“While we love the iPhone and its Google Maps application, we still found ourselves printing directions from Google when in a hurry. Why? Because there wasn’t a fast way to get that address and map to our iPhones. So, we made iPhoneSender,” explains developer Design Is Fuel.
iPhoneSender allows you to email a Google Map link to your iPhone.
iPhoneSender works on any Mac OS X or Windows machine with Firefox or Safari installed.
In Safari: Drag the Safari bookmarklet to your Bookmarks Bar. Then highlight an address on any web page, and click the bookmarklet in your bar. iPhoneSender prompts you for your email address, then sends you the properly-formatted Google map link.
In Firefox: Download the Firefox extension. Then highlight an address on any web page, right-click (or control+ click) and select “Send Map Link to iPhone.” iPhoneSender prompts you for your email address, then sends you the properly-formatted Google map link.
On iPhone: Check your email and click the link. The iPhoneSender link will launch the Google Map application for you. From there you can get directions or add it directly to your address book.
iPhoneSender is free. Donations are welcome.
More info here.
[Attribution: iLounge]
An better way to go this.
Get your directions in Google Maps then click on the send Link in the upper right. Use your email address for both email fields (send and two) and click send!
Check your email on your iPhone and click on the link!
Done, you don’t even need a third party app.
Have a nice day
Or you could just look up the directions on your iPhone. – How much of a hurry can you be in? It only takes a few seconds…
grok… How insightful! You must’ve felt like a genius after posting that bit of wisdom.
However, you completely overlook:
– moments when the phone isn’t on your person.
– moments when the phone is slower than a full computer (which is all the time).
– moments when the phone crashed and restart the application and you don’t have time to wait for the iPhone to catch up to you.
– moments when the computer has a fast connection and the iPhone is connected via “E”.
– moments when you and your iPhone are indoors (iPhones are always much slower unless connected to WiFi).
But… “just use your iPhone instead” is still valuable advice.
Many people are looking up directions and other information all at the same time on their PC. but the send link inside google maps works well.
This is where clipboard and copy/paste functionality comes in handy.
I use clipboardshare menu item. It uses bonjour and I click click to get or send to the clipboard contents of my other macs. So when i find that really cool link and I need to send it to me other machine I can do it without email or ichat. If I could install a version for the iPhone I could simply copy the data. Ichat bonjour would also work but that isn’t installed yet. Where is that SDK?
MPC Guy – Easy, Chester! But, if I may…
-if your phone isn’t on your person, how will you use it for directions from email?
-even on ‘E’, directions from the Maps app on my iPhone takes less than 1 minute, including typing the address
-if your iPhone has crashed and can’t ‘catch up to you’, again – how will you use it for directions from email?
-wouldn’t just checking your email on iPhone take just as long as typing in the link in Maps?
But… far be it from me to deprive you of the ‘install applet -> desktop Google -> click link -> type email address -> send email -> check email on iPhone -> click link part 2’ method. Knock yourself out. That sounds faster…
(doing my best bevis impersonation)
heh heh, heh heh heh… mpc guy got grok’d. heh heh. heheheh.
> Beleagured wrote: mpc guy got grok’d.
Nah, you’re just childish enough to think those were remotely intelligent responses. Go sit in a corner somewhere, child.
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re grok:
>”-if your phone isn’t on your person, how will you use it for directions from email?”
Try taking it off the charger when it’s done charging. That’s one situation. When you get back to your car, that’s another. When the person using the phone is done with it. When it’s done rebooting. You can’t imagine moments when a phone isn’t on your body?
>”-even on ‘E’, directions from the Maps app on my iPhone takes less than 1 minute, including typing the address”
Congratulations. You’re the fastest Maps-checker on the planet. Are you available 24-7 for everyone else to put your hard-earned Maps skill to use for them? This isn’t a pissing contest in which you being the fastest Maps user solves anything. Does showing off your Maps speed really make you feel any better? It certainly doesn’t lessen the fact the reception, internet connection speed, and such may nullify the mobility and ease-of-use the iPhone allows for. But good job trying to show off your Maps-speed-skills. You should feel “cool”.
>”-if your iPhone has crashed and can’t ‘catch up to you’, again – how will you use it for directions from email?”
When it reboots. You know it can do that right?
>”-wouldn’t just checking your email on iPhone take just as long as typing in the link in Maps?
Indoors, cellphone reception and internet speed drops. Connect to WiFi and it’s not so bad. Other helpful things about using a regular pc is full-sized keyboards, broadband speeds, and access to Flash-based sites. I’ve surfed a couple of pages that are flash-based, so typing in directions on the phone would’ve been impossible.
I’m starting to get the feeling you don’t even own a phone. Your responses weren’t well thought out at all.
What the hell are you people arguing about? Is coffee better than tea? Is Bush smarter than a tree? Wait…bad example.
(But it rhymes! Someone wanna put that to music?)
Use it or don’t. Either way works so use whichever you want. For god’s sake!
Maybe grok is available to tutor MPC Gay about the iPhone.
>McFly wrote @ 03:35 am: MPC Gay…
Thought the kiddies were supposed to be in bed. Go to bed, kiddie. You’ve got school in the morning.
@ MPC (Minuscule Penis Complex) Guy
Fair suck of the sav! … you wowser, stop being a complete bogan, you blow in with your budgie smugglers pulled all the way up to your chin, looking like a drongo and sounding like a total wanker with your brown-eyed mullet comments.
You are as helpful as a chocolate teapot and If your brain was made of electricity, you would be a walking blackout.
MPC Guy – He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others.” –
MPC Guy – A modest little person, with much to be modest about.
MPC Guy – He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
MPC Guy – He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
MPC Guy – I’ve just learned about his illness. Let’s hope it’s nothing trivial.
MPC Guy – He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up.
MPC Guy – He had delusions of adequacy.
Pathetic! You’re one sad case!
If you can’t come up with anything intelligent to say, you attack someone on a personal level. Even at that, you had to resort to opening a book of quotes to come up with “your” verbal jabs. No wonder your original comments were so easily dismissed! You lack the ability to come up with something on your own. How sad for you!
Despite all that, it’s not my goal to reduce your esteem any further. Since acting the idiot on the Internet is what props up your esteem, I’ll leave you with that at least.
Good day. More importantly, good luck.
People like Skylark sure make Mac users look like a bunch of assholes.
I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it. ~ Wilson Mizner
@Vince 86 – Well, that was a little très gauche of you and by the way It’s SKY LARK not skylark, bozo.
So, besides your dislike of me, what are your enlightened thoughts of MPC Guy’s unwarranted onslaught when he first waded in guns blazing? Did you get yourself in a fluster because I took MPC Guy to task for being a total goober. MPC Guy’s unnecessary and churlish remonstration of poster grok, who had posted an innocuous straight forward line of thought, was well out of order.
Look at MPC Guy’s turgid response to me –
“Pathetic! You’re one sad case!”
– I say to you V86, read the whole thread from the top to put MPC Guy into perspective.
“If you can’t come up with anything intelligent to say, you attack someone on a personal level.”
– That’s too frick’n funny coming from someone who had just beforehand let lose with this gem. “grok… How insightful! You must’ve felt like a genius after posting that bit of wisdom.” and “Nah, you’re just childish enough to think those were remotely intelligent responses. Go sit in a corner somewhere, child.”
MPC Guy continues, by berating me for my use of quotes –
“Even at that, you had to resort to opening a book of quotes to come up with “your” verbal jabs.”
– Quote, verb, to repeat or copy out (a group of words from a text or speech), typically with an indication that one is not the original author or speaker ~ Apple dictionary. As I did, besides the net is a much faster option than my books, copy n’ paste, but the MO is to recognise the truth and the underlying sentiments of the quote and person being quoted, it makes the resonance authentic. Verbal? wtf.
MPC Guy continues further –
“No wonder your original comments were so easily dismissed! You lack the ability to come up with something on your own. How sad for you!”
– Dismissed? look at the time frames Vince 86, where were you when you were needed?
– My initial comments were intended to be flippant but, they were my own 🙁 I especially liked the “MPC (Minuscule Penis Complex) Guy” and the “you blow in with your budgie smugglers pulled all the way up to your chin” a nice Aussie touch.
MPC Guy rounds up his lame comeback with –
“Despite all that, it’s not my goal to reduce your esteem any further. Since acting the idiot on the Internet is what props up your esteem, I’ll leave you with that at least.
Good day. More importantly, good luck.”
– Well, lucky me, NOW he wants to claim the moral nigh ground, being the noble mentor n’ all, sorry, that doesn’t wash with me, but acting the idiot when dealing with idiots is fun for sure.
Let me set the record straight for you Vince 86, I don’t give a rats ass of your simpleminded opinions, because I like to diss dipshits like MPC Guy and poxy tryhards like you.
As for the quotes …
Mention or refer to (someone or something) to provide evidence or authority for a statement, argument, or opinion.
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Someone might say of me that I have only made a bouquet of other people’s flowers here, having supplied nothing of my own but the thread to bind them. ~ Michel de Montaigne
To be fair …
He wrapped himself in quotations – as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors. ~ Rudyard Kipling.
Over to you.
Pointing out some of the childish things you’ve done makes me a bad person?
You berated me on a personal level – from penis size to being mentally inadequate. Your intelligent response amounted to nothing but personal attacks. Even worse, you couldn’t even write the witty responses yourself, resorting to quoting witty things other people said.
It’s obvious that people don’t buy into your silly rants. You’re the type that does give Mac users (any group actually) a bad name.
MPC Guy, Yes you are correct, I berated me on a personal level – from penis size to being mentally inadequate, that was my intention, get over it, if you can’t stand the heat – get out!
I notice once again that you ignore mentioning your unnecessary personal rants against grok or apologizing for them, it is these comments that instigated my vitriolic and personal comments about you – Mate, if you talk the talk then walk the walk / if you dish it out, then be prepared to take it back.
“It’s obvious that people don’t buy into your silly rants. You’re the type that does give Mac users (any group actually) a bad name.”
– I’m not looking for other people to buy into my rants, why would I care what other people think about me … your use of this ruse is not only futile, it’s puerile.
– As for me being the type that gives a bad name to Mac users or other groups, I can live with that, if those people are bereft of lucid and coherent thoughts.
Please, don’t respond to this post with the same sort of indignation regarding my commentary of your character, not at least without some sort of self-reproach, as I will consider you as irrational and I am sure you are not that.
Just admit (at least to yourself) that your initial post above, time stamped at Feb 04, 08 – 03:15 pm was unfair and uncalled for, It’s there for all to see.
So besides the fun n’ games, I stand by my retaliatory personal barbs, my use of quotes, my trite jokes about your “handle” and I don’t concern myself about how others perceive me on this issue.
>Skylark: Just admit that your initial post above, was unfair and uncalled for…
Oh is that what your goal was? I thought you were trying to defend someone else’s asinine commentary.
Since you were so thoroughly trounced, I’ll do it. Sorry I hurt your feelings little boy! But do try and not get so wound up and uptight about things you read on the Internet.
>I notice once again that you ignore mentioning your unnecessary personal rants…
Maybe next time, you’ll choose to defend someone that didn’t post a stupid comment. Was pointing it out unneccessary? Maybe. But why attack me for pointing out the foolish thing someone else said? Grok posted something very stupid; I merely demonstrated just how stupid it was.
>I don’t concern myself about how others perceive me on this issue.
Obviously you don’t. Otherwise, you wouldn’t post such imbecilic commentary in a public forum and then throw a hissy fit when you’re called out on it.
You know what you did. It’s clear your feelings were hurt, but maybe next time you won’t act like a child. Chalk this one up as a learning experience and grow up.
G’day. This is my last post on this subject.