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Created using odosketch, a really fun webapp: here is the making of sketch.odopod.com/sketches/302591
and if you want to have a try yourself sketch.odopod.com
Have fun!
Site Address: www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/bangladeshboat/
This post is blogged at: dharmafly.com/blog/bangladeshboat
Phew! Dharmafly has been busy these last three weeks! From commission to launch in just 12 working days (and nights)...
The Bangladesh River Journey is a mashup of posts from a BBC World Service trip to track the effects of climate change in Bangladesh. The trip lasts a month, with photos being posted to Flickr, messages sent to Twitter and journal entries made on the World Service site. The mashup puts all these posts on to a map, letting you navigate around and follow the trip.
The journalists are equipped with a GPS navigation device. Each time they visit a new location, they post their co-ordinates to the Twitter stream (e.g. this post). Our system then logs the coordinates and applies them to every photo, tweet and diary entry until the next location.
In addition to what you see in the browser, there are a number of gems hidden under the hood... (Non-techie folk may happily skip this :)
Microformats
Microformats are new, developing standards for adding extra meaning to the HTML of a web page. They create all sorts of possibilities for software (from search engines to browsers) to interact with the content in new and useful ways.
The HTML for each Twitter, Flickr and diary post in the Bangladesh River Journey is written using the hAtom microformat. This means, for example, that an RSS feed can be generated directly from the HTML on the page.
If you use the Firefox browser, you can explore other microformats on the Bangladesh Boat site, with the excellent Operator extension. You'll find xFolk bookmarks, geo locations, hCard contacts and tagged links.
GeoRSS
The site's RSS feed allows users to stay up-to-date with new posts, without needing to re-visit the site (we talked about using RSS in a previous post).
The feed is encoded with the geo coordinates of each post (this is called GeoRSS). Some interesting things can then be done with the feed, such as plotting it straight on to Google Maps.
API
Part of the task was to build an API - a way for web developers to access the data in the system, to create their own mashup applications. This will be promoted through BBC Backstage - the BBC's hub for exploring new media technology.
More info: dharmafly.com/blog/bangladeshboat
ezimba is a web site that can apply different imaging effects.
I used one picture for all the effects just for consistency for comparison. The title for each photo consists of the category of the effect and the name of the effect. Some effects would be better used on a different image. There are some effects also that appear to do the same thing in different effect categories.
Ezimba also has a Facebook app, Google Android app, and a free iPhone app. Please note that the free iPhone app puts a small logo on the edited image. You can buy the paid ezimba app and not have the logo.
My HP DeskJet 6840 Color InkJet Printer (with WiFi, Ethernet or USB connectinos). I'm using Ethernet.
On top of it is the base for my Logitech MX1000 Laser Cordless Mouse. Off to the right is my IOGEAR USB/Firewire Hub.
ezimba is a web site that can apply different imaging effects.
I used one picture for all the effects just for consistency for comparison. The title for each photo consists of the category of the effect and the name of the effect. Some effects would be better used on a different image. There are some effects also that appear to do the same thing in different effect categories.
Ezimba also has a Facebook app, Google Android app, and a free iPhone app. Please note that the free iPhone app puts a small logo on the edited image. You can buy the paid ezimba app and not have the logo.
This is what I meant when I said that zeroing both of my gmail inboxes made my gmail widgets on netvibes useful again. Mouse over the upper left to see the area I'm describing.
I used to have a fairly annoying cognitive load every time I checked netvibes to see if I had any new emails in either account (the best way I know how to simultaneously check multiple accounts) because old unread emails kept popping up to the top of the list, no matter how much I cleared out the new ones. Now that the gmail boxes are refreshingly empty and non-essential emails get filtered into their own individually labeled sections of the archive, it only takes a split second glance at netvibes to see if there's anything I need to respond to.
Piecing together little scraps of nerdvana as I go along...
My take on AMANA, originally by Imrik, Naalo, j3 and the 4Imp crew. I worked really hard on the litestep. It has much more web integration now (see details section after the other preview images).
Credits
// OS
Windows 7 x64 SP1
Icons → Sanscons by P.J. Onori
Litestep Shell (incl command line) → AMANA² by me
Wallpaper → AMANA² by me (really just a gradient... hah)
// Windows
Visual Style → Mod of AMANA for Windows 7 by Neiio (originally for XP by Imrik)
TrueTransparency Window Borders → AMANA² by me
// Apps
Mail/Browser→ AMANA² Opera (mod of default skin by me)
Launchy → AMANA² by me
CD Art Display AMANA² by me
// WebApps
News Reader → AMANA² by me
Chat → AMANA² by me
Youtube → AMANA² by me
// Misc
Images from AMANA wallpapers by Imrik, j3
Images in the RSS reader are taken from the Final Fantasy wikia
And as Imrik said in 2007: "I would like to thank amana.jp/company/tsutawaru/ and blog.arsthanea.com/" and all of the old-timers who are still around =D
Alternate views
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A Tribute to the Original AMANA Mac shot by Imrik
Litestep Details
The login/loading screen are all done in litestep. Basically, windows boots to my account and displays the login screen (no password matching yet, but it's coming - it's a moot point, as I have a boot password set anyway...). The login text area resizes down and the loading circles resizes out. It's a pretty slick animation :). The loader animation is a throwback to the old days of cmd prompt where you would just use the / - \ | characters to make a spinning wheel.
The taskbar has an integrated information bar that shows battery, network and twitter info. Clicking on the twitter bird calls a php function (via LSActiveDesktop) that fetches and updates the latest tweet from my feed. Clicking on the box icon brings up the console.
The console is by far my favorite part of the theme. I took stole a lot of design cues from the terminal in the new tron movie. Clicking on the icons on the left side change the text in the left panel. The home screen displays weather, news, and social info (pulled from various RSS feeds). Clicking on the graph icon brings up system info (CPU clocks, RAM, etc). Currently, those are the only two implemented, but once LSActiveDesktop is more robust, the chat, reader, favorites, and video app should all be possible.
The right side of the console features a little text area where you can input !Bang commands. It's not LSXCommand, but a Text Box that parses bang commands and runs them. I wanted to use LSXCommand, but I couldn't (I can't remember why, just that it didn't work like I wanted...). You can actually control the console from within this command box (so you can feel extra l33t), but it's not useful for much else. Really more eye candy than anything.
Clicking on the <<- arrow in the top-left brings back the desktop. That's about it.
If you stuck through all of that text, I applaud you :). Merry Christmas :D
ezimba is a web site that can apply different imaging effects.
I used one picture for all the effects just for consistency for comparison. The title for each photo consists of the category of the effect and the name of the effect. Some effects would be better used on a different image. There are some effects also that appear to do the same thing in different effect categories.
Ezimba also has a Facebook app, Google Android app, and a free iPhone app. Please note that the free iPhone app puts a small logo on the edited image. You can buy the paid ezimba app and not have the logo.
I am getting there guys. Working on 5 projects at the same time doesn't make this process very fast though ;)
Senior enameled cast iron. Left: round 3 quart. Right: oval 5 quart. The handles are also cast iron. I wonder if these would be good for bread, the 3 quart seems almost too small (and I myself am completely enamored of having oval bread). The 5 quart seems a little too big.
The interior of these is matte black enamel and the exterior color is more of a tomato red than the orange they appear in this photo. Also, the under side of the lid has little spikes, drip points for slow cooking I presume.
70 Chevelle. This one's not for sale, but you can pick up a smaller version of this muscle car at Northern Tool.
from my journal from 03.04.09:
I'm leaving for the Island after work today. Thumbing a ride to the ferries with Lung, to be snagged by Esme on the other side, I'm delivering one of these to one of these and don't expect to be back until Monday morning, when apparently I'm being put on a sea-place back. (Because life sometimes is just like that.)
In other news of the faintly ridiculous, Dragos is holding my bikini hostage, on the terms that I only get it back if I accept a year of cell-phone for my birthday, something we've been arguing about for almost a year. As soon as I began my usual protesting, however, he waved a gleeful finger in my face and said, "Ah-ha! This time you cannot possibly refuse. I know which one I'm going to give you. This isn't just any phone. It's got a story." and proceeded to play to my greatest weakness, that of narrative. The one he's picked out, it has history. Not only history, but hilarious history - a fascinating little back-story involving an Argentina black market, expensive consumer electronics that fell off the back of a truck, untraceable drug dealer SIM cards, and what happened next, when a British friend flashed around just one too many fresh hundred dollar bills - and, as usual, he was right. I can't say no. How could I? How could anyone?
Also, though only tangentially related, there was a story about basement scam strippers, but that was someone else.
Write-up: rewiredstate.org/projects/notw
Demo: dharmafly.com/hpwebos-hackday/demo/ (Warning: utterly non-optimised at the moment)
Winner of the HP webOS developer event at The Guardian.
This prototype is an experimental approach for exploring content (e.g. news, reviews and photos) about any place on earth.
Starting at the reader's current location, a magazine-style page of content is pulled in for that place (e.g. a one mile square centred on Kings Cross, London). The reader can then slide the page in any of eight compass directions (north, east, south, west, nw, ne, sw, se), to re-centre the magazine at that new location (e.g. a one mile square centred on Hillingdon).
We've divided the world into a grid of cells, and the user can slide between any of the cells to view the content that it contains. Articles of content are linked through to their original source: e.g. a travel article from The Guardian, or a note on the history of a place from Wikipedia.
We built a native app for the HP TouchPad tablet. Happily, because this uses standard web technologies (HTML, JavaScript and CSS), it also works in a simple web browser.
The format is ideally suited to a tablet like the TouchPad: location-aware, tactile navigation, content for reading and exploring while on the move. The magazine might be used to explore content around a particular part of the world, or to follow the user on a journey.
Working in the same, familiar way as the "slippy map" of Google Maps, we provide an intuitive mechanism for browsing, though one that we have never seen in this form before.
The content could be taken from any data source that contains geo information. In our prototype, we use the Guardian Open Platform's travel pages and the Geonames Wikipedia web service.
We would like to explore user-curated content types, zooming in and out to widen or narrow a search, adding an actual geographical map as an accompanying layer, and a number of innovations on the user interface.
[On the day that the News of the World closed down]
I'm in a new place where I can't put Icons on the walls. Our family - like most religious Greeks- traditionally has an 'iconostasis' or icon stand in the corner. Ikea came in handy here with a corner cabinet! It wasn't cheap but having an icon corner is important.
www.ikea.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?cat...