OK, so tested Google, Bing, Yahoo, ESRI, Openlayers and MapServer mashups on the iPad, and much like on the iPhone, the slippy drag-and-droll interface doesn’t work. Except for one mashup. Take a guess?
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OK, so tested Google, Bing, Yahoo, ESRI, Openlayers and MapServer mashups on the iPad, and much like on the iPhone, the slippy drag-and-droll interface doesn’t work. Except for one mashup. Take a guess? Related: Wolfram|Alpha is an Answer Engine for the scientifically-minded, as opposed to a Search Engine: It takes your query, implied or otherwise, that critical step further by selecting from its list of matches, the one objective description, image etc, and lays them out in context. Not that Google never attempts definitive answers [chord], but when it does, . . . → Read More: Taking Wolfram|Alpha on an Alpha Run Well, I have switched from b2evolution to WordPress CMS. And thanks to Apache’s mod_rewrite, I was able to keep all my old links intact. Here’s how: ### wordpress: http://www.spatiallink.org/gistools/discuss/weblogs/blogs/pi.php?m=200807 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} . . . → Read More: b2evolution 2 wordpress I started the year with this ‘Time Management‘ video by Randy Pausch. You may know him from ‘The Last Lecture‘. His introduction is by Gabe- my website mentor at UVA Computer Science Web Team. A must-watch if you haven’t already. – π Related: • Medium Maximization: “A medium, for example, points or money, is a token people receive as the immediate reward of their effort. It has no value in and of itself, but it can be traded for a desired outcome. Experiments demonstrate that, when people are faced with options entailing different outcomes, the presence of a medium . . . → Read More: Follow Up [1]: The Power of Ten 1,000 CONTACTS > 100 VISITORS > 10 SIGN-UPS > 1 ACTIVE USER – π Related: What if Gmail Had Been Designed by Microsoft? Related: As the Google-backed Open Handset Alliance takes shape, I have been testing dominant WAP browsers on my 2-year old touchscreen PocketPC. This resulting post should narrow down the choices for those who follow: Deep Fish by Microsoft appears to be the most promising of the lot. Unfortunately, it is in a strict testing phase and no . . . → Read More: Mobile Browsers Try this page to compare Ruby‘s and Python‘s language elegance side-by-side. Spoiler Warning: There is a winner! To get you started: –π Related: Bush Official Goes Nuclear in Net Neut Row. The Register. 2007 Related: –π Related: Here are four “events” from 2006 that I consider as evolutionary milestones of our burgeoning SIS industry: E2- ESRI finally catches up to GE. Almost According to TheStree.com, American Online recently bought Truveo. Note that this was predicted by Technology . . . → Read More: Follow Up [2]: Top 10 Technology Trends for 2006 ["comment"] More crystal ball gazing: A tough year ahead for Sony ["fate deserved, although XBox would probably hurt more"] 1. First there were WiFi hotspots, then hot zones ["even more so"] “Building a Better Boom … The Internet is exciting again, and once again folks are rushing in. In some categories – like search or social networking, for example – there are scores of start-ups vying for pretty much the same market, and it’s certain that, just like last time, most of them will fail. But regardless of all . . . → Read More: Follow Up [1]: Memorandum Excerpt, Alleged From: Bill Gates “… Ten years ago this December, I wrote a memo entitled The Internet Tidal Wave which described how the internet was going to forever change the landscape of computing… Five years ago we focused our strategy on .NET . . . → Read More: Memorandum Excerpt, Alleged: Internet Software Services It’s time to move these to del.icio.us: http://labs.google.com/ Google’s showcase http://geoportal.kgs.ku.edu/googlemaps/ks_gm.cfm SDE+GMap http://opensource.nokia.com/ Nokia in opensource WAP http://www.webstyleguide.com/ Web style guide http://robin.sourceforge.net/ Browser-based desktop On the eve of the launch of Virtual Earth, as Microsoft plays catch-up with Google‘s high-rate of innovation, here’s a transcript of some tete-a-tete: [Sometime before 2000] Now that I would update the DFIRM WIKI more frequently, I added a lock this past weekend to prevent simultaneous editing. And after being hit by abuse through automated comments, basic verification was also added while still allowing relatively hassle-free editing. At some point, I may submit these improvements back . . . → Read More: WIKI: Edit Lock Schema The primary objective of this blog is to mull over industry trends and abstract ideas relevant to the profession, not to regurgitate “operational details”. However, this post may bend that rule. For those not in the know, a webpage does a lot of behind-the-scene work before it spits-out text on the screen. Here’s a summary of what . . . → Read More: Half-life of a Webpage |
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