Posts tagged ‘google’
Photo location service (and Bing)
January 27th, 2012 at 9:18 pm by Dr. Drang
Following up on this morning’s post, I’ve expanded my map script to include an option for using Bing Maps to display the location of a photograph, and I’ve created a Service so I can get a map by right-clicking on a photo in the Finder and choosing “Photo location” from the contextual menu. Here’s the…
Locating your photos on Google Maps
January 27th, 2012 at 9:21 am by Dr. Drang
Back in October I wrote a little script that added GPS location information to photos. My idea was to be able to take one photo with my iPhone, which would capture the location in its EXIF metadata, and use the script to transfer that information to all the photos I took with my regular camera…
Google spreadsheet phishing
September 5th, 2011 at 7:54 pm by Dr. Drang
Sometime last week I got an email that seemed like an obvious phishing attack. I wasn’t in the mood to track it down, so I just classified it as spam and moved on. Today I got the same message (may have been from a different sender) and decided to look into it a little further.…
Google got me
June 27th, 2011 at 7:49 am by Dr. Drang
I’ve said before that although Google Chrome works well, I prefer to use Safari. Recently, though, Google’s made some changes that are forcing me to use Chrome. Here’s the setup. I have two email addresses: a “Dr. Drang” address at GMail, and a work address that runs through Google via Google Apps for Business. Apple…
Google Maps printing oddity
June 3rd, 2011 at 10:29 pm by Dr. Drang
While the Google Maps scroll/zoom confusion I blogged about last week has been around for years, the printing problem I ran into today seems new. It’s a case of Google doing things right initially and then screwing it up later. I have a packed schedule on Monday. A meeting in Joliet in the morning and…
The Google Maps scroll/zoom confusion
May 29th, 2011 at 10:48 pm by Dr. Drang
This morning I used Google Maps to look up driving directions for my wife, and I did what I do practically every time I use it: I tried to scroll the map and ended up zooming into a tree a mile or so away from the address I was looking for. The problem, of course,…
Google spreadsheets on the iPhone
September 4th, 2010 at 8:17 am by Dr. Drang
I’ve mentioned before my general dislike of spreadsheets, but if the data set isn’t especially big and the calculations not especially complex, a spreadsheet can be a really useful to organize data.1 I use, for example, a Google spreadsheet to keep track of my bicycling miles. I did it as a Google spreadsheet instead of…
Embedded Google maps
July 14th, 2010 at 11:52 pm by Dr. Drang
I’m my company’s default webmaster, and I spent a few hours today learning how to embed Google maps into our web pages. I figured I’d write up an example before I forget. There’s a whole family of Google Maps APIs, covering JavaScript, Flash, static images, Google Earth images, and more. The JavaScript API makes the…
Webfonts for the 18th century
May 20th, 2010 at 9:28 pm by Dr. Drang
This morning, in a burst of pure genius, Dan Sandler (@dsandler) tweeted this: Attention all 17th–18th century blogger-scholars: Your font needs have now been met. http://code.google.com/webfonts/list?family=IM+Fell Sure enough, if you follow that link you’ll be taken to the preview page for IM Fell, an old-looking family of fonts, now available as webfonts through the auspices…
Google Maps bike route fix
April 8th, 2010 at 9:24 am by Dr. Drang
As I said at the end of this post last month, I sent Google a bug report about their new bicycling directions. I had tested out the new feature by asking it for the directions from my home to office, a route that I bike almost every weekday 8-9 months of the year. The directions…
