Last April, I heard that the world’s last typewriter factory had been shuttered. A part of my past closed along with it.
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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 [...]
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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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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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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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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