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We are based in North Norfolk, UK but have clients across the United Kingdom, in Europe and further afield... we'll come to you if appropriate. We're
always happy to talk about potential new projects without obligation...
Backcam makes the news
Monday morning was interrupted by a phone call from Anglia News; apparently we might be able to help with images of the previous night's surge tide for a
a story they were preparing about the flooding and flood warning system around the Norfolk coast. The Backcam program which we added to the Wells Harbour website in 2006 had
indeed captured a sequence of images showing the quayside covering and the local fishing boats being moved off onto the pontoons. We were able to promptly send over a set of frames
and a sample animation which duly appeared on that evening's regional TV news, as well as the web.
For some other examples of Backcam's work, see these time-lapse videos of the tide at Wells produced for the Wells Harbour website.
One way to settle an argument...
Having provided on-line event booking for a client for several years now, we were discussing the other day where its customers came from and how far they were prepared to travel and,
in particular, our own feeling from dealing with ticket enquiries, that some of the customer's events attract a national audience whereas others are much more local affairs.
Hunches are one thing but businesses can gain extremely valuable insight from actually looking at some hard evidence... and it occurred to us that we had several years' worth of data going back.
Using postcode and mapping data now available from the Ordnance Survey under the new OS OpenData licence, it took under an hour to come up with a simple GIS plotting application, overlaying
map pins onto UK mapping. Our prototype's run-time won't win any prizes but a day with a server left churning away produced a set of detailed and interesting maps.
It's clear that there's a lot more that could be done on this theme, such as highlighting new and regular customers, plotting pictograms representing the number of persons in each
booking or the total spend or animating different maps to show trends over time, and we hope we'll be able to take our first simple application further. If you'd like us to
suggest what we could do with your data, please drop us a line.
And Balloon Girl!
Along with Chutes, we've produced a 32-bit version of our old Balloon Girl screensaver since someone asked.
For anyone looking for other bits of retro chic from our distant past, drop us a line and we'll try and oblige. And if you want a properly written custom Windows screensaver for your business or
event, you know where to find us.
Strange Software developed CD-R Presenter, a Windows multimedia authoring tool that created standalone multimedia presentations using simple point-and-click
fill-in-the-blank animated templates. The program consisted of an editing tool that resembled a TV remote control, complete with a library of templates and a wizard-style
interactive guide (occupying what at the time occupied seemed a huge 80Mb for a full installation) plus a small run-time interpreter that could be written, along with the user's
data, to a business card or shaped small capacity CD-R. Produced for a startup company as a low-cost retail product, the software was translated into several European
languages and later sold over the web in a freely downloadable unlockable 'lite' version.
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