Scout adds crowdsourced incident reporting to nav apps
Telenav's Scout GPS Navigation & Traffic borrows a bit from Waze and Trapster's books with the addition of crowdsourced incident reporting in the newest versions of its mobile apps.On Scout's map screen, there now appears a new "Report" button that, when tapped, presents four large buttons to report Traffic, Police, Hazards, or Accidents with a single tap. When you report these incidents, you're sharing potential delays with other nearby Scout users and helping them to avoid congestion. For your trouble, you'll benefit from the driving experiences of your fellow Scouters and Scout's millions of users worldwide.At time of publication, the iOS version of the app (version 1.11.x) has this new feature, but I didn't see the Report button in the current version of the Android app (1.5.x), but it's coming.Additionally, both versions (iOS and Android) have been updated with new "Things to do" event listings. This can be found below the standard destination categories that help users find events, landmarks, nightlife, and things to do from the app.Once a destination has been chosen, a new checkbox option on the Route Planning confirmation screen for Share ETA allows drivers to automatically share a map of their trip, complete with a live-updating estimated time of arrival, via SMS. The recipient can then initiate turn-by-turn navigation with spoken directions from within their phone's HTML5-capable browser by simply clicking on a link, the Scout app doesn't even have to be installed. The new "Share ETA" option allows users to send a map of their route via SMS.Screenshot by Antuan Goodwin/CNETPut these features together and you can use the Scout app to find a place to meet your friends for dinner, send the destination and your ETA to them via SMS, and give them directions all in one fell swoop. That's pretty cool.Scout GPS Navigation and Traffic is available now in the iTunes and Google Play app stores.
How to use an old Mac as an AirPlay device
How to use an old Mac as an AirPlay device
To do this, simply connect the Mac to an audio system or a set of external speakers. While you might attach the Mac to a television to have some sort of display for it, this is optional if you enable Screen Sharing on the Mac. By doing so in the Sharing system preferences, you can access it through another Mac or with a VNC client on a Windows or Linux machine, and be able to configure it over the network.Another detail you might consider is to enable automatic log-in, which can be enabled in the Users & Groups system preferences in the "Log-in Options" section at the bottom of the accounts list. This option will allow the system to log in and launch the software needed to turn the system into an AirPlay device.With your Mac set up, next install the AirFoil tool from RogueAmoeba ($25 purchase), which will turn it into an AirPlay receiver. Install the software by dragging it to your Applications folder from the installation disk image, then be sure to add it to the Log-in Items for the account that is set to automatically log in. This can be done by selecting the active account in the Users & Groups system preferences, then dragging the program to the list in the Log-in Item tab.With AirFoil installed and running iTunes on another system will recognize it as an AirPlay device.Screenshot by Topher Kessler/CNETWith this set up, you can now keep the Mac running as an available AirPlay device that you can play music through to your heart's content.If you do not have an old Mac but instead have a Windows machine or even an old iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch, then you can set up a similar option with these devices, as RogueAmoeba has software versions of Airfoil for these platforms as well, though Apple required it to remove the use of AirPlay from the iOS version of the software. While currently there are no alternatives for iOS devices, RogueAmoeba does have a workaround using its software.Questions? Comments? Have a fix? Post them below or e-mail us!Be sure to check us out on Twitter and the CNET Mac forums.
To do this, simply connect the Mac to an audio system or a set of external speakers. While you might attach the Mac to a television to have some sort of display for it, this is optional if you enable Screen Sharing on the Mac. By doing so in the Sharing system preferences, you can access it through another Mac or with a VNC client on a Windows or Linux machine, and be able to configure it over the network.Another detail you might consider is to enable automatic log-in, which can be enabled in the Users & Groups system preferences in the "Log-in Options" section at the bottom of the accounts list. This option will allow the system to log in and launch the software needed to turn the system into an AirPlay device.With your Mac set up, next install the AirFoil tool from RogueAmoeba ($25 purchase), which will turn it into an AirPlay receiver. Install the software by dragging it to your Applications folder from the installation disk image, then be sure to add it to the Log-in Items for the account that is set to automatically log in. This can be done by selecting the active account in the Users & Groups system preferences, then dragging the program to the list in the Log-in Item tab.With AirFoil installed and running iTunes on another system will recognize it as an AirPlay device.Screenshot by Topher Kessler/CNETWith this set up, you can now keep the Mac running as an available AirPlay device that you can play music through to your heart's content.If you do not have an old Mac but instead have a Windows machine or even an old iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch, then you can set up a similar option with these devices, as RogueAmoeba has software versions of Airfoil for these platforms as well, though Apple required it to remove the use of AirPlay from the iOS version of the software. While currently there are no alternatives for iOS devices, RogueAmoeba does have a workaround using its software.Questions? Comments? Have a fix? Post them below or e-mail us!Be sure to check us out on Twitter and the CNET Mac forums.
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