Jaw-Dropping Update for iPhone Navigation App of The Year Localscope
Though it wasn’t in our readers’ top 10, Apple named Localscope the best navigation app of 2011. Yeah, well they ain’t seen nuthin’ — its new update adds a whole new exploratory facet to the app that’s arguably cooler than the app’s original focus.
Open the app up, and a new “Discover” button leads to recent geotagged events for all the major social media platforms, and then some: Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, YouTube, Flickr, Instagram, even Panoramio (how weird is this: I just walked up to a neighbor at the Starbucks I’m currently stationed in and showed him the Instagram photo he just posted).
And it’s the attention to detail — and, well, just beauty — of the new feature that’s so impressive. Each instance comes with a tiny thumbnail, distance to the event and a little compass pointer that displays relative bearing to the event from your current location. Well worth the $2.
When he was eight, Eli Milchman came home from frolicking in the Veld one day and was given an Atari 400. Since then, his fascination with technology has made him an intrepid early adopter of whatever charming new contraption crosses his path — which explains why he's Cult of Mac's test editor-at-large. He calls San Francisco home, where he works as a journalist and photographer. Eli has contributed to the pages of 
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