It’s pretty well known that AT&T is the service provider for the Kindle International in the US, giving you the ability to download books from virtually anywhere and also giving you basic access to the web. If you’re traveling outside the US, you can still access the Amazon Store along with Wikipedia in almost every [...]
Whenever I travel somewhere where the drinking water is questionable, I bring a SteriPEN and use it daily to purify water right from the tap, rather than buying bottled water. However, on a recent trip, my SteriPEN wasn’t working because I made the mistake of bringing some old rechargeable batteries which weren’t up to the [...]
Mobile handset manufacturers have been releasing various “green” phones, usually attaining their eco-friendliness tag by being constructed from recycled plastics, such as the Motorola W233 Renew, intended to be a cheap, entry-level phone. It looks like Samsung is upping the ante with the release of the Samsung Blue Earth featuring a solar panel on the [...]
If you’re looking for a way to play a sizable chunk of your music library on the run in a device with minimal size and weight, look no further than the Sansa Clip+. The Sansa Clip has been around for years now and has garnered a reputation as having top notch audio quality in a [...]
It should be no surprise that laptops are one of the biggest targets for thieves, whether you’re on the road or at home. The loss of your laptop would not only bring the financial sting of losing a valuable item, but also the loss of your data, which you may not have backed up recently, [...]
MediaRingTalk.com is running a promotion which allows you to make free VOIP calls using your computer to the US, UK, Australia, Canada, China, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan. Calls are limited to 10 minutes, but if you’re traveling and just need to make a quick call to a phone to check in (maybe just to [...]
If you’re backpacking through foreign countries where restaurants aren’t cheap, then getting your meals from the grocery store is pretty much a requirement if you’re on a budget. You can fill yourself cheaply with spaghetti and tomato sauce (I’ve actually seen backpackers use ketchup as a replacement) – yet while you might be saving money [...]
