BlackLine GPS Blog

Here is something pretty cool you can do in a jiffy with Blip.

1. First select the friend you want to get directions to.

2. Then get a location or map his latest location.

3. Start the internal GPS of your BlackBerry to get your location.

4. In the BlackBerry Maps menu choose the “Get Direction” function.

5. Select your Current Location as your Start Location. (Make sure you started your internal GPS or have your actual current location).

6. Select your End Location as the one you got from Blip of your friend.

Et voilà! You now get the distance in between you and your friend and step by step driving instructions to get to him.

It’s come to our attention that a different company has started using the word Blip in the name of one of their BlackBerry applications. It blows my mind to see people going after a similar market and trying to rip off someone else’s trademark.  In this case I’m talking about ‘Blipsocial’. When a product has been released by RIM and has received great attention and enthusiasm, most people would not expect this.  For the record, we are in no way related to them.

Keep downloading Blip!!!!

http://na.blackberry.com/eng/builtforblackberry/travel.jsp
Patrick

We have received the 3G iPhone and have done some initial work on it and it definitely has some cool features. There are hurdles for us to develop BliP on the platform because of some limitations with running software in the background. I’m sure that we will find a work around but sometimes these things take time. In the meantime, our web interface works beautifully in Safari. You can use all the tools for your Snitch and BliP. You can interface with Snitch (arm/disarm, locate, view history, set schedules, etc) and see where your friends using BliP on their Blackberry are.

So if you got your new iPhone and were looking forward to install BliP as an application don’t despair!

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If you happening to be travelling this week like the BlackLine team is, you can find us at a couple of events.

WES, the BlackBerry show from RIM in Orlando, http://www.wirelessenterprisesymposium.com where we are showing off our Blip and LonerMobile products.

Where 2.0 in SFO, all about location and mapping and data, http://www.conferences.oreilly.com/where
If you are at either event feel free to seek us out and have a chat.  If you want to talk at WES we are in the booths, and at Where, you can email jhorton at blacklinegps.com to find me.

Simon from BlackBerry Cool interviews our President, Patrick Rousseau, in their Episode 18 Podcast. Simon and Patrick speak about our Blip™ for BlackBerry geo-social interaction application™ and our GPS Snitch® vehicle tracking and security product.

Click here to visit BlackBerry Cool’s site and listen to the interview.
Brendon

The well-connected folks at Pinstack.com are helping to send out the message to the BlackBerry world that a new level of geo-social interaction is available for GPS-enabled BlackBerry smartphones. And the message is Blip™. We appreciate their interest and be sure to review the great comments that follow their post.

Check out their blog here and if you have a GPS-enabled BlackBerry smartphone, don’t hesitate to pick up Blip here. Share Your Where™!

If you’d like to get some more information about Blip, please visit our corporate page here.

Brendon

Tag: BlackLine GPS, BlackBerry Smartphone, BlackBerry, Tracking, GPS

We are pleased to introduce a new release of our FREE Blip for BlackBerry software. Get it Over-The-Air from your phone at http://gps-snitch.com/blip/

Blip has many new features since the last release and the original beta version.

• Faster loading times
• Improved colours and navigation
• Account creation from your phone
• BlackBerry registration from your phone
• Share to your friends from your phone
• Map Last Locations to instantly map the last positions of all your devices and your friends
• New Welcome screens and Help
• Version checking to find new upgrades

Blip is still fully integrated with GPS Snitch allowing you to track and share your Snitch as well.

We have also introduced the Map Last Location feature on the gps-snitch.com website.

BlackLine is also now a RIM Alliance Partner.

Tags: , gps snitch, gps, blackberry, 8800, pearl, rim, gps tracking

For anybody who missed it, Blackberry cool did a review of Blip and GPS Snitch a while back. Here is a video you may have missed talking about it. Not Recommended for tactical usage.

We have made some changes and added some new items.

‘Last Seen’ is now ‘Last Position’, this is the last reported position from the device.

Some language and terminology updates to make the site easier to understand.

New Icons to use for your devices, including a nice BMW and a Minivan if you are into that.

And we have added Blip functionality to the site. Blip is our Blackberry 8800 series tracking software. Look for another post with more info.

Jeff

Tags: , gps snitch, gps, blackberry, 8800, gps tracking