Pod City Guides are free files you can download for your iPod. They have over 300 cities to choose from and contained in the files that you store in your iPods “Notes” or “Calendar,” is timely and important information for each city, which includes current events broken down into several categories, museums, hotels, restaurants and even movie theaters including movie listings and showtimes. That is pretty neat.

Here are the links for cities in France: Aix-en-Provence, Bordeaux, Cannes, Lyon, Marseille, Montpellier, Nice, Paris, Toulouse

It’s an easy install: Download the city guide and expand it. Click on the iPod button from iTunes on the bottom right, then click on the ipod icon on your desktop that should open up. Drag the folders to the correct location. Events should be placed in “calendar” and other information should be placed in “notes.”

I tested it out a few days ago and that’s actually how I found out about the “Salon Saveurs” I posted about recently. Ok, so they made a mistake on the dates but hopefully, most of their information is accurate. (I emailed them about the error so I imagine that will be fixed.)

The files are regularly updated and corrected so make sure you download the most current version in order to receive timely information on events, etc.

Lastly, this does not have maps but the site does offer city maps for pda’s and mobile phones. Also pod city guides do NOT work with 1st and 2nd generation iPods. The iPods must have the “notes” feature.

[related: metro maps for iPod]

Pod City Guides