Snow in October, in southern England !
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London Jubilee Walkway
Just plugging a Flickr group I created, which specifically covers the London Jubilee Walkway
http://www.flickr.com/groups/jubileewalkway/
“The Jubilee Walkway is the capital’s premier walking trail and one of London’s six designated Strategic Routes. Designed to connect the majority of London’s key attractions, it is well managed, easy to follow and provides an ideal way of getting to know London.” (from jubileewalkway.org.uk)
Developed for the Queen’s Silver Jubilee in 1977 and refurbished for the Golden Jubilee. The walk features silver and golden discs and panoramic panels with information along the route, highlighting much of the best that central London has to offer.
A great way to explore London is to walk the route and make a photo diary of it. Just follow the discs on the ground and look out for the panels and other markers too (take some shots of them also!).
Official site and map of the route: www.jubileewalkway.org.uk
Nokia Sports Tracker Widget
For those with Nokia Nseries phones, you may have come across Nokia’s fantastic Sports Tracker application, which turns your phone into a tracking device for walking, running, cycling, skiing and whatever (with the aid of a GPS unit, either built in like on the N95 or an external Blue-tooth GPS). Essentially like those expensive GPS units you get for cycling but making using of your phone and GPS. Perhaps not as complex as the “real” ones, but does a good job anyway of tracking where you are, a reasonable speed estimate and also even altitude! (all just via GPS). I’ve used it a fair bit now for skiing and cycling, and it’s one of the killer apps for my N80, along with Nokia Maps with GPS navigation. iPhone may have some nice polo neck wearers eye candy, but with features like these and mostly for free (well Maps guided navigation costs a small amount, but otherwise free as is sports tracker)… why do I need an iPhone again?
Anyway, Sports Tracker goes a step further by allowing you to upload and share in true “social” networking fashion your tracks, and attach photos and video taken on your route! Very neat.
To aid the sharing, Nokia now have a widget for use on blogs and social networking sites…
Destroy Flickr!
This is quite neat. Just been playing about with some Adobe AIR products (AIR being Adobe’s “web” common runtime kind of thing), and came across Destroy Flickr.
It’s interesting firstly as a demonstration of what AIR can do, but also as a neat way of viewing Flickr. Again, like a number of other apps and sites, it benefits from a darker background for viewing photos (which personally I think makes photos look better and removes the need for users to put frames on their own photos which I’m not a fan of at all *). I particularly like the layout as if you’ve scattered photos on a table to browse through, and you can drag photos around, click on them to view larger and zoom in easily.