Saturday 26 April 2008

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.

Friday 25 April 2008

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.

Friday 18 April 2008

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

Thursday 17 April 2008

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.

Tuesday 1 April 2008

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.