Google Maps Reborn, the Steam Summer Sale, and Organizing 3000 Bookmarks

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🗓️ 11 July 2013

⏱️ 42 minutes

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This week on the podcast we’re talking about the biggest changes to Google Maps for Android, T-Mobile's crazy new Jump plan, and how to make the best of the Steam Summer Sale. We’re also answering your questions about securing your computer with a flash drive, reading PDFs on the iPad, and organizing your giant mess of bookmarks. Looking for the show notes? You can find this episode at lifehacker.com/748514951 (after 5:00 PM PT) and all episodes at lifehacker.com/theshow (anytime). See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hey and welcome to LifeHacker. This week we are talking about the biggest changes to Google Maps for Android, T-Mobile's crazy new jump plan, how to make the most of the Steam Summer Sale, and we're also answering your questions about securing your computer with a flash drive, reading PDFs on the iPad, and organizing your giant mess
0:21.5	of bookmarks.
0:22.4	And as always, we'll be going through our favorite tips and downloads of the week.
0:26.4	I'm Whitson Gordon.
0:27.4	Adam Duchess is on vacation this week, but we've got both Alan Henry and Thorne Klosowski
0:31.8	joining us via Google Hangouts.
0:33.7	What's up, guys?
0:34.6	Hey.
0:35.7	How's it going?
0:36.6	Alan, you're muted. There we go. What's up, guys? Hey. How's it going? Alan, you're muted.
0:38.1	There we go.
0:38.7	No, we're good.
0:39.9	What?
0:40.2	Sorry.
0:42.2	Sorry, Google Hangouts.
0:45.0	Now that I have this mechanical keyboard, whenever I type, Google Hangouts is just like,
0:48.9	muting, we're muting you. You're too loud.
0:54.2	All right.
0:55.0	So, let's jump right into the news.
0:57.4	The first big thing that happened this week is Google Maps finally released its new Android app,
1:03.6	which kind of has all of the changes we saw at Google I.O., but now available on Android.
1:09.8	So things like seeing local traffic incidents, finding new places with those explore cards
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