sábado, febrero 12, 2011
lunes, febrero 07, 2011
When Dropbox is a great solution
Thinking of implementing an online/offline document repository for a small association in East Africa? Scarce IT skills both at capital and provincial level? Little and expensive Internet connection?
If this is your environment, then Dropbox is a great solution for your problem. Work on setting up a local repository for free (up to 2Gb), share it with as many provincial offices as you like, and get the latest version of the repository whenever you connect to the Internet.
Want to know more? Drop me a comment!!
Disclaimer: the author of this blog does not have any shares on the company!
martes, febrero 01, 2011
lunes, enero 31, 2011
The Egyptian revolution of January 2011
Support the struggle of million of Egyptians within and outside their borders using the social networks Facebook and Twitter:
- Follow @hananpacha and retweet her
- Paste links from BBC, El Pais, Le Monde, CNN in your Facebook status!
This is the egyptian's revolution and we can support its people!
sábado, enero 15, 2011
Equilibrio inestable
En alrededor de 730 dias, mi equilibrio estable con el que llegue se ha metamorfoseado en equilibrio inestable: soltero de nuevo, mudandome a un piso compartido y buscando una nueva aventura.
Esto ya ha empezado; agarrarse que nos cambiamos de continente seguro!
Gracias a todos por escuchar y guiarme.
martes, enero 11, 2011
Que pasa que el blog se quedo atras???
Bueno, pues evidentemente eso parece. Facebook se come mi tiempo "social", aunque a mi pesar esta plataforma tiene un grado mas de libertad. Y para los que todavia seguis este espacio, os deseo que este año sigan llegando nuevos proyectos, nuevas oportunidades, que sigamos creciendo y que seamos mas felices con menos!
domingo, octubre 03, 2010
Hacking geotagged images and galleries
Last weekend, I spent some time learning about the GPS tags embedded in the pictures I take with my hacked G1. The specification is called EXIF and allows to record metadata about your JPG/TIFF images or RIFF WAV audio formats.
The overall idea was to tag the pictures so I could present them in a more visual way, like how Flickr does with its maps feature, but without having to use Flickr or Picasa. After some research, I only found an Android based application that would do the trick (for now).
Step 1: First of all, we need to have the pictures geotagged and we can do this operation using Geotag, a multi-platform free software developed in Java. Geotag allows you to load a directory with images and edit the GPS coordinates on a simple way (it uses Google Map). Once all tagged, we need to save them on a folder in the sdcard of the phone.
Step 2: Install GalleryMap for Android and select the directory with your geotagged images. The application has two modes in which it displays the pictures: gallery and map. The map mode uses Google Maps to display an icon where there is a picture to display.
Although I would like to have found a complete solution, preferably to run on a LAMP server, the Android platform will be available in a multitude of tablets during 2011 so we will experience the GalleryMap next year.
The other hack of the week has been the research of image galleries that could help you to visualize your albums online. After some research, I found a couple of galleries worth to use:
- Minishowcase is a free software project that uses PHP to dynamically generate an overview of your albums with thumbnails.
- Exploring the Codrops tutorials, I found a couple of amazing designs that I would definitely use to present some albums. First, the astonishing Thumbnails Navigation Gallery design has the downside that it is coded as a static web page. Another very good design is the FreshSliding Thumbnails Gallery, which is partially dynamic (reads from a directory and creates the album list). For both galleries, you need to manually create thumbnails which can be very time consuming (unless you use a script to resize and crop the images - personally I use GIMP with the batch process module). Finally, also in Codrops I found a gallery designed specifically for smartphones like iPhone or Android-based, Wonderwall Mobile Gallery, that also requires some extra work to generate the thumbnails.
Will keep you posted whenever I finish with my own examples!
The overall idea was to tag the pictures so I could present them in a more visual way, like how Flickr does with its maps feature, but without having to use Flickr or Picasa. After some research, I only found an Android based application that would do the trick (for now).
Step 1: First of all, we need to have the pictures geotagged and we can do this operation using Geotag, a multi-platform free software developed in Java. Geotag allows you to load a directory with images and edit the GPS coordinates on a simple way (it uses Google Map). Once all tagged, we need to save them on a folder in the sdcard of the phone.
Step 2: Install GalleryMap for Android and select the directory with your geotagged images. The application has two modes in which it displays the pictures: gallery and map. The map mode uses Google Maps to display an icon where there is a picture to display.
Although I would like to have found a complete solution, preferably to run on a LAMP server, the Android platform will be available in a multitude of tablets during 2011 so we will experience the GalleryMap next year.
The other hack of the week has been the research of image galleries that could help you to visualize your albums online. After some research, I found a couple of galleries worth to use:
- Minishowcase is a free software project that uses PHP to dynamically generate an overview of your albums with thumbnails.
- Exploring the Codrops tutorials, I found a couple of amazing designs that I would definitely use to present some albums. First, the astonishing Thumbnails Navigation Gallery design has the downside that it is coded as a static web page. Another very good design is the FreshSliding Thumbnails Gallery, which is partially dynamic (reads from a directory and creates the album list). For both galleries, you need to manually create thumbnails which can be very time consuming (unless you use a script to resize and crop the images - personally I use GIMP with the batch process module). Finally, also in Codrops I found a gallery designed specifically for smartphones like iPhone or Android-based, Wonderwall Mobile Gallery, that also requires some extra work to generate the thumbnails.
Will keep you posted whenever I finish with my own examples!
lunes, julio 19, 2010
Open source is not a dirty word anymore...
Neelie Kroes is European Commissioner for Digital Agenda and Vice-President of the European Commission. More information about her.
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