Trapster Version 4.0.2 adds Badges, Filter Alerts, and More
Last week Trapster released a new version for the iPhone, which includes some added features to keep you safe and alert on the road. New “Moderator Approved” badges will appear on verified traps, and the new “gears” tab on the right of your trapmap will quickly take you to the “Filter Alerts” page. Lets get a quick look at how these new features work. More…
Travis County Police Officially Using Trapster
Trapster has officially teamed up with the police! That’s right, the Travis County Sheriff’s Office, in Austin Texas, is now entering their own enforcement locations, as well as other information such as dangerous intersections, road closures, accidents, and traffic jams.
Trapster gets drivers to slow down and that is the whole point of conducting “speed traps” and writing tickets. Recently, Team Trapster flew to Austin to meet the entire department and gave them access to Trapster like never before. More…
Meet Trapster’s Trapologists
Posted by Sean in Trapster Life on February 11th, 2010
Trapster averages 6000 new traps reported every day. In order to make sure those traps are accurate, Trapster’s Trapologists are constantly monitoring the trapmap and evaluating each trap. We thought you would enjoy seeing their smiling faces, and getting to know them a bit. Well, we put them in the hot-seat and asked them some real tough questions. Introducing the trapologist team: More…
Trapster for Palm WebOS Version 0.9.43 Released
“Ohhh look it’s a red light camera, strike a pose baby” That is a quote from Mr. Flamboyant, just one of the fun new sound themes available in version 0.9.43 of Trapster for WebOS. We have also added French, German, and Spanish sound themes.
With 13 fun sound themes to choose from, you will chuckle from the alert of the upcoming red light camera. Choose from Arnold, Austin Powers, Homer, Sponge Bob, and more. Click below to hear some sample alerts: More…
Six Things I Bet You Don’t Know About Trapster
Every day I shuffle through Trapster support emails and new forum posts helping users with technical problem, listening to new ideas/suggestions, and answering questions. The questions range from extremely technical to very simple. And here lies the root of this blog post. I’ve found that there are many Trapster secrets. Are they really secrets? Well, no. But through the support emails and forum posts, I’ve found that we haven’t communicated with our users some of the basic in-n-out’s of Trapster. So here are a few tidbits of information about Trapster I bet you didn’t know…
1. Aged Traps
These traps are translucent in color and ONLY apply to Police Often Hide Here traps. A trap becomes “aged” after there has been no activity on the trap for three weeks. You will see four different translucent levels. The POHH trap becomes more translucent with each week.
These traps become active again if a user votes positive on the trap or a user reports the same trap in the same location. When the latter happens the aged trap automatically turns active and the new trap that was reported in the same spot counting the users vote as positive).
Translucent Steps to Becoming an Aged Trap:
A. Trap was last voted < 1 week ago
B. Trap was last voted >= 1 week ago but < 2 weeks ago
C. Trap was last voted >= 2 weeks ago but < 3 weeks ago
D. Trap was last voted < 3 weeks ago (aged trap)
Oldie But Goodie: “My Trips” Feature on Your iPhone
Heading out on the open road? Going to visit Granny for the weekend in another state? Or just taking off to a friends house 30 minutes away? Whatever the reason or destination, Trapster’s “My Trips” feature for the iPhone application can come in handy for road trips.
Exploring Trapster’s Caravan Feature
Last week Trapster 4.0 was released for the iPhone, bringing some great new features to the speedtrap app. One new feature that definitely adds to the “coolness factor” is Caravan(TM). Caravan lets Trapster users see friends and other Trapster users in real time on the map, and then easily send them messages, photos, and audio recording attachments. This is popular for road trips when Trapster users caravan together. To make it easy for you to get started using Caravan, lets explore exactly how to get up and running. More…
Trapster 4.0 for iPhone
Trapster’s 2009 Top 10 Milestones
Posted by Sean in Press, Stats, Trapster Life on December 31st, 2009
2009 was a fabulous year for Trapster. We grew by leaps and bounds and the best part is we’re not slowing down. From great news coverage to millions of more Trapster users around the world, lets take a look at the top 10 Trapster 2009 milestones. Drum-roll please! More…
Customizing Trapster 3.6 for BlackBerry
Posted by Sean in BlackBerry, How-to on December 18th, 2009
In order to get the most out of Trapster, you need to make it your own. You have a lot of options when it comes to customizing Trapster, from how the map is displayed, to the specific traps you are alerted of.
Maybe you want an audio alert every time you pass a “Police Often Hide Here” trap but for “Red Light Cameras” you just want a vibrate warning. Both these options and many others, can easily be done by adjusting Trapster’s settings. Here is a quick look at the different settings available for Trapster BlackBerry users. More…
