[wikipop]Armistice Day[/wikipop] pictures from around the world at Retronaut.
and [wikipop]June Tabor[/wikipop]’s [wikipop]And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda[/wikipop]…
More Apple Mapping
Whilst one can appreciate the humour…
…and the apology
if you want to see what the Tesco store in [wikipop]Gerrards Cross[/wikipop] (the one [wikipop search=”Gerrards Cross Tunnel”]built over the railway line[/wikipop]) looks like you can turn to your trusty Maps folder on your iOS 6 device…
and see that, according to Nokia Maps, it is a building site…
and from Google Maps we learn that it is a slightly more advanced building site…
but with Apple Maps we can see it is a fully functioning store.
Apple Maps
While Apple’s maps may not be perfect they will at least get you home along Hawthorn road when it becomes a cycle/foot path…
unlike the dead end that Google maps will lead you down…
Surely it is unfair to compare a mapping system that has only been live for a day and one that has had several years to become ever more refined. We live in hope that Google will get it right one day
Pirate talk
Not only be it the day of the iOS 6 release but it also be Talk Like A Pirate Day which is why all the posts on this here blog be looking a bit stranger than usual.
But to keep you amused in the meantime here be Dan & Dan’s latest video offering:
Menu Bar Clutter
Well as you asked so nicely…
Right now it looks like this…
From the left:
- Hot Mouse Flower – a virtual keyboard thingy.
- SoundFlower – rewires sound between your apps.
- Found – a searcher that comes and goes – seems to hog a lot of CPU at times.
- Vienna – RSS reader.
- Littleipsum – comes and goes as required.
- Dropbox – cloudy goodness.
- Cookie – clutter clearer.
- Growl – venerable growler.
- Interarchy – FTP goodness.
- ClipMenu – clipboard manager.
- 1Password – password manager which I rarely use from the menu bar.
- FreeMemory – shows (and reclaims) the free memory you thought you had.
- BwanaDik – IP/Network displayer now discontinued but still going strong with Mountain Lion. Note the Zappa reference.
- ClipTwin – quick clipboard swap with the iPad.
- Caffeine – keeps me and the Mac awake.
- PopClip – how did we ever manage without it?
- And then the Mac’s regular Messages, AppleScripts, BlueTooth, Time Machine, WiFi, Clock, User switcher, Spotlight and Notifications.
Last time we looked (February 2010) it looked like this.