If you are looking for a TomTom navigation app alike that is for free, but can do extra functionality such as check for traffic jam status, avoid seeing accidents, discover new on road camera, and even show hidden police, or share your current traffic jam status so other people and your friends can detour their routes in time to prevent unnecessary long wait then Waze is the best option for you as it not only offers appealing user experience but also offers plenty of features that can help you or help other to save their time of long waiting or getting a costly speeding ticket. 

About Waze
Let watch the video below to see what is Waze and how does it work...

Did you get all the needed information? what a good video huh? if you want to know more about how to use Waze, just leave me a comment. If I have time I will write another tutorial article, but for now let me continueto introduce Waze's main features.

Features
Navigate - A main feature that allows you to use Waze as a GPS navigate system which you can search for direction, setup your home and work location, add your friends, your girl friends (you wish huh?) or your favorite destinations for later use. Unlike other GPS device which limited you to only one pre-calculated route, Waze can also allow you to select different option of route if available like the way you search for bus routes in Google Map and you can select the less travel time route or the route that prevents traffic jam.

Reports - Another main feature and also the main selling feature in my opinion. Reports allow you to see numerous of events which happen on a specific road, for example accident on 99 street and 82 avenue, a hidden police is under a bridge on Calgary trail, a dead animal body on high way number 2, etc... , and these reports are updated in real time which mean you will see a popup warning message when something is just happening.

Report - Another report function? yes it is another report, but this one is for you to report to other users that whether you get stuck on a road, or you just saw a car accident, a car caught by a new camera, or you are pulled off by a hidden officer (hey this reminds me of my sad moments with those officers, after were pulled off by 2 different polices in 2 years, I really want to create an app that report hidden officers, but I think I don't have to do this anymore, thank you Waze). Here is the list of event you can report:

• Traffic jam
  
• Police
  
• Accident
  
• Hazard - dead animal body, land slide...
  
• Camera
  
• Chit Chat - a comment on a road such as "did you see a naked girl on 82 avenue?" :D
  
• Map issue - report missing road, missing sign...
  
• Pave - allows to "pave" the map, or fix the missing road issue
  
• Check in - this is for group thing which I'm still not really sure as I just start to use Waze for about 3 days

Other - This is not the feature name, but I want to categorize other worth to mention minor functionality, see below:

• My Scoreboard - an award system to recognize your achievement such as "Your first 10 miles", "Your first report"... if you play PS3 or XBox 360 games you will know what I mean.
  
• My mood - allows you to setup your avatar to express yourself like you are angry, happy, lol, scared...
  
• Settings - allows you to customize how Waze interact with you such as change guidance voice to either female or male, switch speaking language, and other advanced option which will discuss later in another post.

Summary
Free apps save money, but Waze also save you both time and money if used properly. Waze helps you to avoid unnecessary long wait time by providing an excellent traffic report system in real time. Waze is available for multiple well known platform like IPhone, Android, Windows Mobile 6+,... for free, but be aware to use it internationally because you may be charge for roaming fee, however, you can use local network from other country to save your rate. Finally thanks for reading my post.

It is very bad if you forget to bring your USB  thumb, which stores essential PowerPoint documents, to an important meeting to show your clients, and it is really terrible if you lost all the proposals that you proudly done through the days of hard working to show your picky boss. Perhaps, you are very confident of keeping your stuff safe and neat, but transferring a document to multiple devices is still a frustrating task by plugging and unplugging your USB thumb multiple times, and document from other devices may be out of dated.

The best solution is to store your document on a central server where you can access them from different devices via internet such as PC, IPhone, Android Phone, IPad, and tablet... You may think that if there is no internet then I can't access to my document, yes you are right and I can't help you much about this. However, free wifi access point is getting very common through out the world. You will mostly find wifi access point in most hotels as well as most express food restaurant such as McDonald, Tim Hortan, Star Buck, etc...but never ever ask your female clients to go to a hotel for a business meeting, well you maybe lucky but rarely :D. Just ask your clients go to a McDonald, for example, and treat them coffee or even lunch, haha just kidding.

Ok enough talk, and back to the main topic. So I will introduce you a cloud service solution from Dropbox. 

What is Dropbox? It is a “cloud” storage service/internet hard drive which you can access to any type of document from anywhere, anytime on any device as long as there is internet connection. You can also share documents to people you know. Current Dropbox offers 2Gb of storage for free, this mean if you have data more than 2Gb you have to pay a premium fee in order to store more data, but for text document, 2Gb can store 100,000+ of files which is... good enough. The good thing about Dropbox is it supports the most common OS such as Windows, Linux, Mac, iPhone, and Android. However, you can still access Dropbox web app from internet with any web browser without installing specific Dropbox application on your specific devices. Two separate tutorials for both Dropbox web app and Dropbox for devices are available. I recommend you to read both set of tutorials if you want to know more about the cons and pros of using different version of Dropbox.

Before you read these tutorials, I assume you that basic computer knowledge and internet operation are met so you can drag and drop, use IE to browse website, run downloaded file from IE etc...

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