GPS

Hopefully we can build apps around this (like Google Maps)…Today at “D” Conference in Carlsbad, CA, Microsoft founder Bill Gates presented his vision of MSN Virtual Earth, an exciting new component of Microsoft’s Search vision that gives consumers a deeply immersive search experience where they see what it’s like to be in a location and explore what they can do there. MSN Virtual Earth uses location as the way in which people interact with the information on the web so that they can more easily find, explore and plan activities relevant to that location. Link.

Great use for that old drive! MuCoP allows you to play your favourite music CDs on an “old” PC CDROM drive, instead of throwing it away. It consists of the bare essentials: a PIC microcontroller (16F877), 6 push-buttons, stereo audio amplifier (TDA2822M) and a few discrete components, not forgetting the IDE CDROM drive. Link.

Every time I check in on what Casey @ Brains-n-Brawn is up to, it’s always over the top impressive. Adam on #joiito send me this latest gem- the latest project is a port of NASA’s WorldWind application for a Pocket PC. 1st cut at porting NASAs WorldWind desktop app (C# and Managed Direct3D) to run on a Pocket PC (C# and MD3DM). It currently does not work with the satellite imagery, but it does work with all the locally installed data, as well as handling some of the add-ons. Nicely done! Link.

Location based photos are here! Anyone can easily(ish) add photos by adding three tags to a picture, a “geo:lat=xx.xxx”, “geo:lon=xx.xxx” and “geotagged” tag. Then you can either wait for the system to pick it up from the RSS stream for “geotagged” or you add a link to “www.geobloggers.com”. When the link is clicked the site automagically looks up the photo pages you’ve just come from and searches it for “lat” and “lon” tags. Link.