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[Ogul]

Google Maps are back! No more getting lost in the desert or finding downtown expressways on the tops of mountains or whatever other shenanigans Apple's map program gets up to.Now, if only you could trade Siri in for Google Now.

[Todd Gross]

I always used Mapquest. I always found it better than Google.

[Ron Mays Jr]

Google Maps has its own problems. Just this week, my wife's Android running Google Maps took her in a complete circle (45 minutes) for a trip that should have been 15 minutes. At least Apple's program is relatively new and has some bugs to work out. Google's system should be fairly robust by this point.

[Ogul]

Google Maps has its own problems. Just this week, my wife's Android running Google Maps took her in a complete circle (45 minutes) for a trip that should have been 15 minutes. At least Apple's program is relatively new and has some bugs to work out. Google's system should be fairly robust by this point.

Their routing is not always ideal, but the maps work at least. I do wish that the App was as functional as their web version. The thing I love about that one is how you can just click anywhere on the lines and drag them to a new route. If the route it gives by default leads you squirreling through back country? No problem, you can just force a point onto a nearby interstate and it will reroute to take that into account. There doesn't seem to be a way to do that with the app though, any dragging I try to do just moves the page around.

[jamon g]

did another get started? no? ok
so the surface is crapping out in sales. looks like they're dropping production to a quarter from estimated numbers. if they end up flogging them for like 150 bucks i reckon i'd buy one.

[Todd Gross]

Actually, a tech thread was started: http://forums.millar...s-iphone-users/

[jamon g]

crap. couldn't see it in the pub. port me posts please

[Todd Gross]

so the surface is crapping out in sales. looks like they're dropping production to a quarter from estimated numbers. if they end up flogging them for like 150 bucks i reckon i'd buy one.

Down to a quarter? Sheesh. Last I heard they were halfing them.

[Youri Zoutman]

GREAT new for iPhone owners!

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[Steve Sensible]

Microsoft buys Santa Claus.

After years with Google, the US military's Santa tracking service is switching to Microsoft Bing.

EDIT: Can someone change the thread title so it's clear that this is the tech thread rather than just a random iPhone thread?

[Andrew]

...but iPhone is the epitome of "tech"...

[al-x]

EDIT: Can someone change the thread title so it's clear that this is the tech thread rather than just a random iPhone thread?

Yes... call it the Tech thread or something and while the mod is at it, close the other thread "tickle me Techno" that is further down the page.

Here is what happens in an Internet minute...

[jamon g]

or better yet change this title to tickle me techno because i thought of it, it's christmas related and better than ogul's!

[Steve Sensible]

When technology goes bad...




Thanks to this, I'm kind of hoping the world does end on Friday. At the very least I'd like a comet to flatten Disneyland.

[The Lorcan Nagle]

Especially for Al:

[al-x]

lol

I'll be at my mom's house soon and hope to call my cousin who has an Iphone. We are planning for a "face to face" phonecall, then give our phones to our moms so they can talk and see each other and afterwards talk about how cool an experience it was. It is alway nice to get older ones into the 21st century. Isn't technology grand?

[Mike]

I think you should do what Tim did and post the whole lesson plan.

[craggy]

I wish there was a Zack Morris phone, with built-in time-freezing button, 4th-wall-breaking app and getting married to Tiffany Thiessen in Hawaii powers.

[al-x]

I wish there was a Zach Morris app... Anyway, I got a protective covering for the phone, as I would hate to spend so much and accidently drop it on a hard floor or in water.

[Youri Zoutman]

It's good day for apps.

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