{"id":1678,"date":"2009-04-14T22:03:59","date_gmt":"2009-04-15T02:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/?p=1678"},"modified":"2009-04-14T22:03:59","modified_gmt":"2009-04-15T02:03:59","slug":"hear-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/?p=1678","title":{"rendered":"Hear Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hearplanet.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1683 alignnone\" title=\"hearplanet\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/hearplanet.jpg\" alt=\"hearplanet\" width=\"240\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/hearplanet.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/hearplanet-171x300.jpg 171w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">When in San Francisco this past January attending MacWorld, Derry and I both got cards from the company behind Hear Planet.  They had a tour bus parked outside of the Moscone, offering free mini-tours of the City while promoting their app for the iPhone\/iPod.  We kept meaning to take advantage of the the tour and the app, but I didn&#8217;t until recently.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hearplanet.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hear Planet<\/a> is such a cool app.\u00a0 Their tag line is &#8220;Bring the World to your Ears.&#8221;\u00a0 The app contains over 250,000 points of interest from around the world, including interactive maps with audio and text descriptions.  When you first launch the app, it asks if you&#8217;d like it to set your location.  When you do, it then comes up with a listing of places\u00a0 in your area; for example, in my area one item was Albert Einstein&#8217;s home on Mercer Street in Princeton.  Clicking on it brings up informative text and an option to listen to that text. Clicking\u00a0 on the link for Princeton Borough bring up a list of more information, such as the geography, education, government, and even notable residents.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I&#8217;m also big on Google Earth.\u00a0 I love putting a destination in, watching the globe spin and then bring me to that place, zooming in and out, clicking the links to read about the place,\u00a0 view images.\u00a0 These two apps &#8211; well, okay, I also love the Wiki app, makes the iPhone feel like the Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Earth.\u00a0 Can the Bable Fish be far behind?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When in San Francisco this past January attending MacWorld, Derry and I both got cards from the company behind Hear Planet. They had a tour bus parked outside of the Moscone, offering free mini-tours of the City while promoting their app for the iPhone\/iPod. We kept meaning to take advantage of the the tour and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgetsgood-finds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1678"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1698,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678\/revisions\/1698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}