There are several uses of a geo-aware smartphone – from Facebook check-ins, mapping, and local mobile shopping. Obviously, this same feature can also be used as a parenting tool. Footprints is a no-brainer iOS app that lets you track your friends and family wherever they are. Once added, you can quickly see a person’s whereabouts [...]
All of us have been in situations where we miss our bus or train stop because we fell asleep or were too engrossed in our music or book. TravAlert is an app that saves you from missing your stop by setting an alarm specific to your destination. Once you download the app for your iPhone, [...]
If you always misplace or lose your phone, you may already wonder how to get it back when you lose it again. Fortunately, Puntalo is a cool app that makes it easy for you to find your lost or stolen phone by tracking its whereabouts. In addition, Puntalo also lets you track your family or [...]
Even though your iPhone and Android phones may have a free GPS app, GPS is all they offer. Xtracked, on the other hand, is a professional GPS app that offers much more than just tracking your position. To start with, the software tracks all the trips you make during a given time and then lets [...]
Parents have always troubled themselves by constantly wondering where their kids are. ChildPulse is an iPhone app that takes this worry away by letting you keep track of your child and view their locations on a map anytime using another iPhone or on the web. ChildPulse also lets you set GeoFencing so if your child is ever [...]
Google Latitude is powerful geolocation software for smartphones. ZenTracker uses the power of Google Latitude to keep track of your geographical locations and send notification if the location match a pre-defined rule. This is how it works: once you have Google Latitude and ZenTracker installed on your phone, you can identify your regular locations such [...]
GoogleLocationHistory is a latest app for the GoogleLatitude that allows you to track your location history and view your past locations on Google Maps or Google Earth. It tells you about your most frequent locations, trips you have made and even alert you when you are at a new place and a friend is nearby. [...]
Every one of us has done this. We parked our car in a big parking lot or ramp and then completely forgot where it was. To save yourself from the pain of searching for your own car, here is a little tool called CarParkingPlace. Once you open this web app on your mobile phone’s browser, [...]
Waze is a user-driven mobile application (for iPhone, Android, Symbian, Windows Mobile, and other mobile systems) that provides turn-by-turn navigation suggestions based on the real-time conditions of the road. Using it you can avoid traffic jams, and at the same time help other drivers (by sharing your driving data). Once the app installed, it will [...]
Waze is a new app available for multiple devices but it’s aimed towards the android OS and the iPhone. Basically, it incorporates all the mapping functions of your standard GPS with a real-time community alert system. What that means is that if you’re cruising along a highway and there’s a traffic jam ahead, you’ll get [...]