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If you have spent enough time in Google Earth, you have seen them. When you click on certain placemarks, balloons appear that feature stylized text, hyperlinks and even pictures. So how is this done? Each placemark (or set of placemarks) is described in a KML file . Within the description of each placemark in the KML file, you can use HTML much in the same way you would if you were creating a web page. Background colors, tables, etc.
Fancy Placemarks
A camera phone is more than just a camera and a phone, much more than the sum of its parts. Camera phones are the "Swiss Army Knife" of gadgets, performing the role of other tools -- if you know how to use them. Remember those old spy movies, where the secret agents captured documents with a tiny secret mini-camera? Now we all have one. Believe it or not, photographing documents works. I don't recommend stealing information, but for random paper information, notes -- even white-board information, you can snap a picture to capture the data.
Camera Phones: Ten Ways to Use Them
The Next Big Language
There seems to be a long period of initial obscurity for any new language. Then after that comes a long period of semi-obscurity, followed by total obscurity. —Paul Bissex Note: after I wrote this entry, one or two commenters speculated that I might be talking about something Google is doing. They're barking up the wrong tree: I may not be the smartest feller ever to fall off the cabbage truck, but I'm not -that- stupid.
