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Find Out If The Tap On Your Travels Is Safe With Can I Drink The Water

Travelers are often weary of tap water when traveling internationally, for the practical reason of protecting their bowels from bacteria and pollutants. Free site Can I Drink The Water lets you know in which countries you might be able to drink from the tap – and others where you better stick to the bottled stuff. […]

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How To Bypass Turkey’s Blogger Restriction And Other Blanket Bans Without Mucking Up Your Computer

Although there are a number of ways to get around Internet censorship online, many of them route your entire Internet connection through a proxy; slowing down what might already be a sluggish connection. Instead, you can easily specify what groups of websites you want running through a proxy; in this case let’s use Turkey’s censorship […]

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Use Hugin To Take Spectacular Panoramic Photos With Any Camera

You might not have the luxury of a wide angle lens or DSLR on your travels but you can still capture the views you want with the free application Hugin. Hugin works by stitching together several photos you take of a scene or object that you wouldn’t be able to capture otherwise in a single […]

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Firefox Plugin Video DownloadHelper Lets You Easily Save Embedded Videos For Offline Viewing

Internet connections can be tough to stay reliably connected to when you’re traveling. The Firefox plugin Video DownloadHelper can save you some bandwidth efficiency by letting you easily save embedded YouTube and other videos as you surf the Web for later viewing without an Internet connection. The plugin creates a small download icon to the […]

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VisaMap Gives You A Visual Idea Of Where You Might Need A Tourist Visa

Aside from searching for low airfare, visas can often be a confusing and time consuming part of planning an international trip. The interactive site VisaMap highlights the places your nationality doesn’t require a visa, visas on arrival, and places you’ll need to apply for in advance. VisaMap lets you choose you nationality and covers just […]

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What The Nook Color Means For Travelers

Discerning the important differences between the Kindle and Nook for international travelers is a matter of looking at the details between two very similar products. Barnes & Noble’s new Nook Color is a product however, that has huge potential to become more than an eReader. Weighing it against either the Nook Wi-Fi or Kindle requires […]

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Interview With Travel-Gift Exchange Creator Michael Of Bon Via

Michael is the creator of Bon Via, a community for travelers to buy and sell unique things from around the world. Recently launched and what seems to be he beginning of a wave of similar sites, Mike talks about what differentiates Bon Via, and how travelers can use it to earn some side cash for […]

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The Ultimate Tech Guide For Travelers Is Here

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My latest ebook, The Ultimate Tech Guide For Travelers was released last Tuesday, and I aim to make it a living, breathing, complete tech guide for any traveler. Along with a guarantee to save you more than $137 within the first year, along with 30% on Apple products, and 6 months of free personal tech […]

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Interview With Creator Of Android Question And Answer Site: Tinkerdroid

Android doesn’t quite have the visibility in the travel app community as iPhone does, which might make have kept you a bit in the dark about the Google-owned mobile operating system. To help you get up to speed before and after joining the Android community, developer Vinny DaSilva created Tinkerdroid and answers a few questions […]

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Use Conde Nast iPhone App’s Word Of Mouth Feature To Shape Your Plans

Popular travel magazine Conde Nast has recently released a series of iPhone travel guides, designed to cover multiple aspects of 4 selected cities. While iPhone apps like this (for example mTrip) are plentiful, one interesting feature of the Conde Nast variety is the ‘Word Of Mouth’ feature. This addition to the app lets you look […]

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