UBI Portal Applications
News
65 Degrees North
65 Degrees North provides news about Oulu in English.
Kaleva
The page produced by the newspaper Kaleva tells about the topical news and events of Oulu in Finnish.
City
City of Oulu
The City of Oulu -page provides current information about the city.
Map
Google Maps based service directory which shows selected services placed on a map. The application also has a route guide, which gives instructions how to get from the UBI-hotspot to a user-provided destination.
Fast Food in Oulu
The Fast Food in Oulu -service provides information about fast food restaurants in Oulu. By using a simple map-based interface the user can search for restaurants by category, location or opening times.
Public Transport
This application provides information about public transportation in and out of Oulu. Included are bus schedules, next arriving and departing trains and planes and Potnapekka's schedules.
Calendar
Located behind the button on the bottom right corner of the screen, the calendar provides information about upcoming events in Oulu. You can also add your own event to the calendar from here (in Finnish).
Multimedia
There are two photo and two video archives: general photos and videos related to Oulu and the photos and videos uploaded into the service by the citizens of Ubiquitous Oulu.
Photos and videos can be uploaded from a mobile phone into the UBI Gallery with a Bluetooth connection. The service first transfers the images and videos to Flickr or YouTube from which they then transfer into the UBI Displays. After that, all the users of the displays can watch them.
Picture and video uploading instructions:
- Select the picture or video you want to upload from your phone
- Send the picture or video via Bluetooth to an access point named "blueinfo"
- Your picture or video will be added momentarily-
Photos
The photo archive is Flickr, in which the images related to Oulu can be flicked through with the help of Tag Galaxy.
Videos
The archive of the videos uploaded by the users is YouTube.
StreetGallery
StreetGallery is a virtual gallery for new media artists, in which the exhibition changes monthly.
Fun & Games
UBI Mosquitos
In UBI Mosquitos your objective is to swat as many mosquitos and flies as you can. Registered users get their high scores on the High Score -board!
UBI Postcard
With the Postcard application you can take a picture of yourself with the UBI Display’s camera and send it to your friend by email.
Hangman
You can play the traditional game Hangman either in English or in Finnish with this application. The words come from several different topics you can choose from.
UBI Fridge
The UBI Fridge is a virtual refrigerator door with different word magnets. You can attach new words onto the door and create, for example, a poem, which you can send to your friend by email.
Commercial pages
The University of Oulu sells rights to provide web-based services in the UBI Portal. The funds received from the sales are used to cover the maintenance costs of the UBI Hotspots.
Blood Service
The page provided by the Blood Service of the Finnish Red Cross offers information about the current blood reserve situation and shows the nearest donor center on a map.
Help
The guide page includes instructions on how to use the mobile applications.