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Taking the Pain out of Flight Research

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One of the biggest pain points I come across while playing the travel hacking game is award flight research. While it’s fairly easy to understand where airline alliances can take you, piecing together the perfect itinerary and award booking can take several hours/days/weeks/months to complete. It might start with a simple trip to Wikipedia or Open Flights to understand … [Read more...] about Taking the Pain out of Flight Research

Help Your Fellow Travelers With Hotel Wifi Test

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I came across a cool concept the other day that I have not found written about often in the travel blogosphere. It is a service called Hotel Wifi Test and allows you to search for hotels with the fastest wifi speed. For a business traveler, this could be an excellent filter when it comes to searching for hotels in new areas. Rather than relying on the hotel’s description … [Read more...] about Help Your Fellow Travelers With Hotel Wifi Test

Travel Hacks in the News – Are These Tips Really Game Changers?

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As I have mentioned in the past, I really enjoy it when my day job (Technology/Internet/Marketing) crosses over into my hobby of travel. Sometimes the crossover articles yield less than impressive results and other times the articles provide some truly useful content. Then there are articles that don’t necessarily sway me one way or another. That’s how I felt when I came … [Read more...] about Travel Hacks in the News – Are These Tips Really Game Changers?

Live From FTU Seattle – The Final Launchpoint Competition

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All the way back in April of 2013, I participated in an event at Frequent Traveler University in Washington DC called Launchpoint. At that time, 10 startups pitched their ideas to the audience at FTU in order to win $50,000 in funding for their business. A winner and runner up was chosen from the presentations to move on to the final round of entries. While my idea of Free … [Read more...] about Live From FTU Seattle – The Final Launchpoint Competition

Belkin Ultimate Keyboard Case for iPad Air Review

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As I mentioned in a recent post, I have long been a skeptic of the iPad as a productivity device. It took the folks at Belkin putting an iPad case in my hands to change that perception, and perhaps after reading this review you may have the same feelings. If you want an opportunity to win the device I'm reviewing, you have until midnight EST on 12/20/2013 to enter my Holiday … [Read more...] about Belkin Ultimate Keyboard Case for iPad Air Review

Enter the “Leave Your Laptop at Home” Holiday Giveaway

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In Sunday's post I touched on an upcoming giveaway at Jeffsetter that will prove to be my biggest giveaway yet (granted, it's only my second giveaway). In the last few months I have accumulated a few prizes that I am sure readers will enjoy from iPad keyboard cases that act as a laptop replacement on small trips all the way to in flight wifi passes that you can use to surf the … [Read more...] about Enter the “Leave Your Laptop at Home” Holiday Giveaway

Leave Your Laptop at Home? I Did and Lived to Tell About It!

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When it comes to technology, I am a first generation kind of guy. In 2007, I waited in line with 300 other people for the privilege to spend $599 on an iPhone on opening day. My early adoption tendencies also applied to the iPhone 3G, 3GS, 4, 4S and the 5S.  First generation Kindle? Yeah, I bought one of those too. When the iPad came along in 2010, I bought one and took it … [Read more...] about Leave Your Laptop at Home? I Did and Lived to Tell About It!

Belkin Slim Style Keyboard Case for iPad Air Review

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As I mentioned in a recent post, I have long been a skeptic of the iPad as a productivity device. It took the folks at Belkin putting an iPad case in my hands to change that perception, and perhaps after reading this review you may have the same feelings. If you want an opportunity to win the device I’m reviewing, you have until midnight EST on 12/20/2013 to enter my Holiday … [Read more...] about Belkin Slim Style Keyboard Case for iPad Air Review

High Tech Airplane Seating Design Aims to Revolutionize Comfort in Travel

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Would you be interested in buying an entire row of seats for your family and then diving the space given to each member according to their size? How about paying a extra in order to have space in between you and your neighbor? A British design firm is aiming to change the way that we think about airplane seating, introducing a concept called morph that can change seat … [Read more...] about High Tech Airplane Seating Design Aims to Revolutionize Comfort in Travel