LocateMe Winners Found!

[Jon Westfall]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.appliedpda.com' target='_blank'>http://www.appliedpda.com</a><br /><br /></div><p><img src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/ppct/auto/1232557912.usr7.jpg" style="border: 0px solid #d2d2bb;" /></p><p>The winners of the LocateMe contest this past week have been chosen, so in no particular order, here they are!</p><p>Congratulations to <em>hotdram, fxcoupeman83, rookcnu, j2inet, </em>and <em>looneytoone!</em></p><p>If you're a winner, look for an e-mail from the publisher to soon be with you regarding your prize. If you didn't win this time, stay tuned - we're always looking to do more contests to bring Thoughts Readers the most stylish, stupendous, and sweet swag!</p>

[hotdram]

Very cool :) I am a GPS junkie and can't wait to play with this.
Thank you to Thoughts Media and AppliedPDA.

~Rob

[Sedwo]

You're very welcome!

Thank you for participating. I hope you enjoy using LocateMe. :)

Cheers,

Sebastian

[j2inet]

I almost didn't see my copy arrive in my e-mail on friday (I get too many messages). I've installed it and so far it works great!

[hotdram]

Awesome app :)
Intuitive to use and easy to install. Very few options to diddle with (not even GPS settings :) )
Automatically found my internal GPS pretty quickly.
You can email or SMS your position to anybody. Nice touch on having default email address to send to and default phone number to SMS to. When sent via email, the recipient gets a link to google maps, all they have to do is click the link. I was glad to see this, because most time I will be sending my location to my wife and we are on opposite ends of the technology spectrum :)
2 clicks sends your email or sms on its way (1 click to select email or sms and 1 click to send). Doesn't get much easier.
One thing that I can't get working is the notes part. I select "note" then select "save", but I never see the note show up in my notes (I checked "All Folders" and "GeoNotes" in the WM Notes app, but did nothing was there).

Will definitely be checking out their other apps :)

~Rob

[rookcnu]

Thanks for the free software. I have not downloaded it yet as I just performed a hard reset on Monday and will get to it by the weekend.

I do have a question, though. Does anyone know the difference between this software and the recently released (and free) Google Latitude?

Thanks again for selecting me as a winner!!!

[hotdram]

With this software you send your location via email or sms. The recipient does not have to be running google maps, which is nice in case you want to inform someone who has a phone that can't run gmaps, but can connect to the internet.
In our case it is good because my wife has a Motorola RAZR II on AT&T. We tried when she first got it to run google maps, but if I remember correctly, on her non-smartphone, it was a java app and AT&T makes it very hard to run java apps on that phone (you kept getting asked for permission to let the phone access the network everytime it wanted to, there was no option to select "always connect to network without asking").

~Rob