Geolocation Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Find My Friends: Fun, useful and secure

by Steven Sande (Oct 12th, 2011)

With the release of iOS 5 comes another fun and useful app: Find My Friends (free). The app allows you to share your location with friends, who can then use the app on their iOS devices to figure out exactly where you are. While this may seem like a cyber-stalker's dream, you need to invite ...

NearPics is a clever idea that could be a lot better

by Mel Martin (Sep 12th, 2011)

I'm always looking for free apps that blend well with my passion for photography. I've been playing with NearPics, a free app from UK developers The Mac Box. The idea is simple. Start the app on your iPhone and photos that have been taken near your location appear in a slide show. I tried ...

Does iPhone 4 Personal Hotspot add GPS to Wi-Fi only iPads?

by Steven Sande (Mar 18th, 2011)

There's a bit of a discussion floating around these days regarding the ability of the iPhone 4 Personal Hotspot to add GPS geolocation data to a Wi-Fi only iPad. This got started with an Urbanape post by blogger Zachary Bir in which he described being able to put his iPhone 4 in Personal Hotspot ...

Geocaching Version 4.0 features UI redesign and new functions

by Steven Sande (Jul 6th, 2010)

As a longtime fan of the pastime of geocaching, I've been following the evolution of the official Groundspeak Geocaching app (US$9.99) since the painful early days. With the release of Geocaching version 4.0 yesterday, it appears that Groundspeak has raised the bar with a new design and additional ...

Dear Aunt TUAW: Should I buy the 3G iPad?

by Erica Sadun (Feb 19th, 2010)

Dear Auntie T, I was hoping you could help me decide something since I think many people will be trying to figure out the same thing. Namely, is the 3G on the iPad worth it for my purposes? I live in NYC, which has lots of available Wi-Fi. I have a laptop and I also have a Sprint mobile broadband ...

Foto Brisko: leading you to the places where great photos are made

by Steven Sande (Jan 11th, 2010)

iPhone developer Bill Dudney is well-known for his classes and books on iPhone development. When he's not teaching others how to write iPhone apps, he's writing his own code for Gala Factory Software. When I met Bill at the 360iDev Conference in Denver last October, it was after a talk he had ...

Tweetie 2.1 for iPhone ships with lists, retweet and geolocation support

by Michael Rose (Nov 30th, 2009)

One of the top Twitter clients for iPhone has been refreshed: Tweetie 2.1 is now available in the App Store [iTunes link]. Our friend Christina previewed the new features in 2.1 for Mashable last week, and the updated version delivers with support for Twitter lists, the Retweet capability, spam ...

Your iPhone and iPhoto library are in sync with Simplify Photo

by Sang Tang (Aug 20th, 2009)

Like its music app on the iPhone, which allows you to use your iPhone to tap into your desktop's music collection, Simplify Media provides similar functionality with photos through its Simplify Photo [iTunes link] iPhone app. Many of us are forgetful in some form, and this trait is especially ...

No need for an app with Sig Alert's maps

by Sang Tang (Aug 16th, 2009)

As TUAW's own Steve Sande noted, one of the neat features of Safari on iPhone OS 3.0 is its ability to leverage the HTML 5 geolocation API. One of the more prominent web-based services to use geolocation is Google's Latitude, which allows one to see where their friends are located and what they're ...

Safari Browser 3.0 for iPhone is GPS-aware

by Steven Sande (Jun 1st, 2009)

One of the relatively unsung features of the upcoming iPhone 3.0 firmware is that the new version of Safari for iPhone will use geolocation. This means that the browser can request location information from the iPhone's GPS receiver, and can also provide that location information to websites that ...

HearPlanet for iPhone now lets you see

by Mel Martin (Apr 1st, 2009)

HearPlanet Premium [App Store link] is a new and enhanced version of the free iPhone app HearPlanet. The premium version is U.S. $5.99. HearPlanet Premium gets your location from GPS, or you can enter any location manually. It then provides quite a bit of text information, generally sourced from ...

Twinkle: location-aware Twittter client for iPhone

by Erica Sadun (Apr 22nd, 2008)

According to Installer, Twinkle from Gogo Apps is "Twitter plus Location." It's a Twitter client that adds photos and geolocation as well as clickable URLs and Follow / Stop Following control within the app. With it, you can find people twittering near you -- in fact it seems to be using my findme ...

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