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Entries for October 14, 2006


October 14, 2006


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OCT
2006

Funny terms on Yahoo Maps Terms of Use

By Marcelo

 

   From: http://developer.yahoo.com/maps/mapsTerms.htmlOpen in a new window

f. YOU SHALL NOT:

...

(vi) use the Yahoo! Maps APIs with location information that is less than 6 hours old and derived from a GPS device or any other location sensing device;

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    I guess they don't want people to build GPS-based applications that constanly calls the Yahoo API to plot the points on a map, which is fair because an automated system like that could overwhelm Yahoo's servers.

 

    Now, how about your super-modern digital camera with GPS and WiFi, where you take a picture and instanly upload it to Flickr? I guess that picture can't appear on the Flickr's map until 6 hours later.

 

    Oh, stupid me, Flickr is owned by Yahoo, so I guess they have an exception.

 

 




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OCT
2006

Working from home: I miss dual-monitor

By Marcelo

 

    At Sampa I have a dual-monitor setup with two Dells 20in LCD which gives me a 3200x1200 working area, but at home I have only one monitor, also a 20-inch Dell LCD.

 

    Once you go dual-mon is hard to work on a setup with a single monitor.

 

    You might have saw Apple's self serving study Open in a new windowwhere it says that a 30-inch monitor increases productivity over a 17-inch monitor. A lot of people might laugh at it, but I know it to be true.

 

    Now I have to keep alt-tabbing between VS, MSDN, Outlook, IE and Firefox. Argh!



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