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One of the many Froyo features introduced at Google I/O was the "cloud to device messanging," a way to send information to your phone from your browser. While it's not a highly publicized aspect now that Froyo is beginning its rollout, there is a way to get your browser to talk to your phone (provided you use Chrome) with the Chrome to Phone extension and app.
It's pretty simple to get going - install the extension, and install the app. If you're on an ordinary website, clicking the extension will send the URL to your phone, and the browser will automatically open and navigate to it. If you're getting directions on Google Maps on your browser, when your phone receives the information, it will open the Maps app withe the destination plugged in and ready to go. In the latter case, it unfortunately only sends the destination, and leaves the routing to the app, so you can't alter a route in Maps on the computer, and transfer it to the app. Transfer times seemed a little slow in my testing, taking anywhere from one to ten minutes before the phone got the information, though others haven't had such lag.
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