Find local services on your iPhone with AroundMe

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Monday July 13, 2009

You're traveling and you don't know where anything is.

Where can you find a good restaurant

? Where's the nearest coffee shop?

Where can you find a bank

? More important perhaps, where's the closest pub? All of these things and more are answered by

AroundMe

, a

free iPhone app

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Show Notes

- You can download AroundMe from the Apple App Store for free.

- Once installed just tap on the icon.

- AroundMe will ask permission to use your location. Tap OK.

- Now,

AroundMe

will

find the location of banks, restaurants, hospitals

and so much more.

- Tap on a category and

AroundMe

will show you what's available based on distance, with the closest one listed first.

- If you tap on an entry you get all kinds of information.

- You

get the address, the phone number

and you can get directions from your current location.

- You can also get a map, or you can e-mail a link to the map to anyone you want.

- You can also add the entry to your contacts for later reference.

- If you wish you can search and find things in other locations.

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