I love Jott! Jott helps me stay on top of everything, especially important with my busy travel schedule. With a simple phone call to 866-JOTT-123, you can capture notes, set reminders and calendar appointments, interact with your favorite web sites and services…all with your voice! Simply call Jott (store their number in your mobile phone’s [...]
When it comes to exploring a new city, what’s your source for planning what to do? I see people on my flights with their Fodor’s book, busy marking the pages for what they want to add to their itinerary. Others scour websites for weeks and months in advance making their list of all the hottest [...]
Whether you are in a new city finding your way around or an old favorite looking for something new, Google’s mapping services can help immensely. The days of walking around with a fold-out map are giving way to GPS-aided maps on phones, and more people are researching their trips online before they even leave home. [...]
When I’m traveling for business, one of the biggest hassles I had was keeping track of different files all over the place. The document I need could be on my laptop, or it could be back at home on my desktop. That important PDF the client needs now is on my laptop back at the [...]
The headphones available on the plane (whether for purchase or for free) are usually of poor quality and their comfort level is low. They are also not designed to cancel out the surrounding noise. Instead, bring your own noise-canceling headphones or in-ear headphones. High quality noise-isolating (different from noise canceling) headphones, or noise canceling headphones [...]
Whether you travel with your own GPS or use a rental car’s navigation system, store your hotel information into the GPS when you first arrive at your destination. In addition to having the GPS direct you to your hotel upon arrival, each day or evening’s return trip to your hotel will be easier by quickly [...]
New travel apps for (most) everyone! Blackberry users get Trip-It; iPhone users get Siri. The popular Trip-It app became available to Blackberry users on January 20th. The Siri Personal Assistant for iPhone users was released on February 5th. Both are of great value to folks on the go. Learn more about TripIt’s free mobile apps [...]
Don’t be caught without a phone number or address while you’re driving! You can’t find the restaurant where you’re supposed to be meeting your best friend or biggest client, nor do you have their telephone number. Don’t panic. Keep your hands on the wheel and your eyes on the road and use Google’s information number [...]
Travelers who own an iPhone usually learn too late that using it outside the US can be very expensive. First the good news: The iPhone is GSM-based, the same as most places overseas. That means your phone will operate in most locations around the world just fine. The bad news: It can be outrageously expensive. Some of you may have [...]
As a telephone, the iPhone is no better than any other. What sets it apart is the applications that can be used with it, more than 60,000 currently. Being on the road so often, I like trying out their travel apps and see which ones enhance my journey. Listed here are seventeen of my favorites [...]
