TomTom Announces an Open Source GPS Technology: According to OStatic, European company TomTom (which recently settled a patent agreement with Microsoft) has announced a new open source format OpenLR for sharing routing data (relevant points, traffic information...) in digital maps of different vendors, to be used in GPS devices. The LR stands for Location Referencing. They aim is to push it as an open standard to build a cooperative information base, presumably to operate in a similar fashion as its current TomTom Map Share technology, in which end users provide map corrections on the fly. The technology to support the format will be released as GPLv2. Does that make OpenLR a GPL GPS?'


link: OpenLR - Open, Compact and Royalty-free Dynamic Location Referencing

Labels: gadgets, geolocation, maps, microsoft, open_source

Shaped like a small flashlight, Maptor is a tiny GPS device which displays a map using a small built-in projector. Instead of using a backlit LCD, you can just flash the map on any flat surface and a big red arrow will tell you exactly where you are.

via yankodesign

Labels: gadgets, geolocation, maps, mashups

zembly, a new kind of application development environment powered by sun, is introducing a few new features for creating in an easy way orkut application or widget.

follow their simple tutorial to get start with zembly ide ;)

link zembly, blog

Labels: e-business, Frameworks, gadgets, mashups, software_tips, sun, web_development

Storytlr is a "centralized me" microblogging and content management system/service from europe and a kind of aggregation from Twitter messages, Flickr photos, Qik or youtube videos and your own blog posts.

actually it's just a fun project of two people team, based in Belgium & The Netherlands trying to offer an easy and flexible service of sharing and discovering your data in a compelling way.

link: http://storytlr.com

Labels: cms, gadgets, mashups, microblogging, sharing, social_software, twitter

Windows4all is web-based and requires Silverlight 2 to operate. Besides desktop, taskbar, start menu and sidebar currently it includes such applications as File Explorer, Internet Explorer, Video Player, Rich test editor, RSS reader, Notepad, Paint, Calculator, Games like Chess, Solitaire, etc..

link: http://windows4all.com/

Labels: fun, gadgets, mashups, rss

To use in translation with Google Translate Toolkit you can upload up to 1MB for free of Word documents, OpenOffice, RTF, HTML, text, Wikipedia articles and knols or any webpage , when you finish uploading, it automatically pretranslate your document...

...only a handful of blogs picked up on Google’s fresh Translator Toolkit, which the company launched yesterday by means of a blog post.
this new service really deserves a second look...

via [arabcrunch]

Labels: e-business, gadgets, google, html, social_software, web_2.0

Poken is a young web database service from lausanne switzerland, where you can save your preferred social- and im-accounts like twitter, msn, facebbok, ..., etc. as on many other services, we just use them today.

but then you can buy a little usb-gadget (about ~15EUR) called 'poken' to exchange your social information with other poken user by bringing the two poken gagdets together. so you can connect to - or let me say more precise 'bookmark' - other people, who are using this nice thing.

the gadget can be handeld as your digital id-card and after you plugin into your computer, you can synchronize your new contacts with you web database account on doyoupoken.com to connect them...

more information at this time on: doyoupoken.com

Labels: community, fun, gadgets, sharing, social_software, web_2.0

Nice, with Domize we can check the availability of domain names. searching for your domain name at Domize is completely encrypted over ssl and send in an asynchronous manner to Godaddy, Doster, Moniker... to check.
I have embedded the iframe widget for blogs and pages, but it seems there is an error on some links for .org domains in the result list, isnt it? ;-)
nice anyway.

Labels: gadgets, mashups, search