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Mac 101: Get a Google Map from Address Book contact

by Cory Bohon (RSS feed) on Sep 24th, 2008

How many times have you looked at an Address Book contact address, only to realize that you don't know where they're located? What do you do? Most would copy and paste the address into Google Maps, but there is a better way!

In a contact's Address Book card, right-clicking on an address and clicking on "Map Of" will launch your default browser and map out the address in Google Maps.

If you are using Tiger, you will need to install a plug-in, however, this tip works beautifully in Mac OS X Leopard.

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Tags: address, Address Book, AddressBook, Google Map, GoogleMap, Mac 101, Mac101, map

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Software, Tips and tricks, Odds and ends, iPhone

iPhoneSender sends addresses to the iPhone's Google Maps

by Mike Schramm (RSS feed) on Dec 27th, 2007

Even I can see that this one is a little lazy, but hey, maybe someone out there will be looking for a way to more easily send street addresses to their iPhone without actually typing them in. What? That's you? Well then, pardner, you're in luck-- give iPhoneSender a look.

It is a Safari bookmarklet and/or Firefox extension that, when it spots a street address on a web page, will let you right click the address, ask for an email, and then send that address, in convenient Google maps format, directly to your iPhone. It's all of the iPhone's Google maps functionality, without any of the actual address-typing that usually requires.

Lazy? Perhaps. But I can see a sliver of a demand there-- what if you're rushing out the door to the pizza place, but didn't remember to print out the directions and don't have enough time to write the address down to punch in later? Like many things in life, you might not realize how necessary this little extension is until you actually have to use it.

Thanks, Matt L!

Tags: address, bookmarklet, email, firefox, google-maps, iphone-sender, lazy, safari

Filed under: Software, Cool tools, Internet Tools, Universal Binary

Fill in your Address Book with GoogleFill

by David Chartier (RSS feed) on Apr 27th, 2006

In an eerie example of just how much information Google can access and what users can do with it, GoogleFill is a handy plug-in that can fill an Address Book contact's address by using a Google reverse search on their phone number. The latest 1.1 version update brings UniBin goodness along with a smarter lookup process.

GoogleFill is donationware and available from Longhound.com.

Tags: address, Google, GoogleFill, lookup, phone number, PhoneNumber, plug-in, plugin, reverse search, ReverseSearch, utility

Filed under: iLife, Software, Odds and ends

iWeb update simplifies URLs

by David Chartier (RSS feed) on Feb 16th, 2006

The iLife Updates Apple released yesterday fixed a gripe some users (including myself) had with the new URL scheme that iWeb employed. With its original release, an iWeb site's URL was http://web.mac.com/username/iWeb/. Leaving that last /iWeb/ off the URL would result in a 404 error. While this isn't a big deal to some, it's just one extra quirky name to add to a URL. To those unfamiliar with the internets however, .Mac and iWeb could mess up, resulting in that exponentially increasing frustration that usually leads to users simply giving up on the endeavor.

After installing the 1.0.1 update last night and making changes to some of my iWeb pages, I was pleased to see the URL in the "announce your site" confirmation window chopped down to simply http://web.mac.com/username. This not only makes the URL a little easier to remember and pass around, it also adds a bit more credibility to the URL, especially over the previous http://homepage.mac.com/username scheme.

Tags: .Mac, address, dotmac, homepag, iLife, iWeb, scheme, URL

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