"There's An Outdoors App For That"

On the Ars Technica Web site, Chris Foresman discusses what is undoubtedly the beginning of a trend: the growth of iPhone applications for hikers, birders, and outdoors people of all ilks. “One ad, cleverly called ‘Itchy,’ shows three apps that might be handy for an outdoors type (well, a geeky, tech-obsessed outdoors type). It features a virtual GPS compass, a birding guide, and Howcast showing a guide to avoiding poison ivy.”