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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(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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(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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“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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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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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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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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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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(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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