Mario’s World

Just imagine, you are walking around Italy with your wife and you come across a huge building with columns in the front. You have no idea what you are looking at since there are no sign boards around and you don’t understand if the Italian talking to you is helping you or cursing you. LonelyPlanet [...]

Amadeus‘ TravelTainment division came up with this multi-touch application for the Microsoft Surface. Unlike the Travel Touch experience I posted about yesterday, this does not have additional toys moving around the table. However on the down-side, the actual booking takes place on an agents desktop. This would mean more walking around the office with the [...]

“Travel Touch Experience” was developed by CEFRIEL for Alidays. Seems to be a great app that runs off the Microsoft Surface table and connects to Amadeus for air results. It would be a great “show-off” tool for agents sitting down with their retail customers. I think it would work even better in the Middle East [...]

“Changing the way you travel – one drink at a time”. Now that is a real catchy slogan from GoodToGo. “The tugotm is a cup holder that keeps your drink suspended between the upright handles of your rolling bag. Its unique design keeps your cup level to prevent sloshing. Easily attached and removed, tugo collapses [...]

The Nokia netbooklet 3G is the neatest looking netbook I’ve seen. Its also the most expensive @ KWD 259/-. BIM received this unit from Nokia for testing and review and I went over to check it out. It’s got an amazing 12 hour batter life, a sim card slot for 3G net access, its got [...]

In case anyone plans to use the Italian railways, better book well in advance. They use Windows and like to advertise their frequent system crashes on the displays around the reservation counters.

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Since yesterday I’ve been making changes to an application running on an Access Database. Its not my code so its going to take a lot more time to figure out what I need to change than to make the actual changes. With no process documentation and conflicting feedback from the users, its turning into one [...]

For travel sites a VisualSearch option would be great! But from what I’ve seen of Bing’s Visual Search, its more of an index to start your search from. There are a host of issues I found with this new feature: It takes a while to load so its easy to get bored. Image rendering is [...]