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pointWORLD 2.0


License Purchase
Requirements Palm OS 3.5
Downloads 2 Limitations None
Publisher fun communications GmbH File Size 285k
Date added 29 Dec 2004 Check your speed

Get the key information about all countries of the world in an instant!
Explore the blue planet with pointWORLD. Move across the world map and get the key information about all countries of the world in an instant. Just point on a country in the map and get the information you need.

But pointWORLD is not only an advanced world time system and knowledge database for Palm OS devices, it's also great edutainment for you and your kids! It offers nearly unlimited possibilities to test your knowledge about flags, capitals, areas and biggest cities of the world. Every quiz is generated out of hundreds of thousands possible questions.

  • High and low resolution versions for all devices
  • High quality color or grey graphics
  • Animated national flags
  • For the largest countries the outline of the country is indicated and a yellow square indicates the position of its capital
  • Two analog clocks realized in anti-aliasing technique
For intuitive reading:
  • Depending upon time of day the clocks are shown in different colors
  • Navigate in the city map and the world map by using the 5-way navigation of your PDA
  • High score list
Test before you buy! pointWORLD will run without any restrictions for 7 days.

Information you get about every single country with pointWORLD
- position of the country displayed in the world map
- animated national flag
- capital
- total area
- total population
- toplevel Domain
- international area-code
- all the cities of the world with more than 1 million population
- actual position of the sun
- time and date of your own time-zone
- time and date of each city worldwide with more than 1 million population
- time and date of the current selected country in the world map
- the daylight saving time for every country is integrated
- Global Find for each country and city with more than 1 million population

Global Find
Use pointWORLD as a reference application. Switch from every application on your Palm OS Organizer to a country or a city in pointWORLD just by using the Global Find functionality (lens symbol).

Watch the date line
Time and date as well as all other country specific facts change by moving over the map with your stylo. It¬タルs a nice feature for watching the date line.

Compare the countries of the world with your home country
You see also two pairs of bars for comparing surface and population with a second country as well as the rank list place of total area and total population of a country in the world-wide comparison.

The Quiz
Learning all countries of the world, their capitals, flags, total area and biggest cities is a tough task, but pointWORLD makes it easy! Before you begin with the quiz, select the categories from which the questions will be chosen. You will be asked 10 multiple choice questions. If you answer all the questions correctly in the first try, you receive 10 more questions.

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