{"id":19958,"date":"2010-05-25T15:07:46","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T14:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.razorianfly.com\/?p=19958"},"modified":"2010-05-25T15:12:22","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T14:12:22","slug":"gps-tracking-comes-to-ipad-this-week-with-locimobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/25\/gps-tracking-comes-to-ipad-this-week-with-locimobile\/","title":{"rendered":"GPS Tracking Comes to iPad This Week, With LOCiMobile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve ever needed to find someone and their current position on Earth, LOCiMobile might just be what you&#8217;re looking for. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>After launching the iPhone version of their GPS tracking software in December 2009, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gtxcorp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">GTX Corp<\/a> has today announced the software will this week be available for the Apple iPad.<\/p>\n<p>Currently sitting at #2 on iTunes highest ranked Social Networking category, and with over 400,000 downloads in 82 countries worldwide, the app which is specifically designed to locate someones location using the devices&#8217; built-in GPS, works by allowing a push notification to be sent to the person you are trying to find. Once they accept the notification LOCiMobile then displays their exact location on a map, providing your recipient has location services switched on under <strong>Settings<\/strong> > <strong>General<\/strong> > <strong>Location Services<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Targeted mainly at parents looking to keep an eye on their children, the app provides a quick and effective way to find the people you&#8217;re looking for.<\/p>\n<p>See the press release below presented by Nicole Ellis:<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"540\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/f1NqkMKnAFY&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/f1NqkMKnAFY&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"540\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The iPad specific version of the app will allow users to get turn by turn directions to the location or whereabouts of the recipient, using the iPad&#8217;s built in Google Maps app. <\/p>\n<p>While not yet available on the store, the company states LOCiMobile should be available on the iPad App Store <em>&#8220;sometime this week&#8221;<\/em> for the price of $4.99.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve ever needed to find someone and their current position on Earth, GPS tracking might just be what you&#8217;re looking for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2028,2137],"tags":[3500,299,2885,380,2883,1448,2884],"class_list":["post-19958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-app-store","category-ipad","category-social-networking-app-store","tag-app-store","tag-gps","tag-gtx-corp","tag-location","tag-locimobile","tag-tracking","tag-whereabouts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19958"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19965,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19958\/revisions\/19965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}