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Travel Print Publications Get “Tagged”

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.”

Travel Tech: Best “Road Trip” Apps

App Reviews

“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 [...]

Buying iPhone Apps and Music with an iTunes Gift Card

Travel Tech

Getting Free Apps or Buying Them You just got a brand-new, shiny iPhone and you want to fill it up with music and those little software programs called “apps” before you head off on trip. Downloading free apps directly from your iPhone or through iTunes on your computer is straightforward and easy, and so is [...]

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

App Reviews

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 [...]

App Reviews: “Feeding Oscar Cookies”

App Reviews

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 [...]

The “Love Survival Kit” App

App Reviews

(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 [...]

iPhone 5: On the Horizon, or Over It?

Travel Tech

The iPhone rumor mills are starting to run around the clock, predicting when the next iteration of the iPhone will be available for purchase (maybe June, maybe September) and what it will feature (bigger screen, thinner profile, tear-drop shape or same-old iPhone 4 rectangle, better camera, 4G LTE cellular network capability). But what are rumors? [...]

Your “Passport” to iPhone Travel Movie Making

App Reviews

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 [...]

Taking the (i)Plunge with Your Smartphone

Travel Tech

If Santa left you a toilet plunger under the Christmas tree you’d probably surmise that you’d been a very naughty child. That’s unless it was the iPlunge stand designed to prop your iPhone up on a table top to make viewing movies, videos, and photo slideshows hands-free. Thanks to my sister-in-law, Pam, playing Santa Claus, [...]

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 [...]

Three iPhone Apps for Holiday Travel

App Reviews

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, [...]

“Free” Texting on Your iPhone

Travel Tech

Except for some apps, the word “free” doesn’t often come to the mind of an iPhone owners. The phone itself isn’t cheap ($199-$399 for a new 4S), and you’ll probably end up buying some accessories (a dock, a case, car charger, etc.) that don’t come in the box with the phone. Unless you buy an [...]

Holiday Cyber Shopping with Your iPhone

App Reviews

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 [...]

Killing Time At The Airport: Spin The Hamster

Travel Tech

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 [...]

Living in Apple “Hell”: The iOS 5 Update

Travel Tech

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 [...]

Queue Up For The New iPhone 4S

Travel Tech

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 [...]

iPhone

Travel Print Publications Get “Tagged”

Travel Tech: Best “Road Trip” Apps

Buying iPhone Apps and Music with an iTunes Gift Card

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

The “Love Survival Kit” App

iPhone 5: On the Horizon, or Over It?

Your “Passport” to iPhone Travel Movie Making

Taking the (i)Plunge with Your Smartphone

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

Three iPhone Apps for Holiday Travel

“Free” Texting on Your iPhone

Holiday Cyber Shopping with Your iPhone

Killing Time At The Airport: Spin The Hamster

Living in Apple “Hell”: The iOS 5 Update

Queue Up For The New iPhone 4S

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

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