Listen up, Windows 7 aficionados: This one's for you.  You've no doubt noticed your operating system's lack of location-based functionality.  Unlike Apple's competing OSX, which can triangulate your system's position based on the geographical locations of nearby WiFi hotspots, you can't really... well.  You can't do any of that on Microsoft's platform.  While you might not need to know exactly where your desktop is (hint: your dwelling), it would sure be nice to have this feature for a more mobile system. 

And that's not even in the, "I'm lost in the wilderness and I see a bear help" sense.  Wouldn't it be great to automatically have the weather displayed for your current location on your Windows sidebar?  If you use Twitter (and yes, readers, I realize you hate Twitter), you could just as easily pull up a listing of messages centered around your particular location: "I just ate a great meal here," or "@bear2 There is a silly human wandering around here; I will eat him," et cetera.

Well, Microsoft hasn't come to your rescue on this one--a third-party developer has created an free application that allows you tap into the wonders of geolocation all by your lonesome.  Go fetch your laptop from the other room, then click the jump!