{"id":375,"date":"2011-09-04T18:00:32","date_gmt":"2011-09-04T18:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sharonmurphy.com\/wordpress\/?p=375"},"modified":"2014-08-25T11:04:55","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T11:04:55","slug":"bus-time-dublin-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sharonmurphy.com\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/bus-time-dublin-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Bus Time Dublin App"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love the new signs at the Dublin Bus stops that list the next N busses and tell you how long it&#8217;ll be till they arrive. The only thing better than them is the free <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/ie\/app\/bus-time-dublin\/id456379666?mt=8&amp;uo=4&amp;at=10lJDI\">Bus Time Dublin<\/a> iThing app I recently discovered.<\/p>\n<p>What it does:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Uses GPS to figure out your current location and tell you what bus stops are nearby, as a list or on a map as you prefer.<\/li>\n<li>Lets you search for bus stops by street name or bus stop number, if you have that information.<\/li>\n<li>Lets you add particular bus stops to a list of Favourites for convenience.<\/li>\n<li>Shows a much longer list of imminent busses than the signs at the stops, and shows data for stops that don&#8217;t even have the new signs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What it doesn&#8217;t do:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tell you which stop a given bus goes from.<\/li>\n<li>Tell you which bus goes where you want to go.<\/li>\n<li>Tell you the intermediate stops on any route.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But if you&#8217;re already in posession of this information, then this app makes the actual catching of busses that bit more efficient &#8211; 10 more minutes gossiping by the water cooler (or clocking up billable time, if you&#8217;re the more driven type) instead of standing in the rain. It&#8217;s all good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love the new signs at the Dublin Bus stops that list the next N busses and tell you how long it&#8217;ll be till they arrive. The only thing better than them is the free Bus Time Dublin iThing app I recently discovered. What it does: Uses GPS to figure out your current location and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sharonmurphy.com\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/bus-time-dublin-app\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bus Time Dublin App&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,31],"tags":[5,10],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","category-tech","tag-apps","tag-ithings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonmurphy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonmurphy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonmurphy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonmurphy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonmurphy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonmurphy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":789,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonmurphy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions\/789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonmurphy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonmurphy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonmurphy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}