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iPhone January update, coming soon to an iTunes near you

by Mike Schramm (RSS feed) on Jan 15th, 2008


I don't know about you all, but considering I'm not in the market for a pricey, tiny notebook, and I don't need yet another thing hooked up to my TV, the best news I heard at the Keynote today was about this iPhone "January update" (does that mean there'll be one every month?) coming soon to your iTunes. Included in the free update to iPhone users:
  • An updated Maps that will actually find your location automatically by triangulating cell towers (we saw this a while ago), and give you the option to add a pin to the map
  • Web Clips, cutouts of web pages that you can attach to an icon sitting right there on the homescreen.
  • A customizable homescreen and dock (just hold an icon to get them wiggling, and then move them around as you please), and up to nine homescreen pages total
  • The update will also add chapter navigation for iPhone video, and subtitle/audio options as well.
  • And though the readers in our IRC channel weren't very impressed with this one, the iPhone will now feature multiple SMS sending.
Very awesome update for the iPhone, completely free and available on download in iTunes right now (!), and definitely an update that will set the stage for all the third party applications we're supposed to see next month. Bring on the SDK!

Tags: google-maps, homescreen, iphone, keynote, macworld08, maps, steve, update, web-clips, wiggly

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

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