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iPhone-optimised list of Melbourne’s free wifi hotspots

Last year I predicted that free public wifi would be all over the place in Australia’s cities by Grand Final Day 2008. (Part of that prediction was hope, given that I wanted to make the most of my iPod Touch, but most of it was a fair dinkum prediction.)

Well free wifi’s not quite everywhere yet, but we’re getting closer. In fact the list of hotspots in Melbourne’s CBD is edging closer to the ton, so I thought it was time to make myself a list that I can store on my Touch to help me find the hotspots when I’m roaming around town.

It didn’t take long to work out that to do that I needed to create a web page, browse to it, then leave that page open in Safari so that I can view it even when I’m not connected. The list is sourced from Only Melbourne and freewifi.com.au/melbourne, but those sites only order the hotspots by name, which I think is silly. I reordered it by street instead, so when you’re standing there on Little Collins Street wondering where the nearest hotspot is you can quickly check the list and find it.

So here’s the page -

Melbourne CBD Free Wifi Hotspots

It’s optimised for iPhone/iPod Touch. Browse to it, then leave the page open. Simple.

I’ve also created a Google Map for this:

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Obviously you’ll only be able to get to the Google Map if you’re already connected, but it’s there anyway.
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