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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’t until recently.

Hear Planet is such a cool app.  Their tag line is “Bring the World to your Ears.”  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’d like it to set your location. When you do, it then comes up with a listing of places  in your area; for example, in my area one item was Albert Einstein’s home on Mercer Street in Princeton. Clicking on it brings up informative text and an option to listen to that text. Clicking  on the link for Princeton Borough bring up a list of more information, such as the geography, education, government, and even notable residents.

I’m also big on Google Earth.  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,  view images.  These two apps – well, okay, I also love the Wiki app, makes the iPhone feel like the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Earth.  Can the Bable Fish be far behind?

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