Tag Archives: Gadgets
MiFi global hotspot
I recently went to India to work with the local office on some internal business processes. Before leaving the states, I had arranged to bring a nifty little device called MiFi from the guys at Xcom Global. This device acts as a portable wireless hotpot anywhere there is a cell tower signal. Lucky for me that India is pretty well covered with cell towers, with Vodafone being the most common provider. Once ordered, the package arrived at my house via Fedex. There was a leather pouch Read more [...]
LatLng Marker for Google Maps
I’ve been working on a GIS project for the last few years, and the one challenge that doesn’t go away is how to easily collect Latitude & Longitude coordinates for locations. Today I discovered LatLng Marker within Google Maps Labs. Here is a description from the tool author: Adds an option to the context menu that lets you drop a mini marker showing the latlng of the position that the cursor was pointing at when the context menu was evoked Thanks Marcelo C for creating such an awesome Read more [...]