Word: vindigo
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...loaded up my trusty Palm with two different city guides: Vindigo (available free at www.vindigo.com and CitySync, ($19.99 at www.citysync.com) Vindigo covers most major U.S. cities; CitySync, which is produced by the people who write the Lonely Planet travel guides, doesn't include as many U.S. locations, but it does throw in cities such as London and Paris. I also brought along a weird little gizmo called Modo ($99 at www.modo.net) Modo is a city guide that runs on its own funky-looking hardware (it resembles an evil ladybug from outer space). It covers only New York City, Los Angeles...
CitySync wasn't as helpful at lunchtime--it gave me way too many restaurant listings, a number of which were halfway across town. If you're not into marathon walking, Vindigo's a better bet; it can sort its listings by distance from your present location. Over lunch I decided to catch a movie. Modo was the most helpful here. Not only did it give me accurate movie times, it also had the lowdown on which theaters had nice seats and big screens...
...which city guide is the best? They each have pluses and minuses. Vindigo is free and great for pinpointing exactly where you want to go. CitySync costs more, but it provides a lot of data the others don't, such as museum hours, emergency numbers and even street maps. If I were visiting a city for the first time, I'd want CitySync with me. Modo is the priciest, and its search functions are weak, but it is full of quirky finds you would never see elsewhere...
...looked up and saw a man in a suit leaning over me, peering at my screen. "Got any good games?" he asked. Then he whipped out his own Palm (some kind of III) and pointed it at me. No good games, I admitted, but I did have Vindigo, a real-time list of things to do in Manhattan. "Cool!" he said. "I've got a subway map. Want it?" So right there, on the 6:24 to Huntington, we engaged in the Palm ritual known as "beaming"--using our infrared ports to swap programs wirelessly. We both got so excited...
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