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by Jamie Rhein (RSS feed) (4 months ago)
Jul 25th, 2009 at 1:00PM: Heavens! The last weekend in July?! How can that be? Hopefully, those of you in the summer season are finding time to get out there, see the world--even if the world is not much further than the block next door and the weather is cooperating.
Here are five posts about new things in the travel scene.
Sean's post on how e-mailing is getting easier in some parts of Africa due to a new fiber ...

by Jamie Rhein (RSS feed) (5 months ago)
Jun 16th, 2009 at 5:30PM: Canceling mail service, stopping the newspaper, and putting house lights on timers are ways to make it look to a potential burglars as if you're still home.
Twitter, though, could undo all your careful planning if you agree with Israel Hyman that his Tweets about his travels tipped off a burglar that he was long gone. When Hyman returned home after his vacation, he discovered valuable electronic ...

by Karen Walrond (RSS feed) (6 months ago)
May 7th, 2009 at 11:00AM: Last week, my friend Willy pinged me via instant message: "Hey, do you have any ideas on how I can share photos? I have a ton of them sitting on my hard drive doing nothing." I know the problem: if it weren't for the fact that I had a photoblog, I'm sure most of my photographs would never see the light of day. But since we're approaching Mother's Day here in the United States, it occurs to me that ...

by Scott Carmichael (RSS feed) (1 year ago)
Nov 20th, 2008 at 10:00AM: Welcome to day 4 of Gadling's 10 days of gadget giveaways. Today is your chance to win a Proporta Gadget bag. This bag was recently featured as one of the best travel technology products of 2008 in our top 25 lineup. The Proporta Gadget bag consists of 3 bags connected to each other by a sturdy zipper. Inside the main bag is a separate bag for holding your smaller items. Each bag also features ...

by Scott Carmichael (RSS feed) (1 year ago)
Aug 5th, 2008 at 11:00AM: Time has published a list of 25 "must have" travel gadgets. The list contains some of the usual suspects, like the Apple 3G iPhone, the Amazon Kindle and a Canon digital camera. Then there are several "gadgets" you wouldn't immediately think of, like this UV water sanitizing pen or a wine "skin", which is nothing more than a piece of bubble wrap for carrying wine bottles in your luggage (I find ...

by Scott Carmichael (RSS feed) (1 year ago)
Aug 1st, 2008 at 3:00PM: If you plan to take any of your valuables with you on a trip, it might be a good idea to create a file with of all the serial numbers, dates of purchase and prices of the items you are carrying. Once you finish packing, it's not unlikely that you are carrying over $2000 worth of equipment. Even the lowest tech traveler can easily reach $1000 with just a mobile phone, digital camera and iPod. In my ...

by Jamie Rhein (RSS feed) (1 year ago)
Jun 12th, 2008 at 3:30PM: I admit, I took the SkyMall catalog with me when I left the Southwest Airlines plane after my last flight. I had grand plans to find something useful or something unusual to write about by pouring through its pages. I got busy.
Then, today, Grant tossed out this link to "The 5 Most Ridiculous SkyMall Products Money Can Buy" at Cracked.com, and after I finished laughing, I unpacked the catalog ...

by Jerry Guo (RSS feed) (1 year ago)
Jan 9th, 2008 at 10:00AM: I just came across this little website: flyhere.com. It's a really simple tool that does just about one thing. Flyhere tells you, well, which flights you can take to get somewhere. You type in a destination, and it'll tell you all the nonstop flights to that city. Likewise, you can type in a departure point, and it'll tell you all the places you can fly to from there.
But perhaps most helpful is ...
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by Neil Woodburn (RSS feed) (2 years ago)
Sep 24th, 2007 at 8:33AM: For a long time now, Bose has been the king of noise canceling headphones. Walk through any First Class cabin and 90% of the passengers have a Bose firmly attached to their ears, adding just one more layer of bliss to their already envious levels of comfort. For those of us stuck in Coach, this was just one more reason to hate them. Of course, Bose headphones are the one slice of First Class ...

by Adrienne Wilson (RSS feed) (2 years ago)
Feb 9th, 2007 at 3:04PM: There was a tremendous out of activity going on here at Gadling this week. There were mentions of huge music festivals; silly hitchhiker's auctioning off their names and enough Valentine's suggestions to eliminate any and all excuses. We understand that you may have missed something in the frenzy and so now it is time to catch-up. Here are some picks hand plucked by me that are worth viewing once ...