Wednesday, October 12th, 2005
Thanks to Matt at Project Outhouse I found my way to Woogle and Toogle this morning.
Woogle is a search toy developed by Gu Jian from Sichuan, China. Based on Google Image Search, Woogle creates image messages out of the words in the phrase you enter.
Toogle is a similar search toy, this time creating images made up of the word(s) in the search. I put in a search for ‘postkiwi’ and got a picture of Hugh McKay’s book, Generations. ‘Kiwi’ gave me this kiwifruit. Take a close look and you’ll see the word “Kiwi” all the way through the image.
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Wednesday, August 24th, 2005
Thanks to Jordon Cooper for alerting us to the latest beta service from Google: Google Talk. It’s a bit like Skype - internet-based voice chatting. If you’d like a gmail address contact me at postkiwi at gmail dot com. That’s also my sign on name in Google Talk.
One problem at this point - no software available for Mac users.
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Monday, July 18th, 2005
I finally succumbed, after days of enticement, to downloading Google Earth on to the laptop. I’ve used Google Maps before, but now with the acquisition of Keyhole, Google have rolled out an interactive community based on global satellites.
The software (10 MB) is only available for PCs. It includes maps and is able to calculate distances and routes from one location to another.
Pictured below is our home on the Gold Coast. We’re in a cul de sac as you can see. You can catch a few cars in the fly over of our suburb. Only thing is the photos are about 12 months out of date. So there’s not too much danger of being spied on in real time. We can see who’s got swimming pools in the back yard now.
I took a look at my home towns in New Zealand and was a little disappointed. Obviously the Gold Coast has more money invested in aerial photographs. Eventually though I imagine NZ shepherds will be able to keep an eye on the flocks from their computers!
Craig at Mountain Masala suggests using Google Earth during the prayers for the world at church. What a good idea. It certainly beats using an earth ball to stand in for the world and having it bounce on to the communion table, knocking over the chalice and bread and offending sensitive people.
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