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Travel Tech: The Guidebook In Your iPhone (Part 2)

In the first installment of “The Guidebook In Your iPhone” I investigated reading Kindle Books from Amazon.com and “iBooks” from Apple on your computer, iPad, iPod, iPhone or other smartphone. But this is not the only ways you can read electronic guidebooks or other publications on your iPhone (a 3GS in my case). Here’s yet [...]

Travel Tech: The Guidebook In Your iPhone

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You thought your iPhone was primarily a telephone. Wrong. Then you decided it actually was mostly a computer. Right. Finally, you discovered it was not just a telephone and a computer, but also a travel guidebook, too. Right again — almost; it’s actually a guidebook library. Here are two popular places to buy electronic books [...]

Travel Tech: Reading Kindle Books On The Road

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“Here, take my Kindle Reader outside and try it in the bright sunlight” said The Nice Lady in the doctor’s waiting room. So I did. And it was cool. With this gadget I could sit on the beach and read my favorite books — all 1,295,041 of them. “I need this” I told my wife. [...]

Travel Tech: Finding “Reads” On The Road

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Looking for a good book or an independent bookstore while you’re on the road? If you have an iPhone you’re in luck: Download the free IndieBound app from the iTunes App Store. Finding Bookstores Turn your iPhone’s “Location Services” to “On”, then click on “Store Finder” at the bottom of the screen to get a [...]

Tech Tip: Electronic vs. Print Guidebooks

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I took my iPhone 3Gs with me to Europe last September and downloaded the Kindle version of Rick Steve’s London guidebook to it. I also took along the print version of Rick’s book so I could determine the benefits of using each. Since the Wimbledon tennis tournament is going on as I type this post, [...]

Travel News Update (5/13/10)

Travel News Updates

Here are today’s travel and travel technology headlines with links to the stories on the Web: “Free market“ Airfares (Elliott.org) More About That Pesky Iceland Volcano (JohnnyJet.com) Seattle’s Sweet Treats (The New York Times) Summer Airfares Out Of SFO Rising? (The B.A.T.) Air Berlin Begins SFO-Dusseldorf Service (The B.A.T.) E-Reader Apps For Mobile Devices (The [...]

Travel Tech Tip: Reading The “Chron” On The Road

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One of the things I love about my iPhone is that it lets me read the news when I’m away from TVs, radios and computers. The New York Times has a great iPhone app for reading that paper on-line, but much to my disappointment, reading the San Francisco Chronicle on my phone hasn’t been all [...]