Posted in Computers, Google, Internet, Programming on February 22nd, 2006 No Comments »
Announcing my first Google maps mashup - my Pub Finder. It integrates content from the great www.BeerInTheEvening.com site with maps, and then gives variably coloured icons denoting the rating of the pub.
To use it: move the map to an area you’d like to visit. If no pubs appear, then enter the placename of where you [...]
Posted in Computers, Google, Internet on January 13th, 2006 1 Comment »
Here it is - On One Map - http://ononemap.com/
At last someone has integrated Google Maps with estate agents’ feed in the UK. Whilst there has been a mashup of US craigslist and google maps for a while, this is the first time i’ve seen it done in the UK. It get its’ detail from a [...]
Posted in Computers, Google, Internet on October 3rd, 2005 No Comments »
One of the few pages from a set of Gmail power tips, this page shows you how to use Plus Addressing. Essentially it lets you have many email addresses based on your single gmail one, and then filter/block them at will. i.e. you don’t have to give out your real email address to companies. Of [...]
Posted in Computers, Firefox, Google, Internet on September 1st, 2005 No Comments »
The Google / Amazon / etc search box in Firefox is very useful, but a little bit bigger (or at least a customisable width) would make it so much nicer. Today I came across an extension which provides a ‘grab’ handle to let you resize the search box to suit your needs.
Posted in Computers, Google, Internet on April 22nd, 2005 No Comments »
Google Maps UK has now gone live. This gives you a great alternative to using multimap, streetmap, the RAC, etc and ebbs away at the market share of products like Autoroute.
Given the satellite map integration that Google recently added to their US versions, it won’t be long before we can expect that here too (not [...]
Posted in Computers, Google, Internet on February 24th, 2005 No Comments »
The Google toolbar v3 (beta) includes a new feature called AutoLink. This essentially means that if it recognises an address, ISBN number, VIN number it can create a link in the HTML you see linking to a map, amazon, or VIN tracking site respectively.
A lot of bloggers are getting upset at this because it changes [...]
Posted in Computers, Google, Internet on February 14th, 2005 No Comments »
Those guys at Google are really great. They’ve now added a map and route finding beta service to their plethora of offerings. Shame it’s only America at the moment, but once they’ve gone through beta they’re bound to add European maps.
How about this on a 3G GPS-enabled phone with Opera mobile browser, could this be [...]
Posted in Computers, Google, Internet on January 14th, 2005 No Comments »
http://grant.robinson.name/projects/montage%2Da%2Dgoogle/
Makes a montage of images from Google’s image search.
Posted in Computers, Google, Internet on January 10th, 2005 No Comments »
With Google googling the Internet, and lots of fun exciting content and devices being added to the Internet, it was only a matter of time before people started using Google to find the more interesting things…
Article here:
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/01/05/more_googleable_unse.html
Axis cameras: http://www.google.com/search?q=inurl:%22view/index.shtml
Movable cameras: http://www.google.com/search?ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&q=inurl%3A%22ViewerFrame%3FMode%3D%22
Or a bunch of other strings to look for:
http://johnny.ihackstuff.com/index.php?module=prodreviews&func=reviewsbycat&reviewsel=11
And also there was the Santy worm [...]
Posted in Computers, Google, Internet on December 15th, 2004 No Comments »
Those people over at Google have just released a Beta version of their Google Suggest. This is just like normal Google, except that as you type it guesses what you’re trying to search for based on the most popular previous searches.
On a related note, over at WordCount.org you can see what the 88,000ish most popular [...]