{"id":5246,"date":"2012-07-05T23:04:31","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T03:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=5246"},"modified":"2023-03-06T09:58:40","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T14:58:40","slug":"xtrail-1-0-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/05\/xtrail-1-0-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Xtrail 1.0.1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sophiestication.com\/xtrail\/\">Xtrail<\/a> ($5) is currently my GPS fitness app of choice. Its configurable interface is reminiscent of <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/24\/outside-the-app-store\/\">Kinetic<\/a> ($4), but it&rsquo;s simpler and more accurate at tracking my route. <a href=\"http:\/\/news.motionx.com\/category\/motionx-gps\/\">MotionX-GPS<\/a> ($1) has far better maps, but it requires a lot more taps to get things done. Xtrail is beautifully designed for making the common tasks easy. Alas, as is becoming common with iPhone apps, there&rsquo;s no documentation or support. I e-mailed the developer some questions and suggestions (twice) and never received a reply.<\/p>\n<p>Update (2012-07-06): After I blogged this, the developer sent a helpful reply and apologized for her support team overlooking my messages.<\/p>\n<p>Update (2013-09-17): <a href=\"http:\/\/sophiestication.com\/sevenyears\/\">Sophia Teutschler<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/sophiestication.com\/sevenyears\/\"><p>CoverSutra and Xtrail are no longer available for sale and won&rsquo;t get any more updates either. Both apps flopped and were also plagued with technical issues.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xtrail ($5) is currently my GPS fitness app of choice. Its configurable interface is reminiscent of Kinetic ($4), but it&rsquo;s simpler and more accurate at tracking my route. MotionX-GPS ($1) has far better maps, but it requires a lot more taps to get things done. Xtrail is beautifully designed for making the common tasks easy. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2020-10-05T18:20:26Z","apple_news_api_id":"118ad6a2-8469-4ee4-b901-69da30fc7cc7","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2023-03-06T14:58:44Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AEYrWooRpTuS5AWnaMPx8xw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2353,432,31,26,1994,2354],"class_list":["post-5246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-coversutra","tag-gps","tag-ios","tag-iosapp","tag-motionx-gps","tag-xtrail"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5246"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30342,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5246\/revisions\/30342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}