Pulsely Locate for Mac v0.1
We just release Pulsely Locate for Mac. Pulsely Locate is an online service for you to post your current location, so your friends and sweetheart(s) can see where you are.
We are building a native application instead of just a webapp. The reason is we have to interface nicely with the popular bluetooth GPS devices, so instead of asking people to run Firefox, _and then_ download a pesky Firefox plugin, we opt to just build native applications.
Pulsely Locate will support 4 native platforms eventually:
- Mac (checked!)
- J2ME version for cellphones (coming out by May 1st, 2007)
- Linux (coming out by May 2nd, 2007)
- Windows (coming out by June 1st, 2007)
We roll out Mac version first simply because we are more proficient in writing Cocoa applications. We are already building Windows and Linux versions, but making bluetooth devices talk nicely under them would be more difficult.
Anyway, we will open source all the client applications asap (very likely to be GPL). We are studying which SVN repos should we use, from Google Code, Sourceforge to Berlios, but we are very anxious to open source it asap so stay tuned. But if you want to see the source code for now, just send us an email and we'll email the source codes to you right away!
