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Map Address Book addresses via Google Maps
Authored by: unixjunkie on Feb 11, '05 11:10:35AM

There's a problem if the address has certain special characters, such as a "#" for an apartment number. I've updated my script to do a full urlencode to fix this problem for all special characters. You can get the updated script from my .Mac site.

I have not tested miked378's script, but it looks like it may have the same issue.



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Map Address Book addresses via Google Maps
Authored by: herr_theoretiker on Feb 11, '05 11:26:34AM
Awesome script! The fix for special characters came just in time, too... I was just about to ask about that.

Do you think it would be possible to make the map open in a new Firefox tab, instead of a new window?

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Map Address Book addresses via Google Maps
Authored by: miked378 on Feb 11, '05 02:47:35PM

My script has the same problem with special characters. Here's how I handle it:

Google Maps doesn't care about things like apartment numbers, business names, and other stuff in the address -- what it really wants is street addresses and zip codes (or city/state). My address book entries are formatted so that the first line is the street address, and subsequent lines contain information like apartment/suite numbers, floors, etc.

Rob moved my submission notes to be comments in the script itself -- in there, it states that my script removes everything from the address after the first line feed before building the URL to submit to Google. So presumably, you can put all the special characters you want in there, just not on the first line!

I understand if this isn't the way everybody formats their addresses -- just my $0.02.



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Map Address Book addresses via Google Maps
Authored by: miked378 on Feb 11, '05 03:16:27PM

Quick note -- just to clarify, you can have multiple-line entries in each field of the address in Address Book. My address book entries have multi-line entries in the "Street" field (where lines after the first contain apartments, floors, etc) -- the script strips this other stuff out, and just uses whatever's in the first line of the street field.



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How do I Mute Certain Applications, and not others?
Authored by: mindonlightning on Feb 24, '05 10:58:42PM

Does anyone know of a way to mute certain applicatons, while leaving others unmuted. Many times i want to be able to hear iTunes, but have , for example, Halo muted.



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How do I Mute Certain Applications, and not others?
Authored by: Aet on Mar 01, '05 10:07:55AM
Sounds like you're looking for Detour. But isn't the forums the place to post questions like this, since it's pretty off topic here?

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