January 18, 2012
For iPhoto users who have travel photos taken in different places throughout the country or world, iPhoto offers a pretty cool slideshow theme that is relatively easy to put together, depending on how well you have managed your iPhoto library. It even includes a great piece of stock background music if you don’t have anything better to use.
December 30, 2011
The increased connectivity that is afforded by mobile phones and tablets has a distinct dark side – many of the apps and games that we use can reveal our location, one way or another. This is done explicitly – think of the “check in” function on Facebook – or done in a more underhand manner, and if used unchecked can cause serious personal safety and privacy issues.
December 2, 2011
VoteSpot is the best way to ask a question at a specific location and get instant feedback in the form of poll results from your friends. It’s the only free iPhone location-based app where you can create polls–called Vote Spots–for others to vote on and share.
November 29, 2011
Do you ever witness interesting things happening whenever you go out? Better yet, are you one of those people who seeks out interesting things? If so, you probably cherish those moments with your friends, especially the ones who were there with you at the time. But how do you share a place with those of your friends that weren’t with you?
November 21, 2011
Two new iPhone apps have emerged to provide their own unique approach for rating and recommending stuff we like and don’t like. Unlike Yelp, the new Oink is set up for users to not only rate places but also the items inside those places. Kinetik, on the other hand, is a Twitter-supported app for recommending apps you like to your social network followers.
October 19, 2011
Almost a year ago, Apple introduced Find My iPhone, an iOS app that locates your iPhone, through an Apple me.com account. It allows you to either send a display message to your phone, a new passcode that will lock it down, or permanently wipe all of the data. With the introduction of iOS 5, Apple has created a similar app for finding your friends and family members called Find My Friends.
June 13, 2011
Geo-tagging is a wonderful thing, and has many valid uses. Exploring the world around you with pictures just happens to be one of them, thanks to an army of apps that make use of location-based photography.Trover is one that is available free for your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch, running iOS 4.0 or later.
May 11, 2011
One of the navigational apps that I’ve been avoiding for quite a while are compass apps – after all, once you unplug that phone from the outlet, GPS will drain the battery down pretty fast. However, I decided to search for a compass program that wouldn’t drain my battery in five minutes flat. I’m happy to report that I discovered a compass app called, quite simply, Compass.
March 18, 2011
If I had to name one thing that I love about the latest advancements in technology and the Internet, it’s the integration of GPS technology with web and mobile applications. Here at MUO, we’ve covered a number of cool mobile GPS apps, like my article about the geocaching adventure I went on with my kids, [...]
March 4, 2011
With the recent spike in smartphone usage and the emergence of the tablet PC, geolocation apps are starting to pick up steam rather quickly. I’ve personally seen stories in the news of companies teaming up with services like SCVNGR and Foursquare for some pretty cool campaigns, and I think we’re going to be seeing a [...]
