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Friday, October 29, 2010

First photograph of human being.

Well, this seems interesting...

Photograph below taken by Daguerre, in 1838 showing the first image of human being captured in photograph. It is a view of the Boulevard du Temple in Paris showing a man having his shoe shined in lower left part of the image. This is mentioned to be a very busy street at the time, but the method used by Daguerre to capture the photo (Daguerrotype) at that time requires exposure rate of about 10 minutes causing all the moving object in the picture to be not visible. Only that guy (which seems to be having his shoe shined) stands long enough for his pic tu be taken so became the first human being ever captured in a photograph. Epic.





The exact same spot today viewed via Google Map.


Interesting, isn't it?

Latitude's off..

Latitude's removed, since i'm experimenting my data simm card into something else. So friends, you need to call me to know where i am now.

lol

Monday, October 25, 2010

Google Map for Mobile..

Anybody used google map before?

I think it's great, but how come for such a great software, google doesn't incorporate navigation features within it?

Like the map to be auto rotate when we move around.. always facing the way we are heading?
.. and like speed indicator, the calculated moving speed?
.. and like tonnes of things that cheap china gps navigation got in their cheap devices?
.. and like latitude longitude being displayed so that we have some numbers to be referred to?

They can always make these features available, and can be turned on or off according to users, right?

I think i'll just have to swap between my garmin / mapking / tomtom and google map for now.