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Park’n Find from Affinicore is an iPhone app that helps you find your parked car.

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You can get free, spoken directions on the T-Mobile G1, the myTouch 3G phone, the new Motorola Droid, and coming soon, the Google Nexus One.

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Google Maps with spoken turn-by-turn directions are free for users of the Motorola Droid cellphone and other Android 2 operating systems.

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One of our readers quite rightly complained about the cost of loading new maps into the road trip GPS systems. New maps for popular GPS travel devices like the TomTom run anywhere from $60 to over $100.

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We’ve been driving around just outside of “Obama Town,” (Chicago), with GPS direction devices attached.

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Apparently, more people are lost than ever before. Because sales of GPS (global positioning) devices have been brisk worldwide.

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We connected the DeLorme Earthmate GPS LT-40 receiver to a Sony Vaio laptop, installed their Street Atlas 2009, and started out to drive from our place to a shipping service a couple miles away. We already knew how to get there, of course, but did DeLorme?

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Later we picked another destination and switched to the Microsoft GPS unit and Streets and Trips 2008 software.

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What’s hot? GPS, that’s what’s hot. That stands for Global Positioning System, and what it means is you may not know where you are, but the spy in the sky does.

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If you’re a Verizon customer with a “Get-it-Now”-enabled phone, you can get global positioning software on your cell phone for an extra $10 a month or $3 a day.

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