Currently, there are several applications that aim to cater to the frequent traveler, including Psiloc World Traveler and Worldmate. Unfortunately, those solutions have two major issues, the first being that their travel services aren’t free and the second their way of relying on a component-based approach that doesn’t provide any integration between the flight status [...]
For those of you who don’t know Métro it’s a free software which (obviously) covers routes of subways and undergrounds in most of the major cities and countries in the world. Their latest addition features new cities added to the database, changes to a number of cities as well as bugfixes for phones running the [...]
Keytoss, the mobile web portal which we like a lot, announced today that their portal has gotten a few new functions. This time, they offer an online hotel booking service, in addition to those other good travel tools we covered earlier. You can access this function by going directly to h.keytoss.com or you can access it from the [...]
We told you about this last week, and now, the all-new version of the awesome WorldMate application is available for you to install on your S60 3rd Edition-powered smartphone! Besides the fresh new look of the application, there have been several features added, such as the Flight Alerts, which notifies you when there is a [...]
WorldMate Live is one of my favorite applications, and is immediately installed on any new phone that I get. The WorldMate Live application for the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic features an all-new design and layout, with great new features, too, such as Flight Alerts and more. This latest version also includes a new feature that allows [...]
Keytoss, our favorite mobile portal here on Symbian-Guru, has just been updated to include four new travel tools. These tools are already available on your Keytoss portal, under a new page entitled “Travel”. The 4 tools are Flight Status, Currency Rates, Translations and Snow Conditions. Let’s go over each one briefly. Flight Status Flight Status [...]
One other tool that I used excessively while on my trip with Mrs. Guru to California was Boingo. If you’re not familiar, Boingo is a WiFi-membership service, basically, that allows you to connect to a worldwide network of WiFi hotspots for a single monthly fee. There are two packages, one for laptops and one for [...]
I’m heading out for a week long trip with Mrs. Guru tomorrow, which should be really relaxing. However, don’t think for a minute that my job stops – I’ll be playing with and working out how to use technology to enrich and enable my real life. I’ve got several different applications and services lined up [...]
I can’t believe that it’s already 14 days ago that I left my homeland, Lebanon, to come to Paris. 2 full weeks have now gone by, with me trying to make it on my own, in every aspect of my everyday life. I’m so thankful that 3 of my friends came with me (they’re continuing [...]
