Category: Random Stuff
Posted by Sarfend at March 19th, 2010 in Random Stuff, Roads
Do you own an iPhone, Android Smartphone, high-end Nokia or Windows Mobile phone? Then you can help to build-up a real-time map of Southend.
Waze is a social GPS application that has a big following in the US, and is now over here. The idea is simple. Drive around with this app running on your phone, and a map of roads and average road speed is built-up. Users can report speed cameras and accidents (with photos) and share that info with others. Problem is, the map of Southend is a bit thin:
It looks like most of the mapping effort has been done by one ‘HonourableKilla’ – Southend thanks you. So – can the readers of these news pages rise to the challenge and help build up Southend’s map? The Waze service rewards you with road munching points, and bonus points for driving around areas marked with little pink fairy cakes.
Go on – give it a try. If you’ve got an iPhone, go to Waze at iTunes, otherwise Waze is in the Android Market store and in Nokia Ovi. Full details at www.waze.com
Come on gang… get driving!
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Posted by Sarfend at March 11th, 2010 in Breaking News, Random Stuff, Roads
Google has just rolled out an upgrade to their controversial mapping service. In the Summer of 2009, a special Google car, equipped with state of the art cameras, roamed around Southend taking pictures of our town.
Those images are now live, and by typing an address into maps.google.co.uk , you’ll be able to see and navigate around to see what the cameras picked up.
If you’ve not used the service before – the trick is to type in a street address or postcode into maps.google.co.uk, then drag the little icon of a person from the controller on the left, and drop the person onto the appropriate street. You’re then in a scrollable view of that street and can move around, pan up, turn around and zoom.
Found anything interesting happening in Southend? Let us know below
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Posted by Sarfend at February 2nd, 2010 in Random Stuff
According to reports in the Sun, former Baywatch star Pamela Anderson is looking to buy herself a place at a seaside town in the UK.
Favourite locations include Bournemouth, Brighton, Blackpool and Morecambe Bay. Sadly, not a mention of our own Sunny Southend though.
Pam, if you’re reading, and we know you’re an avid reader of the sarfend.co.uk forum – don’t forget to give our humble town consideration.
We have the world’s longest pleasure pier, miles of sunny, sandy beaches (shh… don’t tell her), two Costa coffees, London Southend International Airport and Tescos.
You’ll love our friendly town’s sights, sounds and smells. Come and give us a try!
Think Pammy should move to Southend? Add your Pammy pitch in the comments below…
Image © Glenn Francis, www.PacificProDigital.com
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Posted by Sarfend at January 6th, 2010 in Random Stuff
In probably the most pointless post we’ve ever made, we’ve been asked to alert our loyal readers that, err, it’s snowing.
Yes – that’s right – we’ve had reported sightings of white stuff falling and settling on surfaces, in turn turning those surfaces a white, snowy colour.
As a real insult to your intelligence, here’s a photo, taken from the Sarfend.co.uk office window mere minutes ago. We’ve discovered that turning the flash on lights the snowflakes as they fall.
There – true eye-witness news live and direct from snowy Southend.
Our advice? Have a cup of tea and look out of the window – if you look closely, you too may see some snow.
If there are any further updates on this story, we’ll let you know.
UPDATE: It’s still snowing.
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