PadMapper user @silentverbosity came up with a great idea and shared it on Twitter – make PadMapper into a desktop style app using Prism from Mozilla (a nifty program that runs a website from the desktop in a browser without the navigation bar, etc). You can find that here: http://prism.mozillalabs.com
Chrome users can do this as [...]
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Make PadMapper a Desktop App and Save Time with your Apartment Hunt
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Comparison Pricing
If you’ve been using PadMapper today, you may have noticed that there is now an additional piece of info in each bubble: how much more or less expensive that place is than the median xyz BR in the area.
It doesn’t necessarily work very well in sparse areas, so take it with a grain of salt, [...]
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PadMapper iPhone App V2.0 – Mobile Apartment Search, Now With Mapping
After a bit of wrestling with the iPhone’s SDK, and an unexpectedly short review period by Apple (way to finally step it up guys), the iPhone version of PadMapper.com is now substantially different (and better, I hope).
If you don’t want to read my ramblings below, and instead want to try it out straightaway, go here [...]
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Show Favorites Only Filter, and Favorite Coloring
The favorites list just got a bit more useful! If you open up the favorites list, you’ll see an option to show only favorited listings. Also, when you save something as a favorite now, it’ll change from red/gray to green.
You might notice that you sometimes can’t see all of the favorites at a given time, [...]
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Apartment Listing Alert Frequency Options
Some people have sent feedback saying that hourly apartment listing email alerts were burying their email inboxes in alerts, and they didn’t really want to be kept that up to date. So now, there’s an option for daily alerts as well!
With that option, you’ll get one big email sometime in the afternoon, rather than up [...]
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Walk Score
You may or may not have noticed, but a couple days ago, a link appeared on the bottom bar of the listing bubbles referring to something called “Walk Score”.
Walk Score is a neat service from the good folks at Front Seat that summarizes how walkable a location is, and lets you see how far you [...]
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PadMapper.co.uk Brings Map-Based Flat Search to the UK
I just launched PadMapper.co.uk to help the people over on the other side of the Atlantic find flats to rent and sublet. It includes most of the major cities (London, Manchester, Leeds, Bristol, others), as well as lots of small cities, and almost all of the normal PadMappery goodness.
You can actually access it by dragging [...]
More Persistent PadMapper, Link to Current View, Embedding, Facebook Listing Sharing, and more
I’ve been pretty busy over the past week or so, and it’s brought with it a host of new features that people have asked for, and some that people didn’t, but I thought would improve the experience. I’ll go over them. Note: Some of these are experimental and might be going away if they don’t see [...]
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Email Alerts
If you’re looking at an area you want to live in, and you have your filters set up the way you want, you can now subscribe to that search and you’ll get email alerts (up to 1/hour) when there’s a new listing that would appear on that screen.
All you have to do is navigate to [...]
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Persistent PadMapper
All new! Now, when you go to PadMapper, mess around, leave to do other stuff, and then come back, PadMapper will be where you left it (with a few caveats, see below). This was probably the most requested feature for a long time, so I finally put the time in to implement it. Hopefully you [...]
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