Well I finally got around to learning how to make applications for Android phones after downloading a million and one different programs and development kits from here, there and everywhere and spending countless hours reading tutorials and shouting at my screen when things weren't working correctly. Definitely not something I'd recommend to do if you suffer from high blood pressure.
Anyways, once I'd got the slight jist of the programming language (which for Android is Java (yuk!)), I was thinking what on earth to actually make. Now obviously anything you can think of has pretty much been created,... [read more]
Earlier on I noticed Google had a "Story fo Send" link underneath their search bar. I clicked it and watched the presentation all the way through about how your email is sent. It was quite entertaining - obviously I know how emails are sent and received, but how the presentation was set out was great. Though it got me thinking, "what on Earth have they used to make it, is it Flash or HTML5?" and a quick look in the source code proved it was HTML5 (and the workings of a fair bit of JavaScript... [read more]
Well it's been about a week or so now since everywhere - except the top of the mountains - in Britain got fully released on Google StreetView ... about time too! I was only waiting because I wanted to find myself on there, well I did ... he he ... here's a picture of me.
Anyways... whilst looking through some random streets I used to walk down in Blackpool, I ended up stumbling across something quite funny ... a group of Superheroes ... there's Action Man, Dracula, Superman, Wolverine, Bananaman, Peter Pan, Batman and Robin ... then further down... [read more]
Tags: google, streetview, superheroes, blackpool, dale hay, batman, robin, action man, dracula, superman, wolverine, bananaman, peter pan
Google has updated its page rank, yay! This place still sticks as 0 but other sites have crawled up the rankings - yay! The update happened on 31st December 2009. Keep it up Google. :-)
Well after having a browse around I found these two plugins for Google Earth that seem to work really good and offer information from NWS (National Weather Service) and NOAA (National Oceanic and Atomospheric Administration).
Total US Doppler Radar
This plugin gives you a (near) live picture of the whole of the United States' doppler readings, which update every 5 minutes (600 seconds). I myself have modified mine though as the original doppler picture has loads of white space, so to change it to a better image that doesn't have the white space, then do the following:
1) Download the plugin.
2) Rename the... [read more]
Tags: google earth, plugin, weather, doppler radar, warnings, noaa, blitzortung, lightning