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Jul 09
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TwitARound: Augmented Reality Tweets in the City

By Augmented Reality, TwitAround, Twitter

TwittARound is an augmented reality Twitter viewer on the iPhone 3GS. It shows live tweets around your location on the horizon with the video see-through effect allowing you to see where the tweet comes from and how far it is away:

Download Squad, where we picked it up from, didn’t seem to see the point, we think its an incredably intriguing view of the cityscape – to be able to pan around a area and see the live tweets is perhaps a glimpse into the ‘X-Ray Datascape’ city of the future?

See TwittARound for more info.

Jul 08
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PhoneGap: Open Source Development Tool for iPhone/Android and Blackberry

By android, iphone, PhoneGap

Yesterday we posted our Live London Weather ‘semi app’ for mobile devices. This got us thinking that there must be an easy way to convert a ready to go html/javascript page into an fully functional app that can take advantage of the full phone features such as GPS etc.

It turns out that PhoneGap maybe the answer, PhoneGap allows web developers who want to build mobile applications in HTML and JavaScript while still taking advantage of the core features in the iPhone, Android and Blackberry SDKs.

For a quick introduction to PhoneGap, watch this three-minute video:

It certainly looks interesting, head over to http://phonegap.com/ for full details and download. We will post any thoughts as and when we get something running…

Jul 08
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PhotoSketch Launched with 30 Day Trial

By 3D Modelling, Photosketch, SketchUp


PhotoSketch by Brainstorm Technology LLC is now available with a fully functional 30 day trial version available for download. PhotoSketch is a Google SketchUp plugin that enables the user to model 3D urban structures directly from photographs. It is aimed at architects, designers, and entertainment content creators allowing a new approach to create lightweight 3D models of existing buildings.

Sure you can model direct onto photographs already in SketchUp and indeed that is the basis of a lot of the models currently seen in Google Earth. Where Photoshetch seems to differ is the ability to determine camera positions and extract and match geometric features derived from a collection of overlapping photos of an urban scene.

Head over to http://www.brainstormllc.com/ for the download.

Jul 07
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iPhone Live Weather App

By iphone weather app, live weather iphone, london, London Live Weather

For various reasons we have been away from the blog for the last few days, which although annoying, has given us enough spare time to knock up a live weather ‘app’ for the iPhone.

While not strictly an app in its purest sense, using various meta tags it runs full screen in Safari once added to the home screen and includes an icon, making it as close to an app as you can get. Indeed using meta tags is a quick and easy way to get the ‘app look’ while not having to go through the iTunes store.

The data refreshes every 3 seconds via our offices in Central London, the weather station is located on a roof just off Tottenham Court Road.

Simply go to http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/weather/iphone.html and then click the + icon to ‘Add to Home Screen’ on your phone. The page is formatted to work with the majority of mobile devices so if your not an iPhone user you can still get the live updates.

At the moment only London is available but if there is interest we will make the template available for other users and locations 🙂

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