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Hi all mobile lovers,
i have developed an application to share your location information with your friends and employees. I know that there is Google latitude and others, but hopefully this products is different and focusses also on the bussiness side / implementation of these technologies.
Some features:
- Send TraQ Code to your contacts, so they can follow you 'live' for an hour online.
- Map View shows your friends live on the map including speed information,
when GPS is used. I mean really live and animating and all
- When TraQCode Contact is also destination, the route is calculated and drawn on map, including live destination distance and ETA !!
You can watch a demo video on http://www.vimeo.com/paltraq for how TraQPro works and looks like...
I need some beta testers who want to test the functionality of this product.
so where to ask then @ xda developers . Currently it only works with VGA/WVGA devices!
People who want to download and Beta test, please register at:
http://forum.traqpro.com
* Please post all bugs and feature request at forum.traqpro.com *
and i'll send you a private message with your account information.
Thank you and special thanx to those who want to participate to make it a better product.
Cheers,
MrQ.
Was looking for something like this! Allready started to develope my own! But yours is better
SO: Please send me the Beta Version, I allready registered in your forum!
How fast is the update rate for the GPS position? Can you let people decide for themselve how often it is updated? Because some people want to conserve battery, but on the other hand it is not as precise...
(Less battery consumption <-- vs. --> More precise position)
I think I can even help you to develope... or to translate (to Russian or German...)
Hi Koffein Schluck,
good to hear that you like it Check your private messages in the TraQ forum for your BETA account details.
The update rate is 1,5 seconds in the mapview, to get the live tracking experience of your friends or employees. When you are in the main menu the update rate is 15 seconds on MPS location updates and when GPS is on and fix it's 1,5 seconds
I already have the option for the user to determine the update rates on MPS, to spare you the battery power. Further more there is also a second application which runs on scheduled times to report your position to the servers and sleep again, pulling as almost nothing from your battery live !!
Must do some more testing with it to release it, but stay tuned.
Also de website wil be in Silverlight technology to view your Trips and some other info.
Busy as hell, more to be released soon..
Stay tuned
Btw, check out the TraQCode feature, it's really coOl. Select a contact and send him a code with email or sms or both so he can track you live online.
Next,
If you say the person whom you are sending your traQcode is also your destination, you see the complete route on the mapview including destination distance and ETA information!!
Also check out the resource folder after installation if you want to customize the graphics.
The languages folder contains text files with all languages available. If you translate the english
one to german and to russian we have to more languages available in the app!!
Btw, please post your findings on TraQPro forum..
Hi,
I just heard the news that not all version of HTC connect (the social update thing) support Plurk.
I had been looking around in Australia stores and I don't think they have listed it to be supported but I suspect that maybe because plurk isn't so popular over here.
If it isn't supported, is there any way to add it? I heard there are some 3rd party programs but I don't really want to install another program just for plurk
Anyway,
Thanks for reading and hope I can get some answers
I'll reply.
What's plurk?
it is similar to twitter.
much simpler style, pretty good social network
Hi Guyz,
Perhaps you all know Next2Me for the Windows Mobile 6.x OS. This app was quite successfull (one of the 10 most downloaded apps in the Marketplace) and also here at XDA-Developers, quite many people liked my tiny app. If you don't know it, here is the link to the corresponding thread: http://xda-developers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=619329
So, why am I writing here? Because I am going to port Next2Me to Windows Phone 7. And I want YOU to participate on that ! I don't want you to code for me, but you have the great chance now, to submit your feature requests here, to get the software you always wanted to have !
The port of Next2Me is quite envolved by now, and it is already working, so I would be able to send the current state of the software to the Marketplace. But I just want to let you send your feature requests, to get Next2Me even better as it was and now is.
Current feature list of Next2Me
o Location based business search using Google Local Search
o Show a map overview with all found businesses
o Show detailed information (address, phone numbers, etc.)
o Let you add the infos to the contact list, forward the contact by E-Mail or SMS or call the found phone number right from Next2Me
o Show your position and the target contact on a map and the route to the target
o Give you a directions to guide you to the target
So, as you can see, the software is quite envolved by now.
What features will also be implemented:
o Support different local search providers (Wikipedia, Bing, Yahoo?, Yelp?)
o Support free text search for local search
If you are still missing any features, THIS is your chance! Post your feature wish here, let's discuss about it and perhaps it will be implemented !
[UPDATE 10-19-2011]
Next2Me v1.0 has been released in the Marketplace. You can find it here.
Next2Me will be devided into a free and payed version. The free version will show a small ad at the top of the main window. The payed version won't show this. Also the payed version will received new features before the free one and some features will be in the payed version only. But the core element of Next2Me, the local search, will stay free.
But, If you'll buy Next2Me (I am planning to sell it for 99Cent), you will not just get rid of the ad and get some unique features, you will also support me and my dev projects .
Feel free to post any question or suggestions regarding Next2Me here !
C YA - Nekro
i got a little idea. It would be cool if you could set it up so that everyday at a certain time it would set its self automaticlly to go somewhere. So if you leave for work at 7 everyday it would set its self for that location. Also would be cool to able to send your location to other people
I like the idea with sending your current location to other people. I think I will implement this feature ..
But: what do you mean with the other feature, setting your position at a specific time? Why should I do that? Every WP7 device has a built in GPS sensor, so I do have the current location at any time..
This sounds good, Bing does not provide Local search for my country so I need something else to give me access to Google's excellent business listings.
Will this be free / paid / trial-ware?
Next2Me WP7 release
Sorry guys for this long delay..
Finally, I released Next2Me for Windows Phone 7. You can get for free from the Marketplace.
The next version is already in work, with several more features.
Next2Me will be devided into a free and payed version. The free version will show a small ad at the top of the main window. The payed version won't show this. Also the payed version will received new features before the free one and some features will be in the payed version only. But the core element of Next2Me, the local search, will stay free.
But, If you'll buy Next2Me (I am planning to sell it for 99Cent), you will not just get rid of the ad and get some unique features, you will also support me and my dev projects .
If you have any questions or suggestions, don't hesitate to post them here !
Have fun and a nice day!
C YA
suggestions
If you could make the voice an option for input and integrate with latitude (google) it worked on my 6.5 unit with my fiances iphone was really handy especially with her getting lost
buffalosolja42 said:
If you could make the voice an option for input and integrate with latitude (google) it worked on my 6.5 unit with my fiances iphone was really handy especially with her getting lost
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I just had a look on the voice recognition, but I think I must disappoint you. There isn't an API for that at the moment and I don't want to rebuild a voice recognition myself. There are several solutions using web services, but this solution would be slow and doesn't work very well. Microsoft is already working on an own Siri called TellMe! I already registered myself for that API and as soon this is available on WP7 I'll implement this feature in Next2Me .
C YA - Nekro
I used Next2Me on WM6.5 great app, going to give this a try
Hi there, I need a simple app for a website but I need to know if is too expensive or not.
The app need to display the news feed of a website, organized for categories.
The users must have the opportunity to select which categories to follow
Automatic notification for new post published on the website.
Possibility to set up interval between notification and the notifcation sound
I found this app on GitHub and I think is really perfect for an example. But it give to users the possibility to select which website to follow, and I don't know how to edit the app to set it up for just a website
Hope someone can help me. Sorry for my bad English
You can try Feedly app which is best for creating a personalized news feed. It has very economical in price and available on every platform (Web, iOS and Android).
Price
It's not expensive. You need to know some php/mysql and you can make it
ciao, come va?
If you still are interesting on it, I just developed something like that you search for.
It's a catholic app that show news and other things, with private firebase push notifications server.... ah... the blog code is mine too.
The app is free and in spanish language but you can look in the playstore ans search for "Miglesia" of mRobot, in order to have an idea.
Tell me about your budget in pvt. my email is maxlinux2000 @ gmail.com
(P.S. you can write in italian if you pref.)
I'm over the artificial intelligence of the news feed in Google Assistant or search. It gives me the same five stories from three different sources and I go to delete some of the sources to never show again and poof they reappear.
Are there any awesome alternatives for general news that are neutral between Fox News or HuffPost?
I have noticed the occasional duplicate in my reading through the news feed, but my interests are varied enough that it doesn't happen to an annoying degree. With the AI, the more information you give it about your interests and your hobbies, the more it has to work with. For example, in my case Google knows my favorite teams and always throws up the scorecards. It knows I like geek things like role playing and science-fiction. It knows I'm into technology. All of this information I gave it - of my own free will - because I simply do not care what Google chooses to do with it.
To actually answer your question, if you want a balanced alternative for general news, you want to look outside the country. I personally get my news from Canada, via the CBC website. Unfortunately, that doesn't show up on the feed.
Scottay5150 said:
I'm over the artificial intelligence of the news feed in Google Assistant or search. It gives me the same five stories from three different sources and I go to delete some of the sources to never show again and poof they reappear. Are there any awesome alternatives for general news that are neutral between Fox News or HuffPost?
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I have also come to the conclusion that it is not possible to "train" the Google News feed. No matter how many hundreds of inputs you provide, there is a never ending stream of the same articles or like-minded sources. Try using Feedly. I use it on my PC, tablet and phone. You have a lot more control by choosing only the feeds you want to see and there are tons of choices. There is an initial time investment to browse through all the feeds and get things set up, (you have to opt in to everything you want to see) but then maintenance is effortless. I found it easier to do the initial setup on PC, and then use the app on my phone to view. I've got enough feeds where I usually cannot get to everything. Feedly is one of the better newsreaders out there and I have always been happy with the free version.