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While poking around the Extreme-Apps.com website after writing up Shake-and-Save, I found this other app that – as a driver at heart – I found pretty cool. gPC uses the accelerometer in your Windows Phone to give you all kinds of data on your driving, or as they put it, turn your phone into a “powerful vehicle performance calculator”.
This little app has some neat features that those with heavy feet might enjoy:
- Forward and lateral g forces measurements
- Horsepower vehicle’s calculation using device’s internal GPS receiver.
- Advanced processing methods of all calculated values, including g-forces (m/s^2), angles, GPS data and calculated horsepower (HP), while being saved to a proper log file by the user.
- 0 – 100 Km/h or 0 – 60 miles/h acceleration times calculations.
- Calculation of time and horsepower for 0 – 402 meter or 1/4 of mile acceleration times, while in dragster mode.
- Log opportunity of any of the max horsepower, g-forces or angles values.
- Drawing ‘circuit’ capability according to the longitude and latitude values measured by the internal GPS receiver.
- Speed and horsepower graphs utility using the appropriate user’s log files.
Give gPC a try for free by downloading it at the extreme-apps.com website. They ask that you donate for the full, registered version, but it doesn’t specify if the trial version is handicapped in some way. My Xperia doesn’t have an accelerometer, so if someone else can give it a try and let me know how it works…
Extreme? I don’t know. Novel, definitely. Extreme-apps.com has just put up Shake-and-Save on their website. Shake-and-Save lets you simply shake your Windows Phone and it will automatically do a screen capture and save it to in the format of your choice. This can be pretty handy for folks like me who do a lot of on-device screencaps.
