Geeky Traveller

October is Breast Cancer Awareness month and at this time you may start to notice an abundance of pink products. Many companies sell pink versions of their best sellers and donate a percentage of the profits to the Breast Cancer Research foundation. As far as travel goes, you can buy any number of handy gadgets in pink – laptops for carting your work around with you, pink USB drives for holding your business documents, pink mp3 and video players to listen to music and watch movies while you travel, and so on.
But did you know you can help …read more

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My fabulous blog network, b5media, has recently launched another blog in the travel channel – this one will feature a lot of great travel products that might be of interest to you. Unlike Geeky Traveller, the Travel Product Blog won’t just give you the geeky tech side of travel ease, so even if you or someone you know isn’t too tech-inclined, you’ll be sure to find something awesome and useful over there.
Do drop by and check it out!

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In the Northern hemisphere, we’re going to be welcoming Summer on Friday. For many of us, we’ve already dealt with summer-like heat and humidity on several occasions. I know up here in Montreal, we actually had numerous warnings from the weather networks because of the high humidity.
Enjoy some summer lovin’ with our channel:

Filipina Soul – A yummy sounding recipe for Putong Puti (Rice Muffins).
Flyaway Cafe – Picks her 7 Family Vacation Destinations that are FUN & Educational.
Geeky Traveller – Answers the questions Is the New iPhone 3G useful for travelers?
Let’s Visit Asia – Unfortunately, Thai Airways Adjusts Fuel …read more

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T is for Travel, and today T is for Tons of Travel info on the Travel channel! Check out the T-buzz all over our great channel today and make yourself some notes!
(I missed the deadline this month but in case you’re wondering my whole blog is a T – T is for Tech, of course!)

At Europe String, Jul brings us lots of T’s with her list of favorite European destinations that start with the letter T.
At Filipina Soul, Grace celebrates her second year blogging with a look back at the Top 20 Best Posts at Filipina Soul. Choose …read more

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If you’ve been lusting for some travel time lately, you should check out our great travel channel round-up. Our theme this month was all about how a picture is worth a thousand words, so there’s plenty to feast your eyes upon.
Take a look around, we have some great bloggers in our network!
(photo by me)

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Mary Jo Manzanares is a flight attendant and writes an awesome travel blog, Fly Away Cafe. Lately she’s been giving some basic travel tips and here’s a really good one for people like us, those of us who can’t leave home without our beloved gadgets. She wrote a handy post covering ten important tips for using a laptop on a plane.
For example, it’s good to be reminded to follow the rules by stowing your laptop in its bag during take-off and landing, and to be considerate of fellow passengers by using earphones if you’re watching video or listening …read more

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As the year draws to a close, I’d like to share my favorite gadget posts since starting here in June 2007.
In no particular order:

The Olympus Stylys 7750 waterproof camera – Because I’m of the firm belief that you can never have too many cameras.

The iPod as a travel aide – because I fully confess that as a Canadian, I am REALLY JEALOUS that I can’t have an iPhone yet. Ppplllbbbtttt to you Americans with your cool phone!

The Avis portable WiFi with car rental deal – If you’re traveling, why not bring your Wi-Fi wherever you go?

The Vortex hand-powered blender …read more

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Mary Jo Manzanares writes the awesome Fly Away Cafe and has a great insider’s perspective on the world of travel since she’s also a flight attendant. With the busy holiday travel season upon us, she’s set up a series of Back to Basics travel tips to help make your holiday travels as easy, efficient, and stress-free as possible. You can check out her tips under her Travel Tips category on Fly Away Cafe.

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The Travel Channel here at b5media has expanded yet again! My site here is to help point you in the direction of neat little (or not so little) gadgets for traveling or websites that can help you in your travel planning. Sometimes the best travel aide is a travel blogger, don’t you think? An entire blog full of tips, slices of life, and personal experiences to give you a good idea of what’s going on in your destination city, what more could you want? It’s more personal than a book, for sure!
So that being said, please …read more

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