UberTwitter uses a very similar domain, myloc.me.  Their results send you to a Uber advertising page with a map in the middle.  Not very mobile friendly, but free is free I guess.  My version works great with the iPhone. It automatically pulls open the Map application. Normal browsers are redirected to Google Maps.

As an add on, I created a basic GET JSON API, so myself and others could easily incorporate this service into projects.

What I came up with was belechere.mobi.  It’s basically a google map with all the Bele Chere events and points of interest plugged in.  I geared the app for the iPhone so I could use the built in GPS with Safari to center the map automatically.  Also, I incorporated Twitter results with the #belechere tag, that way I could easily see what people thought was intresting or a must see at the festival.  I also included list of music acts for Friday, Saturday and Sunday.  It’s only a three page app, but I am sure it will be useful compared to what I had last year.

The app took me an evening and a morning to build, but I did have a legup with some Twitter feed code from my Twaper experiment.  After some field testing  yesterday downtown Asheville, I found that the GPS seems accurate to about 50 feet of your location and the point of interest icons are generally in the right spot.  Sometimes though, the app forgets you allowed for GPS services and a website refresh is needed to get it back.  There also seems to be a dead zone on College street between Lexington and Haywood.

I decided to recreate the twitter widget here.

Live Demo

The twitter.aspx page pulls down a copy of the twitter search results in Atom format. A XSL stylesheet converts the results to a friendly HTML format, which are then ported to a div tag using JQuery.

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Some additions.
-Add up to 4 photos to a yard sale.
-Turn by Turn driving directions.
-Individual yard sale printer friendly pages.
-City Specific yard sale directory.

There is still the subscriber and email marketing section that isn’t reworked yet.  I am going to research that a bit more before moving forward on that piece.  After I’ve done some testing and finished coding, I’ll post a new build for download.

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Notepad Template

A very well done notepad template, truly near and dear to me since I use notepad for just about everything as it makes for a great lowest common denominator among programming projects.

Bryant has a whole other list of other usable free templates that are really pretty good, the Notepad version takes a really specific personality type though.

Bryant Smith is Florida web designer: a professional web designer/developer/marketer located in South Florida.