Month: August 2024

How to use Apple Maps on the web

Dan Uff August 12, 2024 0

Yesterday, we reported that Apple has added support for its Apple Maps on the web for the FireFox web browser.

Now that the Maps app is on the web, some Linux, Windows, and even Mac users may not know how it works, or how to use it effectively to find what they're looking for.

[caption id="attachment_36565" align="aligncenter" width="900"] 2024 Apple Maps for the Web[/caption]

As you can see, Apple Maps for the web looks and acts like the Mac version with most of the features in tact. For those who are unsure about how it works, please look below:

Search: Clicking on Search opens up a slide out window with a Search Field at the top, and some quick Find Nearby search topics to search local resources such as Restaurants, Gas Stations, Coffee Shops, and more. Simply click on an option to execute it.
Guides: Take a guided tour of included points of interests in the local area or worldwide.
Directions; It'll ask you for a FROM and TO destination. Just type in where you're coming from and where you're going.
Car icon: Are you going by car?
Walk icon: Are you walking?
Lower-left corner: Add or manage a business listing on the map.
That's it.

Hopefully, Apple will be improving the maps web app over the next few months and years.

Apple Maps on the web beta adds Firefox support

CompuScoop Staff August 11, 2024 0

Last week, Apple updated its Apple Maps on the web beta site to add support for Firefox on Mac, iPad, and even Windows PCs can now visit Apple Maps on the web.

With Apple Maps on the web beta, users can get driving and walking directions; find great places and useful information including photos, hours, ratings, and reviews; take actions like ordering food directly from the Maps place card; and browse curated Guides to discover places to eat, shop, and explore in cities around the world. Additional features, including Look Around, will be available in the coming months.

Via: MacRumors.com

CompuScoop.com is Changing (again)

Dan Uff August 10, 2024 1

We'd like to inform our readers that starting Monday, August 12th, 2024, and continue for a few weeks this website will be undergoing some upgrades and changes to our look. This may mean this website may become slow, look weird, become unresponsive, etc.

We hope to complete these changes a.s.a.p.

New articles and content should be appearing as normal here, FaceBook, and on X.com.

Thanks for your understanding.

Dan Uff, Owner

Disney+ releases four new 3D movies and new environment for Apple Vision Pro

CompuScoop Staff August 9, 2024 0

There are now a total of four new stereoscopic movies from Disney+. All are from the Marvel stable: Avengers, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Ant-Man, and Ant-Man and the Wasp.

As I discovered in my time with it, aside from its VR computing and entertainment chops, one of the core strengths of the Apple Vision Pro is as an audio-visual device par excellence.

This is particularly true for 3D as with effectively 4K visuals per eye, (and support for the high-frame-rate TrueCut Motion tech) Vision Pro stands as the best way to watch movies stereoscopically – albeit it as an experience for one.

What’s more, if you’ve ever felt that what was missing from the movie-watching experience was doing so while sitting in Thingvellir National Park in Iceland, then, once again – you are in luck.

Having tried other environments out I can vouch how bizarrely convincing these environments are, so if you have access to a Vision Pro, I recommend trying this out.

Via: Forbes