I upgraded my 4 to iOS, and it's working just fine and has some neat new features. Of course I'll be glad to get the new Google ap when it appears, but the Apple maps is fine for now. I would wait, though, Jessica, since it's not a massive change and you rely on the walking directions from Google.

I downloaded Hopstop, and so far, it looks like a more than adequate replacement for transit directions on Google Maps. If all goes well, I'll upgrade to iOS 6 in a few days.

Yeah, I love that part of Evernote. I use it all the damn time. Seriously, all day long.

It took me way too long to realise that Evernote was finally a document management tool that made sense for my own personal use--I've been working in the industry for 20 years now, and every adaptation of the things we installed in offices seemed fine for archival, but not that handy for stuff you wanted to use often. Scanning to PDF improved things, but Evernote's a way richer front end, and finally I feel like I can bridge the gap between paper and documents of electronic origin in a practical and portable way.

I hate Launchpad

I'm not in love either. I've found that some of my rotating wallpapers make those two dots that separate super special Apple applications from the hoi polloi invisible, and I just get exasperated at trying to start a program the "big" way and end up in Finder. Never mind uninstalling--it's not like the instructions I could find on the web were even consistent about that. Jeez.

Thanks for the Hopstop rec. Looks pretty good!

I used HopStop before Google ever added transit directions. It worked great.

The problems with Apple Maps aren't just that they lack walking & transit directions, it's that several small cities are either missing or in the wrong place.

At best, their maps seem to be 5-10 years out of date.

I read from a comment on TUAW that the problem isn't the data, but that the app is reading the map data wrong and that what is needed is a software update.

This maps thing is something I can work around as long as I have access to the internet and can go to the google maps site. It makes things inconvenient though.

the app is reading the map data wrong and that what is needed is a software update.

That makes sense - my TomTom GPS unit is (theoretically) using the same data and it hasn't steered me off a bridge yet.

Wow, AT&T.

So, last month I noticed I was sending a lot more texts than usual. I thought about it, and decided it was worth switching to the unlimited texting plan. More money, and I can't go back to the now-discontinued 1000 texts plan I had, but better than overcharges, I thought,eh? So I went online and switched.

AT&T promptly PRORATED the 1000 texts to 400, looked and saw I'd sent 700 so far, which meant 300 were over the prorated number, and charged me 10 cents a text for those 300 ($30). Plus the amount for the new unlimited texting plan (for the 400 texts I then sent).

Talk about customer-unfriendly bullshit. If I hadn't changed it, I would've sent a total of 1100 texts. Which would be $10 (my old monthly text charge) plus $10 for the extra texts ($20). Instead they charge $6 prorated for the old plan, $12 prorated for the new plan, and $35 for the "extra" texts, for a total of $53. Plus of course the extra amount they'll get in the future from the new plan.

I called and complained and they took off the extra charges, but seriously, it's bullshit like this that gets them a bad rep. GRRRR.

this happened to me when using a mifi. I got data overages up the wazoo.