GPS outfit Garmin announced on Tuesday that the company had released StreetPilot, its first turn-by-turn navigation app for the iPhone. Per Macworld, StreetPilot offers voice-prompted directions—with text-to-speech capability for reading aloud street names—along with a variety of more advanced GPS features. As with Garmin’s standalone GPS devices, StreetPilot offers free traffic alerts, lane assistance with […]
Day: January 4, 2011
Handbrake, Eric Petit’s incredibly useful open-source DVD ripping/conversion utility, has been updated to version 0.9.5 and gone Intel-only. The new version, which can be found here, boasts the following fixes and changes: Core Library: – BluRay disc structure support (No decryption support) – Updated Libraries (x264, ffmpeg) – SSA Subtitle support (Including burn-in) – MP3 […]
Ok, this smacks of the spiffy. Recently, accessory maker QuickerTek updated its Apple Juicz line of solar power chargers, releasing a flexible photoelectric tarp which can be laid out upon or staked to the ground to absorb sunlight. The 27-watt model covers 41.”5 x 30.5″, and recharges a MacBook Air in 12 hours; the 55-watt […]