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bjbjqPqP Hey, this is Paul Colligan. And this is Apps and Tools Thursday. I m in San Diego
again today. Yup, I travel. It s kind of what I do. And I ve got an App for you that makes
travel a little bit more bearable and definitely more manageable. The service, the tool is
called TripIt at the very creative domain name of TripIt.com. What s cool about TripIt
is it manages all of your reservations for you. You book your flight on Alaska Air. Alaska
Air sends you the RSVP. You can literally just forward your RSVP information to plans
at TripIt.com and it files it away for you. Then you get your reservation to Marriott
Hotel. You forward that to plans to TripIt.com and it follows it away for your. Then you
get your rental car, if you get it through at that and it follows it away for you, batches
them into the end of the day as that you re traveling. It begins to put together an entire
itinerary for you. Then what s nice is there s a social element of it. You can share it
with people like for instance, my wife who needs to know where I am. I gave her access
to that. I mean, different people that I m dealing with have access to that as well.
And now, what s really cool about TripIt is it monitors everything for you also. So in
the background, if a flight is going to be late or it has changed gate, sort of anything
like that, I get a text message from it. Now, there s an iPhone app and an iPad app where
I can quickly look up and see all my stuff grouped together. And it's just a really good
place. And it s control of everything. I don t have to worry about what the reservation
number it was for the hotel, or what seat I m in or what gate thing is you re in. It
manages all that for me. s free, the app and the service is free. If you want to go with
the pro-service, it s like I think, I paid $60 a year or something cheap like that to
get inside the pro-version. It does extra monitoring. One really nice feature is, if
you re plane has been delayed, they will already figure out the alternate flights for you.
So you don t have to go back to the counter to figure out what s going on, you got all
of the information you need. s an indispensable app for me and my travel. I absolutely love
it. It's part of my flow. And I can't give it a high enough recommendation iPhone or
not, it s a great service just to manage all of your stuff if you do any traveling. But
if you got the iPhone or iPad, it s a great place to keep track of what s going. s TripIt.
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