Gas price App???

[iselfdevi]

In the carputer world (mp3car.com) they have an app the searches for the cheapest gas prices using the internet. It would be really nice to have this app on my Tynt. Does anyone know of a wm verison os this software? If not, can someone create one? This tool would be super useful.

[franjoe1985]

That is a stupid idea. It would have to be updated every 5 minutes. Have you got the time to be typing ingas prices for the whole world every 5 minutes?

[lextendo]

The name of the app and a link to it would be appreciated ;)

I guess creating a ppc client for the 'gas-price-database' is not a big problem. The question is, if the original authors would alllow such a port. I presume you must have a subcription to download the gasprice data?

A easier solution would be a webpage tough, since you need to go online anyway to get the latest data...

[rmedad]

In the carputer world (mp3car.com) they have an app the searches for the cheapest gas prices using the internet. It would be really nice to have this app on my Tynt. Does anyone know of a wm verison os this software? If not, can someone create one? This tool would be super useful.

http://autos.msn.com/everyday/GasStations.aspx?m=1&l=1&zip=00000&x=11&y=11

[weinson]

There is also an Apple osx widget which provides this information... see here for the link (http://www.interdimensionmedia.com/widgets/index.html). According to the website, they are pulling their data from "Gas Price Watch (http://www.gaspricewatch.com/new/)" a company which may allow for a PPC app to poll/pull the same data.

The data is out there (at least in the US) and accessible for free to Mac Users .. so no reason it should not be accessible for PPC users too.

[iselfdevi]

So is it doable? With gas prices in the rise again, it would be nice to know where the cheapest gas is. Anyone down to code this one out?:)

[iselfdevi]

That is a stupid idea. It would have to be updated every 5 minutes. Have you got the time to be typing ingas prices for the whole world every 5 minutes?

i dont think you get the idea here. its more like the prices coming to you. its pretty much the same process as the weather plugin the SPB offers.

[iselfdevi]

is anyone going to tackle this very useful idea?

[weinson]

someone did .. for the mobile phone crowd .. see this site (http://www.getmobio.com/)

[darkanion]

Admittedly, it's not an "app," but... Why not just open your phone's browser, go to GasBuddyToGo.com and enter your zip? Yeah, an app would be cool. But, at least GasBuddyToGo.com gives you a way to do it, until someone comes up with the app...

See ya!

[st3v3]

lmao i dont pay for petrol but i guess someone would find this usefull.

this would be better as a constantly updated POI in tomtom or some sort of GPS thing, but cant see it happeneing in the near future