Trapster Blog

Trapster Version 4.0.2 adds Badges, Filter Alerts, and More

Sean — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:42:46 +0000

Last week Trapster released a new version for the iPhone, which includes some added features to keep you safe and alert on the road. New “Moderator Approved” badges will appear on verified traps, and the new “gears” tab on the right of your trapmap will quickly take you to the “Filter Alerts” page. Lets get [...]

Travis County Police Officially Using Trapster

Sean — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:59:11 +0000

Trapster has officially teamed up with the police! That’s right, the Travis County Sheriff’s Office, in Austin Texas, is now entering their own enforcement locations, as well as other information such as dangerous intersections, road closures, accidents, and traffic jams. Trapster gets drivers to slow down and that is the whole point of conducting “speed traps” [...]

Meet Trapster’s Trapologists

Sean — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:20:27 +0000

Trapster averages 6000 new traps reported every day. In order to make sure those traps are accurate, Trapster’s Trapologists are constantly monitoring the trapmap and evaluating each trap. We thought you would enjoy seeing their smiling faces, and getting to know them a bit. Well, we put them in the hot-seat and asked them some [...]

Trapster for Palm WebOS Version 0.9.43 Released

Sean — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:55:01 +0000

“Ohhh look it’s a red light camera, strike a pose baby” That is a quote from Mr. Flamboyant, just one of the fun new sound themes available in version 0.9.43 of Trapster for WebOS. We have also added French, German, and Spanish sound themes. With 13 fun sound themes to choose from, you will chuckle from [...]

Six Things I Bet You Don’t Know About Trapster

Stefanie — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:18:21 +0000

Every day I shuffle through Trapster support emails and new forum posts helping users with technical problem, listening to new ideas/suggestions, and answering questions. The questions range from extremely technical to very simple. And here lies the root of this blog post. I’ve found that there are many Trapster secrets. Are they really secrets? Well, [...]

Oldie But Goodie: “My Trips” Feature on Your iPhone

Stefanie — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:15:15 +0000

Heading out on the open road? Going to visit Granny for the weekend in another state? Or just taking off to a friends house 30 minutes away? Whatever the reason or destination, Trapster’s “My Trips” feature for the iPhone application can come in handy for road trips. Use your iPhone to log your adventure and share [...]

Exploring Trapster’s Caravan Feature

Sean — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:57:46 +0000

Last week Trapster 4.0 was released for the iPhone, bringing some great new features to the speedtrap app. One new feature that definitely adds to the “coolness factor” is Caravan(TM). Caravan lets Trapster users see friends and other Trapster users in real time on the map, and then easily send them messages, photos, and audio [...]

Trapster 4.0 for iPhone

Sean — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:35:18 +0000

Trapster 4.0 has been released! This is certainly our biggest update yet. For starters, you’ll notice a couple new icons on the right side of your trapmap. The little buddy looking guy is Caravan. This feature gives you the ability to add other Trapster users as buddies, and display your location in real time on [...]