A Google Maps Racing Game
Beta version 0.83 (new northern Spain course added)
Now with HumanSound !!!
For maximum enjoyment, make "brrrmm, brrrmm" noises as you accelerate and "EEEEE" noises as you turn the corners.CONTROLS:
Up to accelerate, down to brake, left/right to steer.RULES:
You must touch all the checkpoints to comlete each race.You:
Choose a route to race now!Opponents:
Checkpoints:
After clicking on 'Choose a route', you can race any of the ready made tracks, or easily create your own by typing in any two destinations in the 'To' and 'From' boxes.
I typed in 'SW18' and 'SW10' (both London postcodes) and was quickly racing from Wandsworth to the heart of Chealsea, taking in all of the familiar sites of where I used to live. Try it... it's great!!!
Posts archive for: June, 2008
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Real World Racer - A Google Maps Racing Game
@ 14/06/2008 – 14:47:37
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On-line polls
@ 11/06/2008 – 21:13:49
If you want to run on-line polls like the one below:
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Urban Dictionary
@ 11/06/2008 – 01:12:34
This site is not necessarily for everyone, as it is describing slang, but I found it, because I heard a song on the radio talking about showing someone your grill and had no idea what it meant.
Here is the definition of the word 'Grill' that I found on the site...
I was highly confused, so I had to find somewhere to look it up and I found this site. I think this site is also handy for monitoring the slang coming out of your children’s mouths. My mom wouldn’t let us use slang around the house. We always had to speak perfect English. I am extremely grateful that she did, because It made me better able to communicate.Meanings of grill:
- Teeth
- A gold/diamond plate that is molded for your teeth. It is decorated with diamonds and/or gold. Usually worn by rappers, Nelly, Paul Wall, Mike Jones and many others.
There are several ways to surf this site. The easiest way is to type in the word you want to define in the dictionary, like I did. Put in the term you want to define and click the search button.
Or, you can go through alphabetically, A-Z, and browse slang words by letter. Or you can click Random at the very end of the A to Z listing and get a random word. There are also random listings that change on the main page.
You can even add your own slang terms to the site if a search for the word turns up nothing.
I wouldn’t want my children using a lot of this terminology, that is for sure. Another warning that I just noticed: some of the examples do have profanity in them, so I wouldn’t recommend showing this site to kids.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/
Update: 14/06/2008
I submitted the word iBanter to the Urban Dictionary, as I run a few sites called that, and it has now been approved, listed and it's definition is available to view here. Please give it a 'Thumbs-up' vote if you do!
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Create your own widgets at WidgetBox
@ 10/06/2008 – 22:48:25
This very cool looking widget below, is one that I created for the Site Share Blog using the WidgetBox website. If you'd like to add it to your own blog or website, then click on the 'Get Widget' button below it.
Widgets of this sort are a really great way of engaging and keeping in contact with your readers, by offering them a way of keeping up-to-date with all of your latest posts, by letting them add the widget to their own websites and blogs.What's unique about WidgetBox, is that anyone who adds your widget to their site can make all the changes they need to the widget to make it fit their site's design - like changing the size or colours - without affecting the original widget. Why not try it by clicking on the ''Get Widget' button at the bottom of my one above.
WidgetBox also has a very large community of members who may rate and comment on your widget and who also may become new readers of your blog once they discover it.
To use your own WidgetBox widgets here in your blog's side-bar, you'll first have to enable one of the 'HTML Modules' in your blog's design wizard (HTML modules are not available in group blogs) and add the code for your widget in that.
If you need any help, please ask in a comment below...
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Newspaper Clipping Generator
@ 07/06/2008 – 14:50:40
Generator sites are a very fun way of adding unique content to any website or blog and this one has to be one of my all-time favourites.
It's called the 'Newspaper Clipping Generator' and it allows you to add your own peice of text to an image that looks like a snippit clipped out of a newspaper.
Here's one that I just created a moment ago for this post:
One very good use I can think of for it, apart from it just being a fun way to add more interest to your website page or blog post, is to use it for adding interesting looking pull-quotes to your pages.Go ahead and give it a try for yourself (click here), add it to your own blog or website and then leave a comment here with a link to where we can see it.
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FriendFeed - What are all of your mates up to on the web
@ 07/06/2008 – 13:45:18
clipped from friendfeed.com
FriendFeed enables you to keep up-to-date on the web pages, photos, videos and music that your friends and family are sharing. It offers a unique way to discover and discuss information among friends.
Sign up for FriendFeed, invite some friends, and get a customized feed made up of the content that your friends shared — from news articles to family photos to interesting links and videos. FriendFeed automatically imports shared stuff from sites across the web, so if your friend favorites a video on YouTube, you get a link and a thumbnail of the video in your feed. And if your friend likes a news story on Digg, you get a link in your feed. FriendFeed makes all the sites you already use a little more social.
Let us know what you think in the FriendFeed discussion group or check our our FAQ for more information. You can get continuous updates from the FriendFeed team on the FriendFeed blog.
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Zamzar - Free online file conversion tool
@ 05/06/2008 – 21:23:07
This one has just come to my attention courtesy of subville... Thanks for that!!!
clipped from zamzar.com
Have you ever wanted to convert files without the need to download software ?
Zamzar supports conversion of files from links on the internet (URLs) as well as from your computer - simply enter the link to your file into the "URL box" in "Step 1" on our URL conversion page ... or use the Zamzar web browser button to make converting even easier.
Zamzar also supports the download and conversion of videos from a range of popular video sharing websites detailed below - simply enter the URL of the video you want to convert. See it in action below:
Video website support You can also use Zamzar to convert and save videos from the following popular video-sharing websites:- Youtube
- Google Video
- Myspace
- Revver
- PutFile
- Break.com
- Apple Trailers
- Dailymotion
- Metacafe
- IFilm
- Grouper
- Blip.tv
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FireFox - The Ultimate Web Browsing Experience
@ 05/06/2008 – 18:19:37
clipped from www.mozilla.com
The award-winning Web browser is now faster, more secure, and fully customizable to your online life. With Firefox 2, we’ve added powerful new features that make your online experience even better.
Enjoy a Better Web Experience
Firefox 2 delivers helpful new features to make your online experience more productive.
Stay Secure on the Web
Firefox continues to lead the way in online security, and now includes active protection from online scams to keep you safer.
Personalize Your Browser
Choose from over a thousand useful add-ons that enhance Firefox. It’s easy to personalize Firefox to make it your own.
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Download Helper - FireFox Browser Plugin
@ 05/06/2008 – 18:06:53
clipped from www.downloadhelper.net
DownloadHelper is a way to discover many sites showing Web videos from all around the world. They are here !DownloadHelper is also a free Firefox extension for downloading videos and images from many sites with minimum effort. Install the extension !Using DownloadHelper, you can easily save videos from most of the popular video sites. (Check here for lists of supported sites).
It is also possible to capture all the images from a galery in a single operation.
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Clipmarks - Easily Share Your Web
@ 05/06/2008 – 17:50:46
This is a very cool site, that allows you to bookmark not just the links to your favourite sites, but snippets of information that you find on them also.
This is what Clipmarks says:
Like scissors for web pages, Clipmarks lets you capture the specific content on a web page that you want others to see.Once you've clipped something, you can share it anywhere on the web, including Facebook, your blog, by email or on clipmarks.com. learn more
There are lots of things you can do with your clips:
- Save them on Clipmarks.com Your clips can be saved publicly for others to learn from or be entertained by, or you can make them private. Either way you've got a fully searchable collection of great things you find on the web.
- Post them directly to your blog Clipmarks offers direct integration with wordpress, blogger, typepad, live journal and other blogging platforms, enabling you to post anything you clip from a web page directly to your blog. demo
- Email them to friends Straight from any web page you can clip and email something you want friends, family or co-workers to see. demo
- Print them Don't waste paper or get annoyed trying to copy and paste to a Word document. Use clipmarks to easily print only the parts of the page you want.
Here's a clip that I made by clipping a demo video and some more infomation about Clipmarks:clipped from clipmarks.com
Instead of linking to entire web pages, Clipmarks lets you clip exactly what you want others to see. Our browser add-on lets you save and share what you're reading on the web with greater precision than is possible with links. There are lots of things you can do with your clips:
Clipmarks also gives each user a widget for their clips that can be embedded on MySpace, your blog or just about anywhere else. You can also use our Facebook application to share what you clip with your friends. Lastly, there’s a great community over at clipmarks.com where people share and discuss interesting things they clip from the web. Feel free to see what other’s are clipping, add your two cents and start posting clips you think others would enjoy.
Be sure to check it out - and if you decide to join up, then please add me as one of your Clipper friends by clicking on the 'Follow' link on my profile by clicking here... -
iBanter Photo Pimp - The Free Image Host With A Twist
@ 05/06/2008 – 04:10:15
Don't use up all of your media storage space here at Blog.co.uk, by filling it with all of your photos and other images. Consider using a third-party image hosting site - like PhotoBucket - instead.
I've come across a really good image hosting site, that allows you to upload, store and share an unlimited amount of images, with no file-size, bandwidth or time restrictions and is totally FREE too.
The site is called 'iBanter Photo Pimp' and it also allows you to add some really cool effects to your photos and images if you want to - like silly hats, big noses, funny teeth and various bling items, etc.
To give you an example, you can turn a photo like this one:
... Into one like this one:
(click on above image to see the larger version)
What's more, there's a social element to the site too, which allows other people to rate and pimp your photos. Remember, it's FREE, so just go ahead and have some fun with it by clicking here...
