How I used my palm last weekend

[From Darcy in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada] Hi Sammy! One of the best things I like about your site is the ideas. This post is about an old idea made new again (at least for me!).

One app for PalmOS that seems to be missing is a decent bus schedule. All those tables can be a mess to figure out: hmm, is it between noon and six right now -- oh wait it's the weekend now and ... -- but there's two coming here soon so ...

Anyway, it's always complicated. Something that knows what time it is and where you are could be a great help. I've seen some apps that are good for, say, subway travel in major cities but so far nothing I can fill in the databases myself and share with other users.

In the meantime, I've got to make do with what I've already got. My local city's bus service has its own dedicated website with all the schedules posted (as scans from their printed map/schedule), but my Palm doesn't have a net connection. So what to do?

Plucker! I used it to mirror their entire website, with the home page set to the schedules. So now I'm one whole click away from any bus's route information! Since everything is a digital scan, it comes to over 9 Meg, but it all fits nicely on my SD card.