NavStation is a utility to aid boat navigators. It uses the iPhone’s in-built GPS to fix a position and then displays this in three common formats – Decimal Degrees (d), Degrees + Decimal Minutes (D m) and Degrees + Minutes + Decimal Seconds (D M s). This allows for very simple plotting of positions on paper charts. NavStation’s night mode means that the navigator can preserve their night vision when plotting a fix on the chart.

Nav Station also shows Course-Over-Ground (COG) in °(T), Speed-Over-Ground in kts as well as providing the time stamp of the latest fix. This can be used to sanity check the fix data on the paper chart very quickly.

GPS status is provided if off, acquiring a fix or fix accuracy strays outside 50 meters.

NavStation offers both a day mode and a night mode for navigators wishing to preserve their night vision. Modes are switched by swiping the screen horizontally.

You can set the startup state of NavStation as either day or night and with GPS on or off. You can also specify an automatic ‘GPS Off’ timer.

Battery life of the iPhone is also maximized by providing a configurable auto shutdown of the GPS hardware between fixes.

GPS hardware can also be manually toggled on and off by swiping vertically.

Keywords: GPS, Boat, Navigation, Charting, Maximum Battery Life.

Las Vegas is a complete street level map for your iPhone. The entire map is stored on your iPhone, so it works where you have no access to the Internet – it works where Google Maps is inaccessible. This prevents expensive data roaming charges by loading all the map data to your iPhone before you leave home. You can even switch your iPhone to ‘Flight mode’ and still be able to find your way around. Lets you find all streets, and many useful locations such as ATM’s, parkings, museums, and many others. Remembers where you’ve been so you can find that parking spot where you left your rental car. To make sure your phone doesn’t use any expensive data on your trip, go to Settings, then General, tap on Network, and slide the Data Roaming to “off”. Note: GPS functions work on the iPhone only.

We have many, many other cities as a street level map for the iPhone, and if you want a city we don’t have yet, go ahead and request it at our site!

Ever needed to mail a letter but couldn’t find a mailbox? Mailbox Find uses your current location to find US blue mailboxes and displays them on a map. Mailboxes are shown in order of proximity to your current location. You can also manually enter your zip code if the iphone can not find your current location.  Pickup times are also displayed.

In addition, Mailbox Find shows Post Offices, UPS stores and FedEx locations! Mailbox Find integrates with iPhone’s Maps to display your current location and accurate route to a chosen mailbox. Enjoy!

Download from iTunes

Support:  bpgillett@mailboxfind.net

This 99¢ iPhone App for coffee & twitter fans is designed to find and share coffee with fellow coffee drinkers.  This app is basically  a realtime mashup of Google Local Search + GPS + Twitter + Coffee.

Use Coffee Buzz to:

• say you’re “having a coffee” pinpointing you and your favorite drink in the hippest coffee neighborhoods;
• automatically composes a tweet based on your drink and location
• let those around you know ‘the buzz’ – what’s happenin’ where you are;
• find new coffee locations nearby or when traveling; and
• see old friends and new, drinking coffee near you.

The new most recent Update 1.2 includes

• “Custom Drinks” – if yours is a Skinny double shot vanilla Latte or even a ‘Tea’!
• Editable locations – letting you add details on your favourite coffee hang outs
• @Replies – letting you reply direct to coffee drinking Twitter users – and share the Coffee ‘Buzz’

A must for any Twitter and Coffee lover and less than the price of a Latté

Download Now at iTunes
More Details on the Coffee Buzz Site

Voilà! is the best way to securely share your location on the web and with your friends. With one tap Voilà! will update your current location on Yahoo! Fire Eagle and in your Twitter profile. You can also share your location with a message on Twitter or with a simple email. 

Features:

• Voilà! automatically determines your current location
• Your current address will be displayed with a map (touch the map to launch Google Maps)
• Your location can automatically be updated on Fire Eagle (free account required to use this application)
• Share your location on your Twitter profile, by a message on Twitter, or via email

About Yahoo! Fire Eagle:
Fire Eagle is a free service by Yahoo! that allows its users to securely share their locations online. Users maintain their privacy, and determine the level of accuracy they want to grant to other sites and services. Find out more about Fire Eagle by visiting: http://fireeagle.yahoo.net

Voilà! is the first application by Crist Drive and is available on the iPhone App Store for $0.99.

screenshot

Atoll CoPilot Capitan is a digital dashboard featured by unique combined speed, location and altitude 3D log graph. It also visualizes your current speed and heading, keeps an eye on speed limits and driving style, and reminds you to take some a rest if you’re driving for too long. 

Detailed features list include: 

- Location/Speed/Altitude 3D trip graph
Unique way to represent the speed, location and altitude data in a single 3D graph. Color coded speed and altitude chart is constantly adjusted according to your moving trajectory. At your current location point there is a digital compass, showing moving course related to the true (not magnetic) North.
You can adjust the view angle by moving your finger vertically, horizontal move changes the time scale. Tapping the “CLR” icon clears the track data, “FIT” sets the default view angle and fits the whole track on screen. in Preferences, you can adjust the transparency of all the components of the chart or switch them off completely.

- Speed display
 The speed display of Atoll.CoPilot Capitan is “live” – it changes the font size and color depending on your acceleration, making the reading more expressive. Also, it has two modes of showing the average trip speed (tap to display it in full size): average speed during last 5 minutes (“-avg”) or average speed since program startup (“+avg”). 

- HUD (Head-Up Display) mode 
Tapping the “HUD” icon mirrors all the text and removes small display details, so if you position the iPhone horizontally under your car’s windscreen you can see perfectly readable half-transparent reflection of the picture displayed. We love this mode! We found it much more convenient compared to traditional car dashboards (especially on the roads of Western Europe, which are full of speed cameras and where you need to watch your speedometer all the time). And last but not the least – it just looks cool. 
Note: this mode works pretty well at night time and twilight, but on direct sunlight the screen brightness can be insufficient.

-Driving style advisor 
Every 5 minutes Atoll.CoPilot Capitan checks the collected speed data and if you accelerating or braking too hard and too often reminds you about the safety. Sometimes, when you’re hurrying to the airport overtaking other cars, it’s good to have something that reminds you that missed plane isn’t worth your life!
The “lightning” icon on the left below the “speed limit” is a meter that indicates how “smooth” your driving is. When you driving on motorway keeping the constant speed the icon is green, but if you change the speed often it turns red, indicating that the situation is getting potentially dangerous. Gray color tells the advisor indicator is off or there is not enough speed data collected.Also this feature can be used as a fuel economy indicator – smooth driving results in lower fuel consumption. Of course, sensitivity of the Advisor can be adjusted in Preferences, or it can be completely switched off.