We left off with our trip mobile device usage series of blog posts at Trip Mobile Device Camera Versus Hard Copy Scan Tutorial below by leaving you with โฆ
With the resultant printer scanned soft copy, this becomes useful for us to develop a web application in future postings.
โฆ and so, today, we use that printer scanned image file to good effect, we hope, by presenting a โclick and exploreโ type of web application, and by so doing, reopen that favoured subject of ours, the admiration we have for the HTML map element.
As far as practically creating an HTML map element goes, weโve never found anything better than the great Mobilefish โcreate your own image mapโ functionality and todayโs web application benefits from this fantastic websiteโs work, yet again.
Donโt know about you, but find it satisfying (in a peculiar โUXโ way) to click on an unadorned image at an obvious (โred rag to a bullโ) place to be able to zero in on information I need, today supplied by creating two window.open popup windows per click, and calling into play that web application we talked about, as the โchild iframeโ part, when we presented HTML/Javascript Window Open URLs Primer Tutorial. So, yes, you guessed it, the recipe goes like this โฆ
- create the list of places visited on notepad, the contents for which we got assisted by mobile device technology we explained at Trip Mobile Device Usage Remembering Tutorial โฆ ie. a paper one โฆ egad!
- printer scan this hard copy into soft copy image file as we showed you with Trip Mobile Device Camera Versus Hard Copy Scan Tutorial โฆ ie. thatโs better โฆ
- get Mobilefish โcreate your own image mapโ functionality to help you to create HTML featuring a huge HTML map element referencing that soft copy image file and with onclick events โฆ and this bit is that little bit different to any other so far for todayโs job โฆ
- add in an HTML iframe element that is called at the HTML map element onclick event logics to call the โchild iframeโ HTML parts of HTML/Javascript Window Open URLs Primer Tutorial to open appropriate window.open popup windows (of Google searches and Google Maps โฆ thanks) for our purpose โฆ to inform and entertain, or perhaps give you a framework for your own web application to remind yourself of your last trip, we hope
So, do you want to see a bit about London? Even if you feel this way because you know everything there is to know, now?!
Here is todayโs default (setting out from Barbican, London) liverun link (or you can try our prompted setting out place liverun) that references the HTML and Javascript source code you could call london_trip_via_map_elementhtml and supervises that โchild iframeโ windowopenshtml HRML and Javascript.
We wish to thank //previews.123rf.com for the great background image used.
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Weโve recently been talking about mobile device Camera app methods of recording hard copy into digital form, and questioned its qualities when considering its resolution for written out or even typed out hard copy input. The questions float around โฆ
- Is resolution fine enough to read the writing or typed text?
- Has photograph got adequate lighting, which comes into play regarding the gap between mobile phone or tablet, and the hard copy?
- Is photograph focussed, which comes into play regarding the gap between mobile phone or tablet, and the hard copy, and accidental Camera movement with hand held scenarios (not involving a tripod)?
Regarding points 2 and 3 above, if the Camera app methods of recording hard copy into digital form donโt come up to scratch, for your requirements, even with enhancement that can be achieved with image editors like Gimp, that we talked about with Trip Mobile Device Gimp Photo Enhancement Tutorial as shown way below, then an alternative that we talk about today is the idea that โback on shoreโ after the trip this hard copy could be scanned via a computer and your printerโs scanner (our printer with this functionality is a HP Printer (Hewlett Packard Deskjet 2050 J510 series)) to an image file โsoft copyโ result (like we discussed in some detail when we presented Photo Album Email with Gimp and Paintbrush Primer Tutorial) not involving those lighting issues nor gaps between the hard copy and the camera, perhaps affecting focus. In photography home darkroom printing terms this is like comparing the use of an enlarger, involving lighting issues and the โgapโ, versus contact printing, which is analogous to โscanningโ techniques.
Most printer scanners offer a variety of modes of output and other scanning settings such as Brightness (-100) and Contrast (74) you can see being used to tweak, via the printer scannerโs Preview option, in todayโs tutorial picture. Here, below, is where we fit this idea into our trip mobile device usage theme โฆ below โฆ
- Web browser to use for the research planning, in the form of typed in search engine wording you can type straight into the address bar, if you like โฆ
Eg. Eltham Palace (typed into, went to, for us, here โฆ this)
Eltham Palace map (typed into, went to, for us, here โฆ this โฆ and then choosing โMapsโ on Google search engine resulted in this โฆ and then, while youโre there, โas they sayโ check out the menu options up the top left)
Barbican to Eltham Palace (typed into, went to, for us, here โฆ this โฆ and then choosing โMapsโ on Google search engine resulted in this โฆ and then, while youโre there, โas they sayโ gape at the brilliance of modern day โwhereโ software) - Google Maps as an app or via the mobile website to help with questions regarding how to get there, as we last discussed with Google Maps Primer Tutorial
- Screenshot functionality, as we last discussed with Emailing iPad Screenshot Primer Tutorial, to screenshot maps of interest useful if connectivity is not there as you are out and about on your trip, as well as for the soft copy of any Receipts resulting from the online purchase of travel tickets, as, these days, this is often as acceptable as hard copy โฆ like โฆ
- is the mobile device Camera app soft copy of the hard copy โฆ
- brought over to our MacBook Pro and enhanced via desktop image editor application Gimp we left off at Trip Mobile Device Usage Remembering Tutorial below โฆ versus โฆ
- as what a HP Printer (Hewlett Packard Deskjet 2050 J510 series)) scanner can achieve โฆ improved lighting, more focus
โฆ which could also use โฆ
- Camera and Video creation functionality is mainly useful as you are out and about on your trip.
- Photos or Gallery app on the mobile device to store those trip memories, as we last discussed with YouTube via iPad Photos App Primer Tutorial, and to utilise that appโs Share functionalities to post to Social Media or Online Photo Repositories or to attach via eMail off to other folks, there and then, or later, as we discussed with Email Photos on iPad as Attachments Primer Tutorial. The Event or Moment photo and video organisation this app uses helps you remember what you did even much later after the trip, as we last discussed with Moving Pictures on an iPad Primer Tutorial.
- Clock apps can help you keep track of time zone differences as you travel.
With the resultant printer scanned soft copy, this becomes useful for us to develop a web application in future postings.
Previous relevant Trip Mobile Device Usage Remembering Tutorial is shown below.
Continuing on with our trip themed tutorials, following on from the last Trip Mobile Device Gimp Photo Enhancement Tutorial one, weโd like to get you thinking of a mobile device as a memory aid, as well as what it is โin the here and nowโ. Donโt know if the mobile technologies have added, sometimes unnecessary no doubt, complexity to a lot of peopleโs lives, to the extent that those of us more challenged by the mobile technology way, and are not willing to give up hard disks for concepts like Google Drive or iCloud or DropBox or Social Media without a lot of consideration, leave the follow up of what to do with our photographic and video media to โanother timeโ. Those people who do leave it for โanother timeโ, we argue, shouldnโt despair about any troglodyte thoughts they have, and can benefit from the clever ways the mobile device will store media into โEventsโ or โMomentsโ in its Photos and/or Gallery apps. These โEventsโ or โMomentsโ are there ready for you to look back on later with their wonderful timestamps โฆ alas to those of us who donโt set our mobile device time and date properly โฆ to recreate what a lot of us forgot, within a week or so โฆ or maybe less โฆ that we did. Which brings us to yesterdayโs Trip Mobile Device Gimp Photo Enhancement Tutorialโs Gimp reworked photograph, which becomes todayโs tutorialpicture. Letโs talk about that soft copy web server image from โgo to whoaโ in context with mobile device trip usage ideas โthree meets fiveโ โฆ
- Web browser to use for the research planning, in the form of typed in search engine wording you can type straight into the address bar, if you like โฆ
Eg. Eltham Palace (typed into, went to, for us, here โฆ this)
Eltham Palace map (typed into, went to, for us, here โฆ this โฆ and then choosing โMapsโ on Google search engine resulted in this โฆ and then, while youโre there, โas they sayโ check out the menu options up the top left)
Barbican to Eltham Palace (typed into, went to, for us, here โฆ this โฆ and then choosing โMapsโ on Google search engine resulted in this โฆ and then, while youโre there, โas they sayโ gape at the brilliance of modern day โwhereโ software) - Google Maps as an app or via the mobile website to help with questions regarding how to get there, as we last discussed with Google Maps Primer Tutorial
- Screenshot functionality, (exemplified by the Android screenshot two photos down that was obtained via Home button/Power button together -> Gallery -> Screenshots -> Share icon -> Upload to Photos then Photos -> Hold until selected -> Share icon -> Email to myself then on MacBook Pro Mail -> Open eMail -> Download attachment -> Save to Downloads) as we last discussed with Emailing iPad Screenshot Primer Tutorial, to screenshot maps of interest useful if connectivity is not there as you are out and about on your trip, as well as for the soft copy of any Receipts resulting from the online purchase of travel tickets, as, these days, this is often as acceptable as hard copy, which could also use โฆ
- Camera and Video creation functionality is mainly useful as you are out and about on your trip.
- Photos or Gallery app on the mobile device to store those trip memories, as we last discussed with YouTube via iPad Photos App Primer Tutorial, and to utilise that appโs Share functionalities to post to Social Media or Online Photo Repositories or to attach via eMail off to other folks, there and then, or later, as we discussed with Email Photos on iPad as Attachments Primer Tutorial. The Event or Moment photo and video organisation this app uses helps you remember what you did โฆ
- is, after the events, noted down in writing, and bits the โold grey matterโ forgets we consult with โฆ
- showing the Samsung GT-S5310B (Android 4.1.2) mobile phoneโs Photos apps โEventsโ that get a timestamp to facilitate the conversion of โold grey dark matterโ into โnewer turquoise lighter matterโ that โฆ
- transferred from the Samsung GT-S5310B to the MacBook Proโs disk and reworked via the desktop image editor Gimp application to become (the many carretted) โฆ
- final trip summary, you can see in bigger form with todayโs tutorialpicture
โฆ even much later after the trip, as we last discussed with Moving Pictures on an iPad Primer Tutorial.
- Clock apps can help you keep track of time zone differences as you travel.
There is also the thought, also, that the mobile device is a hard disk as well โฆ albeit not meant, by the mobile device manufacturers, to be thought of in the same way as a laptopโs hard disk is thought of, in terms of capacity. Maybe you can just reference the media on what you captured it with, as a post trip organizational idea, that is the easiest organizational idea of them all.
Previous relevant Trip Mobile Device Gimp Photo Enhancement Tutorial is shown below.
Continuing on with our trip themed tutorials, following on from the last Trip Mobile Device Usage Clock Tutorial one, letโs continue on in our non chronological manner, but a manner in which we reference all six of our Mobile Device Trip Idea Helpers you see below, and take a look at our Samsung GT-S5310B (Android 4.1.2) mobile phone method for the third meets fourth screenshot idea set, honing in not so much on the phoneโs self-screenshotting capabilities, but more of it being used as a Camera to photograph a piece of hard copy, turning it into a piece of soft copy โฆ but what quality is this soft copy? With mobile device Camera app photographs of hard copy, it can be questionable, especially if you want to read something off the photograph. That is where, โback on shoreโ, transferring that Samsung GT-S5310B (Android 4.1.2) mobile phoneโs photograph over to our MacBook Pro using the Android File Transfer methodology we outlined yesterday with Android Disk to MacBook Pro Disk Tutorial, we now have the means by which we can involve our favourite MacBook Pro desktop image editor application called Gimp which we have a history of raving about regarding photograph enhancement โฆ especially for โthe graphically challenged of usโ at โphotograph enhancementโ. And so you can see some of this mobile phone photograph, of hard copy into soft copy, pan out below โฆ
- Web browser to use for the research planning, in the form of typed in search engine wording you can type straight into the address bar, if you like โฆ
Eg. Eltham Palace (typed into, went to, for us, here โฆ this)
Eltham Palace map (typed into, went to, for us, here โฆ this โฆ and then choosing โMapsโ on Google search engine resulted in this โฆ and then, while youโre there, โas they sayโ check out the menu options up the top left)
Barbican to Eltham Palace (typed into, went to, for us, here โฆ this โฆ and then choosing โMapsโ on Google search engine resulted in this โฆ and then, while youโre there, โas they sayโ gape at the brilliance of modern day โwhereโ software) - Google Maps as an app or via the mobile website to help with questions regarding how to get there, as we last discussed with Google Maps Primer Tutorial
- Screenshot functionality, as we last discussed with Emailing iPad Screenshot Primer Tutorial, to screenshot maps of interest useful if connectivity is not there as you are out and about on your trip, as well as for the soft copy of any Receipts resulting from the online purchase of travel tickets, as, these days, this is often as acceptable as hard copy, which could also use โฆ
- Camera (photographing hard copy to become soft copy like โฆ โฆ this, for example โฆ that, today, we get back to a MacBookProโs Gimp desktop image editor application called Gimp to improve to be ) and Video creation functionality is mainly useful as you are out and about on your trip.
- Photos or Gallery app on the mobile device to store those trip memories, as we last discussed with YouTube via iPad Photos App Primer Tutorial, and to utilise that appโs Share functionalities to post to Social Media or Online Photo Repositories or to attach via eMail off to other folks, there and then, or later, as we discussed with Email Photos on iPad as Attachments Primer Tutorial. The Event or Moment photo and video organisation this app uses helps you remember what you did, even much later after the trip, as we last discussed with Moving Pictures on an iPad Primer Tutorial.
- Clock apps can help you keep track of time zone differences as you travel.
Now you may not see the Gimp effort is worth it, but am sure a Gimp expert can get better improvements than you see above, because, as you would correctly surmise, Graphic Artists are that โฆ artists.
But we feel that we should detail what we did in Gimp, in addition to what todayโs tutorialpicture summarises โฆ
- [Colours -> Hue-Saturationโฆ ->] Adjust Hue / Lightness / Saturation โฆ Hue=2 / Lightness=45 / Saturation=-53
- [Colours -> Brightness-Contrastโฆ ->] Adjust Brightness and Contrast โฆ Brightness=21 and Contrast=60
- [Filters -> Enhance -> Sharpenโฆ ->] Sharpen โฆ Sharpen=71
- [Colours -> Colourizeโฆ ->] Colourize โฆ Hue=274 / Saturation=9 / Lightness=13
Previous relevant Trip Mobile Device Usage Clock Tutorial is shown below.
Continuing on with our trip themed tutorials, following on from yesterdayโs Trip Mobile Device Usage Primer Tutorial as shown below, letโs take a look at our Samsung GT-S5310B (Android 4.1.2) mobile phone method for the sixth โClock appโ idea below โฆ
- Web browser to use for the research planning, in the form of typed in search engine wording you can type straight into the address bar, if you like โฆ
Eg. Eltham Palace (typed into, went to, for us, here โฆ this)
Eltham Palace map (typed into, went to, for us, here โฆ this โฆ and then choosing โMapsโ on Google search engine resulted in this โฆ and then, while youโre there, โas they sayโ check out the menu options up the top left)
Barbican to Eltham Palace (typed into, went to, for us, here โฆ this โฆ and then choosing โMapsโ on Google search engine resulted in this โฆ and then, while youโre there, โas they sayโ gape at the brilliance of modern day โwhereโ software) - Google Maps as an app or via the mobile website to help with questions regarding how to get there, as we last discussed with Google Maps Primer Tutorial
- Screenshot functionality, as we last discussed with Emailing iPad Screenshot Primer Tutorial, to screenshot maps of interest useful if connectivity is not there as you are out and about on your trip, as well as for the soft copy of any Receipts resulting from the online purchase of travel tickets, as, these days, this is often as acceptable as hard copy, which could also use โฆ
- Camera and Video creation functionality is mainly useful as you are out and about on your trip.
- Photos or Gallery app on the mobile device to store those trip memories, as we last discussed with YouTube via iPad Photos App Primer Tutorial, and to utilise that appโs Share functionalities to post to Social Media or Online Photo Repositories or to attach via eMail off to other folks, there and then, or later, as we discussed with Email Photos on iPad as Attachments Primer Tutorial. The Event or Moment photo and video organisation this app uses helps you remember what you did, even much later after the trip, as we last discussed with Moving Pictures on an iPad Primer Tutorial.
- Clock apps
โฆ the screenshot for which was obtained via Home button/Power button together -> Gallery -> Screenshots -> Share icon -> Upload to Photos then Photos -> Hold until selected -> Share icon -> Email to myself then on MacBook Pro Mail -> Open eMail -> Download attachment -> Save to Downloads โฆ can help you keep track of time zone differences as you travel.
The context of its use is twofold, at least for us, in that it can be useful โฆ
- while you are away checking times back home
- during aeroplane flights and transit lounge stays
For any of this you will probably need the relevant part of Location Services to be enabled (perhaps heeding iPad battery issues we talked about with Location Services iPad Battery Loss Issue Tutorial), and for the second of the ideas above we need to ensure, as passengers in a plane, that we canโt interfere with any plane navigation equipment, by turning โFlight modeโ to on for Android and โAirplane Modeโ to on for iPad or iPhone before the flight, and back to off after the flight, when you should also set Wi-Fi to on, as necessary, to restore any desired connectivity.
By the way, the name of the corresponding app on an iPad is also called โClockโ.
Previous relevant Trip Mobile Device Usage Primer Tutorial is shown below.
The word trip, in English, conjures up many thoughts for many of us. We hope that a trip conjures up happy memories for you, but we realize sometimes that is not the case, but be that as it may, a trip often โฆ
- is an opportunity to go somewhere new
- is an opportunity to learn something new
- is an opportunity to meet people, and other animals, who are new to you
- is an opportunity to experience something new
- is an opportunity to plan for something new
- is an opportunity to share information and experiences
โฆ and a lot of these characteristics are well pandered to with modern mobile device technology.
We like to use mobile devices for both trip planning and execution. We own an iPad tablet using iOS and a mobile phone using Android, and though we prefer to use the iPad for the trip planning, sometimes the Android is better to use for the trip itself because it is that bit smaller.
Our favourite mobile device ideas to use are โฆ
- Web browser to use for the research planning, in the form of typed in search engine wording you can type straight into the address bar, if you like โฆ
Eg. Eltham Palace (typed into, went to, for us, here โฆ this)
Eltham Palace map (typed into, went to, for us, here โฆ this โฆ and then choosing โMapsโ on Google search engine resulted in this โฆ and then, while youโre there, โas they sayโ check out the menu options up the top left)
Barbican to Eltham Palace (typed into, went to, for us, here โฆ this โฆ and then choosing โMapsโ on Google search engine resulted in this โฆ and then, while youโre there, โas they sayโ gape at the brilliance of modern day โwhereโ software) - Google Maps as an app or via the mobile website to help with questions regarding how to get there, as we last discussed with Google Maps Primer Tutorial
- Screenshot functionality, as we last discussed with Emailing iPad Screenshot Primer Tutorial, to screenshot maps of interest useful if connectivity is not there as you are out and about on your trip, as well as for the soft copy of any Receipts resulting from the online purchase of travel tickets, as, these days, this is often as acceptable as hard copy, which could also use โฆ
- Camera and Video creation functionality is mainly useful as you are out and about on your trip.
- Photos or Gallery app on the mobile device to store those trip memories, as we last discussed with YouTube via iPad Photos App Primer Tutorial, and to utilise that appโs Share functionalities to post to Social Media or Online Photo Repositories or to attach via eMail off to other folks, there and then, or later, as we discussed with Email Photos on iPad as Attachments Primer Tutorial. The Event or Moment photo and video organisation this app uses helps you remember what you did, even much later after the trip, as we last discussed with Moving Pictures on an iPad Primer Tutorial.
- Clock apps can help you keep track of time zone differences as you travel.
We just wonder what Macon Leary, out of The Accidental Tourist, would have made of it all โฆ the โthird personโ English about travel matters often makes me giggle inside about this movie.
Weโll be writing more on the trip theme soon โฆ just as soon as William Hurt writes me back โฆ chortle, chortle.
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