Friday, September 28, 2007 #

Friday fun with WorldMaps

Shortly after I opened SilverlightCream.com, Andrew Duthie suggested I use WorldMaps for my counter/map. I looked at it and liked it a lot.

I had entered my Latitude/Longitude for 'future' enhancements. In a post by Andrew last week, he showed what one of the future enhancements is ... a mashup between VirtualEarth and the existing WorldMaps displays.

If you click on my map image in the lower left sidebar of WynApse.com, you'll get to this page. This all by itself is very cool, and I like how I can see the names of places that folks log in from. If you tack "v2" onto the end of "WorldMap" in that link, you'll get the mashup which now has a link for "Virtual Earth".

I was interested in where the 5 people may be located that are within 10 miles of my house that are listed on the report. I can see friends that have logged in from other states, I can drill into my brother's backyard :) But wait ... if I can do that... then anyone looking at this can also find "Site Owner" .

Hmmm ... So I reset my Latitude/Longitude to be somewhere in the vicinity of my house, but not really there.

For instance, today I appear to be living at one of the holes on a small golf course in a gated mobile home community... which by itself is an interesting combination of words :) I've already scouted out a few fun locations within a small radius of my house, and I think I'll 'relocate' myself now and again just for fun ... sort of like the WynApse Protection Program.

posted @ Friday, September 28, 2007 12:02 PM | Feedback (1)

Product Review: Card Reader v 1.07 for Palm OS by Mobile Stream

I finally invested in some ear buds I liked (KOSS KEB/24b) and started listening to DotNetRocks on my Palm Pilot.

If you have a Palm device, you know the process: Download from the site, drag the file from your HD over to the Palm loader tool to put it on your card, then sync the Palm. So the file has to be handled 3 times, and one of the three is very slow -- the sync.

Card Reader by Mobile Stream resolves that problem. I bought it this morning from PalmGear.com on a 20% off sale for $9.56, installed it, then after about 30 seconds of looking at the structure of the card, I deleted the show I listened to yesterday and downloaded the latest DNR show directly to the Palm... worked great ... one step, and didn't seem to me to me much longer than downloading to my HD.

Check the list of supported devices. The 20% off is via a promo code listed on the page: FALLSALE, and is good until October 3.

Now to get another (larger) card and just download a weeks-worth of DNR at one shot

posted @ Friday, September 28, 2007 9:03 AM | Feedback (2)
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