Mal Websites research part 3
March 5, 2009
I have come across some great Google Maps mash ups.
These are all music related.
http://gruvr.com/
Live music based on your location. Works pretty well.
http://www.mappamusica.com/
Navigate to ‘new’ music based on locations. Not as good as it first appears.
Visually though it looks great.
http://jukefly.com/
This streams music from your harddrive to your mobile.
I think it also uses LastFM to stream radio to your phone based on your musical taste.
Clear in that it does not need a server but uses each users PC as a server and relays on the users ISP to provide enough bandwidth.
http://www.koushikdutta.com/2008/10/adding-google-my-location-to-your.html
A clever workaround/hack that allows the currentLocation call in Google Gears to be used externally.
Step by step Geotagging guide..!
February 4, 2009
A step by step guide for building a basic app that geotags current location!
Malath.
Flash Lite 3 training video
February 4, 2009
I found the video tutorials on this site to be very useful.
It gives a good over view of Flash Lite as well as application development for mobiles in general.
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/devices/articles/flash_lite3_training_video.html
Malath.
Mal Websites research part 2!
January 21, 2009
These are mostly development related links.. want to blog them so I don’t lose them!
Exittool by Phil Harvey that allows tagging of files. Supports a wide variety of formats and thankfully MP3 is one of them!
http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/
Mac based Geotagging software…
http://craig.stanton.net.nz/software/Geotagger.html
Windows based Geotagging sotware..
This is Phil Schiller talking about geotagging and other location based features in iPhoto 09 at Macworld 2009
Geotagging example..
http://www.geotagicons.com/usage-examples.html
Malath.
Sony patent shows interest in audio geotagging
January 21, 2009
A patent from Sony shows they are clearly researching the area of geotagging and audio!
Shows we are on the right track.. maybe even ahead of the pack with everyone trying to push photograph geotagging.
Malath.
Nokia Photo Geotagger
January 21, 2009
Nokia based software that automatically geotags photos taken by phone camera.
Compatible with the following.. Nokia N95, N95 8GB, N82, E90, N73.
http://www.nokia.com/betalabs/locationtagger
Malath.
Mozilla Fennec
January 19, 2009
Fennec from Mozilla is basically a sister browser to Firefox. Its a web browser for mobiles phones/other devices.
Even though we are developing our own application I think its good to develop an application within a working shell like a web browser.
Here is some basic info on Fennec
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fennec_(browser)
And here is a blog about development for Fennec.
http://zadkielm.blogspot.com/
Malath.
Johnmckerrell.com
January 15, 2009
Web Developer who’s interested in location based applications.
Alt-Tags for Images
January 14, 2009
I think it will be important to consider Alt-Tags for images on our Mobile Web App, as people may decice to switch-off the automatic image loading function to keep bandwidth down to make it cheaper to surf on their mobiles.
“The “alt” attribute tells the reader what he or she is missing on a page if the browser can’t load images. The browser will then display the alternate text instead of the image. It is a good practice to include the “alt” attribute for each image on a page, to improve the display and usefulness of your document for people who have text-only browsers e.g. <img src=”boat.gif” alt=”Big Boat”>“
http://www.w3schools.com/htmL/html_images.asp
Keith
Websites research part 2
January 13, 2009
Here are some more links. Most about websites for mobiles.. design etc.
Make your website mobile friendly in 2 mins!
http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2005/07/make-your-site-mobile-friendly
A bunch of info here.. bit old like..
http://www.accuracast.com/seo-weekly/mobile-web.php
DOs and DON’Ts
http://modernnomads.info/wiki/index.php?page=Optimizing+a+website+for+mobile+devices
