New iPhone Apps Help Drivers Beat Speed Traps

Ponca City, We love you writes "Two mobile applications, NMobile and Trapster, are providing drivers with up-to-date maps of speed-enforcement zones with live police traps, speed cameras or red-light cameras. Each application pulls up a map pinpointing the locations of speed traps within driving distance and an audio alert will sound as vehicles approach an area tagged as harboring a speed trap. Both applications rely on the wisdom of the crowds for their data with users reporting camera-rigged stop lights and areas heavily populated with radar-toting police officers via the iPhone or their web-based application, creating the ultimate speed trap repository available to you when you need it most — while you're driving. To thwart false alarms and eliminate inaccuracies, Trapster enlists its community of nearly 200,000 members to rank speed traps on their accuracy. NMobile founder Shannon Atkinson declined to provide detailed data, though he did estimate that 'well over 1,000' users had downloaded the application since it became available last week. The company insists they've received only positive feedback from law enforcement officials and police officers regarding their products. 'If the application gets people to slow down, I think it's generally considered to be a good thing,' said Atkinson."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

published today, 57 minutes ago, apple-slashdot

New Opera designer looking for desktop UI feedback

Opera's new lead designer, Jon Hicks, is looking for comments from Mac, Windows, and Linux users (and everyone in between) about how the browser feels as a native app on their operating systems. If you have feedback, now's the time to give it.Read More...

published on Wednesday, the 19. November 2008, ars-technica

HP to launch MID-like digital photo frame?

HP is working on developing a digital photo frame that will be able of accessing the Internet, reading e-mail, accessing RSS feeds and other downloadable widgets and simple programs, according to a Monday report. While no detailed specifications are known at this time, the frame is believed to include an Intel Atom CPU, integrated Wi-Fi module, and a 10-inch display....

published on Tuesday, the 18. November 2008, macintosh-news-network

GroupWise 8 update adds dashboard and Web 2.0 apps

Novell has released GroupWise 8, an update to its productivity and collaboration software that adds a customizable dashboard and Web 2.0 workspaces. The new version's dashboard allows users to interact with e-mail, calendar, contacts and task lists in one location, and features Web 2.0 enabled team workspaces, blogs, RSS feeds and applications. All the features work through the dashboard, which al...

published on Monday, the 17. November 2008, macintosh-news-network

Samsung Eternity full-touch phone hits AT&T

AT&T today grew both its full-touchscreen phone lineup and its small roster of mobile TV phones by adding the Samsung Eternity. A close cousin of the Instinct, the phone carries a 3.2-inch touchscreen with haptic (vibration) feedback and an accelerometer that both auto-rotates the display and lets it play iPhone-like motion-sensitive games. A MediaFLO tuner is built-in to play live digital TV th...

published on Friday, the 14. November 2008, macintosh-news-network

Mark item as read directly from Reader Notifier

I use the well-known Google Reader Notifier to ... well ... to know when new feeds arrive in my Google account. What I discovered today is that I can Command-click to star an item and mark it as read without opening it. If you only press Command while the application menu is open, it will change the description of the feed with a message to that effect.

published on Wednesday, the 12. November 2008, macosxhints

Fans, Festivals, FileMaker: E-Commerce Gets a Little Help From Its Friends

When Mark Lapidos, president and originator of The Fest, decided 34 years ago to feed his passion for The Beatles with an annual Beatles Fans Celebration, the furthest things from his mind were computers and databases. Any thoughts about managing a repeat event and bringing The Fest to numerous cities around the country just did not hang around.

published on Wednesday, the 12. November 2008, macnewsworld

BoinxTV launches, produces live video podcasts

Boinx Software has launched BoinxTV 1.0, a live-production software solution for video podcasters. The software allows users to operate a TV studio from their Mac. BoinxTV can mix audio and video and record high-quality video from podcasts, sporting events, concerts and more, supporting up to three camera feeds. The interface allows a single user to choose templates and produce a live broadcast, w...

published on Tuesday, the 11. November 2008, macintosh-news-network

Lorex introduces Easy Connect Network IP Camera

Lorex Technology has introduced the LNE3003, a network IP surveillance camera that can be accessed from any Internet connection, including 3G mobile devices such as the iPhone or iPod touch. The camera transmits a 640 by 480 (VGA) resolution feed at 30 frames per second, compressed to MPEG4 format for viewing the stream from mobile devices. The camera can be plugged directly into a router, or conn...

published on Friday, the 7. November 2008, macintosh-news-network

AT&T chief lays out futuristic vision for the iPhone

Before a future version of Apple's iPhone wakes you up in the morning, it will have downloaded the morning's news feeds and sent a message to your coffee maker to begin brewing a fresh pot, says AT&T Mobile chief Ralph de la Vega.

published on Friday, the 7. November 2008, appleinsider