About two years ago I discovered Geocaching. This fun activity revolves around people who hide caches of small items in out-of-the-way locations. Typically these caches will be small watertight compartments with a dozen different tiny trinkets and a log book for finders to sign. A popular web site, geocaching.com, serves as the central point for registering and discovering different caches. The Geopher Lite application for iphone integrates with geochaching.com so that you can instantly search your current location to find any nearby caches. Make no mistake that you are probably NOT going very deep into a heavily wooded area with your iPhone GPS because the signal won’t penetrate the dense woods. But for adhoc geocaching when you want a quick look a what cache’s may be hidden nearby - this could be worth far more than the $4.99 that the App Store charges.

Geopher lite

Google just updated the iPhone version of their web site so it displays search results more clearly. I also noticed tonight (though it may not be new) that the site tries to suggest search terms as you are typing. Each Google application has a new icon and can be accessed directly from the home screen. Users of Google Apps for domains will be happy to know (this is not a new trick) that you can also access this new version by going to www.google.com/m/a/your-domain.com, where “your-domain.com” is replaced with your actual domain name. I use Google Apps for Domains exclusively for my company and having the Gmail application on my desktop is great for searching older emails (which I cannot do via the iPhone email client).

Official Google Mobile Blog