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Bette SchneidermanFind people you respect who are spending all their time immersed in technologies and learn from them. This piece is packed. David Pogue is a terrific resource.
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Wow. Nothing makes you appreciate something like losing it.
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What I realized is that mapping the world is a staggering, gigantic, vast, inconceivably huge and ambitious project. It represents years and years of hand-tuning and manual effort.
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But that’s just the basic data. “We start with licensed stuff, then expand and enhance it,” Mr. Gupta said. Google has supplemented it with years of additional data gathering, involving its Street View cars, satellite data and human labor.
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d it shows. As of 2008, for example, onto those digital maps of the world Google had overlaid 13 million miles of turn-by-turn directions in 22 countries; today, it has 26 million miles of guidance in 187 countries.
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the new iOS Maps app offers those features — spoken navigation, vector maps — and more.
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For big cities, you get Flyover, a super-cool 3-D photographic model of the actual buildings — but losing Google’s Street View feature is a real shame.
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During navigation guidance, you can’t rotate the map with your fingers or zoom in by more than a couple of degrees—to see your entire route, for example. Turns out you have to tap the screen and then tap Overview to access that more detailed, zoomable, rotatable map.
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Flyover and the vector maps require a fast Internet connection, by the way. When you’re not in a 4G cellular area, it can take quite awhile for the blank canvas to fill in. (Navigation and Flyover don’t work on the iPhone 3GS or 4, the original iPad, or pre-2012 iPod Touches.)
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Call smarts. These are some of my favorite new features. If you’re driving or in a meeting when a call comes in, you can flick upward on the screen to reveal two new buttons: Remind Me Later and Reply With Message. The first button offers choices like “In 1 hour” or “When I get home” (a message will remind you to call back); the second offers canned text messages, like “I’ll call you later” or a custom message, that let your caller know you can’t take the call now. Excellent.
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Do Not Disturb is also incredibly useful. It’s like Airplane Mode — the phone won’t buzz, ring or light up — except that (a) it can turn itself on during certain hours, like your sleeping hours, and (b) it can allow certain people’s calls or texts through (people on your phone’s Favorites list, for example). You can sleep soundly, knowing that your boss or family can reach you in an emergency, but idiot telemarketers will go straight to voice mail.
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(Similarly ingenious: The option called Repeated Calls. If someone calls you twice in three minutes — possibly someone who needs to reach you urgently — that call is allowed to ring during Do Not Disturb.)
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open apps by voice (“open Camera”). That’s a huge win.
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(AT&T doesn’t let you use FaceTime over cellular unless you have one of its complicated and expensive shared-data plans.)
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Safari browser. You can now save a Web page to read later, when you don’t have an Internet connection, and in landscape mode, a full-screen browsing mode maximizes screen space by hiding toolbars. (I don’t think the third new Safari, feature, iCloud Tabs, will be as useful. It lets you open up whatever browser tabs you left open on your Mac or iPad—if, that is, they’re all signed into the same iCloud account.)
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Shared photo streams. You can “publish” groups of photos to specified friends; they can view the pictures on their Apple gadgets or on a Web page. They can add comments or “like” them.
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Mail. In Mail, you can indicate the most important people; they get their own folder in the Inbox, helping to lift them out of the clutter. And at long last, you can now attach photos to a Mail message you’re already writing, instead of having to start in the Photos app — better late than never, I guess.
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Miscellaneous. The option to publish utterances, photos or other bits to Facebook pops up in a bunch of different apps. A new Privacy settings page gives you on/off switches for the kinds of data each app might request (access to your contacts, location and so on). Tweaks have been made to the App Store app, Reminders, Videos and other apps.
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And you no longer have to enter your Apple password just to download an update to an app you already have. Hosannah.
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Marc-Alexandre Gagnonfrom NYT > Technology http://www.nytimes.com/pages/technology/index.html?partner=rss&emc=rss July 30, 2012 at 12:54PM by By THE NEW YORK TIMES Apple's MagSafe connector was one of the company's smartest design ideas. Until they changed it, says Da...
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Jorge BorgesRT @jafurtado: The Future of Skype, By DAVID POGUE
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Lun EsexMy Times column today: OK, so the iPhone (and probably Android phone) tracks your movements. So what? http://nyti.ms/Bteaj
My review of the Windows 8 public beta is online! HUGE departure for Microsoft... http://t.co/11Fg0SFK
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Jessie ChuangFREE CELL PHONE CALL
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Joseph BonnetteDavid Pogue is a writer for the New York Times and his primary area of interest is technology. His blog is useful as it offers insight into new and upcoming technology and offers insight into potential uses for the technology.
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Sean Dagony-ClarkPogue is a writer for the NY Times. He is interesting.
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Can it print?
A.No. You can create documents on it (for example, using Apple’s Pages word processor, Numbers spreadsheet or Keynote presentation program) and then sync them or send them by e-mail message to your Mac or PC, then print from there.
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carlos guyotToday Apple finally unveiled its tablet computer, the iPad. Thus concludes Phase 1 of the standard Apple new-category roll-out: months of feverish speculation and hype online, without any official indication by Apple that the product even exists.
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Henk HanssenDavid Pogue's technology column has appeared each Thursday in The Times since 2000. Each week, he also writes the Times e-mail column
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Lisa HobbsDavid Pogue's technology column has appeared each Thursday in The Times since 2000. Each week, he also writes the Times e-mail column
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Julie SimekDavid Pogue's technology column has appeared each Thursday in The Times since 2000. Each week, he also writes the Times e-mail column
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George WilliamsQuick hits from the blog of technology columnist David Pogue.
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