Category: API
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Experimental flickr photo viewer
Not so long ago I saw a nice menu from (I’m not really sure) a game console on TV. It had a tilted view on 3D planes with information from a games and after selecting a plane the plane rotate toward the camera so you could see more detail from the selected game. I made…
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Augmented Reality
A few weeks ago I was busy finding a graduate project. And during that time augmented reality looked very interesting. Most of you know what it means, for the others here a small explaining line from wikipedia: Augmented reality (AR) is a field of computer research which deals with the combination of real-world and computer-generated…
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How to find an address with Google maps Flash API
After the Flash Google maps API release I spend some time to see what is possible. I started with the documentation from Google. In there documentation they are using the latitude and longitude coordinates to set the center of your map. This is not really a human readable way to do it and personally I…
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How to put Google Maps into Ruby on Rails
Introduction Last week A month ago Gerard Lolkema had a lot of trouble getting Google Maps working in Ruby on rails so he asked me for help. Gerard Lolkema already found a tutorial to do this. The tutorial: Rails, Geocoding, and Google Maps from Andre on Tech. This tutorial provides you of a lot of…
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Google OpenSocial
Is Google launching a new competitor for Facebook or is it something completely new? And OpenSocial, what is that? Well it is definitely not a competitor for Facebook. Google is not opening a new community website where you can share things with your friends. OpenSocial more a set of tools (API’s) for developers to create…