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Hilton Garden Inn Launches ‘BizWords’ Mobile App

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(The following comes from a press release which Tales Told From The Road received from PR Newswire, a service for journalists.  The iPhone app described has not been tested by Tales Told From The Road). “Hilton Garden Inn today launched BizWords, a new interactive iPhone/iPad app, to help business travelers decode and navigate the business [...]

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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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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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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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“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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“Juicing Up” Your iPhone’s Battery

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History may well name the iPhone as one of the greatest inventions ever made:  This pocket sized computer (it probably should be called the “iPocket” since it is its data processing ability, with a few hundred thousand mini-programs to choose from, not its telephonic function, that sets it apart from the original hand-held cell phones) [...]

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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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Getting The News Via Twitter

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Enough is sometimes too much. Being Force-Fed by Twitter A few months ago I felt that I was being “overfed” by Twitter.  TMUI (“Too Much Useless Information”) and TLVN (“Too Little Valuable News”) was being figuratively shoved down my throat, like a baby bird being force-fed worms by an mother insistent on making its chick [...]

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Travel Tech: “Playing Tag” To Get Travel Info

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While leafing through the latest issue of Conde Nast Traveler I saw some advertisements that had little boxes filled with colored triangles near the bottom-left corner of the page.  An ad touting “Sunnylicious” Fort Lauderdale, Florida (which sounded like a better place to be at the moment than my damp and dreary-skied hometown), urged me [...]

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Upgraded Kindle iPhone App Available

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One Size Fits All In part one (August 27, 2010) of my three-part story “The Guidebook In Your iPhone” I discussed the purchase of Kindle e-books which can be read on Macs, PCs, iPhones, iPad, and iPod Touch devices:  Just buy one copy, marked it up, highlight passages, close it on one device, re-open the [...]

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Skype On The iPhone

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Skype, the popular “Voice Over Internet” (VoIP) telephone service, has finally brought video phone calling to the iPhone.  Here’s my first take on it. Do you “skype”? Like “Google”, “Skype” is the name of a high-tech company that has become a verb as well as a noun.  Want to find information?  Just “google it” using [...]

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Travel Tech: Santa And The Smartphone

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Have you’ve asked Santa to bring you, a loved one or a friend, a shiny new iPhone 4 or another AT&T smartphone for Christmas?  Don’t forget ask him to pick the right data plan, particularly if he’s going to be replacing a 3Gs (or older) model iPhone. Sometimes AT&T is like the genie of the [...]

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