Unlike music or fashion industries, in the world of technology we rarely see something which is considered as old coming into picture again. But in this case it has..! sometimes its very difficult let go of something when something newer comes in, even though it's better than the old one. Typewriter is one such thing. I am sure that in this era of touch screens, there are people who really miss using typewriter. So for all there typewriter fans, here comes 'Typescreen' which would turn your iPad into a typewriter hence giving it a cool retro look...!!
With an effort of 16 months, spinning Hat has come up with this unique design. There isn't much to tell as the picture of it says everything..:)
The name of this app is 'Creepy'..! Don't think it as a foolish name for an app, because this one is really creepy..!!
In today's world, we live more in the digital world than in the real world. For us, our 'avatar' is more important than our real selves. Its a harsh fact but we have to admit it.
So living in this digital world, we leave out loads n loads of our personal information accessible to anyone on the internet. We do not think it as a 'no biggie', but you would be amazed or horrified to be more precise, to know how these small 'no biggie' details can be used against you...!
This app for desktop computers called 'Creepy' is a “geo-location information aggregator”. i.e, using a this a person can know where all the places you had been and can hence easily find out the place where you would likely to be..!
Now, you might be going "oh shit..!!"..:) How does it do that..??
Well, we constantly upload pictures and share them with the world. From these pics, its possible to extract geo-location information .......
tweets have geolocations. ....
Coordinates when tweet was posted from mobile device
Place (geographical name) derived from users ip when posting on twitter's web interface. Place gets translated into coordinates using geonames.com
Bounding Box derived from users ip when posting on twitter's web interface.The less accurate source , a corner of the bounding box is selected randomly.
Geolocation information accessible through image hosting services API
EXIF tags from the photos posted.
So 'Creepy' sniffs all these and much more details from the web and presents it in a map marking all the locations your target has been hence making it easy to find out the places you frequently visit, the places you likely to be found..!
There was a time when many would think blogger blogs do not look good and it was true too to a certain extent. but then, Blogger provided the bloggers with a large variety of customizable templates to make those blogs look pretty. Now Blogger has gone another step forward and has introduced 'Dynamic views'....!!
I know you liked it...:) So to enable it on your blog,
Your blog should be public. i.e, people do not need to sign in to view your blog.
Blog should have feeds fully enabled. Then, in the settings > site feed tab , you have enabled either Full or Jump Break for your Post Feed.
Then in settings > formatting tab, set the option for Enable Dynamic Views is set to Yes.
With all the above settings done, you are ready to roll. What the visitors of your blog have to do is to just add a "/view" (without quotes) to the blog URL and they can enjoy browsing your blog too..:)
Also FYI, for this feature to be enabled you should have a newer browser like firefox 3.5+, Internet Explorer 8 etc.
