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Phone app: Where’s my bloody car?

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Problem: I keep forgetting which street near my house I parked my car on.

Solution: Simple phone app to make a note of it. You enter in the names of a few streets near your house, and then, when you have parked your car, it just lets you pick from a dropdown list. When you start the app up again next time, it keeps the setting and you can go and find the car.

There are all sorts of clever things you could do here with GPS, but I have a habit of over-engineering things. For your edification, I’ve knocked up an example of how it would look in Windows (I’m not proposing you carry a laptop around in your car, it was just easier to mock it up that way).

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  1. March 26th, 2009 at 10:01 | #1

    I reckon a GPS based system would be p!ss easy to set up. Surprised it hasn’t been done already.

  2. April 17th, 2009 at 19:31 | #2

    You can lay down a pin on the iPhone map. Maybe an app that just did this..

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