Track Santa on your iPhone
Gonna be out and about, away from a computer? You can keep your little ones — kids from one to 92 — up to date on old Saint Nicholas’ progress as spreads cheer (and goodies) around the world.
The best things in life are and for everything else? There’s an app for that.
Quite naturally there are apps for tracking Santa Claus and his sleigh as they whisk from home to home, nation to nation filling stockings and generally just making spirits bright:
• Santa Tracker 3D (iTunes, $0.99)
— Ho! Ho! Ho! Santa Tracking for the 21st Century! In the same way that NORAD’s radar tracker provided previous generation with updates of Santa’s location, knowing where jolly Saint Nicholas is at enters the iPhone age!
• SantaTrack (iTunes, $0.99)
— This is just a fun little app I wrote for my daughter to track Santa’s progress on Christmas morning as he delivers toys to all the good little boys and girls around the world.
• Santa Tracker: Countdown & Journey GPS Tracker (iTunes, $0.99)
— Open the App before Christmas Eve and you can see a Countdown in days, hours, minutes and seconds, and hear Santa preparing for his big journey around the world to give presents to all the little boys and girls!
And, yes, if you are at home, you can track Saint Nick using the Official NORAD Santa Tracker and SantaClaus.net.
Please report any first hand Santa sightings here in the comments…
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May 15th, 2010
Since the sun moves in the sky on a very predictable course you don’t need a closed loop control system to track it. All you need is a clock-drive motor and the proper gearing for your latitude. The clock drive motor will move at a constant rotational velocity based on time, and when it is geared down properly the angle of the shaft will follow the sun.