Any app whose description begins “AnchorAlert checks how far your vessel has drifted from its anchor point and sounds an alarm when the value exceeds the specified distance.” would usually garner a solid “Eh?”
Looking a bit closer, though, it does what it says on the tin and is actually quite clever - if of limited use to landlubbers.
Using the GPS function built in to your phone (or an attached GPS widget) to record an ‘anchor point’, the app will notify you whenever the phone moves more than a set distance from that point.
Ostensibly, this is for use with an actual anchor - i.e. it will sound the alarm if your boat starts to drift away from where think it is parked. You could, I suppose , use it as a kind of impromptu burglar alarm - albeit one that will be going away from you at the same speed as your stolen handbag/briefcase/child.
Yes, I know. Not the most universally useful app we have ever covered at Pocket Picks, but I think it is worth a mention just to show the kind of incredibly niche (yet very useful to those within that niche) apps that are out there.
Anchor Alert costs $11.95 from here and will work with a wide range of S60 and UIQ phones.
