AutoPark from Frolicware allows your iPhone to keep track of the time left on your parking meter and exactly where you parked your car. The app doesn’t even have to be running, as it uses push notifications to let you know when the time on your meter is almost expired. The GPS function pinpoints your car on a map, and AutoPark allows you to set location in the parking structure via colors, levels, letters and numbers.  You can even add notes or take a picture of where your car is.

Other services include finding nearby gas stations, banks, and public restrooms (with more services promised). One-Button Email allows you to let others know where you parked your car, incase you need someone else to find it.

[via iTunes Store $4.99]

For iPhone 3GS users that want true turn-by-turn navigation but don’t want to spend a fortune, MotionX GPS Drive is for you. One of its best features is the full iPhone Address Book integration, just select an entry in your iPhone contacts list, and MotionX will get you there. While navigating, you can access playlists and listen to your music, audiobooks, and podcasts without going back and forth between applications. You can even place a phone call directly from search results. If you want live voice directions MotionX even comes with a full free 30 day Live Voice Guidance package. Courtesy of MotionX. After the first 30-days, you can purchase the Live Voice Guidance during the months you need it for $2.99 or purchase a full year for $24.99.

With MotionX-Routes™ technology, “the MotionX Smart Router calculates the best route, whether you are driving or walking.” The walking routes are designed specifically for pedestrians, so if you park your car several blocks away, it will “walk you” to your destination and back to your car.

[From the iTunes App Store .99¢ to $4.99]

TomTom, a major player in the GPS market who’s software is the closest thing we have to an Apple produced GPS, has finally delivered on their Macworld promise and released TomTom for the iPhone. Starting with New Zealand, Australia, North America and Western Europe you can now order the software fro, the iTunes store. Keep in mind that this does not include the announced TomTom iPhone car kit, which is rumored to be bundled with the mapping software, that mounts and charges your iPhone 3G or 3GS while enhancing its GPS performance. performance, speaker, and microphone.

[via the iTunes Store]

TomTom announced at CES their new Go 740 Live GPS, which is their first to have a built-in cellular connection, used to update traffic, weather and other live information.

Before the 740, you had to use your phone’s data connection via Bluetooth. The GO 740 Live has this service built-in, free for a year. The unit also updates map corrections. 

Besides “Lane-Guidance” the GO 740 also uses “IQ Routes” to calculate arrival times, based on time of day and weekend vs weekday traffic patterns, gathered from other TomTom users.

According to TomTom the GO 740 uses the GPRS network, and here in the US, that will be provided by AT&T.