Geo Mashup by Dylan Kuhn uses the Google Maps API to search for locations and geocode WordPress posts for plotting on a customized map. Features include display by category, inclusion of post excerpts in pop-up info windows, automatic generation of GeoRSS feeds (example), importation of KML files, and flexible template tag options (e.g. you can write code to create waypoints in RouteBuddy). The Geotag Icon was added to v1.1b3 and illustrates "Show on map" links.
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Andreas Schneider's open-source Geotag application supports automatic (via GPX import) and manual geotagging (via Google Maps/ Google Earth), and is compatible with most raw image formats. This cross-platform tool requires Java SE 6 runtime—sadly available for 64-bit Intel Macs running Leopard only. The latest release showcases a new icon (preview)—the third David, icerabbit and I (with others) have jointly worked on (the other two being the Geotag Icon and the Open Share Icon).
This article considers geotagging photos from a Mac perspective, looking at automatic and manual methods, and explaining terms such as data loggers, track points, waypoints, and routes. It lists OS X software options for connecting to data loggers, converting track log formats, geo-locating photos, and writing that data to EXIF for both raw and JPEG images. It also covers the importance of time synchronization, what you can do with geotagged photos, workflow, choosing a data logger and controlling it from your Mac.
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As I recently noted, both WordPress and K2 have migrated from using Prototype plus script.aculo.us to using the jQuery JavaScript library. Prototype is a JavaScript framework, including a library of functions used to build Ajax applications. It's best buddies with script.aculo.us, an add-on JavaScript effects library that extends the capabilities of the former. So where does jQuery fit in?
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A 30-day trial of Apple's iWork 08 is available for download, an application suite that "Works with Office". Pages professes compatibility with Microsoft Word, Numbers with Excel, and Keynote with PowerPoint. This includes read-only support for the Microsoft-sponsored Open XML file formats introduced with Office 2007 for Windows.
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Zotero is a free Firefox extension that can automatically capture citation data from the web (e.g. Amazon books or PubMed articles). Integration with Word (Mac and PC) via a macro means it can be used to write scientific papers with formatted bibliographies (not as yet in Vancouver style, often used by medical journals). A great alternative to EndNote ($US240), or the pending OpenOffice Bibliographic project.
