Track your packages on your iPhone
In addition to running The Apple Blog, I also run an interactive design/development firm called Sabotage Media where we build interactive jazz for clients and ourselves.
Something that we released recently was a little web app called TrackThePack that basically lets you track the various packages you have en route to you. It has RSS feeds and Google Maps built in so you know it’s hot stuff.
So how does this relate to Apple? Well while we do believe TrackThePack is the best package tracking app on the web, we’re pretty much positive it is the best (and possibly the only) tracking app designed to work specifically on mobile Safari (iPhone & iPod Touch).
So go ahead and check out TrackThePack on your iPhone or iPod Touch. But be careful, your addiction to tracking the shipping status of your new MacBook Air might get worse by doing so. Consider yourself warned.
Galley on March 19th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
Wow, that is cool! I just happened to put in the tracking number for my iPhone, which will arrive on Friday. :)
Bavster on March 20th, 2008 at 3:36 am
can we get some UK love for this too please?
Royalmail, Apple UK etc..?
would be awesome!!
Josh Pigford on March 20th, 2008 at 6:51 am
@Bavster: Easier said than done. The problem is that most of the other couriers don’t offer any sort of API to tie in to their system. It’s something we’re working on, but it will be a little while before it’s ready.
Bavster on March 20th, 2008 at 8:17 am
hi josh,
so how does the “Delivery Status” widget work then?
http://mikepiontek.com/software/mac/delivery-status.html
That tracks parcels for quite a few countries.. I would assume it would be just getting the right URL and appending the querystring?
Not 100% sure though
Just a heads up..
Josh Pigford on March 20th, 2008 at 9:09 am
@Bavster: That widget basically scrapes a page for the data. Going that route is a possibility but we’re trying to work directly with the couriers so we’ve got more control over the data. Page scraping is the last resort.