A couple of days ago I talked about my experiences with a geolocation driver bug that was not presenting a heading to the Geolocation sensor, and how to account for this problem in your app by calculating the value yourself. Today, I want to talk abou… Read more
I’ve been evaluating the location sensors in a number of Windows 8 tablet and ultrabook systems recently, and as you might expect I have come across the occasional buggy driver. Sometimes the bugs are severe enough that the location sensor doesn’t fu… Read more
This is a three-part series on adding a GPS to your non-GPS-enabled system using GPSDirect from TurboIRC.COM Software & Research.
Part 1. Introducing GPSDirect
Part 2. Using an external, handheld GPS.
Part 3. Using an Android* smartphone as a G… Read more
Part 1. Introducing GPSDirect
Part 2. Using an external, handheld GPS.
Part 3. Using an Android smartphone as a GPS receiver
Part 2: Using an external, handheld GPS
OK, so I lied. In part 2 we’ll actually look at two options for an external GPS: a han… Read more
In an earlier blog post titled “Develop location-aware, Metro style apps when your development system doesn’t have GPS”, one option I presented for those wishing to develop high-precision location-based Windows Store apps is to hook up an external G… Read more
Recently one of my colleagues interviewed me in a short video segment on the geolocation sensor in Windows 8, and one of the questions I was asked was whether there was an app that could tell the developer or the user if their system has a GPS or GNSS… Read more
Earlier this week I wrote about how to calculate the distance between two points in a location-aware app. Today, I am going to discuss a related topic: how to calculate the bearing between two points.
Like the shortest-distance problem, the bearing be… Read more
If you are developing a location-aware application, you may reach a point where you need to know the distance between two geographic locations, such as the user’s current position and some destination point like a city, airport, or attraction. The Loc… Read more
Intel recently announced the addition of the RDSEED instruction to the Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures. An addition to Intel® Secure Key, this new instruction will appear in future generations of Intel processors.
Like RDRAND the RDSEED instructio… Read more
Intel recently announced the addition of the RDSEED instruction to the Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures. An addition to Intel® Secure Key, this new instruction will appear in future generations of Intel processors.
Like RDRAND the RDSEED instructio… Read more
The WinRT environment provides the application developer with access to the user’s location via the location sensor. The location API is described in detail in my blog post, “The WinRT Location API: Where did my location data come from?”, but the qui… Read more
The WinRT environment provides the application developer with access to the user’s location via the location sensor. The location API is described in detail in my blog post, “The WinRT Location API: Where did my location data come from?”, but the qui… Read more
