iPhoneSender is a very clever, time-saving idea for working with addresses and Google Maps on the iPhone.  Here’s how it works: You install it as a Firefox extension, or add it as a Safari bookmarks toolbar item.  Once installed, when you visit any page with a street address on it, you can right-click (in Firefox) […]
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iPhoneSender – Good Idea, When It Works

Dec 29th 2007 by

iPhoneSender

iPhoneSender is a very clever, time-saving idea for working with addresses and Google Maps on the iPhone. 

Here’s how it works:

  • You install it as a Firefox extension, or add it as a Safari bookmarks toolbar item. 
  • Once installed, when you visit any page with a street address on it, you can right-click (in Firefox) and choose to ‘Send Map Link To iPhone’ – a dialog pops up where you enter your destination email, then sends you a properly formatted Google map link.
  • In Safari, you highlight an address on any web page, and click the bookmark in your bar. Once again, iPhoneSender prompts you for your email address, and sends the Google map link.
  • When you click the link in the iPhoneSender mail, it will open in Google Maps.

Very simple and quick to use.  And a big help, especially given the iPhone’s lack of copy & paste ability. 

iPhoneSender works on PC and Mac, and is a free service, which is good because …

Only problem for me so far, is that it doesn’t work this weekend.  Everything goes according to plan right up through the Success! message shown in the screencap above, but mails never arrive so far.  I’ve been trying it out for over 24 hours now.  I’ve sent to a GMail account, an Exchange account, and one other (all of which are receiving mail just fine all weekend) – but no go on any of them.  Hopefully this is just a glitch over a holiday weekend, or maybe a problem at my side, but that seems doubtful at this point.

Anyway, iPhoneSender is a good idea – and I’m very keen to see the whole process in action.

Let us know if you have given this a try, and what you think …

You’ll find all iPhoneSender’s info and install instructions for Firefox and Safari, at:

http://iphonesender.com/

UPDATE: Tried this again on Sunday.  Good news it worked and when it works it is very cool indeed.  Works just as advertised with the map links. Good stuff.  Not so good news – never saw any of the mails that were supposed to have been sent previously. 

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