Pinned picks up where the iPhone’s Maps left off. You get a Google Maps-based app with numerous additions and features! Pinned lets you personalize your world by improving the way you bookmark and view locations. Create your own categories and begin building a respectable collection of pins. One of the coolest features of Pinned is the ability to map all your pins at the same time. Now, when out on the town, you can view all your surrounding pins and know where to go. |
In addition to the typical map app features, you can… |
… map all your bookmarked pins at the same time. |
| … list your bookmarks and their distances from your geolocation (in yards). |
| … create your own categories or choose from defaults. |
| … call or launch a website directly from the map. |
| … find your geolocation on launch. |
| … view your search result pins on a separate map to prevent cluttering your pins. |
This goes well with the clip by @egoldstein that was previously posted. Another app. that will be released for Military purposes. At a conference in Arizona on Wednesday, US defence company Raytheon announced its plans to launch a new range of military-oriented programs that can turn the popular touchscreen mobile phone into a tool for use in war zones such as Iraq and Afghanistan. |
The first application in its plans, called One Force Tracker, uses satellite positioning and mobile networks to give soldiers constantly updating field maps that track the position of friendly troops and enemy fighters in real time. |
The program – dubbed a “situational awareness application” by Raytheon executives – would combine data from many sources to try and give an accurate picture of hotspots such as sniper hideouts and vantage points. Troops could also use their iPhones for secure communication, said the company. |
One Force Tracker is not only for the battlefield, though. Raytheon told the Intelligence Warfighting Summit that the software could also be used – with some tweaks - by emergency workers such as doctors and firefighters responding to major incidents. Read more at www.guardian.co.uk |
Ford Motor Co. is working to offer drivers a way to upgrade the electronics in their vehicles, much the same way they can add applications to their iPhones and BlackBerrys. |
The car maker hopes to persuade software developers to tap the Internet service, GPS location-finding capability and digital-music setup already found in its Sync entertainment-and-communications system, which it developed with Microsoft Corp. |
Such applications, or “apps,” might do such things as give directions to every espresso shop along a highway open after 9 p.m., or allow friends to follow one another to a location through a GPS process called “breadcrumbing.” Read more at online.wsj.com |
| “going green,” or at least trying to be more conscious of one’s impact on the Earth’s natural resources, is still a personal goal for many. |
In that spirit, and in light of the United Nations Climate Change Conference going on this week in Copenhagen, Denmark, here’s a look at three smartphone apps that claim to help you be more gentle to Mother Earth. |
GetGreen (iPhone, $0.99) — A project of the Environmental Defense Fund, this app offers a daily “green” tip in an effort to “provide you with daily ammunition in our common battle against climate change.” Skeptics will ask, “What common battle?” but others may appreciate the advice, which is easy to follow. |
A Real Tree (iPhone, $0.99) — Buy an app, plant a tree. That’s the basic idea behind this venture, which promises to plant a real tree — thus the name — in one of 12 countries fighting deforestation. |
The organization, a partner with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), says it has planted almost 1,500 trees in Honduras, India, Ethiopia and nine other countries. |
Find Green (iPhone, free) — Looking for environmentally friendly businesses in your area? This app mines the database of GenGreenLife.com, which says it is the largest green directory in North America, then uses your phone’s GPS feature to list environmentally conscious merchants near you. Read more at www.cnn.com |
Loopt, the makers of a popular mobile social networking application by the same name, is introducing a new iPhone application today called Loopt Mix. Where their original app focuses on connecting you with your friends while you’re out-and-about, Loopt Mix is more about introducing you to “the people you wish you knew.” In other words, “people” like that attractive person giving you eyes from the other end of the bar. |
The new application is actually a spinoff of Loopt’s “Mix” feature which lets you browse the Loopt profiles of those around you within its original mobile social networking application. Now Mix is its very own app - a change that could attract a whole new user base looking to do a little more than just basic “networking.” |
| Loopt Mix lets you tap into the iPhone’s location-based features to see what other Loopt Mix members are nearby. You can browse their profiles, view and post photos and status messages, and start chat sessions - all of which are par for the course in mobile dating apps these days. In fact, there’s nothing all that revolutionary about Mix’s feature set except for perhaps its ability to send you real-time push notifications Read more at www.nytimes.com |
SuperGlued just launched a free iPhone app (iTunes link) with all the CMJ music show listings (and more) that lets you see Tweets about each show, Tweet out your own messages, and share pictures you take via the app.
The launch is timed for CMJ, but it works anywhere. The app pulls in show listings from Last.fm, Livenation, local show listings, and those added by members. The app lets you indicate that you are going to a particular show. |
| It also lets you gawk at other people at shows, by snapping pictures and sharing them through the app, or checking out Tweets about that show. It acts as a Twitter client as well, letting you Tweet to your friends whether or not a show is worth coming out to, or just to show your appreciation for a particularly rocking song. (The rock-show Tweet is the digital equivalent of holding up a lighter, I guess). Each Tweet is accompanied with a short link to that show’s listing page on SuperGlued (like this one) , which also shows who else is going. |
Concert Vault, which gives you access to these amazing shows directly from your iPhone or
iPod Touch.
The update adds a couple minor features, including a list of featured concerts–helpful for keeping track of shows that have been recently added to the vault–and fixes some reported problems with stuttering and stalling.
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The app is free of charge and offers tools such as cropping, image rotation, color controls, and simple one-touch filter effects that can change the look and feel of shots all at once. It also features undo and redo controls so that if users make a mistake, or want to revert back to the original, it takes just a few taps. |
Cambridge, Mass.-based car-sharing service Zipcar this week launched an app that lets you locate and reserve one of its vehicles, unlock it using the iPhone’s touch-screen and drive it off the lot. |
“The iPhone is a pipeline for almost one-third of our members,” says Luke Schneider, Zipcar’s chief technology officer. “This is something they have been asking for.” |
While there are many iPhone apps for autos, most are focused on directions, traffic, roadside assistance and games. Zipcar’s app is the first to control the operation of a car, which is why David Cole, chairman of the Ann Arbor, Mich.- based Center for Auto Research, calls it a “breakthrough.” Read more at www.usatoday.com |
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