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Getting the Food to Come to You at Chicago-O'Hare Airport

Have you taken advantage of gate side food delivery at the airport? Okay, we admit that we haven’t either, but that’s only because we just haven’t had the opportunity yet! Now there’s one more option to do so, as HMSHost—purveyor of fine concourse concessions—is bringing the B4YouBoard app to Chicago-O’Hare.

In case you forgot how it works, it’s pretty easy. Just fire up the app on your iPhone or Android device, place an order at a participating restaurant, and then wait for a friendly face to deliver your food and beverage right to the gate.

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Delta Brings Live Baggage Tracking to Your Phone Just in Time for Turkey Day

If Aunt Edna’s Bean Salad isn’t really exciting you this holiday season then there’s a new option from Delta that may be somewhat entertaining—and useful. We knew that Delta allows one and all to follow their checked baggage throughout its journey, but now they’re bringing the feature to their mobile apps.

With the latest version of the Delta app, you’ll now be able to see where your bag is—and where your bag has been—through its journey from check-in to drop off on the baggage carrousel. It’s just like tracking a package from those guys with the brown trucks, so expect status updates every time your bag is scanned and transferred from one spot to another.

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Layover Lunch Delivered Right to Your Gate Now at MSP and JFK

Earlier this year we were dreaming of gate-side pizza delivery, and a few months later our dream has now become a reality. HMSHost—owner of fine airport concessions everywhere—recently launched the B4YOUBOARD app for both iPhone and Android users. What this means is that you can order food from your phone, and that someone will actually deliver it right over to you while you’re comfortably seated at the gate, tapping away on your iPad.

The service was made available first within Terminal 3 at New York-JFK, but the most recent roll-out has arrived at the Lindbergh Terminal of Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.

It’s been a little bit of time since we saw the very first mobile boarding passes, but that doesn’t mean it’s too late to join the party. They’ve got WiFi all over Alaska, and now Alaska Airlines is bringing mobile boarding passes to their latest version of their travel app for iPhone and iPod Touch users.

Next time you’re flying up north or to the islands, don’t waste that valuable toner or ink; it’s all available online and in your pocket. Alaska Airlines thinks the new app is awesome and that it’s like a personal concierge service—though that may be a slight exaggeration—but it’s still pretty darn snazzy and definitely worthwhile.

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American Airlines Conquers Mobile World with Windows Phone and Blackberry Apps

They’re either really ambitious or scared of losing their jobs, as the folks in the IT department at American Airlines are certainly working overtime when it comes to developing plenty of mobile apps. Obviously American Airlines has already released apps for both Android and iPhone—among others like the Barnes & Noble NOOK—but now it looks like they’re extending their services to even more devices.

This week the airline becomes accessible right from your pocket if you’re using your Blackberry or Windows based smartphone. The app should work with all kinds of Blackberry flavors—like Curve, Torch, Tour, and Bold—so even if your IT department isn’t as advanced as the one at American Airlines you should be all set.

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The Future of Augmented Reality Travel: TagWhat

Another week, another slate of augmented reality travel apps to talk about. Last Friday it was the surprisingly cute web application that Hotels.com had put together, turning the camera on users and letting them hold cities in their hands. This week comes TagWhat, a company that claims to be the "world's first augmented reality creation and distribution system." At its core the program is just a social network for augmented reality tags, where you share what you've tagged with your network, plus a few integrated features. In practice, though, it has the potential to be a monster travel application.

The social networking part is fairly direct. Just like you can leave a location-based note on Foursquare and have it pop up when a friend checks in, so too can you use TagWhat to tag a location. When a friend later looks at that location through their browser they'll see the information you left. The tagging is a little more elaborate than on Foursquare, which is what you'd expect since since they're designed to do different things. On Tagwhat you can embed webpages, images, and other elements as well as just text. But the principle is the same.

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Postcards from the Edge, er 3G

One of our Conde Nast Digital family members, Concierge.com has released an iPhone app called "Postcard by Concierge.com". Yes there are over 60,000 iPhone apps now, and many of them are travel apps, so we began to wonder what does this Postcards app do? Turns out the first thing we needed to do was upgrade our iPhone to OS 3.01, fair enough. After that, we downloaded the free app and messed around with it for a bit. Here's what we found out:

The postcards app provides users a way to turn their iPhone snapshots into postcards. More specifically you can put spiffy little frames around the iPhone photos, link your current location (via map point) and send the e-postcard off to friends, family, enemies, and exes worldwide.

Simple enough right? But these photo booths have proven to be very successful at parties worldwide, and we all know online greeting cards appeal to hordes, so if the frames are funny and ironic enough the kids might just go for it.

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