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iPhoneSender sends addresses to the iPhone's Google Maps
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!
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Alan said 8:28PM on 12-27-2007
Didn't work for me, I couldn't click the link with my iPhone....
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MattH said 8:41PM on 12-27-2007
I drug it to my address bar on my mac, put in the email address and it sent this to my email: http://maps.google.com/?q=null
I don't get how you are supposed to highlight an address on another page then somehow navigate to this page and drag the icon to the address bar....
can someone please explain this to me?
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punkassjim said 9:17PM on 12-27-2007
1. You add the bookmarklet to your bookmarks.
2. You go to a page with an address.
3. You drag to select the address.
4. You choose the bookmarklet from your bookmarks bar or menu.
5. You type in your email address.
6. You get an email with a properly formatted gmaps link.
I just tried it, and it works like a charm. Hey Mike, it's not the most elegant thing in the world, but I'll give you a perfect real-world example that's not exactly lazy: I'm heading out on a saturday afternoon to hit up junkyards all over the bay area, many of which are easily found on google. I get to a search results page, and rapid-fire this bookmarklet to send a dozen gmaps links to my phone. Again, not very elegant, but it sure as hell beats the ways in which I've had to do this before.
MattH said 9:50PM on 12-27-2007
ahhhh - thanks!
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