We’ve recently released a new version of PointAbout on the Apple appstore.  Its freely available here: http://install.pointabout.com Here are a few of the enhancements: 1.   Faster loading time of the homepage 2.  Shows all of your apps on the homepage instead of having to scroll. 3.  Increased messaging to alert you of any errors with the network or during location aquisition. This is our most stable release to date and we think you’ll be happy with… Read more »

Its a fairly simple implementation of a xml reader combined with a distance calculator. Once the current location of lat long is passed to this code from the PointAbout mobile software. It is an example of how basic code and location information can completly change the use and power of simple data streams and web sites. An example xml doc is also appended to the bottom of this post for testing.   —-EXAMPLE OF DISTANCE… Read more »

Here’s a 2 1/2 minute YouTube video showing what we’ve been up to. Needless to say, we’ve been busy! The PointAbout springboard now has a Safari browser integrated into the application, meaning we no longer have to close the native app and open Safari. Everything happens inside our application now, which gives us much more control over the process of determining the user’s location and sending that data to the web.