sStitch – A disaster reporting App for the iPhone

August 4, 2008

I just came across this over at the Wall Street Journal’s All Things Digital.  Adam Tow has done a write-up on a whole slew of new apps.  Among them is sStitch, a citizen’s disaster reporting tool.  From the sStitch summary: From the iPhone the organized photos go up to our server, which outputs geoRSS streams […]

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Does Google Earth really cost $150 million a year?

August 4, 2008

Over at 24/7 Wall St., Douglas McIntyre is speculating that Google Earth costs “at least $150 million a year.”  Wow.  Here’s the rest: “Google Earth is about .15% of the parent company’s visits, but it is almost certainly a much larger portion of the firm’s cost base. Google claims that over 400 million people have […]

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Test drive Ubuntu with Wubi

August 3, 2008

If you are interested in testing out Ubuntu but don’t want to deal with an ISO please be sure to check out Wubi.  Wubi allows you to install Ubuntu on your Windows machine as if it were just another application.  At the end of the day, if you don’t like it, just uninstall it as […]

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How a Thuraya’s GPS unit just saved a climber’s life

August 3, 2008

As a follow-up to the last post here is a news update on the climbers in Pakistan.  Apparently, one climber was saved thanks to his ability to access GPS coordinates on his Thuraya.  I am not certain how the coordinates were used but it seems as if he may have been sending his coordinates to […]

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‘All safe in Base Camp’

August 3, 2008

I thought I should post this excerpt from TheAltitudeExperience.com.  I was watching CNN when they began zooming in on Google Earth to the mountains of Pakistan.  Apparently, several climbers have been killed while descending from the summit.  A few weeks ago I posted a comment from TheAltitudeExperience folks about the problems they were encountering with […]

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Wall Street Journal: “Start-Up May Aid Telecoms’ Reach”

August 2, 2008

Here is something that I do believe will succeed.  VNL has created a solar powered portable GSM network for rural communities in India.  The components are inexpensive to manufacture, easy to operate and portable.  Here’s an excerpt for a Wall Street Journal – Asia article about this new technology: “We started with a clean sheet […]

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Umanitari.it

August 2, 2008

They only have seven posts and the entire site is in Italian but please don’t hesitate to check out Umanitari.it. Tweet

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Linux Mint

August 2, 2008

If you are intersted in trying out another Linux OS be sure to check out Linux Mint.  A number of people have commented that it is a good substitute for Ubuntu’s latest offering.  Reviews abound so spend some time reviewing them. Tweet

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How do you get timely aerial imagery of disaster zone? It turns out you use LEGOs

August 1, 2008

Sometime ago I was involved in a very lengthy discussion about how to get timely aerial imagery of a disaster zone.  We covered everything from relying on Google to update Google Earth to sending DVD’s via DHL to the disaster zone.  We even discussed drones, balloons, kites, etc.  At the end of the day there […]

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‘Say Hello to Ovi’

August 1, 2008

I have been meaning to write about Nokia’s Ovi service for some time now but, thankfully, Popular Science has done it for me.  What they don’t cover is the Sport Tracker Beta application (which is available for download here) so I will cover that in a later post.  From the article: Ready for a rat’s […]

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