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SkyDrive camera gallery now supports geo-tagging with Bing Maps

January 6, 2012 | By Surur

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With SkyDrive’s picture gallery getting more exposure due to being used for twitter pictures, it behoves Microsoft to improve this public-facing view of the cloud property quite rapidly.

LiveSide.net reports that the SkyDrive cloud app has been bumped to Build 3004 which appears to bring support for the geo-tags which automatically accompany Windows Phone 7 pictures. The tags are displayed via a zoomable Bing map in the side bar.

Once one does zoom in it is scarily accurate, so it is fortunately that by default this information is not shared with the public.

LiveSide reports that the SkyDrive team is already hard at work on version 16.3 (Wave 5 Milestone 3) of SkyDrive which is expected to bring many other new features soon.

Via LiveSide.net

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EventNear tells you what’s on around you

June 18, 2011 | By Surur

Its weekend and for many of our readers the question will once again arise – what to do today? Today we do have a solution for this perennial problem however.

Find local events in your town or across the world using EventNear and the Eventful database.

Over 15 million people rely on Eventful every week to find out what’s happening and decide what to do; from movies, concerts and sports to family fun and nightlife.

The database contains information on events including:

Concerts
Tour Dates, Festivals
Film
Business, Networking
Sports
Food, Wine
Kid, Family
Conferences, Tradeshows
Museums, Attractions
Art Galleries, Exhibits
Fundraising, Charity
Technology

The application is free and can be seen demoed on the video here.

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‘Where Did I Take That’ for Windows Phone 7

May 12, 2011 | By craignotgreg

Ever looked at a photo and wondered where did i take that? Well wonder no more with this app you will be able to find out exactly where you took the photo. It will read the GPS location information from the photo and place it right on a map.

No more will you look back over a party photo or a holiday snap and think for days where you took it. this app will show you, along with the time and date.

This app also integrates right into your photo hub. Select a photo in the hub and bring up the sliding menu, select extras and select Where Did I Take That. The photo will be sent to the app show show you just where you took it.

This app will also work with any photos sent to you by friends as long as they save the GPS location on their phone or camera.

Download for free from Marketplace here.

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Windows Phone 7 Facebook app updated, gets photo tagging and places

December 21, 2010 | By rush24

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Soon after the iPhone and Android Facebook clients were updated to support Facebook’s new features, Windows Phone 7 has also been fortunate enough to receive the update to add photo tagging and Facebook Places, Facebook’s FourSquare competitor.

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WP7 provides a deep integration with Facebook, but there there are features which can only be accessed using the dedicated app. A new version 1.1 has rolled into the marketplace which adds places and photo tagging. There are still some holes in the app, like the lack of chat, a surprising omission considering that a third party app Facebook IM, can do so already! As the reviewers note, this app needs to have chat that works with Windows Live Messenger (another app that is in dire need of a full overhaul). Live tiles were supposed to be a differentiating feature for WP7, well, you wont find them on this app! Overall, it is a good app, but Microsoft needs to speed up the updates because I consider it to be one of the core apps on the platform.

The update is in Marketplace now, and should be being pushed out as we speak.

Thanks Stan for the tip.

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Situations: A Nokia App I would like to see on Windows Phone 7

November 27, 2010 | By rush24

Windows Phone 7 already has a neat way to personalize the start screen with theme colors and pinning various tiles to the screen. Some users would prefer the ability to change the background via a personal wallpaper but I think that option would ruin the clean Metro UI look that Microsoft is going for. What if instead the items on the start screen and various settings would change depending on where you were or time of the day or both? That seems like what the Nokia situations app does and it is something I would like to see on WP7. I would even go further as to wish that it could be baked into the OS, but with the option not to have it on by default. Blogger Manan, had the same thoughts a few months back and I remember seeing the same kind of idea from the Locus OS concept video. What do you guys think?

Via @manan

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CroTune – Croatian tourist navigator for Windows Mobile

August 14, 2010 | By Miljenko Jovic

CroTune – Croatian tourist navigator is a free tourist helper application. The Crotune database contains more than 2000 tourist subjects and events located in Croatia and is a perfect companion for your holiday. Our database is continuously updated with new informations, geo-data, price lists and events.

You can browse subjects divided into categories at Categories tab, and divided by locations in Places Tab, search subjects and view detailed service information.

Each Subject has short description, contact telephone number, mail, address, website, geo-location and price list.

Geo-location enables you to view nearby subjects, distance to desired subject and preferred route.

Service informations contain weather report, currency report, buss timetables, flight schedules, train schedules, ferry timetables, toll rates, event timetables and traffic conditions.

If you want to plan your holiday from Crotune application you can add subjects to Favourites and have all your sites that you are planing to visit during your holiday.

The software installs initially without the database. We recommend a WIFI connection at first start, as the large database, which can take up to 30 minutes, depending on your connection speed, to download, will be acquired then.

All the data will then accessible in offline mode so users can use it even while roaming to avoid high data charges. When abroad and connected to WIFI, we recommend updating your data to get all the recent informations. This partial update takes much less time and data traffic.

Crotune is continuously updated and we take care that you always get newest information. The application is currently in beta phase, and we are currently working on geo-locating all our subjects, so please check for updates frequently.

Crotunes is a free application currently available from PocketGear here.

Learn more about the software, which is also available on iTunes and Android, here.

This article has been submitted by the developer to Page2. To publicize your own application submit articles here.

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Aloqa – you must get this app

January 21, 2010 | By Surur

We just noticed this application in the Marketplace showcase. Aloqa, previously on the iPhone and Android, is a geo-location app that lets you know what’s happening around you.

What’s particularly great about the software is the breadth of services the software integrates with, including movie listings, live music and even Wikipedia.

The software is free in Marketplace and is definitely worth the download and is available here.

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Top 10 Windows Mobile apps at 100 km/hour

December 10, 2009 | By Surur

Micheal Gannoti, Microsoft’s social media expert and the leading force behind the LiveMedia GPS Geocasting application by IncaX has started a series of geocasts talking about his favourite top 10 applications, most of which can be downloaded from Marketplace.

See his first instalment above, and keep an eye on his blog for the rest.

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LiveJournal gets Location Detection for Windows Mobile using Google Gears

July 16, 2009 | By Surur

If you post to LiveJournal using PIE or the beta of Opera Mobile 9.7 on Windows Mobile they have just added a nice new feature.

When you do a post using the Post an Entry page, instead of entering text in the Location field of , you can just click Detect and your location will be automatically filled in. The information is based on on your IP address and includes your country, state (for the U.S. only), and city. If you install install the Google Gears client for Windows Mobile the software can detect your location down to the street address. So if, for instance, you take a cool photo of an abandoned place and want to post it in the community, you can click Detect and have the exact address of the abandoned place included in your entry.

Read more about the technology in action at LiveJournal here.

Via GomoNews.com

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Opera and Skyhook Wireless Bring Geolocation to the Web

March 27, 2009 | By Surur

Opera Software and Skyhook Wireless today announced their partnership to bring geolocation to the Web. Users can now simply choose to share their location with any Web site and get a range of information about related products and services around them. Whether it is local searching, social networking, geotagging photos, local advertising or discovering nearby content, geolocation is a key factor in creating a relevant and meaningful experience on the Web.

Traditionally, geolocation was considered as being only a part of a downloadable mobile application, but, with Skyhook’s Wi-Fi Positioning System (WPS), any computer or mobile phone with a wireless adapter can take advantage of its advanced positioning technology and locate a user, making this service available to any Web site.

“Location is always relevant when someone is browsing the Web,” said Tatsuki Tomita, SVP of consumer products at Opera Software. “By embedding Skyhook’s technology into Opera and making it available through the W3C Geolocation API, we ensure that every Opera user gets the same, high-quality, location-based experience out of the gate.”

With the new W3C Geolocation Application Programming Interface (API), Opera will make Skyhook Wireless’ groundbreaking location platform available to any Web developer with just a few lines of JavaScript. For example, a popular coffee chain will write the necessary JavaScript code on their Web site, Opera will ask the user for approval, then the location will be submitted to the Web site servers and their service will display the coffee shop locations nearest to the user on a map.

“Making accurate and reliable geolocation available over JavaScript to any Web developer means Skyhook’s market leading platform will be in the hands of a whole new world of developers and we expect to see the explosion of location-based services on the Web,” said Ryan Sarver, director of consumer products at Skyhook Wireless.

A technology preview for their desktop browser is available for download at http://labs.opera.com/.

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Google Gears for Windows Mobile gets Geolocation API

August 22, 2008 | By Surur

Google Gears, which is Google’s browser plug-in to deliver complex mobile web services on mobile devices, has just added a location-aware API. This API will be able to ascertain your location based either on your nearest cell tower or optionally the devices built-in GPS and make this information available via a javascript script to websites that implement the feature.

Windows Mobile is so far the only mobile operating system that can be Google Gears enabled, and as this video demonstration shows, the software can enable very useful features.

Read more about Google Gears Geolocation API at the Google Mobile blog here.

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