Some our users continue experiencing problems while opening pages of GPSed.com web site that contains Google Maps inside. Error message “Operation aborted” appears while loading these pages under Internet Explorer browser. We have investigated this issue and realized that error appears only for some modifications of Internet Explorer version 7 and version 6, while other versions of this web browser work well.

Error message appears because of a bug in Internet Explorer itself.  This bug is explained in Microsoft Knowledge Base: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927917

Here is a quote from the link above:

How do I fix this problem?

The easiest way for you to fix the problem is to upgrade to Internet Explorer 8. This problem no longer occurs in Internet Explorer 8. To upgrade to Internet Explorer 8, visit the following Microsoft Web site:Windows Internet Explorer 8: Home page
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/beta/default.aspx

For better performance and stable working of GPSed.com web service we recommend to use Mozilla Firefox 3, which can be downloaded from our Downloads page. By the way, Downloads page has been redesigned recently. It’s another reason to check it out.

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GPSed Monitoring Service is rather useful for those users who are willing to track mobile objects on  the map in a real-time. You may have know of this service from the previous posts in GPSed Blog.

We have finished beta campaign and received various comments and suggestions from GPSed users on how to improve the Service. Now our users could enjoy the full version of GPSed Monitoring Service. A trial is available for 30 days for free and you can select a special pricing plan which covers your requirements:

Family Monitoring ($4.95 / month)

Track your children and aged relatives (up to 3 individuals)

 Business Monitoring ($29.95 / month)

Track small fleets of vehicles, office employees or other mobile objects (up to 25 objects)

Corporate Monitoring ($99.95 / month)

Track corporate employees, ground transportation personnel and large fleets of vehicles (up to 100 objects)

There is no payment per object. All GPSed Monitoring features are included in all plans.

To upgrade your GPSed account, please Sign in and open Settings/Account page, where your can select suitable tracking plan.

We hope our service will help you in your personal and professional life!

Kind regards,
GPSed Team.

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For the last few days GPSed.com users may have noticed considerable performance issues. These problems were caused by the increased userbase, and we had to scale the system up to match it. We are happy to announce GPSed.com is back to life after major upgrade, and should be faster than ever. Thank you for your support and patience.

We are sorry for any incoveniences brought by this downtime. We’ll do our best to avoid it in the future.

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In one of our previous posts we informed our users that GPSed Mobile Application appeared in App Store.

The application was very awaited by those users who were already familiar with GPSed on BlackBerry, Windows Mobile or Java phones. Now GPSed also became popular among iPhone users, those who have never tried it before.

In a new version (1.1) which is recently available in App Store we tried to take into account all suggestions and comments by our users.

What’s new in the current version of GPSed for iPhone?

Imperial units support.

Waypoints can be added now in offline mode, and then synchronized back to server.

Long tracks are no more being lost on exit.

Tracking restarts after phone calls.

Added button and browser for GPSed.com navigation.

Some fixes for proper track point saving.

New updates of GPSed for iPhone are also expected. We hope GPSed will bring you much pleasure. Wish you unforgettable trips and exciting adventures!

Kind regards,
GPSed Team

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As usual we are trying to improve GPSed service to make it even more useful and convenient for our users.

Now we have updated cities database and also algorithm of locality determination was changed. After such changes the locality determination became even more precise.

How it could be useful?

Now you can get more detailed information on your tracks or the tracks by other users. Open you track, click on the track line and choose “Track info“.

Get an information on the country and locality where the track was started and where it was finished.

The track could be started in one country and finished in the other:

See an example

Or started and finished in the same country but in different localities:

See an example

Learn more about your tracks and the tracks by other users now in more details.

With kind regards,
GPSed Team

Popularity: 14%

In one of the previous posts we have announced GPSed Monitoring Service for tracking mobile objects on a map in a real-time. Now some new options were added.

• Disable Google Map overview

When this option is activated a mini map will not be visible on every Google Map of our service.

• New tracks by your subaccounts are private by the default

All tracks by your subaccounts are private by the default even if their status was “public” when the track was started in a mobile client. The status of your subaccounts tracks could be always changed on “public” manually.

At the moment GPSed Monitoring Service is available for a free beta-testing. Register with a trial account and get free unlimited access for 30 days. Create up to 50 subaccounts to try out the service. Beta testing is open until the end of February, hurry up!

As GPSed Monitoring is a rather new service we are waiting for your feedback. Leave your comments and help us to improve our service, to make it better!

With kind regards,
GPSed Team

Popularity: 14%

We are pleased to invite iPhone owners to join GPSed Community. Now GPSed mobile application works not only on BlackBerry, Windows Mobiles and Java/Symbian devices but also on iPhone.

GPSed for iPhone comes to App Store

SHAPE Services announced the App Store availability of GPSed Mobile Application in the “Travel” category.

Special introductory price: $0,99. Account registration and using GPSed.com website is completely free forever! Take advantage of GPS capability of your iPhone 3G! GPSed is the only GPS tracking service with possibility to track trips in real time and share them in social networks like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and and Blogger.

Get Trip Computer analogous to GPS devices and Trip Sharing Tool in one app! Designed to mimic authentic handheld GPS receivers.

Use it when traveling, for hiking, biking, running, walking, surfing or just for fun! As of February 2009, GPSed Service has: 36893 registered users, 53755 tracks in 160 countries, 27342 attached photos.

 With GPSed on iPhone 3G you can:

Record tracks of your trips anywhere on the Earth. Tracks are traced on Google Maps (or Google Earth) and stored in an online archive.

Add waypoints to tracks for your favorite locations.

Share your tracks to social networks: Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and Blogger.

Share your tracks with friends and family via email.

Use it as an advanced trip computer.

 On GPSed.com website you can:

Track your trips in real time (Updates position from 3 seconds to 30 minutes).

Organize your tracks in an online archive, make them public or private, add communities.

Pin photos to tracks at the exact places where they were taken.

Share GPS tracks and geotagged photos with friends via e-mail, IM or by posting them to social networks like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and Blogger.

View tracks of other GPSed users, see the most popular tracks and nearest tracks in your region.

Export / import tracks in gpsed, gpx, kml formats.

Read Tips and Tricks about GPSed in blog.gpsed.com, post your comments, questions and feature requests.

 In addition, you get:

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Popularity: 18%

Recently we’ve got a great news! GPSed has been selected as the nominee for the In-Car category of the Sony Ericsson Content Awards 2008.

How the winners are selected for the Sony Ericsson Content Awards annually? Seven categories (Productivity, Going Green, In-Car Applications, It’s all about the Entertainment, Lifestyle Choice, Themes & Graphics and XPERIA™ Panels) + innovation + content = winning.

And finally we have a great news!

Monday, February 9, 2009 GPSed won the Sony Ericsson Content Awards for the In-car applications category!

Click to view Sony Ericsson showcase

Motivation from the jury - this In-Car application lets you track your location and share your track and position in real-time with your social networks incl. email and SMS.

Here is what Ross Rubin (Director, Industry Analysis and one of a judges) said about GPSed Mobile Application:

“What makes GPSed especially suited for use in cars? Using GPSed mobile application, you do not need any special expensive in-car monitors, all you need is handheld with Internet connection and application installed. Using GPSed, you can write tracks that visually are more beautiful than usual tracks. Besides, tracks may be longer because user can charge device’s battery right inside the car.
Making photos along the trip, its easy to download them directly to GPSed online archive.
Let’s imagine you’re moving across the territory of United Kingdom and your family in Sweden can see your trip pictures exactly in the moment when you stored them. Isn’t it amazing?”

Valery Bogdanov,
GPSed project manager.

Popularity: 20%