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From the company that gave us an iPhone lighter application that can be used at concerts comes another music related application. This one turns your phone into an ocarina, a small wind instrument most people probably know from the Zelda series of games. The application is on sale for $0.99 for a limited time, and it is unknown what the regular price will be.
TripIt is travel site I have been using for the past few months. I’m not sure exactly how I found it, but I’m glad I did. Tripit describes itself as a “travel assistant.” It works by e-mailing the confirmation e-mails from flights, car rentals, and hotels to plans@tripit.com. You are then presented with the information imported in a clean looking itinerary with all the information imported, weather updates, and maps. You can add other items such as meetings, activities, restaurant reservations, and directions to the itinerary if needed, and you the itinerary can be exported to any calendar that supports the iCal format. The itinerary can also be printed out, and includes Google Maps for both the area you’re visiting as well as all the driving directions for the trip in a nice, clean layout.
Since switching to a Mac full time last spring I have tried to use native Mac apps wherever I could. I need Windows to do parts of my job, but there is a lot I can do without bringing up Parallels. It has its detractors, but Outlook 2007 on Windows has been very good to me. Granted, if we didn’t have Exchange at work, I would still be using Thunderbird, but since we do (and I have to support it), I’m glad it works so well. It’s a great improvement over Outlook 2003, and has been my primary e-mail client even after moving to the Mac.
Tags: Entourage, Exchange, Mac, Office 2007, Office 2008, OSX, Parallels, review, technology, Windows
