Posts Tagged iPhone
Travis County Police Officially Using Trapster
Posted by Sean P. Farrell in News, iPhone on February 26th, 2010
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. Read the rest of this entry »
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
Posted by Sean P. Farrell in How-to, iPhone on January 14th, 2010
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. Read the rest of this entry »
Trapster 4.0 for iPhone
Posted by Sean P. Farrell in iPhone on January 13th, 2010
Trapster 4.0 has been released! This is certainly our biggest update yet. For starters, you’ll notice a couple new icons on the right side of your trapmap. Read the rest of this entry »
The Trapster Blog Goes Mobile
Yesterday the Trapster team came across this handy little WordPress plug-in called WPtouch. And within 5 minutes the Trapster blog was mobile! The mobile view is supported on iPod, iPhone, BlackBerry Storm, Palm Pre, and Android. How freaking cool right? Check it out for yourself. Just open the web browser on your mobile phone and type in: http://www.blog.trapster.com.
The first page you will see should look a little something like this:
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Five Trapster Tips for Traveling this Holiday Season
Posted by Stefanie in Android, BlackBerry, How-to, Nokia, Palm Pre, Trapster Life, iPhone on November 25th, 2009
While the news is in a flurry reporting everything from traffic to travel methods this holiday season, Trapster received it’s own holiday shout-out. Fox News in Austin, TX reported that Trapster users aren’t the only ones who want to keep us safe by reporting speed traps. The cops do to. And in Austin, Texas they even report themselves.
Trapster is packed full of features to help aid you this holiday season while traveling. The most notorious of course being speed traps as see above. But here are few other great features Trapster has to offer the holiday traveler.
Syncing Trapster 3.5 for the iPhone to Your Vehicle’s Audio
Posted by Sean P. Farrell in How-to, iPhone on September 25th, 2009
Trapster 3.5 for the iPhone is packed with convenient features, including new ways to listen to Trapster’s audio alerts through your vehicle’s speakers.
Two points you should be aware of:
1. If you can play your iPhone’s iPod through the car’s stereo (including stereo Bluetooth), then you can play Trapster alerts through your car’s stereo.
2. If (and only if) you are already on a call, Trapster alerts will play through your hands free Bluetooth device.
Now lets go over the different choices available to sync your iPhone with your vehicle’s sound system. Read the rest of this entry »
Trapster 3.5 for the iPhone
Posted by Sean P. Farrell in How-to, News, iPhone on September 22nd, 2009
Trapster’s 3.5 version for the iPhone has just been released! We are very excited about the latest version, and want to run through some of the new features. First thing you will notice is the blue icons on the right side of the trapmap. These buttons give you the ability to run some of Trapster’s most popular features without losing site of the trapmap.
Trapster now has the ability to switch from a standard static map to a dynamically rotating based on your direction of travel, sync up to your vehicle’s bluetooth, play songs from your iPod, use our “My Trips”, and view real time Google crowdsourced traffic. Read the rest of this entry »
Trapster in the News!
Posted by Sean P. Farrell in News on September 16th, 2009
Welcome to the first edition of the “Trapster in the News!” blog series. In this post we will quickly recap the recent coverage of Trapster in two major publications. Read the rest of this entry »
And the My Trips Contest Winners are…
Last month we announced an iPhone My Trips contest. We asked you to submit your best My Trip using your iPhone. Tons of amazing and fun trips were submitted and in the end, it was hard to pick only two winners. However, after much debate and discussion, we found two trips that stood out from the rest. They had so many trip points and pictures we felt as if we went on the trip our self.
The winners of the iPhone My Trips contest are tms8707056 and Wulffrith. Congratulations! They each won a Canon PowerShot 12.1MP digital camera. Here are some of our favorite trip moments from each of our winners. Read the rest of this entry »
