Google Maps Street View Feature

Google maps new feature called "Street View" released in Canada yesterday, and I must say, it is very cool. Within the google maps, zoom to an appoperiate level where you can see streets and on the zoom bar; there is now a little yellow person icon. Drag that onto the road and viola, you will be put into street view.

Google Street View Info Help
The link above will direct you to google maps street view introduction page and gives you a quick brief about it.
It's quite neat. Google took these pictures if I last remember reading few months ago, they also plan to do another round sometime near the Olympics (or when the venues are all completed) so those people coming into Canada (and Vancouver) can take a look at where to go!.

Now, people are bothering about privacy issue and everything, and I have to say, "Are you really going to sue some random person who took a picture of you (or a view and you were in it)?".
The truth? : No, you won't because it's on person and you most likely didn't do. It is in public streets and you are not entitled to the randomness of things that can happen, however, if you were harassed and thnings like that, then it's a different story.

That's really what Google did, they stuck a 360 degree camera on there car, drove around Vancouver / Canada and its various locations (Wow. that must have burnt a lot of gas. Imagine the plains!) and took pictures and collaborated it into there map system. They did however, blur our people's faces (that were close to the car, say sidewalk level most likely, since anything past that is blurred by pixelation.) and license plates and etc. It is very cool; and great tool for guiding friends to somewhere; like click on so and so street, go there, take a left. And they can visually appeal where to go, rather than only figuring out a map and not knowing what the road might look like.

I hope you everyone takes a chance to look at it. It looks quite fun and can be a useful tool.
Please, don't abuse in doing stupid things. Good ideas get trashed because of people doing stupid things with them.

Enjoy!,
Ghost

Extension Cable for Latpop in Class.

I brought an extension cable to my psychology class today, so I could plug my laptop in; mostly because the power plug is no where near, and the ones tng on what are near (depending on where I sit) is above me, high on the wall. My extension cable is few meters long and I plugged it into the powerbar that the overhead projector uses.
It's quite humors. The cable is also bright orange.

The classroom is a lecture hall if anyone is wondering.

Ghost

Nerf DS Accessories.

Nerf, the toy manufacture, now makes DS Accessories.
I must say, they look kind of cool.
They have these NERF DS stylus, a bit big, but it is nice and spongy.
Also along the pen is the NERF armor. Which is basically a full enclosure with a relatively thick spongy case on top of its thin inner hard case (to stick the padding onto, of course.).
I will post photos soon.

Ghost

This is a test!

test

This is a test post to see if I can work with adobe's programs.

Tired in the morning

   Alright, so I'm giving this post through email a test.
Class is doing okay. A bit tired.
Not as exhausted as I thought I would be but still tired.
Hope everyone is doing okay during the second week of school.
Good luck my fellow schoolmates!.

-Ghost

Back to School. Again

Classes have started up again.
Pretty tired but thats how things are!. On a side note;
Xfire now has native IM support for MSN and AIM!
It is currently in Alpha development but it's quite useful if you want to hop onto a game
and don't want to miss a message.

Penny Arcade Expo 2009 (PAX 09)

PAX 2009 was very fantastic.
Got to meet a lot of people.
I have to run off to class now and fight off an annoying tired eye.

Going to write up this post at home, after cleaning up my room and getting some school
material ready.
Aside from that. Photos will also be posted on my flickr/dA. Depending on which comes first.
A link will be provided.

Enjoy and have a good school year everyone!,
Ghost.