Archive for September, 2008

Instamapper

Posted by dre on September 20th, 2008

Instamapper is kinda nifty. Upload GPS coords from a mobile device to a web service, plot them on google maps. Simple and fun! Here’s my bike ride home from coffee:
 

They have an iPhone app called GPS Tracker that pushes the coordinates up.
Link Summaryhttp://instamapper.comhttp://www.dreness.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/instamapper.pnghttp://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/M…a/viewSoftware?id=286658744&mt=8

get notified!

Posted by dre on September 7th, 2008

Mac OS X makes extensive use of a variety of event notification mechanisms, as described here. One such mechanism is documented in the notify(3) man pages, and it is these types of libnotify notifications that are the focus of this post. Notifications can be posted and observed in a global namespace across all processes (with [...]