Isn’t Life Strange?

I just love the iPhone. Sure, there are other smartphones that can essentially do many of the same tasks, like email, web browsing, playing audio or video files, or interacting with Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter, but the iPhone is the current king when it comes to providing users with unique and useful applications for just about anything.

For example, imagine yourself at Walt Disney World. You’ve just finished visiting the ghouls and ghosts of the Haunted Mansion and are trying to decide where to go next. One of your big goals for the day is to ride Space Mountain, which is all the way on the other side of the park, but there are other attractions you might like to see too. It would be a real bummer to walk all the way over to Tomorrowland to find that Space Mountain had an 80-minute wait. Let’s face it - The last thing you want to do at Disney World is spend your time standing in line or walking across the park only to encounter an unforeseen problem.

Disney helps park visitors by posting wait times for all major attractions on signs throughout the park. Each attraction has its own sign, but there are billboards at the entrances to each park that list them all in one place. But those signs are only helpful as long as you can see them.

Thanks to some clever folks, there are a few apps available that can help make your decision a bit easier. I downloaded a free one called “WDW Wait Times” (clever, huh?) that has a nice, simple interface.

This app relies on users to submit the latest wait times. I’ve been watching it over the past few days and it appears that times are regularly updated, at least for the most frequently visited attractions . While I have no idea whether or not those times are entirely accurate, I plan on trying it myself the next time I visit.

This app was designed by VersaEdge Software, the same folks that gave us WDW Dining, a very handy app that lists every restaurant at Walt Disney World, including full menus and other important information.