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Get a map from any app with MappingService
Like Tim Gaden over at Hawk Wings, I too love Mac OS X's highly underrated Services menu, and Robert Stainsby has released a very handy addition to it: MappingService. This clever service allows you to select an address from any application, say a website, a document or an IM, and simply chose 'Map' from your Services menu to generate a map in any one of three mapping services: Google Maps (of course), ZoomIn Australia or ZoomIn New Zealand.MappingService is known to work on 10.4.6 and might possibly work on earlier versions of Mac OS X. It is open source software released under the BSD license, and Robert is accepting donations for his fine work.
Aus/NZ beat North America to DS Lite
Remember when North America got everything before Australia? Sure, sometimes Japan would get things before North America did, sometimes Europe would get things before North America did, but we could always comfort ourselves knowing that we would always get it before Australia (and, by extension, their neighbors in New Zealand with the adorable accents).Nintendo has announced that the DS Lite will be released in Australia and New Zealand on June 1st, a full ten days before it hits American shores. Though they'll get their systems sooner, they'll also pay a premium for it. The DS Lite will retail in Australia for $199.95 AUD, $20 more than their DS Phat, and about $153 US, $20 more than our light. You've won this battle Oceania, but you haven't won the war!(Update: fixed grammar booboo. All better now.)
New Zealand's 360 bus is palatial! (UPDATE)
Sure enough, plenty of pictures of the Xbox 360 bus have appeared in other places. Check out this Flickr photostream, or this feature by a different, less litigious, New Zealand gaming site: VideoGames.co.nz.We've been told to remove the images from this post by the original copyright holder, so we've just removed the entire post. If any gamers in New Zealand have any snapshots of the Xbox 360 Roadtrip bus, or know of any local gaming sites that wouldn't be threatened if we linked to them here, please send us a tip! See also:Australia's 360 vans unfurled and exposedThe Xbox 360 fleet; promo vehicles from around the world
360 on the road in New Zealand
The Xbox 360 is set to launch in both Australia and New Zealand on March 2nd and they are planning road trips for both countries. In Australia a group of utes, basically a light truck, are going to travel the country outfitted with flat panel displays and 360s. In New Zealand a specially outfitted bus will be providing very much the same service, complete with flat panels and 360s. Xbox 360 will be touring the country throughout March in the giant Xbox 360 Bus and things will be going off with live demos, hot giveaways and even the chance to meet the sizzling Joanna Dark. And it doesn't get much better than playing an amazing line-up of Xbox 360 games running on hi-def Samsung screens inside our specially constructed air-conditioned bus.If there're any Xbox 360 fanboys (or girls) out there in Oceania, grab some pictures and send 'em in. Oh, and if you meet the, uh... sizzling Joanna Dark, and happen to have a camera...[Via GameSHOUT]
