Hasta La Gadget!

If Grandma tends to wander off in fits of forgetfulness, you should probably buy her an Android phone. Tell My Geo is an Android app for sufferers of Alzheimer’s, which acts a lot like Apple’s Find My iPhone service, only it’s for people, not phones.

Send Granny off with the app installed and you can track where she wanders. Her phone can be set to report its position every 15, 30 or 60-minutes, so you can go pick her up. The app also stores her medical information and history, and the app comes with a pair of stickers – one for the phone and one for the car – to tell the emergency services that it is installed.

But what about poor Granny when she suddenly finds herself in the middle of, well, where exactly? Tell My Geo has that covered. On the screen are some big, easy-to-read buttons: First, there’s a Call For Help button, which dials a pre-programmed phone number. Second is the Where Am I? button. When Granny finds herself lost, she hits this button and the app pulls up a satellite map with her position clearly marked.

The tracking part is the really useful application, though. After all, if Granny can’t remember where she is, or how she got there, is she going to remember that she has a smartphone with her?

Tell My Geo requires two phones to work properly, one for you and one for Granny, and you’ll need to pay $10 per month for each of them. Available now in the Android Marketplace.

Tell My Geo product page [Iconsys. Thanks, Andrew!]

See Also:

• GPS to Track Alzheimers Sufferers
• Microsoft Digicam for Alzheimer's Relief
• Cognitive Computing Project Aims to Reverse-Engineer the Mind …

For this week’s giveaway, we’ve got a Microsoft Kinect Sensor courtesy of Target.

ShutterSnitch, the iPad app that lets you beam photographs directly from your camera to your iPad, has been updated to version 2, and it adds a whole lot of really neat new features.

First – what ShutterSnitch won’t do: unless you jailbreak your iPad to let it create its own ad-hoc Wi-Fi network, ShutterSnitch requires either a router or a computer to create that network. If you have a battery-powered Mi-Fi, that will work just fine.

So, what’s new? Rob Galbraith, photographer, blogger and gear-head, has been testing v2.0 for some time, and has a detailed run-down on every new aspect. The first big changes are speed and stability: instead of crashing, you can now pump big files into the app, as fast as you like, and it will keep on going. Your collections can be a lot bigger, too: ShutterSnitch will let you put thousands of images together without bogging down.

But you’re here for the new gimmicks, right? Now you can enjoy full-resolution zooms and support for RAW files (although remember this works over Wi-Fi, so those big files will be slow to transfer). There is support for simple metadata, including geotagging (this grabs the location from your iPad and embeds it into the photo.)

But best of all are Actions. You can automate what happens to the photos when they arrive, adding metadata, saving a copy to the photo-roll and even exporting, sending photos to Flickr, Facebook or an FTP server. And there are plenty of other tweaks, too, including slideshows and external-display support.

To use ShutterSnitch, you’ll also need a way to send the photos. The easiest way is with an Eye-Fi SD-card, which turns any camera into a wireless photo-transmitter. If you have a transmitter for your SLR, one of Canon or Nikon’s units, for example, those work too.

ShutterSnitch 2 is in the App Store approval tubes right now, and should hit any day soon. The update will be free for ShutterSnitch 1.x owners, and $8 to buy new. The price will go up to $20 early in the new year.

A first look at ShutterSnitch 2.0 for the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch [Rob Galbraith]

ShutterSnitch app [iTunes]

See Also:

• ShutterSnitch Beams Photos from Camera to iPad
• ShutterSnitch and Eye-Fi: Wireless Camera Tethering for iPad …
• The Eye-Fi Pro and the iPad? Forget About it
• AirStash Wireless SD Card Reader: Perfect iPad Companion?

Remember the Yike Bike? It’s the miniature electric penny-farthing (or mini-farthing, as the Yike folks like to say) that you perch on top of as you cruise the streets, dodging traffic-jams and enduring ridicule from pedestrians.

We first saw the Yike Bike over a year ago, but now it can be bought for a heart-stopping $3,600. What do you get for that wad of cash? Here are the specs: The Yike is a carbon-fiber electric bike that still manages to weigh 22-pounds (10.8 kg), runs at 14-mph for up to 6.2 miles on a charge. The front wheel measures 20-inches, the rear is 8-inches.

You ride it by sitting on the combined saddle/handlebar, and when you reach your destination (or the battery dies – both are equally likely), then you scissor the wheels together, fold in the appendages and hook on the carrying strap (included).

The promo video, above, concentrates on the ability of the Yike to zip through traffic and avoid theft. This resistance to robbery is simply because you never, ever do is lock it up in the street – it costs nearly four grand, remember? But there is already something much cheaper, with a much longer range – a Brompton folding bike. For under $1,000 you get something that folds up small, goes as far as you can pedal and comes inside with you. And if you really want it to be lightweight, there’s a fixed-gear version.

Yike Bike product page [Yike Bike]

This article was written on July 03, 2008 by CyberNet.

Welcome to Daily Downloads brought to you by CyberNet! Each weekday we bring you software updates for widely used programs, and it’s safe to assume that all the software we list is freeware (we’ll try to note the paid-only programs).

As you browse the Internet during the day, feel free to post the software updates you come across in the comments below so that we can include them the following day!

–Stable Releases–

The software listed here have all been officially released by the developers.

• Opera 9.51 [Homepage] [Changelog] [Mirror] [Review]
  Operating System: Windows; Mac; Linux
  Type of Application: Web browser
  Changes: Bug fixes
• Vuze 3.1.1.0 [Homepage] [Changelog] [Mirror] [Review]
  Operating System: Windows; Mac; Linux
  Type of Application: BitTorrent client
  Changes: Few new features and bug fixes

–Pre-Releases (Alpha, Beta, etc…)–

The software listed here are pre-releases that may not be ready for everyday usage.

• Flash Player 10 [Homepage] [Changelog] [Mirror] [Review]
  Operating System: Windows; Mac; Linux
  Release: Beta 2
  Type of Application: Rich media viewer
  Changes: Bug fixes
• Skitch 1.6b6.2 [Homepage] [Changelog]
  Operating System: Mac only
  Release: Beta
  Type of Application: Screenshot capturing
  Changes: Extends the Beta expiration

–Release Calendar–

• July 1 – OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta 2 [Review]
• July 11 – iPhone 2.0 Software [Review]
• July 11 – iPhone 3G [Review]
• July 14 – WordPress 2.6 [Review]
• August – Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 [Review]
• September 2 – OpenOffice.org 3.0 [Review]
• October 30 – Ubuntu 8.10
• Late 2008 – Firefox 3.1 [Review]
• 2009 – Windows Mobile 7 [Review]
• 2009 – Paint.NET 4.00 [Review]
• January 2010 – Windows 7 [Review]

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