REVIEW: GPSed, the GPS tracking software for Facebook & MySpace and for tracking your family!

Equally GPS starts to go more of a standard feature in jail cell phones we are going to continue to see a lot of new and inventive means to use information technology. I take always been a big GPS fan. I accept been using a broad range of different GPS software applications on my jail cell telephone ever since I bought my first Bluetooth enabled WM phone along with a Bluetooth GPS unit 5 years ago. But now with GPS congenital into so many cell phones, GPS applications are even that much easier to use… and become a lot more affordable with a wider market to sell to.

How would y'all like to employ your GPS on your prison cell phone to track your trip across the land and accept information technology posted live on the GPSed website (either publically or privately in your ain personal GPSed account) or live on Twitter, Facebook, Blogger, or MySpace? Imagine going on a bicycle trip and you lot wanted to share your trip with your friends on your Facebook page along with GPS tagged photos along the way and Waypoints (GPS bookmarks) with your own personal summary of any point of interest.

Or do yous think information technology would exist cool to be able rail whatever jail cell phone in your family to encounter exactly where they are… or send an SMS message to anyone yous want with your exact location, fifty-fifty if they do not have a GPS enabled phone, so they can meet right up with you lot?

All of these promised features are what caught my eye with GPSed. Now I take taken it on the road, I take used it all around boondocks for both piece of work and family and I wanted to share what I institute. Take a peek inside to meet if GPSed really does deliver on all these sounds-to-good-to-be-truthful promises…

INSTALLATION AND SETUP

Sometimes setting up a GPS software application can exist a little tricky, merely that was not the case with GPSed . If yous have an internal GPS on your prison cell phone, you only install the programme on your phone and you lot are washed.

In gild to review your tracks of your trips or to monitor your phone, you will need to create a free account at GPSed.com. If y'all want to share any of your trips with Twitter, Facebook, Blogger, or MySpace pages, you will need to accept an business relationship prepare with them as well.

Information technology is important to note that there is a basic version and a pro version. The bones version is gratis while the pro is only $nine.95. The free version can do tracks, but here are the advantages of the pro version:

· "SOS" push for instant position alert messages over SMS to your family / friends, or co-workers

· Lifetime back up via e-mail.

· Live tracking with small intervals (up to iii seconds)

DAILY USAGE

Tracks

There are several ways to utilize GPSed . One of the main ways to tape "tracks" is bachelor only in the Pro version, Live Tracking. These are GPS position snapshots that will record your exact route of your trip. You set GPSed to record a GPS snapshot every 3 seconds to every threescore minutes. You tin can name your tracks, i.east. Newport Beach Trip, and requite a detailed description of it, i.e. name everyone who went on the trip with y'all.

Here is what it looks similar on your phone in GPSed while creating your track:

And here is what information technology looks similar on GPSed.com website:

While on your trip you tin can create Waypoints. If you are familiar with Geocaching, you already know all about these. This is basically a manual GPS location snapshot that you can add comments to. These are bully to record special points of involvement ranging from where y'all had tiffin, to where you saw your first bear in the wild, to the driblet off location of each customer on your delivery route for piece of work to share with your replacement.

In that location is also a free desktop application called GPSed Photo Take'n'Pin that will take the pictures that you took with your with GPS information included in it, and automatically adhere it to your runway in the right locations. This combined with the Waypoints can brand for a very detailed recounting of any trip, that is fun to share with family unit or informative to share with piece of work.

At that place is a wealth of options bachelor for viewing your tracks in detail. You lot can have your tracks posted live to GPSed.com and have them either individual, so only you tin view them, or public for the whole world to run into. GPSed uses Google Earth to view your tracks. To come across a good example of a public track of a trip to a zoo with detailed Waypoints of where each animal exhibit is, along with photos added via GPSed Photo Take'n'Pin, and then browse on over here…

If you accept your personal page on MySpace, Facebook, Blogger, or Twitter, you can also take GPSed update them live every bit you become along on your trip too.

Monitoring

The other main use for GPSed is monitoring where the cell phones are at whatsoever given time. This requires a subscription on a monthly basis for as depression as $4.95 a month to runway up to three devices. At the moment, you lot meet alive where they are at anytime forth with any private tracks.

Hither is the monitoring page for my Sprint Touch Pro. It fifty-fifty knew what room in my business firm I was in:

It is of import to annotation that they practise need to have GPSed running on their phone, which tin can be an result.

The monitoring service in the future volition likewise offer Geofencing and alerts. This will allow you to create zones on a map and follow automatically monitored mobile phones inside these zones and send you alerts when y'all go in and out of the fence.

SMS Alerts

You tin can as well ship an SMS message to any other jail cell telephone and GPSed will include a link to a Google map of your location so they tin know exactly where y'all are, fifty-fifty if their phone does not have GPS, though it will need internet access. Here is the screen to send your message…

And here is what they will see after they click on the link in your SMS message:

SUMMARY

At that place is little doubt that GPSed has lived upward to all of its promises, also as many other little surprises as well. It is extremely easy to use and very like shooting fish in a barrel to share with anyone through any number of free sources online (GPSed.com, Facebook, MySpace, etc.). The planned upgrades in the hereafter expect promising. For $9.95, you cannot become wrong with this. The only con I can discover is that if you are using the add-on monitoring service, the telephone will need to take GPS running.

I have found this to be a keen tool to help tape those family outings or vacations also as a helpful professional tool especially if you lot are on the road for your job.