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Seems Wikimapia.org finished moving to new servers and so WikiPlaces app works again.

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 01:02:22 +0400

Seems Wikimapia.org finished moving to new servers and so WikiPlaces app works again.

Regarding recent WikiPlaces problems

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 10:47:23 +0400

Wikimapia.org is having problems with their API server (and seems with the website as well) once again, so WikiPlaces doesn’t show any places on the map. Please do not report this as a WikiPlaces bug in your reviews - I can not do anything. I hope Wikimapia.org team will fix this problem soon.

omPlayer for Mac released

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 02:55:00 +0400

omPlayer is a special minimalist web browser to comfortably listen to music from online music services. For supported services it lets you control playback from menu bar or from any application with global shortcuts and media keys, supports Growl notifications and Last.fm scrobbling. For other services these functions will not be available but you will still enjoy its unobtrusive behavior.

Currently supported services: Google Play / Music, Grooveshark, Pandora

omPlayer is available on the Mac App Store

Planito 1.20 is out!

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 23:48:29 +0400

Planito is your browser for planet Earth (and others). It is lightweight yet powerful highly extensible online and offline multi-layered viewer for aerial imagery, maps, placemarks and other geospatial data layers for Earth, Moon and other planets. Version 1.20 released today and here is the list of changes:

New modern UI
World now wraps horizontally
Two types of grids: coordinate-based and distance-based * Better detection and rendering of selected feature (under mouse pointer)
Overall progress of all Tile Downloader operations now is shown in dock icon
In layers panel number of currently active layers is shown for each active layer set
New search field, support for multiple search services (use search field menu to switch services)
Info about selected feature will now open on left click too
Chinese (Simplified) localization

Functionality

Option to copy links to locations with http:// protocol prefix instead of planito:// so that they will be recognized as links on forums, etc.
Support for loading data in JSON format
Ability to select and show info about features with 3D mouse
Option to show marker/accuracy circle for current user location and center on current location (Alt+click location button)
List of web mapping services to open selected location in is now loaded from datasource configuration
Support for loading compressed datasource configuration

Under the hood

Many optimizations and bug fixes
Number of displayed placemarks/polygons/strings is not limited anymore (was 20000 limit), large number of placemarks now renders faster
Better support for links from various services in Paste & Go feature
Fixed minor problems with 3D mouse

Planito on the Mac App Store

"Лиц ищущих работу"

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 13:22:13 +0400

Электродепо “Печатники” Московского Метрополитена приглашает “лиц ищущих работу” на обучение по профессии…

Да-да, именно так, “лиц ищущих работу” - в кавычках и без запятой. Ну как вообще должен работать мозг, чтобы рождать такой стыд? Кому в метрополитене поручают писать тексты, что они всегда настолько ужасны?

Is this really what C++ templates were invented for?

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 06:12:35 +0400

/parser.cpp:17: error: request for member ‘begin’ in ‘myset’, which is of non-class type ‘std::set<std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >, std::less<std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > >, std::allocator<std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > > >(std::istreambuf_iterator<std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >, std::char_traits<std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > > >, std::istreambuf_iterator<std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >, std::char_traits<std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > > > (*)())’

CZJ Sonnar 2.8/180 on Hasselblad

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 01:56:36 +0400

Finally I made an adapter to mount Sonnar 180 on Hasselblads with focal plane shutter. Focuses to infinity of course. Biometar 120 can be mounted too, not sure about wider lenses.

What's new in Planito 1.10

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 05:20:00 +0400

Attention! Local cache format was changed in this release and local cache will be recreated. We’re sorry for the inconvenience.

Option to correct distortion caused by plate carrée projection
Support for 3Dconnexion 3D mice for navigation
Added standard Cmd+F to show search panel
More formats supported in Paste & Go feature
Various fixes and optimizations
Support for downloading compressed data
Russian translation

Ради интереса добавился в приложение для перевода интерфейса Фейсбука. Думаю, переведу что-нибудь на...

Sat, 12 Nov 2011 19:12:00 +0400

Ради интереса добавился в приложение для перевода интерфейса Фейсбука. Думаю, переведу что-нибудь на досуге. Поражает, какое количество туда добавляется откровенно “PROMPTовских” переводов. Зачем люди лезут что-то переводить, раз совершенно не понимают языка?

И, кстати, хотя сам процесс технически организован неплохо, но хороший перевод таким образом сделать проблематично. Даются отдельные фразы, часто вырванные из контекста, нет возможности посмотреть, где как эта фраза реально используется, а главное, сложно узнать, как подобная фраза уже переведена в другом месте сайта.

Planito, data sources and data formats

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:33:00 +0400

Planito is designed to support loading and displaying data from various sources and in various data formats. It uses one internal data format plus different pluggable Providers to load (or maybe generate) data and transform it to internal format if needed.

In the first version there are providers to fetch any data from remote server (in case it is already in internal format), to fetch images from WMS server, and to transform XML data using specified XSL transformation. Last one is the most important since it allows to display geospatial data from any source that provide it in XML format just by specifying appropriate XSLT code in configuration file.

In next versions we will add more providers to support other common file formats for geospatial data.

Also currently Planito is limited to loading its configuration (ie. description of layers) from single place (our server). This limitation will be removed as soon as all internal and configuration file formats are finally determined and documented. In the meanwhile anybody can send us information about interesting data sources for inclusion into official layer set.

Announcing Planito application

Sat, 08 Oct 2011 20:42:00 +0400

I’m happy to announce our first Mac application - Planito.

Planito is your browser for planet Earth (and others). It is an online and offline viewer for aerial imagery, maps, placemarks and other geospatial data layers for Earth, Moon and other planets from various data sources.

In its simplest form Planito can be used as online and offline viewer for OpenStreetMap-family maps. But there are many more layers available with interesting and useful data for travelers, students and teachers, scientists. Here are only some of them: Wikimapia.org objects, Booking.com hotels, current temperature from weather stations all over the world, US Topo Maps, UNESCO World Heritage sites. Thanks to extensible architecture more and more layers will become available for existing and new users.

Layered display - you decide what information you want to see
Multitouch navigation, Lion fullscreen mode
Bookmarks, Search, Offline mode
Support for autoupdating layers with dynamic data (eg. temperature data, earthquakes, etc.)
Tile Downloader to download specified area and zoom levels for offline usage, supporting simultaneous downloading of tiles for different layers or areas
Own URL protocol to easily share links to points of interest (also handles NASA WorldWind links)
Paste & Go feature that accepts links from many browser-based map services

Planito is currently in review and will be available soon from the Mac App Store for introductory price of $2.99.

Planito in the Mac App Store | Planito home page | Planito on Facebook

I really like Obj-C

Fri, 16 Sep 2011 23:11:53 +0400

How many lines will it take to write this in any other language?

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Guess what app I'm developing now

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 07:34:00 +0400

^(?:([0-9]+)(?:(?:°|d|:)(?: *(?:([0-9]+)(?:(?:′|’|:)(?: *([0-9.]+)(?:″|”)?)?)?|([0-9.]+)(?:′|’)?))?)?|([0-9.]+)) *(N|S)[ ,]*(?:([0-9]+)(?:(?:°|d|:)(?: *(?:([0-9]+)(?:(?:′|’|:)(?: *([0-9.]+)(?:″|”)?)?)?|([0-9.]+)(?:′|’)?))?)?|([0-9.]+)) *(W|E)$

Далеко не все упрощающие жизнь изобретения и технологии идут на пользу. Кто-то придумал FUSE....

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 01:39:38 +0400

Далеко не все упрощающие жизнь изобретения и технологии идут на пользу.

Кто-то придумал FUSE. Теперь вместо того, чтобы приложить усилия и написать нормальный модуль для ядра или придумать что-то еще, пишут тормозных уродцев в юзерспейсе.

Другая контора доработала Wine и стала предлагать технологию переноса виндовых игр на мак. Теперь вместо разработки нативных версий выпускают опять же тормозных уродцев.

Меня очень расстраивает использование чего-то из этого, кроме, быть может, когда нет совсем крайней необходимости.

"Для успокоения себя подумай о шпагате: люди, которые садятся на шпагат не имеют проблем при ходьбе -..."

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 04:42:46 +0400

“Для успокоения себя подумай о шпагате: люди, которые садятся на шпагат не имеют проблем при ходьбе - ноги у них не разъезжаются, они ходят так же, как и все остальные.”

- http://pushba.livejournal.com/387668.html

Information on the future of SoundGrid and SoundGrid Live!

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 00:50:54 +0400

In this post I want to address two questions users often ask now after release of SoundGrid Live!.

First, I want to clarify that SoundGrid Live! is not a ‘next version’ of SoundGrid in regard to future development. This means that original SoundGrid will not be abandoned and both applications will be developed and supported further. Moreover, many new features of SoundGrid Live! will be added to SoundGrid in next updates as well.

SoundGrid will be focused on programming melodies using eight patterns playing one after another (or in any order manually) - that’s so-called ‘song mode’ which most of the users enjoy. While SoundGrid Live! is meant for live performances, it doesn’t have way to automatically play one block after another to create pre-programmed song but has more blocks, more layers and more performance modes.

Second question is why SoundGrid Live! had to be separate application and not a free update to SoundGrid. The main reason for this is that some of new performance modes in SoundGrid Live! are incompatible with ‘song mode’ of SoundGrid (and therefore with grid sharing too). So basically SoundGrid and SoundGrid Live! being separate applications allows me to add features specific to each application without any limitations and keeping them simple and easy to use.

As always, I’m open to any suggestions about features of both applications.

Kenn Neely says about SoundGrid Live: What an impressive app this is going to be. My over all...

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 16:21:00 +0400

Kenn Neely says about SoundGrid Live:

What an impressive app this is going to be. My over all review would be that this is a powerful tool for live as well as recorded performance. I noticed that simply entering notes is easier on this app and the overall UI is pretty easy to navigate. Other similar apps seem very crowded on i phone screen, the space on this one is well thought out. As well all the extra free voices are amazing (most other apps charge for extra features)

I really hope this app puts mifki onto the main stream of cutting edge apps!

kenn neely a.k.a. kennetik

Kenn is long-time SoundGrid and now SoundGrid Live! user. Check out his tracks including the ones created in SoundGrid here: http://soundcloud.com/kennetik61.

One way to import samples in SoundGrid Live!

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 05:33:55 +0400

Other ways include iTunes File Sharing and web interface. By the way, you can add MP3s (M4As, …) too and use them as background for your performance or somehow else.

Творческо-техническая депрессия

Sat, 21 May 2011 03:06:00 +0400

У меня. Не могу добиться равномерной резкости по всему кадру при проекции. Ладно, я смирился с покупкой только рамок со стеклом по евро за штуку. Но и это, почему-то, не решает проблему полностью.

То ли и в рамке со стеклом слайд немного выгибается. Что весьма странно, ибо его там вроде как хорошо сплющивает. За то по характеру нерезкости подходит - выгибать-то как угодно может.

То ли это просто такой объектив проекционный у меня. Это был бы самый хороший вариант, ибо объектив я все равно собираюсь менять. Но тогда бы оно было по краям всегда бы нерезко и не подстраивалось бы, не?

То ли объектив или рамка криво сидит в проекторе. Это тоже решается новым проектором, хотя и сильно дороже. Но по характеру нерезкости это маловероятно.

В общем, не понятно, как лечить. Придумал только радикальное решение - приделать к объективу диафрагму, тогда должно стать везде резко. Но и темнее будет.

А на Эктар такие красивые картинки получаются.. И снимать легко. Но что мне потом с негативами-то делать…

Repeat Mode in SoundGrid Live!

Fri, 13 May 2011 00:48:15 +0400