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Travel Print Publications Get “Tagged”

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Photos in a newspaper or magazine travel story can inspire you to travel to a destination, but an video embedded in a story posted on a travel Website can instantly “transport” you there. Now there is an easy way for “print” to take you on such “virtual journeys” using Microsoft “Tags.”

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Travel Tech: Best “Road Trip” Apps

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“Spring Break”?  Well, that’s come and gone.  But summer’s not that far off. When I was a kid, Dinah Shore exhorted Americans to “See the U.S.A. in Your Chevrolet.”  Whatever make of car you are driving today, and wherever you might be heading on your summer “road trip,” you won’t want to leave home without [...]

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“Watching The Oscars” on The Road with Your iPhone or iPad

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It’s Sunday, February 26, 2012.  Your favorite “movie review” show of the year is going to be on that evening when you’ll be nowhere near a TV set! Diastersville!  No, not if you own an iPhone or iPod Touch, and especially not if you’ve got an iPad. To save your cinematic bacon, just go to [...]

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App Reviews: “Feeding Oscar Cookies”

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So you’re a “road warrior,” living out of a suitcase like George Clooney’s character in “Up In The Air,” away from home on “Oscar Weekend.” But even if you don’t have access to a TV, you can still follow the Academy Awards using the free “Oscars” app described in our last blog post. But there’s [...]

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The “Love Survival Kit” App

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(In keeping with  “Love is in The Air” week on Tales Told From The Road, here’s an iPhone app that you can use to can keep your love alive over decades, as “Dick and The Donut Dollie” have done.) Can high-technology prevent love from dying a slow and painful death?  Well, according to wikiHow, “There’s [...]

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Your “Passport” to iPhone Travel Movie Making

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The free KLM Passport for iPhone app lets you create a mini-movie of your trips taken by air. This promotional video provides an overview of the app, although it isn’t a step-by-step tutorial:   Here’s the app’s description on iTunes: “The KLM Passport app turns your journeys into inspiring movies you can share with friends [...]

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Where’s My Bag? (There’s An App for That)

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You check in for your flight at the airport ticket counter and trustingly hand over your luggage to an airline employee.  Then your bags disappear from sight.  Hopefully, you’ll see them riding around a luggage carousel after you arrive at your destination airport. But where dos your bags travel during your journey?  And how can [...]

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Three iPhone Apps for Holiday Travel

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Here are three apps that you can use year-round, but would definitely be handy to have aboard your iPhone if you are traveling during the holiday season. Tripit Tripit is both an iPhone app (which also works on the iPad) and a Website (www.tripit.com).  It lets you assemble reservation information for travel by air, rail, [...]

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Holiday Cyber Shopping with Your iPhone

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If you’re out and about shopping for holiday gifts, you can use the Amazon Mobile iPhone app or the Price Check by Amazon iPhone app to find out whether the store you are in has the best buy for on any item that Amazon.com sells.   (You can download either free app by clicking on the [...]

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Hilton Garden Inn Launches ‘BizWords’ Mobile App

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(The following comes from a press release which Tales Told From The Road received from PR Newswire, a service for journalists.  The iPhone app described has not been tested by Tales Told From The Road). “Hilton Garden Inn today launched BizWords, a new interactive iPhone/iPad app, to help business travelers decode and navigate the business [...]

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Living Abroad In Costa Rica

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By Dick Jordan Some days, particularly when the mainstream media is flooded with reports on the machinations and misstatements of potential U.S. Presidential candidates, I feel impelled to leave the country permanently (or at least for a long vacation).  Fortunately, there’s an app for that:  Costa Rica Trip Ideas (iTunes App Store, $1.99, for iPhone [...]

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9/11 Remembered with iPhone, iPad Apps

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The following iPhone and iPad apps relate to the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States: Purchasing iPhone and iPad apps through this page helps support Tales Told From The Road.

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Be a “Roving Reporter” Using the “iSaidWhat?!” iPhone App

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Apple’s iPhone isn’t just for playing games, checking e-mail, surfing the Web, or taking photos and posting them on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.  It has become an essential reporting tool for journalists. On Wednesday, I am going to work on my skills doing research, interviewing, and note-taking “in the field” when I travel out to [...]

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ViaMichelin iPhone/iPad European Traffic Information App

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(The following information comes from a press release sent out by PRNewswire for Journalists). Following the success of its real-time traffic information service, (more than 1,100,000 App Store downloads for the ViaMichelin Traffic France application alone), ViaMichelin has now developed the service for more countries in Europe (Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Netherlands, United Kingdom and [...]

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Being A “Connected” Traveler

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(Dick Jordan attended The Connected Traveler Technology Showcase in San Francisco on May 23, 2011.  Here are some brief comments on software and hardware products he saw at the show.) Make A New (Trip) Plan, Stan Taking a trip is fun, especially if someone else has done all of the tedious, time-consuming trip planning for [...]

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“Zapding” From The Road With Your iPhone

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If you’ve been reading Tales Told From The Road you know its a “blogsite” (“Web” + “log” = “blog”—an electronic journal) with features of both a blog and an “ordinary” Website. Tales Told From The Road runs on the WordPress.org platform using the Thesis “theme” which I had to buy.  The site is“self-hosted” meaning I [...]

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Getting The News Via Twitter

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Enough is sometimes too much. Being Force-Fed by Twitter A few months ago I felt that I was being “overfed” by Twitter.  TMUI (“Too Much Useless Information”) and TLVN (“Too Little Valuable News”) was being figuratively shoved down my throat, like a baby bird being force-fed worms by an mother insistent on making its chick [...]

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