Your iPhone knows where you are. Life gets easier.

As the ubiquity of the internet increases, so does the usefulness of applications in every day situations.

Imagine you are driving down the road on a beautiful saturday afternoon. You car speaks the happy hour specials at Houlihan's restaurant as you pass by. You hear that Fry's electronics is having a sale on Terabyte hard drives. Even when you're at the mall, you can look browse through the local ads at your discretion on your location aware phone.

This future is now becoming reality as location aware devices are becoming more prevalent. Withg the advent of the iPhone 3G, the built in GPS can send your location coordiantes to any application. This means that your phone knows where you are at all times. Applications can request this information and send back to databases on the internet and make your life easier. Kind of scary if someone or some organization was able to access that info.

Here is just a taste of some of the applications already available:

• Shake your iPhone and Urbanspoon will pick a restaurant in your area
• Social network with other people at the mall or wherever you are using Brightkite
• Geotag your photos so you know where they were taken
• Forget where you parked? Bookmark it with G-Park
• Exchange contact info with someone nearby by shaking your iPhone: Friend Book

Cool stuff is happening today. It's going to be exciting to see what else will transpire with this technology.

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