Archive | Travel Apps and Mobile Tech
16
Feb

Pulse – All the Travel News You Care About

Pulse, an app for your Android/iPhone/iPad, is like the technology era’s version of the paper boy. Pulse constantly streams all the news you care about straight to your Apple or Android powered device. Today we are concerned about much more than just what is going on in our local papers or the mainstream wesites. We [...]

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27
Jan

Make Travel Photos POP with the Color Effects App

If you’re looking for a little something special to make your travel photography pop, then check out the iPhone app called Color Effects. It’s free and for certain types of photographys, the difference is striking. Just check out this example! How it Works So how it works is that you open up the color effects [...]

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21
Jan

The Best Travel Apps for Mexico

The country of Mexico is as fascinating as it is diverse. With that in mind, it’s impossible to know offhand, as a first time tourist, exactly where to go to do all the things you most enjoy. If you’re an explorer at heart, visiting ancient Mayan ruins would be right up you’re alley; so you [...]

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19
Jan

The 3 Best Travel Apps for Bali

If you want to make a trip out to the Island of the Gods, otherwise known as Bali, Indonesia, you’re probably not going to want to go there completely in the dark (figuratively speaking). You’ll want to have an idea where the cultural and historical sites are, if you’re into exploration.If you’re more of an [...]

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18
Jan

Agony Free Flight Search? Yes.

There are plenty of startups who hope to help you find the perfect price for that upcoming flight, but the only one who does it with style, panache, and delightfullly good functionality is Hipmunk. What makes Hipmunk different?  A lot of things: Simplicity: Hipmunk understands good design, and ripped out a lot of the crap [...]

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17
Dec

Healthy Travel? There’s an app for that.

You know the saying that sometimes the simplest solution is best? When it comes to healthy travel/fitness apps for the iPhone, I think that’s more than appropriate, and it’s exactly what the new Everywhere Exercise – EvEx Uplift delivers. I believe that there was an Everywhere Exercise app before this one, but I’ve not used [...]

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04
Dec

The 10 Travel Apps Android Users Must Have

Android phones are great partners for traveling because of the swell of travel applications you can have on your phone. These travel applications make traveling a lot more fun easy. It gives you a good source of information and foremost, you can do everything right in your own handsets. Here are the 10 best travel [...]

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29
Nov

Best Travel Apps for Geeks Like Us

Don’t ya love a good app in your pocket? I know I do. It’s amazing what we can do with these little bits o’ software in a device we can hold in our hand or stuff in a sidepocket. Best news is, there is a vast array of travel apps available to those of us with a bit [...]

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24
Nov

Need a hotel tonight? This app says no problem.

Ever had a situation where you needed to book a last-minute hotel room – as in, I need somewhere to stay… tonight? It can happen – have a few drinks and can’t drive, feeling tired, miss your ferry – stuff happens.  Luckily the new Hotel Tonight mobile app has you covered. Featuring most of the major US [...]

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19
Nov

Make Your Own Postcards with the Impression App

There are lots of great apps for making and sending cool travel postcards, but personally I think the $1.99 Impression app is a great tool to add to your traveling mobile app arsenal.  You can make simple but impactful postcard images to send home, like this one: The app is very simple: You take your [...]

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