Google Archive

  • Apple.com through the eyes of Google Chrome

    Problems with iChat and GTalk

    Tinfoil hat time.  In the past 48 hours I’ve had problems start to appear between Apple and Google.  The first was using Chrome on OS X and trying to access the Apple website, which results in Chrome b0rk1ng. The second issue has been with iChat...

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  • Blackberry Bold Geotagging Photos

    Blackberry Bold Geotagging Photos

    I spent part of yesterday’s ride taking snaps with the Blackberry Bold to see if I could get the geotag feature to work.  Here’s the results. Blackberry Bold photos As you an see, the additional Lat/Lon EXIF data is working fine and dandy. I’ll have...

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  • Gmap Pedometer Route Tracing

    Gmap Pedometer Route Tracing

    A tweet from Jim Phelps put me on to the Gmap Pedometer, which I’ve been having a quick play with this evening. The service provides a means of being able to pre-record a route that can be exported to a gpx route in the same...

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  • Google Gadgets Portlet for Websphere

    Google Gadgets Portlet for Websphere

    IBM have finally released the portlet for consuming Google Gadgets and services within Websphere that I mentioned way back at Lotusphere. IBM Portlet for Google Gadgets is a JSR 168 portlet that allows enterprise portal users to integrate Google Gadgets for web pages with their...

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  • Maps ‘R’ Us

    Maps ‘R’ Us

    Right. This is a little off topic related to the Strawberry Project, but I’m quite excited about this one. Google Maps has been a firm favourite for some time (and, to a lesser extent, Google Earth). There’s a rather neat WordPress plugin for Google Maps...

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