A service called “Checkmate” is a blessing in disguise for Fuorsquare addicts as it provides an easy way to check-in to various locations without much effort. Its not a chess game as it sounds, but instead it offers an application that would run on the background of your iPhone and would provide you with automatic check-in wherever you go. Checkmate doesn’t offer this service for free, it comes with a price tag of $1.99. Its a very attractive way for those who want to enjoy this geo-social game at its best and play it aggressively. The new functionality in iPhone to support background application has been utilized to its full potential by this service and its been used for automatic checkins on user specified locations. After you download Checkmates on your iPhone from Apple app store, you can select from various near-by avenues you are interested in checking-in whenever you are there. Those venues would be added to your “Auto Checkin Venues” list. Forming the list doesn’t mean that all the venues have to be checked-in; you can always add or remove items from the list and toggle on or off between various venues. Whenever you come in a range of 50m of the venue specified in the list, then the checkmate would automatically make a check-in for you on foursquare. As background applications are supported on iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 only, Checkmate service is limited to those devices. You might also like to know that more apps on the background of your phone means quick drain of the battery, so if you are willing to save some battery life, you can adjust the GPS settings within this application and make a periodic counter for more battery-friendly check-ins. Also, this app gives you the option to share your current foursquare check-in on facebook and twitter. If you are interested in getting a similar application developed for your company or for yourself that suits your business, then please feel free to drop us an Email on our given email address. We are a iPhone application development company consisting of experienced iPhone app developers. Feel free to call us or request a free quote.
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