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Von Wasserburg am Inn nach Bad Endorf. 20 Kilometer, ca 20 Minuten. Dieser Herausforderung mussten sich die beiden Navigationsgeräte iPhone (mit dem Programm CoPilot D-A-CH) und Navi-DVD Toyota Avensis gefallen lassen. Ergebnis: Die App in Apples Kult-Handy kann mithalten – und glänzt sogar durch aktuelleres Wissen.

<br /><small>Größere Kartenansicht</small>

Die Programmierung geht in beiden Navis einfach. Kaum tippt man die ersten Zeichen ins Navi, werfen beide mit Vorschlägen um sich.
Ohne GPS-Verstärker und ohne Anschluss an die Autoboxen machte es sich das iPhone in der Quetschhandyhalterung bequem. Das eingebaute Navidisplay (welches doppelt so groß wie der Telefonbildschirm ist), winkelt sich leicht geneigt ins Blickfeld des Fahrers. Gleich nach Wasserburg kommen zwei Kreisverkehre. Überraschung: Die Toyota-Lösung kennt diese noch nicht und schickt uns einfach nach links. Nicht weiter schlimm, schließlich haben wir alle mal ne Fahrschule besucht und dort gelernt: nach rechts einordnen genauso geht's auch wieder raus. Die freundliche Stimme im iPhone wusste da schon besser Bescheid: Dritte Ausfahrt im Kreisverkehr. Gut.
Was am iPhone besser gelöst ist: Die Tasten sind auch während der Fahrt bedienbar, beim Toyota-Navi sperren sich diese aus Sicherheitsgründen. Auch gab es beim fest eingebauten Navi keine Einstellmöglichkeit für Verkehrswarnungen, wie beim CoPilot. Der erinnert uns mit einem dezenten Blinken bei Geschwindigkeitsüberschreitungen an mögliche Strafzettel.

Fazit: Das iPhone kann jederzeit mit dem Original-Navi mitstinken. Das Programm kostet 33,90 Euro. Besser oder schlechter gibt es in so einem Vergleich einfach nicht. Beide Geräte funktionieren und bringen den Fahrer von Ziel a nach b.

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Thom says...

Firefox is one of the few applications that is always running on my computer.  It is monumentally important for doing almost anything, yet its user experience is imperfect.  My complaints stem from Firefox's many superfluous tool bars that consume a large amount of screen space. Many of the tool bars are unnecessary and could be eliminated to reduce screen space consumption. Google Chrome has done this effectively. With Firefox, I wanted to enhance the interface by minimizing tool bars using some clever add-ons and lots of hot keys.

What I learned from adjusting my Firefox configuration was that the navigation bar is nearly unnecessary. I use the navigation bar for 3 reasons:

  1. Going to a particular website after opening a new tab.
  2. Adjusting the URL slightly. Ex: from twitter.com to twitter.com/tdedecko
  3. Wanting to know the URL of the web page I am currently browsing.
Reasons 2 and 3 are case situations. Needing to adjusting the URL occurs rarely and I generally know my location on the web (Gmail, Hacker News, Google Reader, etc). These situation arise infrequently and could be accomplished with a navigation bar that can be minimized.

Reason 1 is the important part. I use the navigation bar as if it were a shell for launching applications (which it is). This is a regular occurrence with the way I use Firefox. This implies that I need a navigation bar primarily when I open a new tab. The solution is to put the navigation bar on a web page that loads when I open a new tab.

I decided to accomplish this. First I needed to install a few Firefox add-ons. I installed:

These add-ons made it so opening a new tab launched my homepage and makes my navigation bar toggle-able by hitting F2.

Then, I spent an hour or so creating a navigation bar on a web page using jQuery and Blueprint CSS.

Try out my implementation: http://www.dedecko.com/navbar/

I set this as my homepage in Firefox. Now when I open a new tab a navigation bar on a web page appears. Very useful in my opinion.

This might be particularly useful for netbooks. Let me know if this is helpful.

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joe says...

A knight in a station wagon, a triathlon-leprechaun, a camera-savvy yeti, a golf-club swinging Scotsman, a humanoid nutcracker a scary clown and a jamming squirrel are the heros in the new Garmin 2009 holiday ads. They're surprisingly entertaining, hypnotic and disturbing. In a good way.

Way to go, Garmin!

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ratzlaff says...

Jason F. raises an interesting point at 37signals about the growing usability of Google search results compared to typical homepages.  
http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2014-which-is-more-useful-googles-links-or-the-actual-home-page

How many times have you search for a company and were presented with a result that looked like this:

How many times did you find and go straight to the section you wanted rather than go to the homepage and risk not being able to find that section right away?

What Google does here is standardize website navigation. When this is done in our search results, we don’t have to figure out if the nav is on the top, the side, buried within some clever-but-not-discoverable interface or just scattered throughout the copy.

Incidentally, the direct access to website content through search results seems to be exactly why Rupert Murdoch wants to remove News Corp content from Google.

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kntl says...

i have coded this pager only css based navigation / pagination bar. no javascript or jquery is required.

you can visit demo page here.

there is tooltip on hover the previous or next page's bullets that makes navigation easier.

the code is repeating some list items. the popup tooltip, bullets and triangles all written by css. you can easily change the colors in the CSS file and use it for free.

available in:
  • ie 6 or higher
  • firefox 1 or higher
  • chrome
  • opera
  • safari

Click here to download:
KntL-Pager.zip (1 KB)

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yasar says...

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unugurn says...

Deluxe Tree 3.15: Create fast and effective web site navigation with JavaScript Tree Menu http://bit.ly/3g1MRg

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