Posted by Miss Maccy on Jul 11, 2009 in
Gizmos Apple – iPhone in Business – Profiles – ArtusLabs.
Well it just reinforces the point I’ve been harping on about forever (stop yawning already!) that the iphone replaces a whole bunch of other gadgets, especially while travelling. For instance, we just sold our portable GPS unit on ebay. Although we don’t have a turn-by-turn voice navigation app installed yet, we’ve found Google maps a more than adequate replacement. Two examples of the mobile navigation apps available are:
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=319361043&mt=8
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=320279293&mt=8
TomTom is said to be working on one for release as well.
Is this the end for Sat Nav?
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Tags: GPS, iphone, Sat Nav
Posted by Miss Maccy on Jun 30, 2009 in
Gadget Love Top 20 iPhone Travel Apps – National Geographic Adventure Magazine.
A fairly ordinary list IMHO. I’ve added a comment with a few more of my favourites. I think they really missed the boat by not having any Trip It integrated apps. I LOVE Packing (heh, I upgraded to Packing Pro). I think that should have rated a lot higher!
Tags: apps, iphone, ipod touch
Posted by Miss Maccy on Jun 24, 2009 in
Gadget Love GlobeJot 1.0.1 available on the App Store | Danilo Campos.
This iPhone / iPod Touch app also syncs with Trip it. It looks fantastic!
Tags: iphone, ipod touch, trip it
Posted by Miss Maccy on May 31, 2009 in
Gadget Love 10 gadgets to make summer travel more enjoyable – The Gadling Gear Review | Gadling.com.
Some great suggestions here. The Tom Bihn bags look awesome – I’ve read other good reviews of his range. Although what I like best about his bags are the washing instructions. Sadly very $$$ once you convert the whole lot to Aussie dollars.
The Tekkon rechargable batteries are a serious consideration for purchase however!
Tags: Gadgets, Gizmos, iphone, Travel
Posted by Miss Maccy on Apr 29, 2009 in
Gadget Love,
Planning One of the great things about booking through a travel agent was getting a nicely printed up travel itinerary with all of your transport and accommodation options detailed out. Well now you can create something even groovier – I assure you it makes travel agency print offs look ever so last century.
The one easy step, is that you have to join TripIt. It is completely free to join and very easy to sign up. There is a second step, although it is so easy I figured it didn’t really count as a step. Once you have recieved email confirmations of flights, accommodation and transport bookings, you forward the emails to plans@tripit.com
TA DAH!!! Magic, super glossy itinerary created with almost zero effort on your part!!! How fabulous is that?
A good thing to bear in mind if you have several hundred email addresses *ahem* is to use the same one as the majority of your trip arrangements. If you get conformations sent to a different email address, forward them to the address you signed up with at TripIt and then forward on again to TripIt. Or you can add additional secondary email addresses to your TripIt account (do this BEFORE you forward the emails).
Then there are some cool tricks your wonder itinerary can perform.
- You can invite friends and rellies to view or contribute to trips
- You can create a little trip badge for your blog – scroll riiiiiiiiiiiiight down to the bottom of this page, no keep going, there – on the right hand side is my little TripIt badge. Cool huh? If you’re really observant, you’ll know it used to be a Dopplr one, but they snooze, they loose.
- If you need to, you can edit the details and / or add details manually
- It has maps – loads of maps!
- There are also links right on the itinerary for checking flight status, online check in, and stroke-of-genius seat recommendations which links you to the plane model in Seat Guru.
- Also right there in the itinerary are little weather forecasts – you can even choose Fahrenheit or Celsius for the display.
- You can of course print off or email your itinerary
- And Holy Calendar Integration Batman – it actually creates an ical subscription.
But the fun doesn’t stop there! There are several iPhone / iPod touch applications that integrate with TripIt! Yep, more choices than you can shake a stick at!
First up there is a free TripIt app that basically is a bookmark for the web based service. I’m not a big fan of these types of Apps. Probably a hang over from starting out with an iPod touch where you can only access web pages using free wi-fi, which in Australia would be… the comfort of your own home – so you might as well be using your computer anyway.
Secondly is Flight Track Pro. Now this looks very smooth and great, especially if you need little maps with pictures of where your plane is flying.
But the one I really, truly love and hence handed over dosh for, is TravelTracker with TripIt
This app imports all of your TripIt data including accommodation and transport. It keeps this data when you are offline (yay). It has links to check flight status. The phone numbers for contacts are directly clickable for those with iphones. It also has a separate weather component and a few travel preparation lists (they are quite basic but a nice touch anyway).
The only thing it is missing is the linking to Google maps for the addresses.
Completely fantastic – all without typing anything in on my iphone and only adding a few extra details on my computer.
Tags: iphone, Itinerary, Travel plans, TripIt
Posted by Miss Maccy on Jan 30, 2009 in
Gadget Love,
Maps httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUEkrwYs_M0
It’s safe to come back, I’m as happy as Chicken Little with a crate of Red Bull – iWork 09 and iLife 09 arrived!!!!
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The first thing I launched was iPhoto 09… holy map-making-photo-software Batman!!! After installing it asked me if I wanted to add locations for my photo library. The next thing I know I’m looking at a map of our corner of Australia with pins in all the places I’ve taken photos with my iphone. Clicking on the pin showed the photos taken at that location.
I haven’t even had a chance to look at the new photo books but apparently there are now travel ones that include maps or locations. This is going to be fabulous for any traveller who wants to document their adventures.
I also had a quick delve into the face recognition aspect. I was fascinated by who the program thought looked most like each other – might settle a few family debates!
Tags: Apple, Australia, Chicken Little, Computers, GPS, ILife, iphone, IPhoto, IWork, Mac, Red Bull
Posted by Miss Maccy on Dec 17, 2008 in
Gizmos
iphone
Tags: Christmas, gizmo, iphone, Wordless Wednesday
