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Google Maps Navigation in-depth instructions for those who are living outside the United States

Yesterday before I wrote a post about ‘Google Maps Navigation’ update is available for the Android.

Right now the Google Maps Navigation Android-app is officially only in the USA available

“Sadly, the service is still U.S.-only, and Google warns that it’s still in beta,...”

via Techcrunch

But here is the solution, for people who are not living in the US, but also want to navigate with Google Maps on their Android.

Thanks to h3g3mon, for his comment on Google Maps Navigation’ update is…, he mentioned

[Think Tank #2 - SOLVED] Modifying Maps to enable Navigation outside USA as solution for all non-US citizens.

“Edit: Solution
Brut.all and TAPP got it working. Here are some more in-depth instructions for those of you having issues: …”

start the tutorial

Leave a comment we want to know your thoughts about this tutorial and your experiences with this app.

BTW here is the Google Sky Map Android-app NJoy

In this post we won’t talk about Windows-7-defrag

When you are looking for another better, faster and free defragmenting software for your Windows-7 system and stumbled across this post, I’m sure you will find this post very useful.

Why is defragmenting so important for your system performance

“[...] defragmentation is a process that reduces the amount of fragmentation in file systems. [...] The presence of immovable system files, especially a swap file, can impede defragmentation. These files can be safely moved when the operating system is not in use. [...] The outer tracks of a hard disk have a higher transfer rate than the inner tracks, therefore placing files on the outer tracks increases performance. [...]“

via Wikipedia

4. Smart Defrag

Smart Defrag is an application with full and ease of functionality. Smart Defrag doesn’t only offer the possibility to defragment your system, it also can optimize your systems file access time, by moving the most commonly used system files to the fastest areas of the hard-drive.

Auto Defrag is beside Smart Defrag’s optimize-system-files the most interesting feature.

Auto Defrag (standard setting) is very practical, because it works quietly in the background when… Read the rest

The Mobile browsing revolution is now available for Nokia smartphones

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Do you have made any experiences with the new Opera Mobile Browser?

When the answer is YES, don’t hesitate to write it down into the comments section.

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The new Apple TV 3.0 is out with several new features Radio, …

Eddy Cue [Apple]

“The new software for Apple TV features a simpler and faster interface that gives you instant access to your favourite content,”

Hint and more images via Gizmodo “apple-tv-30-software-is-out-new-interface-looks-fugly”

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Woohoo! WordPress for the iPhone

The WordPress for iPhone Blog announced today

“WordPress for iPhone 2 is now available on the App Store.”

What’s new in version 2?

• A new, more efficient user interface that makes it faster to switch between comments, posts, and pages.
• Various user interface refinements and bug fixes
• New Comments interface, with Gravatars and the author URL shown in the comment list
• Passwords are now stored in the keychain
• Posts are now automatically saved and restored if network connection is lost during publishing
• Added persistence, so the app re-opens in the blog you last used
• Added an interface for manually entering the XMLRPC endpoint for non-standard setups
• Fixed rotation-related visual glitches
• Fixed errors where malformed XML prevented access to XMLRPC endpoint
• Fixed edge case where local drafts were sometimes not saved
• Fixed the order of photos so that they’re displayed in the order they’re uploaded

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