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With Trip Boss you can:

Manage Itinerary--export to date book in relative time zone!
Track expenses (multiple currencies supported) and export via CSV to Memo
Log Mileage and Time (mi or km) and export via CSV to Memo
Organize with Check Lists - create multiple lists for packing and to-do
Keep a journal--up to 32,000 characters per entry!
Access Real-time Travel Data:
Currency Exchange Rates
Flight Status
Weather Forecasts and Radar
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Plan routes -- unique Trip Planning distance calculator
Set a Budget and monitor it worry-free during your trip--especially useful for vacations
Rate Places (lodging, restaurants, places)
Monitor Fuel Economy
Note Side (hiking, biking, customer visits...).
Convert currencies--use calculator directly from menu, plus expenses automatically converted in expenses summary report
Calculate tips--use calculator directly from menu plus pops up automatically when entering meal expenses

Export/Import all place data to/from Address Book.
Export expense and waypoints (mileage) data in Comma Separated Value (CSV) format to Memo Pad.
Export itinerary information to your Calendar, with time zone conversion.

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Sammy's Thoughts From The Coffee Shop: Dictating to my iPhone

I'm sat in on my local coffee shop, well the closest to where I am, dictating this to my iPhone to my, testing out the Quick Voice Pro application, just to see how well it tackles my dictation. It seems to be doing a good job on the test dictation and this post is an example of how it copes with my dictation with no changes. 10 out of 10. I can see this being an excellent utility and a big help to updating the site. More deets after the jump.

Counting down (8 days left) to WWDC '09: the drop of Indonesia's iPhone 3G price to almost $100 hints at upcoming new model

It hurts so much when it hits the right spot, and that is your pocket. I don't even want to ask my friends who have bought the iPhone 3G when it was first released here, in Indonesia just less than two months ago.

Telkomsel, one of the largest wireless carriers in Indonesia and the only one who offers iPhone, is using its 14th-year of anniversary as an excuse to cut the price in an amount of one million rupiah. The 8GB model is now offered at Rp. 2,999,000 (US$287), and the 16GB model at Rp. 3,999,000 (US$383). --according to the currency at the time I write this post--

We've been hearing plenty of rumors surrounding the upcoming new iPhone model at WWDC '09 which is slated on June 8th, there are also many signs that suggest both Apple and every wireless carriers who have the exclusivity to offer iPhone are trying to get rid the last stocks of the current model to make room for the new one. But Telkomsel's latest move by cutting the price of iPhone 3G price to almost $100, is can be said as an obvious effort to attract consumers to get the Apple's smartphone right now before the new model introduced in just a week later.

Although iPhone has been a huge success in the U.S. and many other countries, Aulia Masna from Macworld was reporting that: "When Telkomsel announced iPhone 3G  pre-order in January, roughly 39,000 people registered interest within the first month, but less than 6,000 actually purchased the iPhone when it was finally made available in late March."

I wonder if I'm going to see the new iPhone as soon as Apple announced it at WWDC '09 on June 8th *sighs* It's really painful to live outside the U.S. especially for a mobile-geek like me, all I can do is hope that Apple will pressure Telkomsel to stop offering the old model and start selling the new one immediately. Heh, I wish... ;-p

Counting down (6 days left) to Palm Prē launch: BGR's Prē-view

While the world at large is waiting for Sprint to launch the Palm Prē™ just in few days on June 6th, we were made jealous on certain kind of boys for getting an exclusive hands-on the most awaited smartphone of the year, who am I talking about? Oh you must've heard it too, they're the Boy Genius Report (BGR).

The boys at BGR really have done it this time, landing their grubby-mits on Palm Prē™ while other tech blogs, and not even Palm-centric sites can't get one minute of intimate moment with the Prē™ without a Palm's representative staring at them within less than one metre radius; we're all officially and morally jealous of them. ;-p

In the most recent update to BGR's hands-on the Palm Prē™ part 1, they mentioned that the handset they're currently testing is a 100% retail unit, but they weren’t able to test things like the simplest task: a phone calling. BGR promises more thorough review on the retail unit, and another full review will be coming soon. The conclusion so far, BGR's verdict on the Palm Prē™ is:

"The OS is great. There’s no ifs ands or buts; it’s really refreshing to see something that’s brand new with a UI unlike anything else out there. The only problem with this is, Palm’s never been a hardware company that anyone’s really cared about. They have been the furthest thing from innovative since circa-2003 — their hardware has always been second rate at best and it doesn’t seem to be changing now."

I don't want to spoil all of the excitement, read the first part of the review directly at BGR's page. And for the last comment, all I can say is: "C'mon Palm, release the unlocked Prē™ already for the whole wide world to enjoy!!" ;-)

Update to Pocket Informant for iPhone 1.02

[From Joel] There is a mega list of changes to Pocket Informant 1.02 for the iPhone as listed on this page and thanks to Joel for the heads up. These are only a FEW of the changes, the full list is here...
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Feature: Internal date storage changes to improve performance
Feature: New setting to show empty days in list view
Feature: New week view layout options
Feature: Improved sync process to better handle large sets of Events and To Dos
Feature: Several sync improvements to improve reliability and speed
Feature: Live phone numbers links in notes for To Dos and Events
Feature: Improved Google Error handling
Feature: Added Undated filter to To Dos
Feature: To Do lists can now be grouped by different properties
Feature: Calendar selector now visually shows which calendars are read-only"

Short Hand - makes life easier on the iPhone

If you have an iPhone / iPod Touch then take a look at a good time saving program. "Type much faster on your iPhone or iPod touch by creating abbreviations — or "shortcuts" — that automatically insert frequently used words, phrases, or even whole paragraphs. Let your iPhone or iPod touch do the typing for you. For example, typing "cu" could automatically insert "see you later". Or typing "adr" could insert your entire, 3-line mailing address, including line breaks. "pb" could insert "Patrick L. Barry, MD, Ph.D." Similar to AutoType on the BlackBerry, AutoText in Microsoft Word, and typing macros in many programs." Really great program, I'll be purchasing to give it a try. Make the jump.

The Information Week talks about how the Palm Pre is a serious threat to the iPhone

[From Hans] The Information Week talks about how the Palm Pre is a serious threat to the iPhone. "Palm's last, best gasp may be in fact a lifesaver. The Pre drew early rave reviews, and the news keeps getting better as the device nears launch date. The better news for Palm is that Verizon has also committed to shipping the Pre once the Sprint (NYSE: S) exclusivity window expires in 6 months, which means Palm isn't betting its future on a network that is hemorrhaging customers at an alarming rate. Initially the Pre will only be available on the Sprint network, which while it has done a great job of marketing itself of late (particularly with those awesome black and white spots with CEO Dan Hesse), and is racing to extend its 4G WiMAX network as quickly as possible, is nevertheless the poor relation among the major U.S. carriers." Read in full.