June 2005
Intermediate to advanced
568 pages
24h 7m
English
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Chapter 1, Mapping Your Life
#9 Track the Friendly Skies with Sherlock
HACK
Photos” [Hack #10] and “Share Geo-Photos on the Web” [Hack #96] for other
methods to add photos to a map.
—Anselm Hook
HACK
#9
Track the Friendly Skies with Sherlock Hack #9
Use the Macintosh OS X search tool or a web browser to track flights.
It always seems to happen: you need to rush to the airport to pick someone
up, but you don’t even know if the flight is on time. You can go to http://
www.flytecomm.com/cgi-bin/trackflight to use the “Track a Flight” service
and locate flights in progress and show their position on a map. You can
also access this service from Sherlock, the Macintosh search tool.
This doesn’t supplant the simple act of calling the airline to get the flight sta-
tus, but it is pretty cool to know that when they say the flight has been
delayed two hours, what they really mean is that the flight has yet to leave
the ground.
Sherlock lives in the Applications folder. When the main screen appears,
click on the “Flights” icon in the toolbar. You are then offered a search bar,
shown in Figure 1-19, where you can search for the flight by airline, flight
number, departure, or arrival city.
When flights are “en route,” and the data is available, there is a check mark
in the chart column.
The interface is seductive, the choices opulent, and the temptation is to
spend far too much time exploring the nooks and crannies ...
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