Trafalgar Sun, a photo by John Mason on Flickr. Taken with photosynth and edited by using camera plus on the iPhone 4S Related Posts:Bright skies over GreenwichYet another way of capturing 360 degree images and videoWhen one app isn’t enough – 360 Pano, Photosynth and Camera+Comparing iPhone 4 panoramic applictions – HTML5, Flash or Silverlight?An [...]
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Diving apps for your iPhone and iPad
Diving apps for the iOS platform come in a number of forms. There’s the dive magazine, dive logger, dive planner and now the divers social app. Dive magazines come in two flavours – either a downloadable app (such as DIVE and Diver Magazine) and now through the Apple Newstand app. Dive logging software has moved on a lot [...]
An easy way of create polar worlds of your local area (or any where google streetmap has been!)
I have previously written about how to transform a panoramic image into a polar or stereographic image using photoshop or gimp, but the other day I stumbled upon a nice little github project that utilises the panoramic images generated from google streetmap and the webgl transformation capabilities of the newer browsers (I used firefox). The [...]
Guilin, the forest of Sweet Osmanthus
As with most of the newer airports in China, Guilin airport is clean and efficient. Unfortunately, the taxis waiting outside are not! Why is it that you can provide chinese translations of both hotel name and address but you still have to endure the inevitable phone call with the drivers friend who speaks perfect English [...]
Nam Tso Lake, 4718m
Nam Tso Lake It is the highest salt lake in the world, and largest salt lake in the Tibet. However, to the Tibetan people, it is a significantly spiritual place (less so since the Chinese presence). Driving to the lake is relatively easy task, obtaining permission to do so is another matter. An expensive tour [...]
Irkutsk and diving Lake Baikal
Irkutsk……nearly three quarters of the way to Beijing and the largest city in Siberia. Famous for the many Russian exiles who were sent there for their part in the Decembrist revolt and lake Baikal – the worlds oldest and deepest lake. So what does a diver do with such a tempting dive site so close? [...]
Moscow – Trains and Ladies
Arriving at Leningradski station bang on the schedule time is a pleasant surprise – getting a taxi is not! So, being from London I head straight for the Tube. Ah, first issue with maps and guides printed in the west – they’re all in English and don’t have a Russian Cyrillic translation. So it’s a [...]
Dive trip to Asia
Just a quick heads up that I’m planning a trip (or two) back to Asia to try out some of the “best dive sites in the world”. On the list so far are (in no particular order) Paula Lumba Lumba Richelieu (Thailand) Sipadan Green Island (Taiwan) Trying to work out the logistics wrt to travel [...]
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