjoyed for exclusive content should be give me a follow on twitter twitter.com / John for lakers if more information on technobuffalo check out technobuffalo calm I'll see you guys in the next video bye bye\n"