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iPod travel hints: more fun than a tiny bag of airline peanuts

Posted by Dan Moren | Monday, April 10, 2006 7:26 PM PT

Traveling with iPodCyrus already posted his “tastes great” iPod tip on PodQuest today; allow me to complement it with these less filling iPod travel hints, courtesy of National Geographic.

Most of these probably aren’t news to our readership—videos on your iPod? shocking!—but a couple of them are worth noting. Such as #9:

Travel geeks are quickly discovering other uses for iPod’s image display capabilities. For example, the new website ipodsubwaymaps.com allows visitors to download 23 international transit maps from Berlin to Washington, D.C. The information, stored on your device, is available to you when you need it.
When I was in San Francisco for Macworld this past January, I used the iPod maps available on BART’s website to get me safely to and from my accomodations in Oakland. Sadly, there are not yet any maps available to help you avoid Scientologists in said transit stations. Keep those fingers crossed.

[via Lifehacker]

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