Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Find your creative spark.
Blue and yellow and red. That’s where it all begins. There’s something about the trees, flowers and grass greening up for the season that calls to me to pick up a crayon, pencil or marker and attempt to create their likeness. Technology has moved forward from the box of eight Crayola crayons that delighted us in pre–school to offering apps for our SmartPhones and Tablets. Three that span the basics to a social network are: Crayons 4 Kids, Drawing Pad and Draw Something. Crayons 4 Kids (copyright by stuartjmoore 2012) This app for Apple devices is simplicity itself. It’s just right for the basics. Seven colors are available. You can draw, erase, and clear the screen. If your masterpiece is too appealing to erase, you can save it to your …
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Give the Easter Bunny a hand.
The Easter Bunny is known for cleverly hiding eggs for children to find, but he’s not alone in his ability to conceal treasures in almost plain sight. Geocaching is a year-round opportunity for people to participate in a grown-up version of hunting for eggs. Geocaching takes hide and seek to greater heights through GPS technology and clues provided in the quest to find the cache. It also expands treasure hunting to a larger geographic scale. Essentially, this involves someone hiding a cache and providing clues for others to find it. Anyone can hide a cache, which is another name for whatever the “treasure” might be. The clues to discover where the cache is can be either written down or given by longitude and latitude with Global …
Give the Easter Bunny a hand.
The Easter Bunny is known for cleverly hiding eggs for children to find, but he’s not alone in his ability to conceal treasures in almost plain sight. Geocaching is a year-round opportunity for people to participate in a grown-up version of hunting for eggs. Geocaching takes hide and seek to greater heights through GPS technology and clues provided in the quest to find the cache. It also expands treasure hunting to a larger geographic scale. Essentially, this involves someone hiding a cache and providing clues for others to find it. Anyone can hide a cache, which is another name for whatever the “treasure” might be. The clues to discover where the cache is can be either written down or given by longitude and latitude with Global …
Josh Doe
10:59 am on Wednesday, April 4, 2012
In case anyone's interested in doing both geocaching and OpenStreetMap, the easiest way to start is to print a map of the area you'll be doing your geocaching here: http://walking-papers.org/ Then you take it with you, mark changes on the paper (e.g. adding in paths), then scan or take a picture of the paper and upload it to that same site. People like me (or yourself!) can then "trace" the … more ›