LightRod goes online, an open source augmented reality server

AtomJump have repositioned their Geosearch project as an open source augmented reality (AR) server, LightRod to complement the burgeoning augmented reality browsers market appearing from Layar and others.
The product could form a key element in the need to serve up ‘where is my nearest’ requests in a scalable manner from within AR applications.  The server [...]

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AtomJump rumoured to release an Open Source Augmented Reality Server

The AtomJump Geosearch has all the prerequisites of fulfilling the needs of an open source augmented reality server.  It serves up point of interest data from large databases in a local manner, suitable for display in Layar or the other augmented reality browsers that are just coming to the market.
However, as of yet the name [...]

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AtomJump Timulator has custom templates added

The AtomJump Business Timulator, a product that adjusts the business open hours to a site visitor’s times-zones has had templates and an XML feed added.  These new features mean that the look and feel of the product can be quickly adjusted to exactly match that of the host website.
It is an exciting development, and opens [...]

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AtomJump time zone converter upgraded

The AtomJump time zone calculator or timulator as it is known, has had it’s business structure developed further.  Under the new subscription arrangement, there are now two versions: a free personal and non-profit edition, and a business edition for profit-making firms.  This is inline with the fact that it is an ongoing service that AtomJump [...]

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Subversion problems on wireless broadband

This post is not a solution, but more of an observation, and I welcome your suggestions.
On one of our projects we’re running subversion (incidently git could be a better tool – it is a distributed version control system), and I suddenly found that I couldn’t commit to the project.
svn: Commit failed (details follow):
svn: Server sent [...]

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AtomJump PHP geo-search public

It is early days, but the open source geosearch is up on it’s own wiki, and available for download.  For people struggling with  proximity search code, this is your answer.
Designed to complement Google Maps and other mapping services, this software can be used on your own servers to create a full proximity search, letting you [...]

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Build a free PC

Many consultants and people in shops won’t explain that it is perfectly possible to build a free Windows PC nowadays – with all the required software being free (with the exception of Windows itself). Of course, it depends on what you want to do with the PC, but generally a machine built on open source [...]

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AVG Version 8 warning

Like 80 million Windows users, I had AVG Ver 7 installed happily on my Windows XP PC. The software was free, functional and unobtrusive. From the end of this month this version will stop being updated, according to the software itself, and therefore an upgrade to Ver 8 is required.
My experience with [...]

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HP Photosmart C7200 not connecting error

This was on Windows XP, and the Vista machine didn’t have a problem.  The wireless printer had connected through to the wireless LAN, but the XP machine was not detecting the printer and there was no particular error.
It turned out to be the Windows XP firewall that was the problem.  When I switched off the [...]

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Improving a search engine’s ranking on Google

Many people assume that a search engine by it’s very nature attracts users. However, if you own a new search engine you have to market that engine to your target audience. You can gain users through advertising, word-of-mouth, PR, link exhanges, or SEO (search engine optimization).
SEO on a search engine can be done in two [...]

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