Unlike many of our readers, we ain’t on vacation on these summer days. Our precious developers are working hard and they have just rolled out an update of GPSed.com. What’s new:

• We’ve noticed that there is a common situation when someone posts a comment, asking track author about something interesting regarding the track. Author replies, but the reply is rarely seen, as there were no reply notifications. Now you can receive e-mail notifications when someone posts a reply to your comment. Of course you can always unsubscribe from reply notifications.

• Now you can choose your time zone on settings page. Since then, all times on the service will be displayed according to the time zone you’ve chosen.
• My favorite: search now shows 10 tracks per page instead of 5.
• Clicking photo markers on map allows you to browse through the photos with next/prev buttons.

Looking  forward to your comments and improvement suggestions!

Popularity: 17%

We’re happy to announce a long-awaited new release of GPSed for Windows Mobile. Application has become much more stable and user-friendly. Besides important bugfixes, this update includes a bunch of new features. Most of all we like the new feature of sharing your tracks with friends on Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and Blogger. When you start a new track, it only takes one touch of a button to post it to major social networks so your friends will follow you. You can as well share your existing tracks.

With the new version you can create track waypoints with text description, and register new GPSed accounts right on your PocketPC or Smartphone. We thought it would be nice for you to know about the following improvements and bugfixes:

• Application memory usage has been significantly decreased. Moreover, tracking for a long time does not consume much memory anymore.
• GPS support is improved
• Completely reworked user interface for uploading tracks to GPSed.com and social networks
• Fixed problems with weird track “jumps” across oceans and continents
• VGA screens are now properly supported
• Ability to select COM0 port as source of GPS data
• and many usability improvements

We highly recommend you to download the latest version of GPSed for Windows Mobile. Your feedback is appreciated!

Popularity: 29%

Some time ago Google team released a wonderful plugin for Firefox and Internet Explorer that allows to view 3D maps from Google Earth right in your browser. This is a great innovation and we are glad to announce:

The new type of maps that opens 3D view of Earth maps from Satellite right in your browser!

If you are viewing a map on GPSed.com just click on ‘Earth” in the top right-hand corner and the map will automatically turn to 3D view. For proper image reflection you need to have the corresponding plugin from Google. If the plugin is not yet installed, after clicking on “Earth” you will be prompted to install it.

Apart from 3D Earth view I want to bring to your attention another beatiful feature of zooming in on the region on a map you want to view.

Just click on the “Zoom…” button in the top left-hand corner and highlight the region you want to view with your mouse. After a short pause you will see the zoomed in view of the whole region you have highlighted.

We hope you will enjoy the new features. Wishing you pleasant experience with GPSed!

Popularity: 16%

We’ve been planning to support widgets which would enable inserting a map from your current location directly to your web site or blog for a long time. And now we finally finished the development and testing!

Please welcome the GPSed Widgets of the current user location:

This widget allows your site or blog visitors to view on Google Maps your current location in real-time! You can start GPSed Mobile Application on your mobile device and start tracking, and your site visitors will follow your way in real-time on the map.

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Popularity: 36%