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4 Ways To Save Your Digital Photos From Crooks And Corruption

A traveler’s digital pictures are one of the most valuable pieces of data they carry, but typically the least backed up and protected files in your possession. Much like backups of your laptop, it takes a disaster for most people to start making copies of their data. Travelers in particular tend to get complacent from […]

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How And Why Travelers Should Turn Off File Sharing Before Using Public Networks

Your laptop maybe sharing files across all of the public networks you use when traveling, like hostel wireless or other wi-fi signals you may be bumming from the road. Windows users are are particularly susceptible, especially if you’re running older versions, although anyone can enable sharing and forget to disable it before their next trip. […]

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Secure Most Of Your Internet Connections With The HTTPS Everywhere Firefox Plugin

Most connections to popular websites, like Facebook and Twitter, are not encrypted, meaning that passwords, pictures, and data sent across them can be intercepted easily by anyone with basic eavesdropping software. These sites, and many others, do however offer SSL-encrypted versions of all their pages (HTTPS instead of HTTP) and the Firefox plugin HTTPS Everywhere […]

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How To Reset A Hostel Wireless Router

Hostel routers are often poorly maintained and require the occasional restart by staff who might not get to it before your departure. This is a quick and simple way to try and restart a hostel wireless router to improve your Internet connection and remedy many common connectivity issues. You’ll also find this technique works well […]

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Use Calibre To Manage Your eReader, Organize eBooks, And Download RSS Feeds

The free program Calibre adds new dimensions to your e-reader, whether it’s a Kindle or Nook (among many others). Aside from organizing your ebooks, PDFs, and Word documents, Calibre can be configured to download RSS feeds from popular websites (like the Washington Post) or your favorite travel blogs. Calibre adds a wonderful interface to both […]

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How To Use CrashPlan To Create A Free, Robust, And Online Backup System

Everybody should be backing up their data, but for travelers it’s often cumbersome (not to mention heavy) to carry around several portable hard drives to backup all of those Angkor Wat photos you took. There are 2 good free ways to get online backup and one of them – CrashPlan – lets you set up […]

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Important Differences Between The Kindle And Nook For International Travelers

Both the Kindle and Nook are excellent reading devices as you can see in the full comparison of the traveling e-readers. Several recent changes to their pricing structure and a new Nook Wi-Fi make the choices enticing, but there are a few key differences, especially if you spend much of your time outside of the […]

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Use Kayak Explore To Visualize Mutli-City Fares And Find The Cheapest Route

Using multi-city flights to see more places for less is an effective, albeit time-consuming process. You can however visualize your options and see the prices for each leg of your trip on a Google Maps mashup called Kayak Explore. How It Works Kayak Explore lets you set your home city so you can see the […]

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Free Ways To Monitor Your Blog Or Website And Get Notification If They Go Down

Websites and travel blogs hum along perfectly until your go off exploring the heights of Quito or the ancient ruins of Teotihuacan in Mexico. You then return home or to your hostel only to find out your website or travel blog has been down since you’ve left. You also don’t want to waste the precious […]

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Portable And Dependable Point And Shoot: Casio Exilim Series

There is one point and shoot digital camera I’ve owned and tested several incarnations of. The Casio Exilim, originally designed to be ultra-slim (and they are, typically around 1.5 cm thick), have many other endearing qualities travelers will find useful. For those of you who may be in the point and shoot market I’ll focus […]

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