Tele Atlas 3D road mapping van close-up shots

Posted by Charles | June 19, 2007 .

Tele Atlas sends out a fleet of the colorful 3D mapping van around this country and Europe to capture 3D street maps. There are this van sightings. Here are the close-up photos I took today.

Look those image capture device there. They even have laser imagery stuffs there to capture building materials etc.

A fairly good size server in […]

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Nokia N95 as wireless modem

Posted by Charles | June 16, 2007 .

I’m at a conference in San Diego. It’s time to try out my Nokia N95 as a wireless modem so that I don’t have pay $10 for hotel’s rip-off internet connection. If you find this post then it works. I use T-Mobile with $5 monthly T-mobileweb subscription. Interesting is that so far I can get my […]

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Mystery image on Vista DVD is anti-piracy measure

Posted by Charles | June 15, 2007 .

A tiny image of three men embedded in the hologram of the Vista DVD is not an Easter egg but an anti-piracy measure, according to Microsoft. Very interesting. See for yourself here:

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AdobeAir rides the the wave of Adobe AIR

Posted by Charles | June 15, 2007 .

The story started with the company called utube, a tube maker. The success of youtube.com caused lots, I mean LOTS, of traffics to the utube.com and crashed its server. Then they got smart to put on advertisements on utube.com and many people think that they make more money from ads than selling their tubes. In the […]

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the most wild wild animals attack video ever seen

Posted by Charles | June 14, 2007 .

Lions got buffalo and crocodiles wanted to have it, fight. Buffalo started organized retaliation and rescue, fight. It’s like a unscripted movie. got watch it.

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$12K FEC Flash map vs $800K NYT Flash map for election finance

Posted by Charles | June 13, 2007 .

A post from All Points Blog pointed out the Federal Election Commission bought a Flash based map for $12,000 to show the public that how much money each of the presidential candidate raised from each zip code. One almost identical map also offered from New York Time, which costs NYT about $800,000. They are all […]

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Facebook does API right and beats saleforce.com

Posted by Charles | June 12, 2007 .

Saleforce.com seems a old story now, even though it still the representative of SaaS (software as a service). Also we’ve seen everyone is giving out API these days from Digg to going-further ebay. Considering it feels like there is a Facebook application shows up every minute, I think Fackbook really does API right.
“Hosting” is […]

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Apollo becomes AIR

Posted by Charles | June 11, 2007 .

I’m sure it’s been all over the places now about the Apollo beta, actually Adobe AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime). So let me just summarize what the AIR come with.

Adobe AIR SDK has everything.
The runtime is 9 MB.
AIR needs (or better this way) Flex Builder 3 beta.
Under the hood, check it out the Flex 3 SDK […]

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