![]() Each route conveniently gets its own URL that can be shared easily and in addition to the map view, there are turn-by-turn directions below.ĬycleStreets offers a choice of route suggestions: fastest, balanced and quietest, each catering for a different type of rider, and also offers timings based on your average speed (I choose “Unhurried!”). Try this journey from Chorlton to MediaCityUK – perfect for the new BBC commuter. Their secret sauce is their mapping engine which properly uses bike routes marked on OpenStreetMap and accounts for factors like slowdowns on hills, traffic lights and other crossings.ĬycleStreets offers a desktop site, mobile site and mobile apps for iPhone, Android, Windows Phone and BlackBerry (all open source). Founded in 2009 as an outgrowth of a Cambridge bike journey planning tool, CycleStreets uses the power of OpenStreetMap and other open data to generate sensible cycling routes from and to virtually any point in the UK.Įven though it’s described as “beta”, I’ve found CycleStreets’ journey planning to be far superior to that provided by Google Maps. That’s where journey planning startup CycleStreets comes in.ĬycleStreets is not-for-profit cycle journey planner for the United Kingdom. It’s free on the iOS App Store, but there’s no Android version yet which I suspect might go down well with ‘droid-toting teens.įollowing yesterday’s blog post about the brilliance of OpenCycleMap and the Wikipedia-like service that it’s built on, OpenStreetMap, I’ve been thinking: wouldn’t it be useful to be able to plan a complete bike-friendly journey, complete with turn-by-turn directions and maps? GIF Finder is a simple concept, well executed and fills a surprising niche. And conveniently, it’ll share to clipboard as well as Twitter, Facebook etc so you’re not required to use the built-in iOS sharing. GIF Finder uses Tumblr as its source for GIFs, so there’s usually something that hits the spot. Just search for the GIF you want, pick from those returned and then share to wherever you want it to go. There’s not really much to how GIF Finder works, which is refreshing given the endless bells and whistles you find in most free apps. This brilliantly simple and free iPhone app offers “All the fun of gifs, none of the hassle of finding them.” So when your only response to a tweet or awkward moment is to issue an animated GIF, the time it takes to search Google Images, memegenerator or Tumblr can suck the fun out of it.Įnter GIF Finder. If a picture paints a thousand words, then an animated GIF almost certainly livens up a 140 character tweet. ![]() Think it’s useful? Download Disk Inventory X here. However, there’s the similar WinDirStat if you’re a full-time Windows user. The last time I ran this, it showed me a large archive of old emails that I didn’t need anymore too.ĭisk Inventory X works on Mac and Windows partitions, though it’s a Mac-only app, so it is helpful if you’re trying to diagnose disk issues on a Boot Camp partitions. You can home in on problem files just by hovering over them, or get an idea of whether you need to move your photo library somewhere else.Īs you can see above, I’ve got a big file taking up quite a large amount of space – though clicking on it shows it’s actually my Mac’s sleep image. Essentially, a quick visual way of showing which files and file types are consuming space on a drive. This invaluable – free – app scans your hard drive and shows your usage in the form of a treemap. And my Applications folder isn’t big enough to justify the lack of space.Įnter my app of the week: Disk Inventory X. My Documents folder is only a few gig, as I save the majority of my work related content to a office cloud server. So where the hell has all my disk space gone? It’s not just the fact I’ve donated 20 GB to Windows. In my case, my Mac laptop has a relatively small solid-state drive (SSD) and I’m one of those annoying people that decides he wants to use both Mac OS X and Windows, via Boot Camp. But there are still plenty of reasons why you might run out of disk space. In the era of “the cloud”, it seems odd perhaps to be concerned about how much free disk space your computer has left. Originally published on the Melbourne blog.
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