Twitter Commuter Feed for London and other cities

Link for more info: Commuter Feed

Commuter Feed is a free service that lets you post reports on traffic and transit delays in your local area using Twitter.

According to Webware Commuter Feed is a network of Twitter users tying to help each other avoid traffic backups and accidents faster than some official city transportations systems are able to update.

The system works by having users follow a Twitter bot that in turn follows their direct messages and sorts through the ones including an IATA airport code and incident information. This code designates which city they're posting for and the rest of your message can simply describe what's wrong. This will instantly go up into a publicly accessible feed that others can subscribe to and check before they head out the door, or from their mobile phones while out and about.

For the traffic geek....

Link for more info: LED Traffic Light USB 2.0 Hub

In addition to being a 4-port USB 2.0 hub, this little gizmo also records and plays back up to 10 seconds of speech to store a reminder or memo. Turn your traffic lights to red when you want to be left alone, green when you feel sociable, or amber when you want to procrastinate. It also has a handy clip-on top to store a message or two.

Inside the Tokyo Traffic Control Center

Link for more info:Trends in Japan

C Scout have a great set of pics from a recent visit to the Tokyo Traffic Control Centre.

Visio on the web....

Link for more info: DrawAnywhere?

DrawAnywhere is an online diagramming website, where you can draw, modify and share flowcharts and other diagrams, with the look & feel of a desktop application. It runs on any browser with Flash 9 installed. There is no need to download and install any custom software.

Keeping Windows Mobile Application up to date

Link for more info: AppToDate

Great idea - an application which will check your software for updates... and for free

Speed trap sharing application for mobile phones

Trapster



Trapster® is a speed trap sharing application for mobile phones, PDAs and other types of devices. It can be used with any kind of phone, but works even better if you have a phone that supports GPS or WiFi. Trapster® learns the credibility of traps based on how many users agree. It also learns the credibility of each user, over time.

Only in the US currently.

Google Maps Predicts Traffic Conditions

From: Google Operating System Blog

Google Maps can now predict traffic information
for any day of the week and time of the day, based on past conditions.
By default, if you click on the Traffic button in a supported area from
the US, Google Maps shows real-time traffic information. "Comprehensive
traffic data is available in over 30 major US metropolitan areas
(including Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, and others), with partial
coverage available in many more," according to Google Maps help center. There's also a traffic layer in Google Earth and Google Maps Mobile, but these applications don't include yet traffic prediction.

Synchronize your Global Address List (GAL) to your mobile device

GALSync allows you to synchronize your Microsoft Exchange Global Address List (GAL) to the Contacts folder on your mobile device.

Giveaway of the Day

Link for more info:Giveaway Of The Day

Giveaway of the day is a great site; its all in the name... they giveaway a different commercial package every day. The software has been variable, but today was great for business - PPTminimizer which took an 8mb PowerPoint file and reduced it to 2mb.

Nokia and UC Berkeley capture real-time traffic information using GPS enabled mobile devices

Link for more info: Nokia Press Release

Live experiment on the California highway showcases a solution to a global problem

Palo Alto and Berkeley, USA - Nokia and UC Berkeley researchers today tested technology that could soon transform the way drivers navigate through congested highways and obtain information about road conditions. One hundred cars equipped with the GPS-enabled Nokia N95, and driven by students from the University of California, traveled a 10-mile stretch of highway near San Francisco to show how real-time traffic information can be collected from the GPS feed, while preserving the privacy of the devices' owners.


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Cheap Cell Phone Jammer

Link for more info: From Schneier on Security:

Only $166. It's the size of a cell phone, has a 5-10 meter range, and blocks GSM 850, 900, 1800, and 1900 MHz.I want one.

Pity they're illegal to use in the UK:

In the United States, United Kingdom, Australia and many other countries, blocking cell-phone services (as well as any other electronic transmissions) is against the law. In the United States, cell-phone jamming is covered under the Communications Act of 1934, which prohibits people from "willfully or maliciously interfering with the radio communications of any station licensed or authorized" to operate. In fact, the "manufacture, importation, sale or offer for sale, including advertising, of devices designed to block or jam wireless transmissions is prohibited" as well.

Bloglines - Mobile beta

Use bloglines for your RSS feeds; did you know they've got a beta version of the new application available - how about the mobile version too... m.beta.bloglines.com

Colour Tools

Two links today:

1. Want to know your Cornflower Blue from your Malibu Blue then check out the Name that Color - Chirag Mehta : chir.ag tool.


2. Adobe Labs' Kuler create complementary colour schemes - no excuses for clashing visio diagrams in future

Check that your software is up-to-date

UpdateStar is the program that lets you stay up-to-date with all of your personal software. Whether it be Freeware, Shareware and commercial software products, UpdateStar covers all of your software. UpdateStar knows more than 80.000 software products and lets you know once an update is available for you. No more wasted time reading hundreds of newsletters or searching websites for newly available updates. You want to stay up-to-date with your software?

Anyone up for a weekend project

Link for more info:RFID Gazette: How to Build Your Own RFID Door Lock

NFC Transit Ticketing: Headed To Market

Link for more info: Card Technology - NFC Transit Ticketing: Headed To Market

A great article on the state of NFC in the transport market.

Easy partnership with A2DP (Bluetooth) headset

Link for more info:Teksoft - Future Teknology

A2DPToggle......

This software will install as a today or home plugin and offer the user the possibility of instantly switching the audio between Device Speaker and A2DP Stereo Headsets.

Microsoft to takeover Garmin?

Rumblings afoot.......
Link for more info: yourNAV.com | News: Microsoft to takeover Garmin?

Microsoft to takeover Garmin?
The navigational world seems to be on fire lately: TT wants Tele Atlas, Nokia wants NAVTEQ and now there’s the rumour about Microsoft wanting Garmin...

VGA resolution on PDAs

Link for more info: Real VGA - xda-developers

This is the new Real VGA release.
With Real VGA you can change the DPI setting and the language of any WM6 base deivce. Install the desired packages and the Real VGA package.
Later on I will release some device specific Add-On to support the programs added by HTC for example.

NFC Real-Time Passenger Info

Link for more info: Mitsubishi to Give you Public Transport Information, Real Excuses to Arrive Late to Work - Gizmodo

Mitsubishi is developing a system that will automatically download real-time information about train and subway delays as well as estimated time of arrival whenever you wave your cellphone in front of it. Apparently, this system—which will be installed by the train car doors—is also capable of uploading a "delay certificate" to the phone. Then you will be able show it at work when you arrive late, instead of just saying that your grandfather died again, as usual. If you live in Japan, that is. Elsewhere you'll keep killing grandpa until he is 245 years old. [Gizmodo Japan]