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first published week of: 07/20/2015
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This week, a woman was rescued after her car crashed and was perched perilously 50 yards down a cliff when she activated Find my iPhone on her mobile phone in New Zealand. Rescuers were searching for her 25km away from her actual location, not knowing she had taken a wrong turn on her way home. When they got the signal with her coordinates, they found her very quickly.
I have written countless blogs about using location to find people and property using GPS and its not very often that these stories happen so close to home. I’m hoping that stories like these will encourage people to work out how to find an app they can use to share this information.
FInd My iPhoneI have many location based apps. If you have an Apple device, Find My iPhone is free and has some extra bonuses, because if your device is misplaced, lost or stolen, you can use the app to location your device, you can set off an alarm and you can also disable it so that it is rendered useless to any lowlife who is planning on selling it. continued…