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Steven Frischling, aka: Fish, is globe hopping professional photographer, airline emerging media consultant working with large global airlines and founder of The Travel Strategist. Fish has racked up more than 1,000,000 miles since he started to track his mileage in 2005.

Fish's travel tends to be less than leisurely, including flying from New York to Basrah, Iraq, for six hours; Hong Kong for eight hours, Kuwait City for two hours and traveling around the world in 3.5 days to shoot a series of photo assignments in 4 cities and 4 countries on 3 separate continents.

Fish grew up at the end of New York's JFK International Airport's Runway 4R/22L, which probably explains his enjoyment of watching planes, fly overhead. When not shooting photos or traveling Fish designs camera bags, hones is expertise on airline security and spends his time at home cheering for the Red Sox with his 3 kids 102 yards from the ocean.

iPhone App Of The Week : MetrO

10.01.2009 | Author: flyingfish | Posted in Uncategorized

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1/10/2009 – iPhone App Of The Week : MetrO

Traveling to new cities is fun but it can also be stressful when seeking to use public transit to navigate the new cities you find yourself in.  If you’re like me you prefer to use a train or a bus rather than a taxi…but what to do when you arrive in a country where you not only don’t speak the language, but you also can’t read the alphabet?

The answer to many travellers public transit needs can be found in a simple free iPhone App, MetrO.

What makes MetrO great for travellers is the App allows access to the public transit systems of hundreds of global cities. The available cities are not only major metro areas, but also minor metro areas, making this App very adaptable to all types of travel.  Before you head to a city you simply download the cities you want, then you can use the iPhone App without any network connections, thus not racking up any international roaming fees!

I have used MetrO in cities I am familiar with as well as cities I am not familiar with and been amazed at the accuracy of the information it has provided me.  Some cities are updated constantly to incorporate daily service disruptions, while others are simply just updated on a ‘regular basis.’ Of the places I have used MetrO (New York, Paris, San Francisco, Amsterdam, Tokyo) I have found the App to be extremely accurate, easy to use, easy to follow and a breeze to use, even in unfamiliar locations.

You can search travel options on MetrO by train, subway, bus, tram, etc (of course if the city has no tram or subway you can’t search by subway or tram) which allows for easy user customization. To allow for multiple travel options, depending on your knowledge of a city, you can also set the preferences to allow for train and bus stops between 300-meters and 1500-meters from your destination.  In San Francisco and New York I tested MetrO at different distances between 300m & 1500m, in Tokyo I only searched for train stations between 300m & 600m from my intended destination.

For the price of FREE can you afford to not have MetrO in you iPhone while traveling?

Below are eight screen shots of MetrO by Kinevia from my iPhone

Happy Flying!

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