By Omar Gallaga
All Tech Considered this week is about tools and technology you can use for travel. We found many more than we could cover in one audio segment, so here are some that were mentioned and a few others you might find useful. Feel free to share other apps, travel sites, tools or podcasts in the comments.
- Kayak.com is an excellent travel aggregator for flights, hotels, car rentals, packages and cruises.
- Info and link on the Lonely Planet Paris City Guide app, just released for $15.99. It's the first of their city apps to be released. They've also got podcasts.
- Interesting piece about Twitter as a discount travel tool. The best quick-hit deals seem to be popping up there first, according to Wendy Perrin's Conde Nast travel blog. Here's her Twitter page.
- More on discount family travel deals online.
- Very neat podcast by a couple in New Zealand, the Indie Travel Podcast.
- Apple's own travel apps page for iPhone/iPod Touch.
- More cell phone travel apps.
- AAA's discount app for triple-A members.
- Interesting idea: instead of getting a hotel, why not rent someone's house or apartment? Austin-based HomeAway helps facilitate it.
- GoToday -- good travel packages as suggested by my pal travel writer Sheila Scarborough.
- You don't have to like the name to appreciate "Sit Or Squat," an app that helps you find a bathroom nearby.
- Postcards made easy: sending them online via Hazel Mail.
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