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“Throw and Catch content”, gesture based data exchanges on Smartphones with Hoccer

July 8th, 2010 No comments

"Hoccer is a free application which allows you to share your data using intuitive gestures without the need for on-screen keyboards." Drag your content from one touch screen to the other.

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Simply "throw" and "catch" photos, contacts, documents and more, even between platforms. Hoccer enables gesture-based ad hoc data exchanges within 100 meters.

If you have no iPhone or Android Device at hand, there is an online Hoccer web client to ease up your file transfers onto a choosable location. It’s identical as if the data would have been thrown by a Smartphone. Point the map to your current location and use the widget on the right-hand side to hoc files.

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You can see Hoccer in action in the following video

Hoccer: Data sharing simplified

A few excerptions from Hoccer FAQ

How does Hoccer transport the files from phone to phone?

Well, first of all, it does not use Bluetooth. Hoccer needs an Internet connection. If you throw a file it is tagged with your current location and send to a server. When someone performs the catch gesture within a few seconds Hoccer contacts the server and asks for pending files at the receivers location. If both locations are in range the file is sent to the receiver.

How does Hoccer locate my position?

First Hoccer checks the wireless access points in range. If both peers are in range of the same access point you don’t need a GPS signal to hoc files. If no common access point is found Hoccer tries to get a GPS position. If GPS is not available the ‘network location’ (see my previous post about finding location without GPS), is used as a fall back. Please keep in mind that Hoccer requires a decent lock on your location to function properly. Specially the fall back data might not be good enough. However, it will work as long as all peers agree on the same (wrong) location.

Supported mobile platforms : iPhone, Android

Website: http://www.hoccer.com

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Know your location on Mobile phone with/without GPS: Google Maps

August 6th, 2009 No comments

Google Maps is a free service from Google which shows you the driving directions.You need to activate GPRS/EDGE services from your service provider to use it effectively. It helps to determine your current location with or without GPS, by using the Location area code & Cell ID received from the nearby mobile towers. If you have a GPS receiver on the device, it will display the current location more accurately.

 

 

It is very useful at GPS shadow regions, where you can’t receive signals from at least 3 satellites, cloudy days, tree shadowed regions etc.

If you are reaching an unfamiliar town or city, the “Show directions” and “Search the Map” features are a great blessing. It routes you through the way just as a navigator. It can also switch between Map view and Satellite view.I’m using this feature in India for the past three months on Nokia E51. Here are some screenshots

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The travelling time given is an estimation only, it depends on road condition, traffic etc.Google Latitude allows you to share your location information with your friends. So from a browser window you could know where you friends are. Easy-to-change privacy settings ensures that you can disable location aware services to avoid any privacy issues.

Google Latitude is a feature of Google Maps for mobile on these phones:

  • most Symbian S60 devices (Nokia smart phones)
  • iPhone and iPod touch devices New!
  • most color BlackBerry devices
  • most Windows Mobile 5.0+ devices
  • Android-powered devices, such as the T-Mobile G1

Go to http://google.com/gmm from your mobile smart phones to download the correct version for your device or go to this page to receive a text message with download link.

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The major advantage is that Google Maps won’t drain your battery compared to GPS. The service is free, but you need to pay packet data charges. It needs Mobile phone network to operate whereas a GPS can be used anywhere on earth.

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Free eBOOK Reader For Mobile Phones

April 10th, 2009 No comments

Book Reader is a Java application allowing to read books on ANY modern mobile phone (with Java support)
Book Reader is FREE, as the reading itself is.

Your phone is not just a communication device!

Read books, keep references, TV programs, train and bus schedules handy, enjoy fun texts on your mobile phone.

TCBR (TequilaCat Book Reader) is a software suite consisting of 2 parts:

  • TCBR Shell – program for Windows PC that creates JAR books.
    Linux/Mac version is being developed. The Windoze shell works under Wine.
  • JAR Books created by the Shell
    Each JAR Book contains book text and viewer program for the book.
     

    Quick start:  

  • Download program archive to a PC computer running Windows or Linux+Wine, unpack it and run the Shell.exe
  • In this shell, select your phone model, set up fonts, options and all things configurable
  • Add e-books from computer disk (if your phone does not support reading books from phone flash card/internal memory)
  • Click "Create Java book"
  • Install JAR file (Java book) onto the phone, like any app or game, run it and you’ll see the book text. It supports a wide range of phones from Alcatel, Motorola,Nokia,Samsung,Sony Ericsson and Siemens.

Download link :

v2.3.4 (java 2.2.20)  3 Mb

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