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New App Turns Your Smartphone Into A Teleprompter

by Alastair McKenzie RSS 2 Comments
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Hot from the floor at this year’s International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) at the Las Vegas Convention Center, comes a professional autocue app for smartphones that’s perfect for videobloggers.

The Tiffen Company, a manufacturer and distributor of accessories for the still imaging, video, motion picture, and broadcast markets, is showcasing the Listec™ PromptWare PW-04 app for podcasters and bloggers wanting to add scripted dialog to their broadcasts. The Promptware system is already widely used in traditional broadcasting and normally drives Continue Reading

Google Gives Travel Bloggers A Big Search Boost

by Alastair McKenzie RSS 7 Comments
Google sign

We’ve talked about the need to get consumers to use social search more. Now Google is ‘making it happen’!

Google has announced that it is rolling out Search + Your World over the next few days, bringing results from your friends – and we’re talking here about Google+ friends – to the fore.

How does it work?

Well, when it comes to your region (so far it has been rolled out to .com, but Continue Reading

Two More City Badges On Foursquare

by Alastair McKenzie RSS 0 Comments
Tokyo by night

Foursquare has added two new city badges – Tokyo and Berlin – to bring their new collection to ten.

The location based social media app introduced their first simple ‘city badge’ (Chicago) at the beginning of autumn and have been drip feeding them since. Foursquare badges exist in cities all over the world but they are usually linked to specific commercial locations or promotions. These badges are focused on mainstream sights and attractions. Available city badges are London, Continue Reading

London To Install Europe’s Largest Free WiFi Zone

by Alastair McKenzie RSS 3 Comments
Man with laptop in park

A deal struck between mobile network operator O2, Westminster City Council and the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, will enable visitors and residents in those London boroughs to enjoy the largest free wireless hub in Europe, and just in time for visitor numbers to swell for the Olympics this summer!

The deal, which will run at no cost to the councils or the taxpayer, is part of both councils’ plans to ensure that the millions of visitors that come Continue Reading

International Travelers Beware: iPhone 4S is a Real Gas Guzzler When it Comes to Data

by Rich Whitaker RSS 4 Comments
iphone-4s

If you plan to travel abroad this year with your iPhone 4S, make sure you have a clear idea of how much it will cost you in terms of data.

A new study released this past week by mobile network monitoring firm Arieso reveals that the iPhone 4S commands twice as much data as the iPhone 4 and three times the data of the iPhone 3G. The increase is nourished by things like Siri, higher resolution Continue Reading

Travel Writing Competition Open To Bloggers

by Alastair McKenzie RSS 0 Comments
woman writing with a pen in a notebook

The British Guild of Travel Writers is running its annual Travel Writing Competition for new writers, in association with Traveller magazine.

The competition, now in its third year, is designed to encourage new travel writing talent and is open to all (English language) writers aged over 18 who have not been published in the travel field. Entrants should submit an 800-word article on the theme A Revealing Journey.

The first prize is a travel writing holiday course with Continue Reading

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