A conversation with Seattle
Car2go rolled out an updated app today that includes a new “radar” feature that alerts you when a car2go is available in a specific area. Turn the radar “on” by pressing the little radar button in the bottom righthand corner of your screen, and it automatically uses your current position. Continue reading With New “Radar” Feature, Car2go Now Finds You
Busdrone is the handiwork of Andrew Filer, drawing on a number of existing data sources. More recently, as part of the National Day of Civic Hacking, while Filer made more improvements to the desktop version, Eric Butler ported Busdrone to Android. (Android is here; no iOS yet.) Continue reading All-in-One Seattle Transit-Tracker Busdrone Now on Android
Search on “vaccination” in the iTunes app store, and you’ll see a wealth of results, from the American College of Physicians Immunization Advisor (aimed at medical professionals) to all-in-one milestone-guide apps like Baby Sense and Tot Tracker, which include vaccination suggestions. (There are also apps that sort out travel vaccinations for you.) Continue reading Smartphone Apps Track Vaccination Shots for Tots
In the Uber 2.0 update, the first thing you notice is the clean design and incredibly responsive map animation, which now includes the real-time location of all Ubers in your vicinity — including which direction they’re headed — making it look like you’re playing a game of Battleship. Continue reading A Tale of Two Apps: Uber 2.0 & Zipcar
For those of you who didn’t already know, Macy’s has a small window to shop their Black Friday specials. For the brave, Macy’s opens its doors at 12 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 23 (the midnight of Thanksgiving night) and deals end that same day at 1 p.m. Yes–that’s 11 hours to shop your little heart out. Continue reading Forget Sleeping, It’s Gonna Be Black Midnight at Macy’s
WhitePages does have an iPhone app that lets you do some of the things, manually, that Current does automatically. But it’s on Android that the app is fully integrated, so that it supplements the native Android call screen with relevant information. The result has been called “the future of smartphone calling” (VentureBeat), ” the ultimate app for chit-chat” (GeekWire), and “caller ID for the mobile and social era” (Fast Company). Continue reading WhitePages Makes a Social Splash with Android Caller ID
WhichBus approaches the Seattle bus dilemma from a different direction than OBA, which assumes that you know where you are and where you’re going. (You can search out these particulars using OBA, but it’s not as easy as it could be.) WhichBus uses King County Metro’s real-time data to help you solve how to get from A to B. Continue reading New Trip-Planning App WhichBus Reaches Private Beta