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Announcing Cheap GPS

It is with considerable solemnity and prodigious pomp that we — okay, okay, enough of that.

We've released another iPhone app. It's called Cheap GPS, and it's more or less a location-based game wrapped inside a location-based game.

The first location-based game is Geohashing, a random twist on geocaching invented by the author of the nerdly xkcd cartoon. The second location-based game is the classic "Hot or Cold?" game that also made an appearance on xkcd as the Worst GPS Ever. We thought, "That sounds like fun!" and built them...as one.

Cheap GPS comes in two flavors:

1. Cheaper GPS is free, and will tell you if you're growing nearer or farther from the day's geohash for your starting location.
2. Cheap GPS is $0.99 (USD) and lets you target coordinates you dial up, in addition to the geohash.

And that's really all they do...for now. (Bum bum bum!)

Geotagalog 1.1 with improved RAW support released

After a short beta, we're releasing version 1.1 of Geotagalog today. We've got a lot planned for our photo geotagging utility for iPhoto, so we wanted to get these improvements out to everyone sooner rather than later.

To recap, Geotagalog 1.1 adds:

• Geotagging of many popular RAW formats
• Lossless tagging of JPEGs
• Easier workflow using Geotagalog when camera is connected
• Other minor interface improvements
• Updated help for these changes (since beta)

Version 1.1 should be available as an automatic update, or head over to Geotagalog's information page for the download.

Beta of Geotagalog 1.1 improves RAW support

Geotagging RAW files was one of the things Geotagalog 1.0 wasn't very good at. We plan to fix this in Geotagalog 1.1, which is already in beta!

Geotagalog 1.1 adds:

• Geotagging of many popular RAW formats
• Lossless tagging of JPEGs
• Easier workflow using Geotagalog when camera is connected
• Other minor interface improvements

You can download 1.1 beta today if you'd like to try it out with your camera before we push the final release out as an automatic update. Any and all feedback is appreciated!