London Taxi Quotes and Bookings

If you’re looking for a taxi in London, check out Tick Tock Taxi, the new taxi booking site recently launched by our friends at mochii.

Instant Fare Quote

Enter the address you’re at and where you want to go and the site gives you an instant quote for a mini-cab. Booking is easy, just enter your name and phone number.

Behind the scenes, there’s a database of cab companies, the nearest of which is notified and will contact you within minutes. It’s a simple and painless way to find the cost and book your taxi. There’s a mobile version under development, too.

Fun Project

We did the web programming for the site using Django. It integrates with Google Maps for the address lookups (geocoding) and to find the distance by road for the fare calculation (using Google Maps directions). It uses an SMS gateway to send text messages to customers and taxi companies.

Tick Tock Taxi was conceived by mochii who also provided the design work. They called us in to do the web development side and we’re happy to be involved.

Do you have an innovative website, web-based or mobile app? Get in contact.

Dynamic Data Filtering for WhoIsHostingThis.com

We’ve worked on the WhoIsHostingThis.com site for several years, since it was taken over by web marketing experts Quality Nonsense. It started as a tool to tell you which web hosting company is hosting any site, but has changed and expanded in scope and usefulness, adding honest reviews and special offer coupons over the last couple of years.

Hosting Comparison Tool

A few months ago we helped launch the new hosting comparison tool which filters tens of thousands of data points to tell you which web hosting company is best for you. Our role was to develop the comparison engine and super-slick dynamic interface which updates the list of suitable hosts as you click features and criteria that are important to you.

Data Update Interface

Behind the scenes, the team at WhoIsHostingThis.com add web hosting plans and regularly update masses of data using an interface we developed. All changes are logged, checked and approved before going live on the site.

Tech

The WhoIsHostingThis.com site uses PHP and MySQL. Much of the work for the hosting comparison tool was client-side, using JavaScript and the MooTools library. The filter uses ajax to update the list of hosts without reloading the page making it quick and simple to compare and contrast hosts.

Job Done

WhoIsHostingThis.com is probably the largest site we regularly work on and Quality Nonsense is a great client. We’re happy with the work we’ve done and it has been well received by testers and reviewers.

Legends of Suzuki iPhone Apps

We recently had the privilege of working with Suzuki UK developing two iPhone applications to complement their Legends of Suzuki exhibition at the Manx Museum. Suzuki have a long and illustrious history at the Isle of Man TT and 2010 is their 50 year anniversary and they wanted to provide an interactive element to their exhibition.

The Legends of Suzuki exhibition at the museum comprises all sorts of Suzuki memorabilia, from the bike Mike Hailwood rode in his final TT victory in 1979 , to leathers, helmets and bikes from many other TT champions stretching back to the 1963 50cc winner Mitsuo Ito. If you’re on the Island and are a TT fan, you should certainly check it out!

Working with Manx National Heritage, who provided the content, we built an audio guide app which provides commentary and information for some of the exhibits and a “Gallery Tour” app which includes photos, information and video of covering significant events in Suzuki’s history at the Isle of Man TT.

The gallery app has rare and early photos of the first Suzuki team in 1960 as well video clips of Mike Hailwood, the 1960’s riders, Mick Grant, and more recent stars such as Cameron Donald and Bruce Anstey.

Both free can be downloaded now from the App Store:

Legends of Suzuki Exhibition Archive Gallery

Legends of Suzuki Exhibition Audio Tour

We also built a simple web-based version of the audio tour app for iPhone and Android (2.0+) users which is virtually identical to the native iPhone app. Go to http://bit.ly/suzukiaudiotour on your iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch or Android phone to check it out!

We had great fun making the apps, we hope you find them useful.

Just Released: Ronaldsway Airport iPhone App

We’ve just released a simple iPhone app for Ronaldsway Airport here on the Isle of Man.

The application is free, simple, and quick, and shows arrival and departure information for flights to and from the Island helping you keep up to date while on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch.

If you live on the Island or are visiting, you can download it from the App Store here.