The Beantown Bloggery

This is quite the idea. A couple of enterprising folks have created an iphone application that helps you to track where you parked your car and keep track of street cleaning days and what not to help you prevent unnecessary tickets and/or tows.

SWEEP:BOS will help you keep track of where your car is parked, your neighborhood's street sweeping schedule, and snow emergency routes so you can stop wasting time and money at the tow lot.

Sounds really useful, and according to the website they've got quite a few Boston neighborhoods included in their data. This would have come in handy back in the day when I lived in the South End. But nowdays I park in a garage, so I don't have to deal with this problem nearly as often.

Unfortunately, I promised myself that I'd try to stop giving all my money to Steve Jobs (after the ipod, iphone, and macbook) so I only download apps that are free. This one is $1.99 which is definitely a bargain if it saves you from even just one ticket. But ya'll will have to test it for yourself. I'm not springing for the two bucks.