Just when you think food innovation is at a standstill, a hero comes along and creates a truly beautiful mashup. After seeing Jimmy Fallon describe his imagined perfect breakfast - the PanWaffle - Erin McDowell of Food52 set out to make his dream a reality.
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Depending on your temperament, you'll have a different reaction to seeing a map of literally everywhere you've taken your iPhone (or 3G iPad) since you bought it. You might think it's a neat hack to gain some perspective on your far-ranging life. Or you might wonder why Apple has been keeping this information all along.
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OpenHeatMap takes your standard, not exactly eye-catching spreadsheet data and maps it out across any geographic area, giving you better context and a far more interesting presentation.
There's nothing we like better than a good mash-up (here's a couple of random examples). But when it comes to services that integrate data from multiple locations and draw their own conclusions, it's always best to apply a little healthy cynicism.
As soon as Wolfram Alpha launched as a computational knowledge engine, avid searchers hacked up tools to combine its results with standard Google searches. The Goofram site is a clean-looking site that does all that mashing for you.
If you've been playing around with Microsoft's Live Mesh syncing technology and tried it on your Windows Mobile device, then Flickr2Mesh, a simple application to download photos from your Flickr account onto your hard drive or mobile phone, might be of interest. As Aussie Live Mesh guru Angus Logan points out on his blog, the code could also be used as the basis for an application giving you access to your photos on multiple devices. If you want to mass-download Flickr shots but aren't ready for Live Mesh yet, check out previously mentioned Flump. Flickr2Mesh
The new Sydney Sidetracks project from the ABC puts an intriguing twist on the Google Maps mash-up genre, linking historic video, audio and pictures to their locations online. Content on offer includes early images from Port Jackson in 1821, as well as more recent events such as the Hilton Hotel bombing. As well as being accessible on the site, you can download a version for use on your mobile phone, ideal for a walking tour of the inner-Sydney streets. With luck, we'll see similar efforts for other cities in the future (the site structure suggests other locations could easily be added).
Sydney Sidetracks