Steven Mileham – General Geekery

October 20, 2009

Redlaser – nerdgasm

Filed under: Technology — Tags: — smileham @ 1:24 pm
RedLaser logo

RedLaser

Over the weekend I was sitting in a cafe with a friend of mine who works at a supermarket.  He mentioned that he’d heard of a program on the iPhone which could read barcodes, RedLaser.  I grabbed a copy, and we played around for a moment scanning the shopping we’d just bought.

Then sitting at home this morning, my eyes wandered to my DVD collection, and cogs began to whirr.  A few moments later and I started the task of scanning each DVD, with the aim of e-mailing the list of results to myself, thus cataloguing my collection.  Next I start on the CDs and books.  So yeah, I had a nerdgasm, but only a little one.

April 3, 2008

iTraffix – US

Filed under: Technology — Tags: , — smileham @ 1:25 am

Seeing as I was on a roll, and a couple of people asked for it, I trawled the net for an XML feed of US traffic news and stumbled upon the feeds at Traffic.com.

So now we have iTraffix – US, which also happens to be up on Apple’s website too!

March 29, 2008

iTraffix

Filed under: Technology — Tags: , — smileham @ 7:43 am

A moment of pride for sure! I just submitted my iPhone web application to the Apple website. I’ve certainly found it useful when I’ve been stuck in a traffic jam!

Its very simple, just using the iui javascript, all it does is go and grab the XML traffic feeds from the highways agency and allow you to read through it by region and road.

You can check it out at http://smileham.com/itraffix

iTraffix

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