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Where am I again, iPhone?
Randal L. Schwartz, merlyn@stonehenge.comVersion 1.04 on 13 Sep 2011
This document is copyright 2011 by Randal L. Schwartz, Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc.This work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License
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Monday, September 19, 2011
Why me?• Traveling 40-50 weeks a year• ... for the past 17 years!
• Most travel is domestic US• ... but some international travel (cruises!)
• The first-gen iPhone was my first smartphone• I was already a solid Mac user• I’ve never owned a machine with Windows
• Hey, I was on the cruise already anyway!
Monday, September 19, 2011
Categories• Finding cheap travel• Airports and flying• During the flight• Eating and drinking• Getting around• Information• Points of interest• Sharing• The sky
Monday, September 19, 2011
Finding cheap travel
• Kayak• Hertz/Avis etc• HotelPal• Booking.com• Priceline Negotiator• OnTheFly• Hipmunk
Monday, September 19, 2011
Airports and flying
• Flight Update• TripTracker• Fly Delta [or equivalent for your airline]• GateGuru• My TSA• flightstats.com• AirportFinder
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During the flight• Podcasts!• Streaming services with downloads:• Rhapsody (genre drilldown, better playlists)• Rdio (manage downloads from web)• MOG (works with my Roku)• Spotify Premium• Slacker Premium (download “radio”!)
• Book apps: Kindle, iBooks, Google ...• Pzizz• Games
Monday, September 19, 2011
Eating and drinking
• Google maps• Bing• Citysearch• OpenTable• GoodFoodNearYou• Yelp
Monday, September 19, 2011
Getting around• MotionX GPS• Waze• Mapquest• Griffin Roadmate• CoPilot Live• Taxi Magic• Rocket Taxi• Glympse
Monday, September 19, 2011
Information• Accuweather• CNN• Byline (Google news reader)• Word Lens (Spanish only for now)• Ultralingua (Spanish, Portuguese, others)• WiFi track• Free WiFi• Currency exchange using Yahoo Stocks
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Points of interest
• Google Places• Citysearch• Yelp with magic lens• Foursquare• Where• Wikitude• Wikihood
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Sharing• Twitter, Posterous, Instagram, picplz, Streamzoo• FourSquare• Yelp• Facebook• Latitude• Google-Plus (with Plusist)• GV Connect or Google Voice• Talkatone (Google voice over data!)• Skype
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The sky
• Star Walk• Star Chart• pUniverse• SkySafari• Sunrise Clock• World Clock
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Any others?
• Your turn to suggest ones I missed
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Follow me
• Twitter: @merlyn• Personal blog: merlyn.posterous.com• merlyn, realmerlyn, or RandalSchwartz
Monday, September 19, 2011