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Travel Apps :: Instagram

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So you want to get fancy do you? Plain old pictures of Tofino or Toronto aren't good enough for you? You just have to apply moody and extravagant filters to your pictures and then share them with the world? YES!

If you haven't already seen your network getting snap happy with this picture sharing app, allow me to formally introduce you to Instagram. Catching-on like wildfire, Instagram's garnered an impressive 1-million downloads in the past 3 months!

How it Works After downloading the app, you take a picture and share it with friends, fam or the world. At its core, the photo filters offered in the app are a lot like camera bag's {featured May 4th, 2010}, but Instagram takes it a step further and integrates heavy sharing capabilities like finding and following friends using the app, sharing photos on major social networking sites and commenting on others' photos. The app is as much about picture taking as it is about sharing.

Foto Filter Examples instagram picture vancouverinstagram vancouver, bc picturemandarin oriental riviera maya X-Pro II, Hefe and 1977 filters.

Instagram App Details

  • Free
  • Works with iPhone, iPod Touch & iPad. An android app is also on the company's radar
  • 15 photo filters
  • Attach (optional) location information to any of your posts
  • Share your posts to Twitter, Tumblr, Flickr, Posterous, & Facebook
  • Check in to Foursquare when you post a photo with a location
  • Let your friends know what you think by liking & commenting on their photos
  • View the most popular photos around the world from Instagram users

Other Travel Apps Don’t forget to peruse the other 60+ travel apps we’ve reviewed from travel first aid, to luxury and boutique hotel finders, to border waits, to trip itinerary management. Here are the most recent:

Travel Apps :: Airbnb

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Have you ever booked a vacation rental condo or home? Although this trip style is slightly less pampered than a hotel stay, a vacation rental offers other freedoms like having your own kitchen, staying in a unique accommodation and dabbling in the local scene.

Attracting more design-savvy units and hip travelers, Airbnb, one of the newer, kitschier vacation rental sites, has just launched an app which I happen to like as much as the website!  In it, you can search from 8000 cities and 170+ countries to find a private apartment or private island. One of my favourite features within the app is the categories it lists when you first start searching: Top 40, Oui Oui Paris, Unique New York, Planes Trains and Automobiles, I love Glamping, etc...

{Stay tuned for more info on Airbnb and other holiday rental sites tomorrow in our Vacation Rental Round-Up.}

Airbnb App Details

  • Free
  • Works with iPhone & iPod Touch. I'm told a mobile site is being developed this quarter which will serve other mobile platforms; once this is done the company plans on developing an app for the iPad and android.
  • Book a space through your iPhone
  • Use "Find a place, tonight!” for last-minute availability
  • Message guests and hosts directly from your phone
  • Access your upcoming itinerary, complete with directions to your destination
  • A 'daily deal' feature has been added, which could be cool, but it is still in beta testing, so look out for future updates in this regard.

Other Travel Apps Don't forget to peruse the other 60+ travel apps we've reviewed from travel first aid, to luxury and boutique hotel finders, to border waits, to trip itinerary management. Here are the most recent:

Travel Apps :: Book Crazy

e book readers for iphoneIn our digital world, there's something comfortingly cozy and stormy-weekend-in-Tofino-y about flipping though the pages of a book, versus swiping an e-book's pages on a screen. But in the interest of joining the 21st century and packing light, reading books on my iPhone is a travel must. E-Reader Apps {in my order of preference} Kindle I wrote about kindle for iphone last april, and Amazon's genius little app opens a world of possibilities {to the tune of 800,000 books} given any book you download can be shared between the multiple devices it supports: kindle reader, iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Blackberry, Android, etc... To put this in perspective, let's say you're reading a book on your kindle device while waiting for your flight, then, your batteries die, so you continue where you left off with that same book on your iPhone. Cost: free.

iBooks Originally debuting on the iPad and later released for the iPhone and iPod Touch, iBooks is Mac's attempt at competing with online book giant, Amazon's Kindle. Although Mac's iBook reader might have a prettier, quintessentially Mac-esque design, it offers similar functionality to the Kindle, yet you can read Kindle over multiple, cross-platform devices. Currently, iBooks only works with iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, but like Kindle, can wirelessly synch between each. Cost: free.

Kobo Like the Kindle and iBooks apps, Kobo offers similar basic functions, but its claim to fame is the 1.8 million books subscribers can download for free. The app works and syncs the 'place' in your book between iPhone, iPad, iTouch, Android, Blackberry, Palm Pre and its own e-reader. Cost: free. — Get more travel tips and updates like this by subscribing to RSS or email. —

Other Travel Apps Don't forget to peruse the other 60+ travel apps we've reviewed from travel first aid, to luxury and boutique hotel finders, to border waits, to trip itinerary management. Here are the most recent:

Travel Apps :: Flightcaster

flightcaster travel appPredict your next US flight delay before it is even delayed! With the flightcaster app you can look into your flight's future and figure out the likelihood of a delay so you can enjoy more time in ______. This app's claim to fame is that it can anticipate if a flight will be delayed before the airline is even aware due to "an advanced algorithm that scours data on every domestic flight for the past 10 years and matches it to real-time conditions."

Punch in your upcoming (today or tomorrow) US domestic flight into the app to find out reasons for a delay or on-time prediction as well as the estimated departure and arrival time. {Trip Styler Tip: If you don't want to pay $1.99 usd for the app, just use your smartphone's browser and navigate to flightcaster.com to perform the same functions for free.}

Details

  • $1.99 usd
  • works with iPhone, iTouch, iPad, Blackberry
  • only works with US domestic flights

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Travel Apps :: Boiling Frog

boiling frog US appDesigned to keep you out of hot water while adventuring, the Boiling Frog app has been assisting with first aid-related inquiries in the UK for awhile, and just became available in the US/Canada last week. Dubbed as a health and safety travel app, one reviewer noted it's like having federal agent Jack Bauer {from the once-popular TV Show 24} in your pocket. Works for me! Yet, the app's masterminds are more legit than Jack Bauer. With backgrounds and current posts in the military and first aid---specifically ex Special Forces, ex Royal Marines, leading GP and first aid specialist---I don't know about you, but these are the kind of people I'd want my first aid advice coming from when I'm stranded on a deserted island.

Speaking of what you thought was a deserted island, if you encounter foreign island-dwellers in a Lost {Former ABC TV Show}-like experience and need to administer some impromptu care for treating a jellyfish sting, you can save the day with the app's picture dictionary, a first for a travel & first aid app. Just don't forget to bring your smartphone's solar charger...

PS - To remedy a jellyfish sting, the app advises to: scrape area with blunt knife, apply vinegar or urine, then a cold compress. I only knew the urine part until now...

Details

  • $2.99 usd
  • works with iPhone, iTouch, iPad, Blackberry and Android
  • features
    • listen to first aid advice on the move
    • watch short videos illustrating travel and first aid tips
    • step-by-step guides for how to react to minor accidents to major disasters

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*I was asked to review this app, and it was provided to me free of charge, but this app is very cool, and I'd buy it.