When Apple released iOS 4.2 in November 2010 the Find My iPhone feature that was previously limited to MobileMe subscribers was added as a free service to iPhone 4 and 4th Generation iPod Touch owners. To access the service and locate your device an iPhone app was also released or alternatively you could go to http://me.com and login there to view your device in a web browser. These applications use a public API which has now been used by Tyler Hall to create Sosumi, a Mac application that does most of what the iPhone app and me.com website do, with the exceptions being that it does not provide Remote Wipe or Remote Lock functions.
Sosumi does have a couple of benefits over the Apple offerings however, firstly you don’t have to keep logging into it unlike both the iPhone app and the me.com website which require you to login each time you open them. Secondly Sosumi displays the current battery level of your device as well as whether it is currently on charge or not. This could be fairly useful information if you were unfortunate enough to lose your phone and wanted to track it down using this app, as it would give you some idea of how long you had before potentially losing contact with it if the battery were to die.
Sosumi is a tiny 800Kb download and is currently free from http://clickontyler.com/sosumi. If you have an iPhone and have registered with Find My iPhone ( and if you haven’t then why haven’t you ? ) Sosumi is a recommended way of keeping tabs on your phone/iPod.
Note : Sosumi is the name of one of the system sounds from Macintosh System 7 Operating System and is a play on the words “so sue me” aimed at Apple Corp, the owner of the Beatles music rights.
