First up in this month’s make smarter comes via the Google Geo Developers Blog and links to 9 different geo related presentations from Google I/O, including porting applications from the Google Maps API v2 to v3, tips an
Have you seen the minimum requirements for ArcGIS 10? CPU Speed 2.2 GHz dual core or higher128MB Video Ram The laptop I’m typing this on, my only work machine, is a C2D 2.0 GHz. I don’t meet the minimum requirements for
Last month Google unveiled its Font API, which makes custom font usage on your web page a snap. I talked about using @font-face before, and it isn’t terribly hard to use your own fonts that way. But doing it through Goog
I had to check the date to make sure it wasn’t April Fool’s. Via PC World, well…let them tell you. Rosenberg, a Los Angeles California native, is suing Google because Google Maps issued directions that told her to walk d
The big winner this month: Android. Android passed the iPhone in sales in the first quarter of 2010, becoming the #2 smart phone with 28% of the market. Blackberry is still #1 with a whopping 36%, with a big thank you co
Rain + Race Weekend + Charlotte > Smoke Monster + Darth Vader + Glen Beck Aaaaaarrrrgh!
There was so much news coming from or around Google I/O this month I decided to recap some of the salient points. Here’s the Geo related stuff: Google has hired 300 temp workers to work on their map data. Several, m
Since this conference won’t be on the radar of most readers of this blog, I thought I’d wave its banner. The SouthEast LinuxFest is June 11-13 in Spartanburg, SC. I attended the inaugural SELF conference last year, and
As was highly anticipated, Google has released a free, high quality video codec at the Google I/O conference. This is what everybody was hoping for after Google acquired On2 and their VP8 codec for $100M+. The new codec