Archive for the 'travel' Category

Free Wi-Fi at Select U.S. Airports through Skype

Skype is giving the gift of free Wi-Fi at various U.S. airports from December 21st until December 27th. The list of airports isn’t very long, but it looks like it covers some of the major U.S. hubs (Chicago O’Hare, Denver, San Francisco) so if you’re between flights during your holiday travels, you can at least [...]

Your Hotel Room Safe May Not Be

If you typically stay in hotel rooms with an electronic safe in the room when you travel, you may want to double check just how safe your safe is. The following YouTube video reveals how a hotel room safe was unlocked by simply entering a default password of all zeros instead of the guest’s chosen [...]

Free In-flight Wi-Fi on Delta Airlines during August with GoGo

If you’ll be flying on Delta Airlines this month and want to gets some emails done during your flight, give the following a whirl: Log in to your Delta.com account, view My Trips and check your upcoming trip to see if it will have Wi-Fi available Once you’re airborne, connect to the GoGo Wi-Fi and [...]

The Best Carry-On Backpacks

With it practically a given now that on your next flight you’ll have to pay to check a bag, you may take a shot at flying with only a carry-on bag and not checking any luggage at all. More and more people are doing so, and there entire websites, such as www.onebag.com, devoted to the [...]

Find What Carrier Your Kindle Uses Abroad

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 [...]

One for the First Aid Kit: Water Purification Tablets

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 [...]

The Sun Shines on a Samsung Blue Earth

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 [...]