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Everything Everest Trek in One Place

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

nepalflag_plain.pngOne more day and I’ll leave for Frankfurt, and on Friday we fly out to Kathmandu. During my 4-week absence Ravsitar the Release Pixie will do what he loves doing: take care of releasing things to you on this site. But as a last official update from myself, here’s the list of links for your Everest Trek following pleasure:

Start here:
The best place to start with is our Netvibes page. It contains our live satellite map (see our location in real time!), Twitter streams, pictures from the trek, participant blogs and more.
» Everest Trek all-in-one Netvibes page

Taaaaaaaaa-witter:
If you live on Twitter, we have set up a Twitter user that you can follow. We will post updates there and also use the associated TwitPic stream to post pictures that will also end up on Twitter.
» Everest Trek on Twitter: @everesttrek2009

Cool-looking widget for your site:
Check out the Everest Trek Live Widget! You can easily place it on your own page, no matter where it is. It supports regular blogs, Facebook and many more systems.
» The Everest Trek Live Widget

Live Moving Satellite Map:
You can also place the live moving satellite tracker map on your own page using this embed code:
<iframe src="http://geekvault.no5.at/blogloc/gmap.jsp?user=restofeverest" width="320" height="190" frameborder="0">
</iframe>

The Original:
Then there’s obviously the original page that started it all. Go here to find a lot more background information on the trek (and maybe get your mouth watering for the next one :))
» Everest Trek 2009

All TFTTF posts about the Everest Trek:
And last but not least, here are all the posts (and audio episodes) on Tips from the Top Floor that I made around the Everest Trek
» Everest Trek Category on Tips from the Top Floor

Alright already… enough!

Follow us REALLY LIVE! - Satellite Tracker

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

And here’s another one - a live tracker that will update our position on this map every 30 seconds, so you can truly follow along. And no, you can’t zoom in on the satellite image and actually see us hike and wave up at you :)

Right now the tracker is with Jon in Colorado and it is switched off, which is why nothing is moving. You can expect the pin on the map to start moving when Jon is at Denver airport on May/1.

Grab it while it’s hot! - Everest Live Widget

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

We’re ready to leave for Nepal. If you want to stay up to date with LIVE information on where we are and what we are doing, here is a widget that you can add to your web site, facebook or other pages. Just click the “Share” button under the image and you’re on your way!

Ch-ch-ch-changes…

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

Update:
The site is back up again, Wordpress is updated to the latest version.

Nothing’s broken, or .. well .. just a little. Don’t be worried if you see this site change right now, we’re doing some construction work while traffic is zipping through.

Thanks for your patience.

Chris

tfttf357 - iPhone Photo Apps - Tech Guy

Friday, April 24th, 2009

techguy_tfttf_logo2.jpgChris and Leo talk about some photography-related apps for the iPhone and the iPod Touch

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