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23Nov

4sqwifi Uses Foursquare To Show You Nearby WiFi Locations And Their Passwords

Foursquare, and most of the apps built on top of the location service’s developer platform, are great for exploring the physical world for entertainment. But a new iPhone app called 4sqwifi (download here) offers something that could help those of us who need to be productive remotely — a way to see nearby wifi locations, and the passwords to go with them.

Those of you who have been stuck needing to send an urgent work email while experiencing poor smartphone data reception will understand why this app is useful.

Yes, there are a bunch of other web sites and apps that try to help people find nearby wifi locations. All the ones I’ve seen have had various shortcomings, like outdated or incomplete databases, and no passwords. 4sqwifi solves this problem by finding Foursquare venues near to the user, then searching user tips related to getting WiFi connections (“free wifi,” “wifi password is…” etc.).

After downloading the app from the App Store, you log in with your Foursquare ID and see a list of all of the nearby venues. Click on any of the listings and you’ll see the name of the WiFi connection and its password. (Note that the app had some page-loading problems initially, although I got it to work.)

The team behind the app is a pair of young Greek entrepreneurs, Apostolos Papadopoulos and Giannis Poulakas. Apostolos tells me he got the idea while a senior in high school last winter, but had to finish his university exams before getting started over the summer. He’s going to school in Vienna now, and is continuing to develop the service. The app is currently free, but the team is exploring business models like an in-app payment for an offline map of all of the wifi locations and passwords within a city.

He also just posted a few thoughts on launching the app, which you can check out here.

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07Sep

Breezy Launches Partner Network, Lets You Print On The Go At 1,000 Locations

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Breezy, the Oakland-based mobile printing startup, has been awfully busy since last we heard from them. What started as a BlackBerry-only solution to one man’s mobile printing headache has gone mass market today with the announcement of their new Breezy Partner Network, which allows users to print documents from their smartphones to nearly 1,000 local printers.

Here’s how it works: fire up the the Breezy app on your device, and it will bring up a list of recently opened documents. Once you’ve selected the document to be printed, just tap the Nearby Printers option to see all the participating printers nearby. Most of the Partner Network’s 1,000 printers are located inside hotels, although Breezy CEO Jared Hansen says that Breezy is making some in-roads with print and copy shops.

A quick look revealed that a few Partner Network printers were near my neck of the woods – a pleasant surprise, considering the company hails from California. If there aren’t any near you, fear not — Hansen says that Breezy will have another 2,000 locations going online in coming months.

Premium subscribers to the Breezy service are allowed unlimited access to Partner Network printing, but free users have to deal with Breezy’s proprietary credit system. Each document printed costs 3 Breezy credits, which at the most basic level costs around $.60, but prices drop if credits are purchased in bulk. Free users also have to contend with the Breezy watermarks on all of their documents, which may not be a dealbreaker, but could provide just enough impetus for a road warrior to shell out the $29.99/year.

Breezy’s Partner Network is a great addition to the service for paper pushers on the go, and the company’s mass market push has continued with the recent release of their iOS app. The Android version promised all those months ago has yet to materialize, although Hansen assures us that it’s in the works. Mobile printing used to be something of a niche market, but with footholds in nearly all of the major mobile operating systems, Breezy’s clearly trying to own it all.

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28Jul

Kiss Me On The Bus: This App Crowdsources Bus Locations

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A new app by Carnegie Mellon researchers Anthony Tomasic and John Zimmerman in conjunction with the University of Buffalo, allows bus riders to track their current location while riding the bus and, in turn, share this information with people who are still waiting, thereby creating a more complete map and schedule of bus routes and times. The app, Tiramisu, is free but, sadly, it only works in Pittsburgh right now.

The app requires that the rider activate the tracker in order to see when the next bus is due to arrive as well as its current “fullness” which can be registered by riders. When he or she boards, the app sends the bus’ location to the main server so other riders can tell where that particular bus is and when it will arrive. Obviously this requires the riders to actually care about their fellow humans, so the utility is therefore limited.

Presumably this same data can be used by the city or county transit authorities to improve travel times and inform riders of slow busses. It allows cash-strapped transit systems to add GPS functionality to their lines, even if it’s crowd-sourced.

“While better funded transit systems, such as those in Chicago, Seattle and San Francisco, can afford to make GPS-based information available to riders in real-time, the Allegheny County system is under tremendous budget pressure,” Steinfeld said. “Under such circumstances, a free, crowdsourced system such as Tiramisu offers an important alternative.”

Google, IBM, and CMU’s Traffic21 initiative, among others, all sponsored the project.

So whether you’re a mother with your kids or a guy with his date, this app could, potentially prevent you from getting mad and/or late.

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11Jul

Best live webcams in 10 different locations around the world

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In these tough economy when you need to hold back on unnecessary expenses, staycation is in. Or if you are really against the wall in terms of your finances, there is still a way to see great views…

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18May

Rеаl-Life Locations in ‘Fallout: New Vegas’ Video Game

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London copywriter Chris Worth, inspired bу thе futuristic rоlе-playing gаme Fallout: New Vegas, sеt оut to explore thе Mojave Desert аnd discover just hоw clоse tо rеаlity thе gamе rеаlly is.

Rеаl Life Locations in ‘Fallout: New Vegas’ Video Game