Tagged: Mobile

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Turning Android Phone into GIS Data Collection Device

For a project at Janaagraha we need to collect location data. The process needs to be as simple and cost effective as possible. General GPS data collectors are expensive and doesn’t make sense for us to own those single purpose devices. Hence we started looking at mobile phones. We wanted something that can...

Google Nexus One Review 20

Google Nexus One Review

Okay. Nexus one is still not available in India. A friend of mine got it for me from USA. I am not really happy with Google there. Anyways, let me get back to the review part of it. When ever I get a new gadget, the kid in me wakes up. I use...

Is @tweet4blood successful? 5

Is @tweet4blood successful?

Its been a year since I launched @tweet4blood with VSR‘s help. It’s not a great geek work, it’s a simple two page application based on twitter api. It didn’t take more than an hour to design and code the app. But for me its been one of the happiest moment as I was...

LatLong by Onze trying decode the maps for us 4

LatLong by Onze trying decode the maps for us

As promised I am starting the outfoscions series with Onze Technologies. With their first and primary product Latlong.in they are trying to decode the maps for the rest of us. Latlong tries to give you the information on the go, hence the best way is to deliver by SMS. But the biggest problem...

Tweet 4 Blood 7

Tweet 4 Blood

OK. I was getting bored on Saturday and a friend of mine’s father went through heart surgery on last Thursday. Both events inspired me to code tweet4blood So here it is tweet4blood is at http://tweet4blood.com From where you can tweet your blood requirement with out logging in. It tweets it to @tweet4blood. If...

Mobile Apps that I run on Nokia e61i (also includes top 10) 16

Mobile Apps that I run on Nokia e61i (also includes top 10)

I have been using Nokia e61i (Symbian S60 3rd edition) for quite some time now. I am happy with it mostly because of the following applications. They are free and they enhance the functionality of my mobile. Opera Mini is my browser on my mobile. Its open 24X7 on my mobile. It supports...