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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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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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Tablet Computer Buying Guide: The Kindle “Fire”

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(Be sure to read our posts “Tablet Computer Buying Guide: Where to Start”,  “Tablet Computer Buying Guide:  The iPad” , and Tablet Computer Buying Guide: The Nook Tablet before reading this review.) Leader of the Pack Amazon.com kicked off the race to develop devices that could read electronic versions of books when it launched its [...]

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Tablet Computer Buying Guide: The iPad

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(Be sure to read our post “Tablet Computer Buying Guide:  Where to Start” before reading this review.) iPad: A Good Idea Revived The notion of using a tablet computer isn’t new, but Apple paved the way for the resurgence of interest in using these devices instead of laptop computers when it first introduced the iPad [...]

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Tablet Computer Buying Guide: Where to Start

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“I need one of these!” I told my wife. “No you, don’t” was her response. That conversation took place two years ago after I had a chance to try out the original Kindle e-reader from Amazon.com.  Some things have changed since then, some have not. What’s the same:  I still don’t own a Kindle or [...]

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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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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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Hunting For Lions and Food in San Francisco

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Hunting For Lions in San Francisco How many lions could you possibly find prowling around the City of San Francisco? To answer this question, travel writers and filmmakers Jules and Effin Older went “on safari” in The City By The Bay and shot this 49-sec0nd video clip which has made the “final cut” in the [...]

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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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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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Learning to Write iPhone and iPad "Apps"

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Creating and publishing an “app” for Apple’s iPhones, iPad, and the iPod Touch seemed to me a daunting task until I took the “App-Happy” class taught by travel writers Laurie McAndish King and Suzanne Rodriguez on April 2nd in San Francisco. Even if you’ve got a brilliant idea for the “content” of the app and [...]

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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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Travel Tech: Using The Google eBookstore

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On Monday, December 6, 2010, Google “opened” its eBookstore offering over 3 million books in electronic versions that can be read on Android and iPhone smartphones, the iPad and iPod Touch, e-readers from Barnes & Noble and Sony, any other device that supports Adobe’s e-book platform, or by using a Web browser that is Javascript [...]

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Getting Weather Forecasts On The Road

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What’s the weather going to be today?  How about tomorrow?  And what’s the forecast for the next week or two? Getting the answers to these questions while traveling used to be all about timing:  Either be in your rental car with the radio tuned to a news station or be in your hotel room watching [...]

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