Welcome to this week's episode of the LifeHacker podcast. It is July 18th, and this week we are talking about AT&T's new smartphone upgrading plan, all the things you didn't know you could buy at Monoprice, and Dodgers's ridiculous Airbnb vacation. We're also answering your questions about Mac Wi-Fi issues, tagging your MP3s, and getting a hybrid bag that can become a messenger or a backpack.

And as always, we'll be going through our favorite tips and downloads of the week. I am Whitson Gordon. I'm Adam Dachis.

And with us, we have Thorne Klosowski joining us via Google Hangouts.

Hi, guys. Hey, Thorne, how's it going? Good.

Dodgis is back from vacation. We're going to hear about that later.

A lot of fun stories for us that are super life-hy. But first, let's jump into the news.

First thing on the news docket this week is Google Maps.

Google Maps, you guys probably remember us talking about this back after the new I.

I have heard of the I.O.

They announced that new version of Google Maps, and it was on the desktop, and it was in beta.

And so a lot of us were using, and this is the one that's super personal kind of and knows where you like to visit and tries to like guest stuff and different things show up on the map depending on and I tried it recently if you if I search for a place if I search for a guitar center and it pops up, it already has the outline of the navigation

from my house to guitar center or wherever I search, which is kind of cool.

And then all I need to do is hit a button in it, the directions are already ready to go.

So it has a lot of stuff like that.

This week, the news is it's out of beta and available to everyone without an invite so you guys can just go to

google maps and check that out has anyone noticed though how it doesn't have traffic estimations

for other times of the day though or have i just completely did it have that before yeah you used to

be able to be like oh this is what traffic is now and you could say well what it will be like in two

hours oh my gosh. You know what?

That does sound familiar.

I completely forgot about that.

I can't find it now.

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