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Last Auto Account – Twelve Days of Christmas: iPhone/iPod Apps Several months ago, we acquaint a down-and-dirty overview of car-related apps for the iPhone (most, if not all of which, aswell plan on the after launched iPod Touch). Now, two added apps accept beyond our radar–and they could prove invaluable as you’re traveling over the river and through the dupe this anniversary season: First up ..Last Auto account –

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Several months ago, we acquaint a down-and-dirty overview of car-related apps for the iPhone (most, if not all of which, aswell plan on the after launched iPod Touch). Now, two added apps accept beyond our radar–and they could prove invaluable as you’re traveling over the river and through the dupe this anniversary season:

First up is Taxi Magic. Although the name sounds like one of Barbie’s creamy accessories kits, it’s in fact a adequately ample app. Anytime you charge a cab, just barrage the program, and through the wonders of cell-tower triangulation, the app abstracts out breadth you are. Then, you’re accustomed a best of cab companies in the area. Some of those companies acquiesce you to book anon through the Taxi Magic’s “Magic Booking” function, acceptation that you can adjustment a cab appropriate from the iPhone/iPod instead of speaking to an operator. (“Magic Booking” aswell tells you if your cab is accomplished and let you accumulate clue of its advance against you.) Added companies accommodate a buzz amount and crave you to alarm in. The account works in over 4,000 cities, with the “Magic Booking” affection accessible in 25 or so. Note: according to our accompany at TechCrunch, the account doesn’t plan in New York City–but honestly, when’s the endure time you alleged a cab in Manhattan? Besides, at a amount of “free”, what accept you got to lose?

Second, we’ve got Punch Buggy Mobile, which comes in two flavors: approved and “lite”. Both acquiesce users to acquaintance the unmitigated, adrenaline-fueled joy of the archetypal traveling game, wherein accouchement of all ages attending out for VW Beetles, afresh exhausted the applesauce out of anniversary added if they atom one. In these high-tech versions, the ante has been upped, with a congenital scorekeeper and capricious credibility for MINIs, Hummers, and assorted car colors. With the approved version, you can even win cash, if you appear to atom the company’s Ca$hBuggy adrift the streets. Who could possibly be agreeable with alone inflicting affliction anytime again? – Richard Read

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