Motorola iDEN GPS Tracking with Google Maps


If you've got a Motorola iDEN phone that has Java and GPS built in, you're in luck. A free service called Mologogo attempts to stitch the world of the GPS-enabled phone into Google maps. First register for a free Mologogo account. Next, download and install (no easy feat!) the Java app to your mobile. Start the app and what you should see is a Google map with your current position, complete with scrolling and different zoom levels. But here's where it gets cool: you can share your current position with your friends and they can locate you on their phone or on the web site. The uses of this are limitless (think “lo-jack” but not just for the car).

Apparently, the Boost mobile prepaid phone also works with this (and only costs 20 cents a day for the data portion).

I can't get my i730 to work. It's stuck at “Loading Friends” and eventually gives an error “Close indication open0.” Anyone know what's wrong?

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Random Axis Camera Zen: Georgia State

A very nice evening picture of the Georgia State University Campus and the downtown Atlanta cityscape. Shot with an AXIS 213 PTZ so feel free to look around or sit back and watch as others move the camera for you.

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Update: Remember, you can't use Safari to see moving images from AXIS cameras as Safari doesn't support server push “motion-jpeg.” You should be using Firefox anyways.

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The Chronicles of George: Tech Support (from) Hell

Pages and pages of help desk entries and camp stories from a guy named George. There's a lot to read there so pull up your electric fireplace and get cozy with the PowerBook.

The world of technical support is like a reflecting pool. To those who exist outside, it appears to be a deep, mystical place; bottomless, terrifying, foreign. The truth, however, is that the pool is only about three feet deep, and the bottom is grainy silt over sharp, hurty rocks.

she trys to turn her laptop all it does makes is a noise that sound like it is diening

Link. Thanks, Micah!