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TomTom Releases iPhone Navigation App
andylim writes "Today TomTom released its long-awaited iPhone app that allows you to use your iPhone 3G and 3GS as a GPS navigation device. Recombu.com tested it out on video this morning and concluded that it works well but if you receive a call while you're driving then the app does cut out — it will restart once you've finished the conversation. The app costs £60 for the UK & Ireland version, £80 for western Europe, £45 for Australia and £60 for the US and Canada."
Why are all the prices in British Pounds? Did they just annex all those countries overnight or is the author of the article a lazy bastard?
And why does Slashdot suck so much with unicode? I copy/pasted that line from above yet the pound sign shows up with an extra character before it.
There's a common saying in the hiking community that "cotton kills." The reason why has to do with moisture management in cold and cool conditions. In fact, there is absolutely nothing wrong with wearing cotton when you can stay dry and warm. The problem is, it is much harder to stay dry and warm when hiking than most people think.
Problems with cotton occur when the cotton gets wet. Cotton does not wick moisture and can become abrasive when wet. When this happens you must watch out for blisters and packsores. Because cotton holds so much moisture, it can hold that moisture against your body and sap body heat from you. This can quickly lead to hypothermia. Cotton also gets heavy when wet. If you wear cotton while hiking, you generally need to carry more "emergency" clothing in case your cotton does get wet (sweat, rain, or falling in while fording a river will all get you wet).
Silk also loses it's insulative properties when it gets wet and does not wick like modern hydrophobic fabrics.
Wool, on the other hand, insulates relatively well when wet. But while some weaves do shed water for a period of time, it will eventually absorb a great deal more moisture than comparably weighted synthetic garments and become very heavy.
All of these natural fiber fabrics take much longer to dry once wet than comparably weighted synthetic fabrics.
The feel of synthetic fabrics has changed quite a bit from the first dark blue polypropelene long underwear I bought. Different brands have different feels. Try a few and see what feels good to you. I happen to like Capilene from Patagonia (both silkweight and other weights) and try to get it on sale (usually at the end of the season when they are trying to get rid of colors that didn't sell.)
So, if you choose to wear natural fibers, think ahead and be prepared for situations when you get an unintentional soaking. Remember hypothermia can set in at temperatures well above freezing.
Last updated, January 7, 2007.
Hmm...have we now gone to a single world wide currency? This is a US based website, why is the US price not listed in US dollars?
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
At that point, you won't get the option to restore from backup however, which means you have to jump through hoops if you had apps with important data to restore. iTunes still seems to be the best way to restore a phone.
hmm, I've been pondering a mobileme subscription. what kind of hoops do you mean? do you just not get prompted to restore from backup after manually re-entering your mobileme account info on a "blank" phone? seems like you could force a restore from backup in iTunes regardless of what mobileme did, no?
There are some apps that (not sure why or what the difference is) will not restore their application data from a backup. It might be that the app wasn't written in a way to take advantage of the backup/restore process.
There is very little future in being right when your boss is wrong.