Have you been in this situation where it is late night or rather the wee hours of the next morning? Your teenage daughter is out partying, and you are trying to reach her over phone for the last hour. The phone just rings and she does not answer it. You sit facing the door, your ears strained for the slightest sound of any distant rumbling of a car’s engine, but you hear none. You try her phone again just hoping that she is safe and will pick her phone, or more relieving, enter home in a few minutes.

Finally, she does enter home, but when asked why she did not pick the phone, she reluctantly answers, “I was at a party. How could I ever hear the ring with that music blowing so loud?” Has this happened to you? At situations like this, we all are forced to ponder, what use a mobile phone is if you cannot reach your daughter at times when you are really worried about her. However, wait awhile! If your daughter has a GPS enabled phone or a BlackBerry device, then we have this latest app in the market that helps you to locate her and ensure that she is safe! It is called Simpletrax.

Now suppose out of forgetfulness, you have misplaced your phone. How would you like to locate it? Look, all around your house; search in every nook and corner while it sits hidden in just the place you could not think of! Would you love to look it up on maps on your system!

WHAT IT DOES?
With SimpleTrax, your BlackBerry or other GPS enabled devices send their location to Simpletrax website during every 3-minute interval. So, you can easily locate your device by seeing its last location.

UTILITY
Apart from locating a misplaced phone, or your teenager, Simpletrax also helps you find your lost or stolen phone (Imagine if you cherished BlackBerry ever got stolen; you could track it so easily). It does not use up and drain the phone’s battery. You can easily track as many devices from one webpage.

Minimum Requirements for Simpletrax
For using Simpletrax, you just need GPS enabled phones. You have to register and install the software. With just one account, you can track numerous devices at the same time.

COST
A 30-day trial of Simpletrax is free! After that the pricing is according to the number of phones associated with your account. It is $2.99/month for two phones, $4.99/month for six phones and $19.99/month for tracking up to 24 phones.

Website: Simpletrax download
Also see: Free Live Tracker

In today’s world we always need to know where we are and where we are going in life. How better to keep this aspect of our life under control than with a hand held map to our complete surroundings. With the advent of the BlackBerry phone and also other 3G models, it has become possible to get hand help Global Positioning Systems installed into our mobile phones and thus we can now have the ability to navigate ourselves to our goals through this tool.

Since it is available free of cost from the internet, this particular application of the BlackBerry is extremely useful and is catching on like wild fire due to its utility and usefulness. There are many software that offer the GPS ability for the blackberry device and most of these are free open source software.

TopoExplorer is a recently released program that revolutionizes the way we use GPS. Let us look at the common methods of obtaining GPS on a blackberry. One way is the usual internet accessed method, but this takes up a lot space and is usually very slow, and since it depends on the internet connectivity of an area, it cannot be used in rural or remote places that do not provide wireless internet access. Another common method is to update the blackberry via its Bluetooth. There are separate Bluetooth based GPS receivers that can be used to obtain information about the surroundings of the person using the software.

A more effective approach is to use a handset or model that already possesses an in built Global Positioning Receiver. But TopoExplorer takes this one step further by eliminating the need for any connectivity whatsoever, by storing information about the terrain and all the different maps of a region in the memory card of the handset itself. This application is compatible with almost all blackberry models that are installed with OS 4.5 or higher versions.

This is an extremely useful user friendly tool that has actually been released only on a BETA testing version with its full and completely functioning version scheduled to release in a few months. The special feature about this software is that it can store information about the place that one is in or even somewhere that one is headed to that does not have an internet connection available on the handset itself and then access that information to display the map. Hence this way, the software can be used even in remote places and also when there are no internet connections available. Already almost half the world, with all the major places have been mapped for the software and the map packages can be easily downloaded from the internet in a simple way.

TopoExplorer Download Website: http://software.crackberry.com/product.asp?id=27021&n=TopoExplorer-for-BlackBerry