September 11, 2001, is a horrific day that will forever live in the minds of everyone around the world in which 2,983 innocent people went into work like any regular day only to never come home. Wives, fathers, mothers, brother, sisters, grandparents, and children were taken without warning by evil on this now infamous date and will forever be remembered in our hearts.

Opening on September 11, 2011, as a memorial for those taken so quickly for no apparent reason at all, the 9/11 Memorial has already recorded around two million visitors, with those numbers continuing to climb by the day. With over eight acres and two Memorial Pools each of which have a 30-foot waterfall and a center hole that extends 15 feet into the ground, a visit to this location is sure to be an emotional experience for even the toughest people out there.

A main reason many visitors travel to the site where this catastrophe happened is to see their fallen loved ones name etched in stone, bearing their memory until the end of time. However, for some reason, the overwhelming amount of names are not listed in alphabetic order so it can be quite a task for someone already extremely disheartened to manually search through each and every list.

Luckily, technology is once again here to save the day in the form of a mobile app that helps visitors easily find the name of the one they looking for. With the creation of the application being funded by the organization who initially designed the memorial, the site also boasts WiFi capability to empower users to leverage their handy iPhone, Android (News - Alert) or Windows phone to download the app without delay.

According to a recent article featuring Sean Anderson, the CTO of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, the 9/11 Memorial Guide app also assists visitors to locate names for which a series of oral histories have been recorded – and to listen to them. Currently, there are nine oral histories available, but the app boasts the ability to increase its capacity as more stories continue to be recorded.  In addition, the app also lets people who have sponsored one of the thousands of cobblestones that are now located at the memorial site but bare no markings to pinpoint the exact destination of their stone.

Only available to iPhone (News - Alert) users for now anyway, there is a second app called Explore 9/11 that serves as a virtual tour guide around the World Trade Center site, plays audio stories and show photos that pertain to where they are at within the site, and graphically shows a timeline of the events of 9/11 with one of a kind photographs.

A really cool feature of the Explore 9/11 app is its augmented reality feature – a capability that Anderson revealed enables users of the app to see when they're at a location where geotagged photos were taken over the years, looking at an augmented-reality overlay that depicts both the current view and the photo from the aftermath of 9/11.

For everyone that knew someone who was so viciously taken in 9/11, life will forever be changed. But with the help of technology, hopefully the grieving process won’t be as devastating.