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Travel Photo Thursday: Shooting Hawaii’s Sinking Sun

Travel Photo Thursday

Watching the sun set over the Pacific while enjoying a beer, cocktail, or glass of wine is a quintessential Hawaiian travel experience that will prompt you to set down your drink, pick up your camera, and shoot a photographic souvenir of your trip.  But catching Sol just as it begins to sink into the sea [...]

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Killing Time At The Airport: Spin The Hamster

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All of us have spent time at the airport spinning our wheels and going nowhere while waiting for a delayed flight.  Now, the airline SAS has created something to help you while away the time you spend cooling your heels in the terminal:  The SAS Time Killer game app. SAS developed the app to tout [...]

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Living in Apple “Hell”: The iOS 5 Update

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When Apple began selling the new iPhone 4S, I could have camped out overnight in front of an Apple Store, bought a new phone, and saved myself a day and a half of grief updating my old 3GS model with the new iOS 5 operating system.  I would have been out several hundred dollars, but [...]

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Travel Fun: Riding Heathrow’s “Pods”

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On my 2006 and 2009 trips to Europe, I flew in and out of London’s Heathrow Airport because the four daily non-stop flights between it and San Francisco International Airport increase the odds of being able to snag a “free” (more or less) cushy seat in Business or First Class and all of the neat [...]

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Queue Up For The New iPhone 4S

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Apple’s latest iteration of its popular smartphone, the iPhone 4S, will be available from AT&T, Verizon and Sprint next Friday, October 14th.  But if you can’t wait out the week, starting today you can pre-order the new phone directly from the Apple Online Store. Here’s some of what is coming to the iPhone with release [...]

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iPhone 5, Can You Hear Me? Where Are You?

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Skypeing Via TV? Not For Everyone, Not Yet.

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“Skype on an HDTV is cool – makes you feel like Capt. Kirk on the bridge of the Enterprise arguing with a Romulan general intent on wiping out the Federation”, says San Francisco Chronicle Technology writer, David Einstein, in his Monday, September 12, 2011 column. While I wanted to be an intergalactic traveler ever since [...]

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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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Buying iPhone, iPad E-Books Gets Harder

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Tuesday I flew home from the Hawaiian island of Maui where the speed bumps I’m used to bouncing over in California have been turned into wider “speed tables” so you’ll heed the advice Hawaiians give Mainlanders:  “Slow down, you’re on Maui now.” The next day, Barnes & Noble sent me an e-mail telling that I’m [...]

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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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Monitor and Manage Your Verizon Wireless Data Plan Usage

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(The following is from a press release obtained via PR Newswire for Journalists and should be of interest to Verizon Wireless smartphone users who have limited data plans or are traveling outside of the U.S.) Verizon Wireless smartphone and tablet customers have a variety of ways to monitor and manage their wireless data usage, including [...]

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Zapping Apps to Your iPhone

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Promises, Promises Earlier this month, Apple announced over 200 new features that will be available to owners of iPhone 3GS and 4 models, and the iPad and iPod Touch, when the company releases the newest version of its mobile operating system, iOS5, sometime this fall. But one of those new and super-useful functions is available [...]

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Being A “Connected” Traveler

App Reviews

(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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Jetsetter.com Offers “Personal Travel Planning”

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(The following information is from an announcement sent to Tales Told From The Road via PR Newswire, a media service for journalists.) “Jetsetter.com , the leading members-only travel site, today launched Personal Travel Planning, a service that provides travelers a personal consultation with one of the 200+ experienced travel writers who serve as Jetsetter’s correspondents. [...]

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“Eyeballing” Your iPhone From Behind The Wheel

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Making or answering a call, or texting, with your iPhone in your hand when you are behind the wheel isn’t the safest way to head down streets and highways, and in at least some places is a traffic offense that can cost you money if law enforcement catches you “in the act.” But suppose you [...]

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Airport Parking iPhone Travel App Released

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(The following comes from a press release which Tales Told From The Road from PR Newswire, a news service for journalists.  We have not tested the free AirportParking iPhone application described in the press release). “AboutAirportParking.com® (www.aboutairportparking.com), the leader in  airport parking reservations, announced the launch of the “AirportParking”  iPhone travel app, making it easy [...]

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Live from The Connected Traveler Technology Showcase (Monday, May 23)

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On Monday, May 23rd, from 5 – 8 pm (PDT) Dick Jordan used his iPhone 3GS and the Qik Video Connect PLUS iPhone app to stream live video from The Connected Travel Technology Showcase to the Tales Told From The Road travel blog. The Connected Traveler tech and travel event (which was open only to [...]

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