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Avoid traffic with Windows Live Maps
What this means is you can now choose to search for the shortest route by time or distance, and you can also have Live Maps redirect you to avoid heavily congested areas. The system is available for 72 US cities at the moment.
The system predicts traffic by time of day, weather, sports events and other factors, so it doesn't rely solely on real-time conditions to determine the best routes although live data is taken into account as well. While the interface is clean and easy to use, we don't see an easy way to let Live Maps know what time you plan to make your trip, which sort of defeats the purpose.
[via New York Times]
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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Quikboy said 2:13AM on 4-11-2008
Awesome. I really like this feature. Even though it's been there for a few months already, it's nice to see DS cover something on this technology.
I wonder how long it will take you to "discover" the recent changes to Live Maps. You know, like the "discover collections" feature where you can zoom in and out on a map, and view a list of collections that other users have made on that area.
Also check this out : http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=pkg6rv84y7yk&style=o&lvl=2&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=13800525&explore=sst.0&encType=1#
Isn't that awesome?
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