Posted in Process, Social Software, Travel on May 30th, 2011 No Comments »
Google flight schedule search takes off, helps you figure out when to get aboard This is interesting although only really in trip planning, not really great (yet) as a travel aid. Here are flights from New York’s JFK to Los Angeles’ LAX Click the + Schedule of non-stop flights and you have a nice list [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Macintosh, Tech Stuff, Travel, Video on May 25th, 2011 2 Comments »
Min Kyu Choi’s folding plug for traveling Britons This is a brilliant idea. Apple needs to hire this guy immediately. Watch the end of the video to see how he stacks them. Brilliant. I love creative design like this. [via core77]
Posted in Social Software, Tools, Travel on Mar 23rd, 2011 No Comments »
United Continental Holdings to Expand Wi-Fi Service to More Than 200 Aircraft The downside is it doesn’t look like they’re using the same gogo inflight internet service United is using on their PS flights. Bummer. One would think that a newly merged company would consider making it easier for its customers to use either legacy [...]
Posted in Opinion, People, Politics, Travel, Video on Feb 26th, 2011 No Comments »
Now, if American CEOs did this, members of Congress did this, President Obama did this, we might be able to stomach asking working people for so many concessions to make things right. The least American CEOs could do is what Steve Jobs at Apple does: take $1 in salary and get the rest in stock [...]
Posted in Ideas, Politics, Process, Travel on Feb 9th, 2011 2 Comments »
Support Grows for Tiered Risk System at Airports As a frequent traveler I support this but oh boy, I can see the problems with it already. 1. Profiling will no doubt get a few people into the risky pool who shouldn’t be there. Getting “promoted” out of that pool will be a tough fight. 2. [...]
Posted in Movies, Tech Stuff, Travel on Feb 7th, 2011 No Comments »
Gogo plans to expand into in-flight movies, possibly gaming I use Gogo wifi on my United flights from New York to Los Angeles and while I find it useful, it’s deadly slow for video or any high bandwidth media. They’re going to have to beef up their bandwidth if they’re going to show movies over [...]
Posted in iPad, Macintosh, Tools, Travel on Jan 23rd, 2011 7 Comments »
I’ve been meaning to do a post like this for a while, sorry its taken me so long. Traveling back from LAX to JFK (Los Angeles to New York) yesterday I saw the following: In the United *Red Carpet Club (RCC): four 11″ MacBook Airs, one 13″ MacBook Air, twenty iPads (used with a mixture [...]
Posted in Tech Stuff, Travel on Dec 4th, 2010 6 Comments »
Lufthansa launches in-flight WiFi on intercontinental flights, ushers in ‘the future’ The carrier’s FlyNet service has been relaunched this week, and with assistance from Panasonic and the 802.11n gods that be, it’s now offering broadband internet access on intercontinental routes. At first, the service will be limited to select North Atlantic routes, but access should [...]
Posted in Opinion, People, Photojournalism, Travel on Nov 23rd, 2010 No Comments »
I Got Detained By The TSA At The Airport Today Fish is a well known professional photographer who writes about travel as well as photography. I like his attitude and tone. I plan to act the same if I’m detained. Of course, he wasn’t traveling, he was taking pictures and this was simply misinformation on [...]
Posted in Apple, Ideas, iPad, Macintosh, Travel on Oct 30th, 2010 12 Comments »
Yesterday my friend Edward and I went to the Apple store in Chelsea (New York City) to check out the 21″ iMac, 11″ MacBook Air, 13″ MacBook Air, 13″ MacBook Pro, and iPad. Edward is an old friend and a MacHead of the first order. He’d not seen the new MacBook Airs yet so this [...]
Posted in Apple, Ideas, iPad, iPhone, Macintosh, Travel on Oct 21st, 2010 5 Comments »
Converging Operating Systems, the MacBook Air and Appliances Kyle Baxter has written an excellent post, using the new MacBook Air coupled with iOS devices (iPad and iPhone) to hypothesize about Apple’s future direction. I’m reading his post and posting this from 39,000 feet flying home on a plane with wifi where I’m one of a [...]
Posted in Tools, Travel on Sep 27th, 2010 No Comments »
A Wider Wi-Fi Stream on Domestic Flights This is great news and I hope Gogo follows ViaSat’s lead. Right now it would be impossible to watch a streaming Netflix movie on a plan via the Gogo inflight wifi system.
Posted in Creativity, Social Software, Travel on Sep 15th, 2010 No Comments »
Are You Hip to Hipmunk? David Pogue writes about the spectacular new travel site: Hipmunk. I’ve been messing with it for a few minutes and it’s absolutely stellar. I can’t wait for the developers to apply this user interface to other kinds of information. They’re really on to something. I love the “agony” filter: price, [...]
Posted in Collections, Food, Photographers, Travel on Sep 7th, 2010 No Comments »
A Taste of Home in Foil Packets and Powder Each year, among the countries with troops in Afghanistan — the current number is 47 — tens of millions of dollars are spent researching how to fit the most calories, nutrition and either comfort or fun into a small, light package. The menus and accompaniments are [...]
Posted in Humor, Photo Gear, Photographers, Travel, Video on Sep 6th, 2010 2 Comments »
Bag World from Stephen Alvarez on Vimeo. David Alan Harvey having some fun with camera bags. This post is dedicated to my friend Gary Sharp, another bag-obsessed photographer. You can never have too many camera bags. – Gary Sharp [via Lens Culture]
Posted in People, Photographers, Places, Travel on Sep 6th, 2010 No Comments »
Beyond Borders: From Vienna to Beirut Lens Culture has a great collection of street photography work by Frederic Lezmi. From August to December 2008 I traveled between Vienna and Beirut. I encountered people in versatile worlds, inside or in front of architectural places, both real and artificial, public and private. In my photographs, people emerge [...]
Posted in Ideas, Music, Travel on Aug 19th, 2010 4 Comments »
Even though I’ve had an iPod since they came out and sometimes use mine in my truck, I generally make CD mixes to play in my 2004 Toyota Tacoma pickup truck. This morning a CD that I’d left in the truck’s stereo wouldn’t play and wouldn’t eject. In other words it was stuck and the [...]
Posted in Opinion, People, Social Software, Travel on Aug 13th, 2010 4 Comments »
Now that the JetBlue/Steven Slater incident is almost a week behind us, the fact that the echo chamber of the internet has turned Slater into a folk hero is starting to look like yet another example of social media lynch mobs getting it wrong. As passengers tell their stories it looks like Slater, a seasoned [...]
Posted in Creativity, Ideas, Travel, Video on Jul 26th, 2010 3 Comments »
The Solar Roadway is a series of structurally-engineered solar panels that are driven upon. The idea is to replace all current petroleum-based asphalt roads, parking lots, and driveways with Solar Road Panels that collect energy to be used by our homes and businesses. Our ultimate goal is to be able to store excess energy in [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Joy Brown Sculpture, People, Places, Travel on Jun 21st, 2010 1 Comment »
My friend Joy Brown is in China for a few weeks working on large scale plaster moulds for bronze castings of her sculpture. This is a big project and the sculpture will be displayed in a public park in Shanghai. Joy has started an online journal to document the process: Joy Brown Sculpture. I’m helping [...]
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