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Travel Print Publications Get “Tagged”

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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.”

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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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Travel Tech: All The World Before Your Very Eyes

Travel Tech

You’re on vacation, in an unfamiliar city, thousands of miles from home. What’s the weather going to be like today?  Just look straight ahead. Made a reservation for dinner, but can’t remember where?  Just look straight ahead. What time is it?  Your watch is in the other room, but just look straight ahead. Need to [...]

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iPhone 5: On the Horizon, or Over It?

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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?  [...]

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Banging Out a Story

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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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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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Tablet Computer Buying Guide: The Nook Tablet

Travel Tech

(Be sure to read our posts “Tablet Computer Buying Guide: Where to Start”  and “Tablet Computer Buying Guide:  The iPad” before reading this review.) E-Reader on Steroids Barnes & Noble entered the e-reader arena with its black and white “Nook” and later added a color model.  Now it also offers the Nook Tablet, a pumped-up [...]

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Tablet Computer Buying Guide: The iPad

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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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“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 [...]

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Holiday Cyber Shopping with Your iPhone

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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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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 [...]

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Living Abroad In Costa Rica

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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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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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Being A “Connected” Traveler

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(Dick Jordan attended The Connected Traveler Technology Showcase in San Francisco on May 23, 2011.  Here are some brief comments on software and hardware products he saw at the show.) Make A New (Trip) Plan, Stan Taking a trip is fun, especially if someone else has done all of the tedious, time-consuming trip planning for [...]

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Jetsetter.com Offers “Personal Travel Planning”

Travel News Updates

(The following information is from an announcement sent to Tales Told From The Road via PR Newswire, a media service for journalists.) “Jetsetter.com , the leading members-only travel site, today launched Personal Travel Planning, a service that provides travelers a personal consultation with one of the 200+ experienced travel writers who serve as Jetsetter’s correspondents. [...]

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