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Travel Tech: Best “Road Trip” Apps

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“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 [...]

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Harry Potter Arrives, Electronically

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J.K. Rowling’s magical character, Harry Potter,  lives in two worlds: The one inhabited by ordinary folk and the one where his school, Hogwarts is situated. After a journey that seems to have taken many years, Harry now resides somewhere else: On Kindle e-books available (in a round-about way) through Amazon.com Finding Harry Potter at Amazon.com [...]

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

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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 [...]

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Travel News Update (9/1/10)

Travel News Updates

Here are this week’s travel and travel technology stories on the Web: Sharing iPhone Photos On-Line (The New York Times) Voice Calls Using Gmail (The Slatest.com) Calling China Using Gmail (Matadorgoods.com) Frugality Is The New Vacation (The New York Times) GMail Calls From A Plane (Gadling.com) More About Gmail Voice Calling The New York Times) [...]

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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 [...]

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Travel News Update (8/4/10)

Travel News Updates

Here are this week’s travel and travel technology stories on the Web: Telephoning Aboard (The New York Times) Airline Ticket Tax Refunds (Elliott.org) Seeing The World Through Your Phone (The New York Times) Lonely Planet iPad E-Guidebooks Released (The Huffington Post) Kindle vs. iPad (Gigacom via The New York Times) Tech Travel Tips (PCWorld.com) Pet [...]

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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.  [...]

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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, [...]

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