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We spent last week in Auckland for Teched NewZealand. While we were there we did 2 talks on the Kinect SDK and went and talked to a bank about how they could use the Kinect and SDK in their business. We had some fun in our sessions and the audience had a bit of a laugh too. It was great to see the ideas flowing from them at the end of the session, so many cool ideas of what they could use Kinect and the SDK for. This year we were in the Innovation track at teched which I think is a cool concept to shine a slightly different light on content at Teched. Hoping to see this flow through to techeds around the world (hint, hint Australia ).

Many thanks to Hilary for having us over. We had fun, which isn’t hard when you get to show off such cool tech

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We released a sneak peak on our upcoming Windows Phone 7 application TransHub to facebook earlier in the week and were overwhelmed with a few common questions we thought would be best answered here so everyone can benefit. It’s been great to see interest in the application and we’ve had lots of offers from people to help beta test etc. so thank you all very much for your support.

What is TransHub?

TransHub provides personalised, reliable public transport planning as a Windows Phone 7 application. Transhub removes the hassle of confusing timetables and frustrating journey planning for Sydney public transport. By combining state of the art travel planning, up to date timetables and full personalisation, Transhub saves you time by providing the most accurate and quickest routes (by bus, train, and/or ferry) to your destination in a matter of seconds. With an activated GPS, Transhub will update your map showing you where you are and where you need to take the next step of your trip.

For those who want to get a feel for what the application looks like here’s some screen grabs from the application. We’ve taken screen shots with the black theme but it also looks great in the white theme.



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I was doing some testing for our upcoming mobile application detecting whether the user had an internet connection and handling it nicely. After doing a bunch of testing on the emulator I deployed to my device, turned on flight mode and could not for the life of me get no network! Thinking I’d done something silly I spent awhile debugging it and trying to work out why I kept getting true!

After thinking I was insane I showed the odd behaviour to John..and suddenly it started working…odd? The difference was I had to disconnect from the usb cable to walk to the other room…so does that mean when I’m connected I’m somehow using my laptop’s internet connection? So to make sure it wasn’t just by logic I made sure I couldn’t browse the web in flight mode disconnected. I plugged my phone into the computer and tried again and TADA…browser page appears.

While it’s actually a cool feature, meaning I can be totally sure I’m not burning through my phone data, on one hand it makes absolute sense from a user perspective, but from a development / testing perspective it was an unexpected result.

 

Technorati Tags: wp7,GetIsNetworkAvailable

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This time last year I posted about the dramatic change in Road style for Bing Maps. Well the team didn’t stop improving, they took on feedback and  made changes. Improving the water colour, adding the highway markers and making the text more readable are the obvious ones. Take a moment to explore the new Bing Maps style yourself to see how it has all come together: http://www.bing.com/maps/

2011:

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For Bing Maps questions, links to your articles and more find me on http://twitter.com/bingmapsdev

Or catch me at http://twitter.com/soulsolutions

In addition to our session at Tech Ed Australia, we’re heading over to New Zealand the week before and giving not 1 but 2 presentations on Kinect SDK at Teched New Zealand. We’re pretty excited that this year New Zealand has a whole track of Innovation and that Kinect is featured in there twice

Below are the details of our sessions. Hoping to see lots of enthusiastic people there!

INO202 Kinecting The Dots – Developing with the Kinect SDK

The Microsoft Kinect holds the Guiness World Record as the fastest-selling consumer electronics device ever, selling 8 million units in the first 2 months.  With the recent release of the official SDK, you are the controller, with the ability to change the face of future applications.  Learn how to take advantage of depth...

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We’re proud to announce that TransHub has been selected as a finalist in this year’s Spotlight program from Microsoft Australia.

The Spotlight for Windows Phone gives Transhub the opportunity to present at Australia’s TechEd conference on the Gold Coast, allowing us to launch TransHub Sydney to the audience of 2,500 Australian developers.

http://www.spotlight2011.com.au/

 

We’ll be announcing more information in the coming weeks about the application, where to try and buy it. To keep updated you can follow us on :

Facebook:http://www.facebook.com/pages/TransHub/170460783026699

Twitter: @transhub_real

Transhub Blog: http://transhub.wordpress.com/

Linked In: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/TransHub-4028242

 

Technorati Tags: Spotlight2011,Windows Phone 7,TransHub

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