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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

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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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Buying iPhone Apps and Music with an iTunes Gift Card

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Getting Free Apps or Buying Them You just got a brand-new, shiny iPhone and you want to fill it up with music and those little software programs called “apps” before you head off on trip.  Downloading free apps directly from your iPhone or through iTunes on your computer  is straightforward and easy, and so is [...]

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No 3G Network Where You Are? Here’s Why

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Smartphone users in large U.S. cities may have no problem finding a cellular carrier’s 3G network, or even a newer, faster 4G LTE one, making uploading and downloading of data such as e-mail, photos, video and Webpages relatively fast.  But if you are “Out in The Sticks” you may be “out of gas” when I [...]

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It’s Not “Your Fathers” United Airlines Anymore

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The United and Continental Airlines merger has just spawned significant changes to the way passengers “interface” electronically with the new, unified carrier. Navigating United’s Home Page United has put together this video to help you find your way around its redesigned Website which went “live” at 1:00 a.m. Central Standard Time on Saturday, March 3rd: [...]

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“Watching The Oscars” on The Road with Your iPhone or iPad

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It’s Sunday, February 26, 2012.  Your favorite “movie review” show of the year is going to be on that evening when you’ll be nowhere near a TV set! Diastersville!  No, not if you own an iPhone or iPod Touch, and especially not if you’ve got an iPad. To save your cinematic bacon, just go 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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Your “Passport” to iPhone Travel Movie Making

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The free KLM Passport for iPhone app lets you create a mini-movie of your trips taken by air. This promotional video provides an overview of the app, although it isn’t a step-by-step tutorial:   Here’s the app’s description on iTunes: “The KLM Passport app turns your journeys into inspiring movies you can share with friends [...]

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Taking the (i)Plunge with Your Smartphone

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If Santa left you a toilet plunger under the Christmas tree you’d probably surmise that you’d been a very naughty child.  That’s unless it was the iPlunge stand designed to prop your iPhone up on a table top to make viewing movies, videos, and photo slideshows hands-free. Thanks to my sister-in-law, Pam, playing Santa Claus, [...]

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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

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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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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: The Nook Tablet

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(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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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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“Free” Texting on Your iPhone

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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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