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I was in
NYC for a week and feeling a bit bored, so I took a look at a passel (anyone still use that word?) of NYC tourist
traps apps, that I picked up last week for the heck of it.
NYC Subway 24-Hour KICKMap - $1.99. Rating: Horrible.
This is a generic subway map that's "24 hours" because you can tap the day/night button to switch the background from white to black. Wow! Hold your finger on a station for 3 seconds to bring up the address of the subway stop and often a disconnected phone number. Tap 'Alerts' and the app tosses you to the Manhattan Transit Authority site in Safari.
HopStop - Free. Rating: Wonderful.
Tell it where you want to go and it'll get you there via public transportation, just like the website
hopstop.com, but with GPS built-in.
UpNext 3D NYC - $2.99. Rating: Meh.
Useful for finding businesses, not so useful for saving personal information. I don't want the world to know where I reside in NYC and marking it will show it to the world. Social networking eats its young -- don't trust it! Plus, how can you choose hotdogs/hamburgers near Broadway and 72nd street and not bring up Grey's Papaya first? Nice maps though.
New York City Highlights - Free Rating: Horrible.
This is supposed to be a walking tour of points of interest in NYC. Running it in Times Square played less than five minutes of generic and out-of-date drivel. At least a podcast has a pause button. Did you know that Virgin Records closed? They didn't.
SitOrSquat - Free. Rating: Are you kidding?
Help me out here, the app is, hmmmm, can I say
poop? The GPS map screen can't even locate me, but searching seems to work. McDonalds is squat only. Did I need an app to tell me that? This was funded by Charmin as an afterthought. Note to Government: Don't bail out Procter and Gamble. They have more then enough cash if they paid for this.
TUAWFive Apps for NYC tourists originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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