David Pitkin

ZoneTag was the first mobile phone upload tool I used to send pictures to flickr, created at the Yahoo! Research Berkley lab. On the Nokia 6682 it was great, even without a GPS it would upload the cell tower information and they started to build a database so you could put it on a map. This was before flickr had geotagging. The other thing they did was suggest tags based on your location, so when I took a picture at Fenway it could suggest that tag on flickr, this was in 2006.

Fast forward and ZoneTag lacked in support for my newer phones and so I turned to Shozu for a while, the thing I missed the most was when I went to upload I could not tag or set the privacy of the photo being uploaded. This was a major disadvantage for me but I lived with it, I actually uploaded all my pictures as private and then selectively turned them public, but often forgot and never went back to tag.

Now with the new N95 and new version of ZoneTag prototype there is a ton of stuff, including the ability to tag a photo with a verb/Acton Tag like !scanr:wb will tell ZoneTag that I am uploading a picture of a whiteboard to send to scanR and have it perform OCR on that picture. Fantastic.

Now if only ZoneTag used the GPS coordinates as well as Cell Tower info…

ZoneTag was the first mobile phone upload tool I used to send pictures to flickr, created at the Yahoo! Research Berkley lab. On the Nokia 6682 it was great, even without a GPS it would upload the cell tower information and they started to build a database so you could put it on a map. This was before flickr had geotagging. The other thing they did was suggest tags based on your location, so when I took a picture at Fenway it could suggest that tag on flickr, this was in 2006.

Fast forward and ZoneTag lacked in support for my newer phones and so I turned to Shozu for a while, the thing I missed the most was when I went to upload I could not tag or set the privacy of the photo being uploaded. This was a major disadvantage for me but I lived with it, I actually uploaded all my pictures as private and then selectively turned them public, but often forgot and never went back to tag.

Now with the new N95 and new version of ZoneTag prototype there is a ton of stuff, including the ability to tag a photo with a verb/Acton Tag like !scanr:wb will tell ZoneTag that I am uploading a picture of a whiteboard to send to scanR and have it perform OCR on that picture. Fantastic.

Now if only ZoneTag used the GPS coordinates as well as Cell Tower info…

I wanted to share the list of applications and setting I have done so far for my brand new N95 today.

Installed: WorldMate for weather Nokia Maps Nokia Map Loader downloaded NH, MA and CA to my 2GB card Shozu Conversation Handy Taskman Sport Tracker Google Mail Mobile Google Maps Setup GooSync to get my calendar, the database name is “Calendar” and use the other generic settings. Synced with iSync to the Mac address book

This device is fantastic.

I have wanted to go to “Photographica,” the camera show that the Photographic Historical Society of New England (PHSNE) has put on for a few years. I knew it used to be in Waltham and after an email from a friend I was reminded to look up where it was this year. It was in Watertown, and by a twist of fate I was in Boston this morning with some time to kill. Talking to a few characters there I learned a bunch about some of the rangefinder cameras that I want. I almost bought a Leica IIIg for a reallly good deal but the lack of a built in meter scared me. Here is a table full of lenses.

The large format cameras and collectable Leica camera systems were the most interesting for me to stare at and there were a lot of them there. The table the most people were talking about was a guy who had about 3 full folding tables full of lenses and 35mm SLR bodies for 5 dollars each, they were all being sold as-is, it was wild.

This

was the one table with the really fancy modern stuff like a 500mm fast lens.

I did buy two things and spent a grand total of 20 dollars.

• A replacement film winding lever for my Minolta SRT-201
• A 50mm F1.9 Minolta lense for 5 bucks!

It was great! I hope that next time I have a rangefinder and can buy a new lens.