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BuddyWay : Free GPS Cell Phone Tracking Software
Buddy is a free GPS track maker for mobile devices that allows you to track any mobile phone or PDA with built-in GPS (or with Bluetooth GPS receiver) in real time. Once you have registered and installed the BuddyWay application on your device, you will be able to track and save your trips, share your trips with friends in real-time, import and visualize your routes on Google Earth, get trip stats (length, duration, altitude etc.), set location-based notification alerts and more.
[via MakeUseOf]
Ed. One for the sponsors out there. Buy your girl a new phone with Buddy preloaded and you will soon find out if she's been to Isaan or Insomnia. Love the bit about trip stats (length, duration, altitude). She got 10" for 20mins on the 4th Floor of the Lek Hotel. Now that's clever, very, very, clever!!!! Just remember to switch it off when she's with you!!!!
- Select a country for your proxy
Finally a innovative proxy website. Web Proxies are all alike, mostly. They use the same four of five proxy scripts that are available, may have a different design and tend to disappear after 1-12 months. Worldproxy added an interesting new feature to it's proxy: Country selection. Many multimedia services, like streaming Internet radio or video, are limited to users of a specific country by the service provider and proxies are one of the ways to beat the protection to be able to view the contents of the website from a country that is normally not allowed to view them.
Worldproxy (via Technospot) makes use of that by offering its visitors a country based proxy map. Currently only three countries are available: United States, Canada and Great Britain. The United States proxy is currently not working, the other two are working fine and it is probably just a glitch that the US proxy is not working right now.
Proxy selection by country is unfortunately the only new aspect of that proxy website. It does come with a toolbar that can be used to quickly switch between different country proxies but I normally do not install toolbars because they tend to take away screen space.
Users can suggest new countries which means that it is likely that other countries will be added to the map in future updates. The proxy obviously can be used for different things as well. It is for instance possible to check ads that are running on your website when a visitor of a certain country visits it. [via ghacks]
Ed. Great if you want to watch UK/US TV broadcasts
- Bulk renamers for MAC and Windows
I enjoy taking digital pictures, but the part that I don't like is copying them over to the computer. The file names are always such a mess, and are typically along the lines of DSC000022.JPG which doesn't help at all when trying to identify a photo. One of the first things that I do after transferring the photos over to the computer is rename them in bulk. After all, when you get back from a vacation you don't want to rename hundreds of photos one at a time.
There are all kinds of different ways that you can do this on both a Windows or Mac computer. Both operating systems have ways to batch rename files, such as the F2 key in Windows or Automator on a Mac, but there are free apps out there that can make the task as simple as pointing and clicking.
One thing I noticed when searching around for file renaming tools on a Mac was that there weren't an abundance of free solutions available. The paid versions greatly overshadowed any of the free apps, and that is disappointing considering how nice some of the free ones actually are.
- ReNamer (Windows only)
This is definitely my favourite renaming utility on Windows. I'm not quite sure why that's the case considering the variety of free bulk renaming tools, but it has a sense of simplicity that I haven't found in any other app. Maybe the fact that you can download a no-install version is what appeals the most to me, because I'm able to keep it on my USB drive for quick use.
Just don't let the interface deceive you! On the outside it may look overly simple, but it has a wide variety of options for renaming files. If you really want to live on the edge you can use Regular Expressions or Pascal scripts to really customize how the files are renamed, but most users will probably never have to take it that far.
- Name Mangler (Mac only)
This tiny little app really takes the cake when it comes to bulk file renaming on a Mac. It has a slick and simple interface that shines well above any of the other file renaming programs that I've come across (even compared to those on Windows). The interface really threw me for a curve ball at first because I didn't think there were many ways you could rename files in bulk, but that wasn't the case at all.
Name Mangler supports Regular Expressions which is often a requirement for any renamer, but it even includes it's own Name Conversion Description Language (NCDL). That's a custom scripting language that any programmer will be able to pick up in seconds, and gives you the opportunity to create outrageously complex file renaming conditions if that's what you need.
To make things even easier Name Mangler lets you create Droplets, which saves your renaming rules to a file. Then you can drag and drop files onto a Droplet to have them renamed accordingly.
[via CyberNotes]
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