Google announced encrypted search yesterday. In order to use it in the browser’s search bar i quickly created an opensearch plugin via searchplugins.net. Just added the ’s’ to http://.
I worked with Processing and Arduino for years and appreciated the cmd-r shortcut for running the project. This is what i was missing for years while editing X3D files in TextWrangler and running in InstantPlayer. Finally it only took me 10 minutes googling and scripting. The result is brilliant: cmd-r and my X3D file opens in InstantPlayer. I hit Esc and it returns to TextWrangler.
This is how it works:
1. Download and copy the script “Open in Instant Player.scpt” (remove .txt) into TextWrangler’s Scripts folder (~yourhome/Library/Application Support/TextWrangler/Scripts) -> It now appears in the Script Menu.
2. Open in TextWrangler “Window/Palettes/Scripts”
3. Select the “Open in InstantPlayer” script
4. Click “Set Key…” and define a shortcut (mine is cmd-r)
PS: Enable “Allow tab key to intend text blocks” in “Preferences/Editing: Keyboard”, too!
Since we can’t use Google’s satellite tiles legally, OpenStreetMap is a great alternative.
Here are the links how to get the tiles:
Slippy Map Tiles URL
Implementation
I could not attend in person but i gave a speech via Skype at AR Dev Camp in Frankfurt today. The talk was about my augmented reality projects, user experience in AR and open standards for sustainable AR.
In this talk i announced the open source movement of Open Annotation Engine. It’s the foundation of TwittARound: A Javascript framework for mobile augmented reality applications:
http://code.google.com/p/openannotationengine/
Hugo was so nice to show me around at the dev camp:
I was surprised to read my name in the current Der Spiegel’s cover story about Google. They wrote about privacy issues of today’s mobile phones and used TwittARound as an example. That’s great because TwittARound’s intention is social criticism, too.
