by Liana Lehua

I am loving the addition of the “Current Location” feature in Google Maps. I live in a large city and have had great success in locator accuracy. It’s when I travel that this feature has already proven useful.

When I am away from home and have a rented car that I have to park in an unfamiliar place, I use locator to pinpoint where I park. When I have to get back to my car after a day of walking around and sightseeing, for example, I can get my new location and map to my last “dropped pin”. No looking at my buddy and asking, “Dude! Where’s my car?”
How are you using locator?

Oh. I forgot to mention. Unlike GPS, I don’t have to be standing outside to use it.

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by Liana Lehua

Thank you, iTunes Movie Rentals. As I perused the top ten movie rentals list in the iTunes Store to find a movie I wanted to rent, I came upon The Waitress. Of the top ten, it was the only movie I had not seen. I wasn’t feeling like I wanted to watch the movie on my iPhone or my sixth gen. iPod video and instead wanted to watch it on a television. I don’t have my Mac talking to my television in any way and my AppleTV is on order. So, I employed my Apple Component AV Cable. (more…)

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(I received this picture in an e-mail from an anonymous Apple Phone Show listener who spied Andy, Chris and I recording episode 37 of the Apple Phone Show at the Macworld booth.)

After a pretty jam-packed week, the 2008 Macworld Expo drew to a close yesterday.

Chris Breen’s iPhone Super Sessions were well-attended and both Andy and Chris’ iPhone books drew some interest.

The iPhone news from Apple and the third-party vendors at this year’s show was both good and bad. The good - well of course the 1.1.3 update. This is a significant update, allowing a level of customization previously unavailable on the iPhone. And the new Google Maps triangulation feature was a brilliant move. It works better and faster than any cell phone GPS I have ever seen. It also offers the advantage of working indoors, something no cellphone GPS can do. There’s no satellite acquisition time and no battery drain. The new web clips are also brilliant. Gmail works better than ever on the iPhone and the new multi-recipient SMS is also cool.

But that’s it. No announcement on the 3G or 16-gig models. I had previously reliable sources assuring me that the 16-gig phone would be announced. Oh well, we will probably hear more about that in a special Apple news event soon.

I was also astonished at the lack of new or exciting iPhone accessories. Yes there were cases - lots of them. And frankly, most were utter crap. I literally threw away six of the test cases I received during the show. They were so bad, I couldn’t think of anything else to do with them.

There were some weird contraptions that would let you affix the iPhone to a hat so you could watch it like a TV - problem is you also end up walking into polls.

There was a cute little tripod stand for iPhone made by Jobo - but not yet available.

Otherwise, I just didn’t see anything that wowed me. Maybe I missed something - if so, please leave a comment below to tell me what it is. After days of walking the show floor, I came to the conclusion that the iPhone accessory market needs some time to mature.

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Download APS Episode #37 enhanced here. Enhanced by Ryan Cates

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If you use Gmail on your iPhone and have installed 1.13, note that when you delete e-mail on the iPhone, it automatically deletes it in your Gmail account and moves the e-mail to the trash - where it will be deleted within 30 days. This is different behavior that might catch some people off guard. Deleting e-mail on the iPhone didn’t previously delete it from your Gmail account.

If you prefer the old method, Google has instructions for you on how to set that up.

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