Pinwords. Christomize - Because websites need Christmas too. Hot Or Not Snowmen. 10 Addictive Urban Web Cams - Arts & Lifestyle. In a sign of the times, the Statue of Liberty celebrated her 125th birthday by having five streaming web cams installed in her torch. Earthcam Inc., which manages webcams around the world, donated the cameras to the National Park Service to capture a panoramic view of New York City's harbor, shots of Ellis Island and a glimpse of the torch itself. What other unusual urban surveillance is available online? Check out some of our favorite streaming city views: NEW YORK & TOKYO: It's King Kong v. Godzilla with competing views of New York and Tokyo. This webcam offers a view of Manhattan's elevated High Line, along with nifty time lapse video of the park's construction. Compare that with this corner in Tokyo's Akihabara Electric Town district. KANSAS: Larry Wilson, treasurer of Shawnee County, Kansas, offers a less glamorous view of government with this webcam stream showing the line down the hallway by his office.
New app for New York's neon. Kirsten Hively is obsessive about New York's colourful neon signs. She's been photographing them, mainly at night, and runs a weekly blog called Project Neon. Just launched, however, is a Project Neon iPhone app that allows fellow neon fans to locate some of NYC's finest signs for themselves... "Project Neon began as my personal project to document New York City's current, glowing neon signs, starting on the Upper East Side," says Hively.
"Because I couldn't find any good resource listing the city's working signs, I kept careful track of the addresses of each sign I photographed," she continues. "I wanted a way to share my photographs and the signs' locations so other people could see them in person too. " First Hively created a Google map showing the location of each of the photographed signs. Of course, making an app isn't cheap so Hively turned to Kickstarter and managed to raise the required app-building fee. Simply choose a sign, tap on it to see it full screen.
IS IT TUESDAY? Google LatLong. Update Oct 3, 12:00 pm: In order to use 3D driving directions, you'll need to have the Google Earth plug-in installed on your computer. Getting directions is one of the most popular features on Google Maps, whether it be for driving, walking, biking or transit. Today, we are launching a new feature that allows you to bring your upcoming trip to life, by allowing you to preview your route in 3D. Let’s say you’re planning a road trip down the beautiful coast of California’s Highway 1 and want to be able to see what the route really looks like.
California’s rugged coastline is not to be missed, but the top-down view really doesn’t give you a good sense of what this majestic terrain is like. Using the 3D preview; however, you can get aerial view of the route, as if you were in a helicopter flying above the road. To preview your own route, it is as simple as clicking on a button. You can pause the flight at any time by clicking anywhere in the 3D view or on the pause button in the lower left.
You are listening to New York. Welcome to Snapjoy. Heure exacte à Corse, France - Time.is. QuickForget.com. The Colour Clock. Instarium. Bordeaux - Dynamic Public Transport Travel Time Maps for Bordeaux. Close It's Mapnificent shows you the area you can reach with public transport from any point in a given time. It is available for major cities in the US and world wide. You may be interested to watch a video about what Mapnificent can do, read a blog post about how Mapnificent works or jump to the Mapnificent API Documentation. Mapnificent was originally inspired by MySociety's Mapumental which is sadly still in private beta. Photo effects, vintage, retro, online and free - Pixlr-o-matic.