Monday, April 6, 2009

Skype and iPhone Merge

SkiPhone

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Wordle - Create

http://www.wordle.net/

Wordle is a toy for generating "word clouds" from text that you
provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more
frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with
different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create
with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out,
or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

Thursday, January 15, 2009

NuevaSync - Over the Air Synchronization

What is NuevaSync?

NuevaSync allows direct, over-the-air, native synchronization of certain smart phones and PDA devices with public PIM, and calendaring services including Google Calendar. NuevaSync does not need any software installed on your device because it uses synchronization protocols that are already built in.

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

How to get GPS coordinates from a location in Google Maps - Tips, Tricks & Mods

Hello everyone. I look forward to getting acquainted with this forum. This is my first post. I hope most of you will find it useful.
As a GPS owner I often like to find the coordinates of a location I'm traveling too beforehand. I've used Google Earth and Delorme Street Atlas USA in the Past.
Google Maps is so convenient, but unfortunately does not conveniently show the Latitude and Longitude of locations. However I've found this method that works real nice.
1. I open Google Maps to the vicinity of where I would like coordinates.
2. I use my right click mouse button and select "center map here" from the drop down button.
3. I past this javascript code that I keep saved somewhere convenient on my computer into my browser's URL address window.
Here's the code:
Code:
javascript:void(prompt('',gApplication.getMap().getCenter()));

4. I click the "go to the address in the location bar" button usually to the right of the address.
5. A popup appears showing the coordinates of the center of the map like this: (43.60336, -110.7362)
6. I right click on the coordinates the copy and click either "OK" or "Cancel"
7. I then paste the coordinates into google's "search maps" text box, remove the parenthesis and click "Search Maps"
8. A popup appears with a marker for the centered spot. The popup has the coordinates in both Decimal Degrees and Degrees, Minutes, Seconds.
9. I refine as and if necessary and I have my way point for inserting into my GPS.

I hope some of you find this useful. I know I do.

Best Regards,
David B. Robert founder of ProximityCast.com