Richard Fairhust came up with a way to get the Cider Pub Guide extracted from off the ukcider wiki, and into a format which can be read into an iPod. Now I thought iPods were for just for listening to music, but fundamentally it’s just a portable data storage device and if it has a screen then you can read, scroll and navigate your way around any textual documents.
I’ve compiled an iPod version of the wiki Cider Pub Guide. This means you can have the full 880-pub listing in a handy format to take around with you.
The guide is stored as ‘Notes’ pages on the iPod, organised by county (just like on the website) for easy access.
Details and download here:
http://ukcider.co.uk/wiki/index.php/Cider_Pub_Guide_on _iPod Richard Fairhurst
This is a great service Richard, because when you’re out and about it isn’t always convenient to be forsightful enough to have printed off the right pages for whichever area you might end up visiting. I suppose a final development would be to have it automatically synched onto your portable device, whether it’s an mp3 player, phone or PDA and then be able to report any updates from the remote location back onto the website on the fly, but the iPod is a neat solution because you don’t have to pay any call charges to look it up.
