iPhone Sender is a nifty program created by Design Is Fuel that makes it easy to send any address from your PC to your iPhone. The idea is that you don't have to enter addresses on your iPhone after you have already found them on your PC.
Here is how it works:
1) First you need to install the Safari or Firefox extension (http://iphonesender.com/)
2) Highlight an address on your PC, right click on the mouse, select 'Send Map Link to iPhone' from the menu
3) Enter your email address (this should be one that you receive on your iPhone)
4) Open the email you receive and click on the link - this launches the Google Maps application and takes you to the address you sent over from your PC
My experience:
I have tried using this tool, and so far all I get sent to my email/iPhone is ''http://maps.google.com/?q=null', which is not really an address, but a 'null' address
I am waiting to hear back from Design Is Fuel on the issue - I'll update this post when I do!
Update: Well I heard back from the Design Is Fuel folks. Here is how it works: If you are on any regular web site and you highlight and address, then you can right click and hit 'Send to iPhone' and the link you get in your inbox works. If however, you are in Google Maps already, and highlight the address there, then choosing to 'Send to iPhone' doesn't work. Seems silly to me - I told them it should work there too, even though you can easily 'send link to email' from Google Maps already......happy mapping.....
Monday, February 11, 2008
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