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 [...]
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 [...]
If you are interested in marine navigation, then you should check out Shipfinder. This tool, based on Google Maps, plots ship vessels around the world and provide good data on each ship. Plotted ships can be filtered into various ship types and color-coded for easy searching. With Shipfinder, you can view different ships as they [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
GPS (Global Positioning System) is an excellent device to navigate your way through any place. However, with so many advanced features and so many brands, it gets confusing for a newbie. GPS FAQ helps you by providing all sorts of information about your GPS device. You can use it to read and write reviews on [...]
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 [...]
MarineTraffic is a cool Google Map mashup that offers real time ship tracking. It shows live information about ship movements throughout the world. You can search by ship name or zoom into map to view sailing ships in a particular area. Vessel locations are shown on the map using colored markers with each color representing [...]