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“Eyeballing” Your iPhone From Behind The Wheel

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 [...]

Live from The Connected Traveler Technology Showcase (Monday, May 23)

Travel Tech

On Monday, May 23rd, from 5 – 8 pm (PDT) Dick Jordan used his iPhone 3GS and the Qik Video Connect PLUS iPhone app to stream live video from The Connected Travel Technology Showcase to the Tales Told From The Road travel blog. The Connected Traveler tech and travel event (which was open only to [...]

“Juicing Up” Your iPhone’s Battery

Travel Tech

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) [...]

Learning to Write iPhone and iPad "Apps"

Travel Tech

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 [...]

Skype On The iPhone

App Reviews

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 [...]

Travel Tech: Netflix On Your iPhone

App Reviews

Netflix Comes To The iPhone After months of waiting, Netflix customers who own iPhones got their wish to be able to connect to the movie service at least partially fulfilled when a free Netflix app recently became available. Netflix At Home Or On The Road My Windows XP desktop computer’s 21” diagonal monitor screen is [...]

Travel Tech: Remembering 9/11

App Reviews

The iPhone has coined a new phrase in the American lexicon: “There’s an app for that.” If you are an iPhone owner, you know that there are something in excess of 250,000 iPhone apps covering nearly every use that one could conceive. But I will bet you dollars to Megabytes of data download that you [...]

Travel Tech: The Guidebook In Your iPhone (Part 3)

App Reviews

In previous posts I discussed options for downloading travel guidebooks to your iPhone from three on-line “bookstores”: Amazon.com (purveyor of Kindle Books), Apple (which sells iBooks), and Barnes & Noble (vendor of Nook books). But these are not the only available electronic guidebook outlets. Individual Author Guidebooks Fodor’s, Frommer’s, Lonely Planet, Moon, and other major [...]

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

App Reviews

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 [...]

Travel Tech: Reading Kindle Books On The Road

App Reviews

“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. [...]

Travel News Update (5/1/10) from Tales Told From The Road

Travel News Updates

Here are today’s travel and travel technology headlines with links to the stories on the Web: Geoquiz: Knowing Airport Codes Gets You There (Elliott.org) Chile: Post-Quake Tourism (AP via The Oregonian) When Getting Lost Saves Your Stomach (New York Times) Love And Cartagena (New York Times) What’s Cookin’ In Gascony? (Los Angeles Times) Crazy Airline [...]

Travel Tech Tips Added To Tales Told From The Road!

Travel Tech

Tales Told From The Road has a new Travel Tech page which tells you how to use technology “on the road” or for pre-trip planning. It includes links to blog posts by Tales Told From The Road travel writer Dick Jordan, articles and blog posts by technology writers, and other Websites that address travel-related tech [...]

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