Monthly Archives: March 2010

First ‘Hands On’ with the Microsoft Surface

Posted on March 31, 2010 by John san

The new Surface has arrived, and  it’s a compelling experience. As you can see from the following pictures, people can’t keep their hands off it.

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GIS and Surface

Posted on March 23, 2010 by TimC

This post demonstrates some of the possibilities for GIS interfaces on the Surface: There are several frameworks out there for integrating mapping in to WPF Surface apps: The above system used the ArcGIS API for Silverlight/WPF . I’ve also been … Continue reading →

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Mobile media with OOKL

Posted on March 23, 2010 by John san

OOKL – students creating slide-shows from their school trips using mobile phones. Continue reading →

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Appropriate technology.

Posted on March 19, 2010 by John san

Exploring practical approaches to close-up photography in the field: The £10 magnifier. Continue reading →

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Meetings Summary

Posted on March 15, 2010 by TimC

Some notes compiled by Anne from the first couple of meetings: ‘essential, desirable, optional’ viewpoint on design and system functionality local quarry for the basics / maybe with a bit of desirable! android phones as the desirable (next level) Tangibles … Continue reading →

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Surface Links

Posted on March 12, 2010 by TimC

I’ve been doing a fair amount of research on Microsoft Surface development and applications recently, here are a few interesting links: http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/PC17/ – A long but very worthwhile presentation covering a lot of aspects of surface including development examples and … Continue reading →

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