Løkling.com http://lokling.com Personal blog of Øyvind Løkling Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:43:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 en Lively by Google http://lokling.com/uncategorized/lively-by-google/ http://lokling.com/uncategorized/lively-by-google/#comments Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:43:10 +0000 Øyvind Løkling http://lokling.com/uncategorized/lively-by-google/ Come join me in Lively for a chat. Feel free to decorate the room - its a bit empty at the moment.

]]> http://lokling.com/uncategorized/lively-by-google/feed/ First pictures of Sondre http://lokling.com/sondre/first-pictures-of-sondre/ http://lokling.com/sondre/first-pictures-of-sondre/#comments Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:00:39 +0000 Øyvind Løkling http://lokling.com/photography/first-pictures-of-sondre/

Sondre was born this Monday (21.01.08)  at 20:58 CET, 4204g and 52cm, and all is well with both mother and baby. Yesteday we arrived home from hospital after a three day stay at Ullevål Hospital Hotel.

Sondre is now comfortably settled in at his home, where he is relaxing. His favorite activities are eating, sleeping and listening to old Leonard Cohen songs - which makes him wave his hands in excitement. He is looking forward to meeting you all soon :-)

]]> http://lokling.com/sondre/first-pictures-of-sondre/feed/ First version of Cache Companion http://lokling.com/geocaching/first-version-of-cache-companion/ http://lokling.com/geocaching/first-version-of-cache-companion/#comments Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:38:48 +0000 Øyvind Løkling geocachingsoftware http://lokling.com/geocaching/first-version-of-cache-companion/ Well, there’s been few posts the last week, I’ve been brushing up on my midp java development skills. More specifically I’ve written a small “paperless geocaching” application to parse GPX files directly on my mobile phone rather than having to go through several stages using GSAK and similar. A lot of XML parsing for a small device to handle, so the initial loading of the datafile is rather slow. After the geocaches have been stored in the midp recordset browsing and searching is done quite fast.

More details to be found on the new Cache Companion pages. Feedback is much appreciated.

]]> http://lokling.com/geocaching/first-version-of-cache-companion/feed/ Google launches “My Maps” http://lokling.com/web20/google-launches-my-maps/ http://lokling.com/web20/google-launches-my-maps/#comments Fri, 06 Apr 2007 21:28:07 +0000 Øyvind Løkling Google Mapsweb2.0 http://lokling.com/web20/google-launches-my-maps/ Google has just launched “My Maps” as an extension of Google Maps. It’s now just point and click to make you’re own custom google maps. Here’s my first - a quick test with three of my favourite restaurant/pubs in Oslo.

 Read more in the Google blog - “So easy a caveman could do it”

]]> http://lokling.com/web20/google-launches-my-maps/feed/ Geotagging photos http://lokling.com/geocaching/geotagging-photos/ http://lokling.com/geocaching/geotagging-photos/#comments Thu, 05 Apr 2007 22:56:07 +0000 Øyvind Løkling geocachinggeotaggingphotographysoftware http://lokling.com/2007/04/06/geotagging-photos/ Two of my hobbies are geocaching and photography. They go well together in the sense that there’s good photo oportunities when out geocaching. Many caches are placed in noteworthy locations worth the trip alone. If you’re curious about geocaching a good starting point is geocaching.com, have a look at the introductory article. Alternatively there’s a few videos on youtube if you prefer that.

A side effect of carrying a gps on these trips is that you will have a tracklog of your path - timestamped coordinates recorded by the gps (most models) that can be downloaded to the local pc. These timestamped tracks can be combined with the timestamps on your digital images to form “geotagged” images. This is called “Exif stamping” as the longtitude and lattitude is written to the embedded Exif fields. There’s also the option to manually tag the images with coordinates if you don’t have a gps.

These images can now be shown in different map contexts such as Google earth, Google maps etc. You could also upload to online services such as flickr.

The exif stamping is a simple task in itself - read data from gps log and write to jpg field, but as there might be time offsets between your images you might need to tweak this.  When I started some time ago I research and found a few tools:

WWMX Location Stamper (free, beta)
JetPhoto (commercial, trial available)
RoboGeo (commercial, trial available)

Out of these three my choice was to go for RoboGeo - it has an easy to use interface and good options for making correcting as well as manually geotagging using integration with Google Earth. It also have a good range of options on both the import and export side. WWMX does the basic geotagging if that is what you need. JetPhoto has a very nice interface, and is also a photo album manager - but less fleixbe on the import/exports. For me the choice was RoboGeo. As I’m a not a Mac user I did not look into Mac software - there is a solution for iPhoto described in this Ogle Earth blog entry. If you have opinions of these products or suggestions of other tools leave a comment and I may make a more detailed review at a later stage.

A side note - if you have a Nokia Series 60 cameraphone then ZoneTag is worth checking out. This research prototype lets you upload captured and automatically geotagged images directly to flickr. It will also add suggested tags based on the location and other users that have shot the same area. Cool.

To finish this post I’ll leave you with an example of how the end result can look. This is the former mentioned visit to Bray where Anna and I climbed Bray Head. This is a google map export from RoboGeo.

]]> http://lokling.com/geocaching/geotagging-photos/feed/ My visual DNA - Imagini http://lokling.com/uncategorized/my-visual-dna-imagini/ http://lokling.com/uncategorized/my-visual-dna-imagini/#comments Thu, 05 Apr 2007 21:54:54 +0000 Øyvind Løkling internetsocial networkingUncategorized http://lokling.com/2007/04/05/my-visual-dna-imagini/ Tonight I stumbled upon Imagini - a new social networking service that uses images rather than words as main communication. Quite interesting. As part of getting people to sign up they let you create a “visual dna” that you can include in your blog. Well - I fell for it, here’s mine :-)

]]> http://lokling.com/uncategorized/my-visual-dna-imagini/feed/ Visiting friends in Dublin http://lokling.com/uncategorized/visiting-friends-in-dublin/ http://lokling.com/uncategorized/visiting-friends-in-dublin/#comments Tue, 03 Apr 2007 11:00:43 +0000 Øyvind Løkling braygeocachingirelandphotographyUncategorized http://www.lokling.com/2007/04/03/visiting-friends-in-dublin/


 

 This weekend Anna and I traveled over to Dublin to see John and Paula, and little Rebecca. Saturday afternoon was spent at Bray walking by the seaside - and these pictures are from the beach and Bray head where Anna and I walked up.  There were two very tempting geocaches in the very near proximity - “Europes first” and “Bray Head” - but this time I decided to enjoy the scenery and good company rather than turn every stone looking for the caches. Coming down to the beach again we met up with John that was playing with his new low-tech camera - we’re awaiting the results.

Lomophotography
Stones on the beach
Path down
Bray beach

]]> http://lokling.com/uncategorized/visiting-friends-in-dublin/feed/ About the theme of this site. http://lokling.com/wordpress/about-the-theme-of-this-site/ http://lokling.com/wordpress/about-the-theme-of-this-site/#comments Sun, 01 Apr 2007 22:35:00 +0000 Øyvind Løkling wordpress http://lokling.com/wordpress/about-the-theme-of-this-site/ A quick note about the theme of this site - its based on the (Not so) Fresh theme, but with modifications by me.

 (Not so) Fresh  - http://www.xsized.de/wordpress-theme-not-so-fresh/

Original Fresh theme - http://www.ilemoned.com/wordpress/wptheme-fresh/

]]> http://lokling.com/wordpress/about-the-theme-of-this-site/feed/ Web 2.0 - The man-machine? http://lokling.com/uncategorized/web-20-the-man-machine/ http://lokling.com/uncategorized/web-20-the-man-machine/#comments Sat, 24 Feb 2007 21:23:52 +0000 Øyvind Løkling futureinspirationUncategorizedweb2.0youtube http://www.lokling.com/2007/02/24/web-20-the-man-machine/ A thought provoking video about the webs development and we might call web 2.0.

]]> http://lokling.com/uncategorized/web-20-the-man-machine/feed/ Photoblog screensaver http://lokling.com/uncategorized/photoblog-screensaver/ http://lokling.com/uncategorized/photoblog-screensaver/#comments Wed, 17 Jan 2007 22:39:25 +0000 Øyvind Løkling Uncategorized http://www.lokling.com/?p=13 I had a thought tonight - that it would be nice to have a screensaver that would fetch images from your favourite photoblogs. I considered writing one, but did a quick google search for one first, and found Media Feed Screen Saver
which is what I was looking for. Ideally I’d like a bit more eyecandy/effect in displaying the images though, so I might add to it, or do a Java version.

Do you know of any similar projects?

 

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