RagingSmurf » Free Software http://www.ragingsmurf.com web-code, caffeine and condiments Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:38:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 My Location Information http://www.ragingsmurf.com/recreational-coding/my-location-information/ http://www.ragingsmurf.com/recreational-coding/my-location-information/#comments Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:21:09 +0000 Jim Davis http://www.ragingsmurf.com/?p=379 For some reason there isn’t a reasonable URL shorteners specific to Google Maps, so I decided to write one up.  I thought of using bit.ly for shortening map URL’s, but I wanted a TinyURL domain that let users know they were going to get a map.  So I decided to register myloc.info and build a simple TinyURL map engine.

UberTwitter uses a very similar domain, myloc.me.  Their results send you to a Uber advertising page with a map in the middle.  Not very mobile friendly, but free is free I guess.  My version works great with the iPhone. It automatically pulls open the Map application. Normal browsers are redirected to Google Maps.

As an add on, I created a basic GET JSON API, so myself and others could easily incorporate this service into projects.

]]> http://www.ragingsmurf.com/recreational-coding/my-location-information/feed/ 0 Qik Video Broadcasting http://www.ragingsmurf.com/free-software/qik-video-broadcasting/ http://www.ragingsmurf.com/free-software/qik-video-broadcasting/#comments Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:21:16 +0000 Jim Davis http://www.ragingsmurf.com/?p=349 A nice straightforward cell phone video publishing website. They offer pretty good living streaming and video archiving. Below is quick test done while at The Dripolator in Asheville taken with my Blackberry Bold.



Last Sunday I took some video of the Asheville Mardi Gras parade downtown. After I got home, I realized that converting the 3GP format into anything web ready was a long drawn out process. I’ll use this site instead since they offer a download in .flv and .mp4 formats. They also include embed code with each post.

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