Marketplace Spotlight: Citizen Alerts

Costless applications can exist dandy. There's more than a handful of free apps over at the Market place with some being a subconscious gem, some existence "so-so" and others that make you glad they are free. Citizen Alerts by Carmelo Milian is one of those costless apps that got my marvel up and I was interested to see what category information technology barbarous into.

Citizen Alerts gives you the ability to accept pictures and upload them, anonymously, to Citizens-Alerts.com. You tin can add descriptions to the photograph to help explain why you are alerting the world to whatsoever you lot are photographing. Along with uploading photos to the Citizen Alert website, you can too upload the photos to Facebook or to your Photowiz Blog.

Yous can review alerts posted by others from the mobile application and filter them by State. Denizen Alerts had photos that ranged from traffic conditions to tracking the Gulf oil spill.

The application was very buggy. I was unable to navigate around the alert postings nor pull up the information on the private posts. The filter characteristic seemed to send the app into a confirmation loop where an "ok" push button continuously re-appeared. The photographic camera function worked but at times the shutter would activate on its own.

In looking at the online component, well-nigh of the photos used are stock images with very few original photos. The buggy mobile app may exist the reason participation is low.

Denizen Alerts is an interesting awarding that could be helpful in determining where traffic jams are occurring, what the weather is like on the beach or what the line at the theater is similar. As is, you're better off using a mobile Facebook or Twitter app to alert friends of events/occurrences.

Unfortunately, the glitches and bugs within the application takes away from any usefulness it may take and sends it into the "I'k glad information technology was free" category.

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