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Finally! JetBlue Releases Its First iPhone App: The Full Review

February 3, 2012 at 11:11 AM | by | Comments (0)

Alright. What's the one thing you've been waiting forever for from JetBlue? Duh, in-flight WiFi...besides that. Yes, a freaking iPhone app!

Well, late last night while thoughts of Terra Blue Chips and direct flights to Santo Domingo danced through your heads, the airline's very first iPhone app quietly snuck out into the iTunes app store. It's free of course, and blue and orange, but is it any good?

To keep our opinions short and sweet, yes—it's sooooo good. Like, spread-the-word good. Even if you've never flown JetBlue and don't have any upcoming flights booked, we'd say get the thing for its well-designed flight search and booking (wanderlust fodder right there) and cute little extras, like the ability to use your iPhone photos to create funky postcards, shared straight from the app.

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Four iPhone Photo Apps We're Freaking Out Over Right Now

Where: Singapore
February 1, 2012 at 12:33 PM | by | Comments (0)


Three Singapore art deco buildings we captured and then combined using Diptic

Okay, sure we're totally obsessed of late with iPhone photo-sharing app Instagram (find us by searching for user "jaunted" within the app!), but it's been a thing for us that, before embarking on a big trip, we'll not only download the best city maps and guide apps for our destination, but we'll also look around for new photo apps to up our iPhoneography game.

Thus, before hitting the road to Singapore, we bought four awesome iPhone photo apps that really worked so well, we were spreading their gospel by word of mouth. Now it's time to share them with you:

· Diptic
Perhaps you've seen these uploaded into Instagram and wondered "what the heck?" Yea, this app essentially allows you to combine several photos from your iPhone into one, combined spread much like setting up one of those old-school family photo frames that ends up dusty on a mantle. The layouts are flexible, and you can adjust each picture for size, color, brightness, etc before saving the finished triptych. See another example here.
- Cost $0.99 at the iTunes store

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Can't Ever Get Enough of Travel Photography

January 3, 2012 at 6:49 PM | by | Comments (0)


Some of our recent shots on Instagram

Yo. We already told you last week that we're now on Instagram (username: jaunted), but we thought we'd give you a fair warning that things are about to quadruple in awesome as we prepare for a late winter and spring insanely packed with international travel. That means more awesome, behind-the-scenes travel shots on Instagram from our writers...wherever they may be on this blue globe of ours.

Not only that, but here's a few additional updates we've noticed among the travel brands on Instagram:

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Airlines and Travel Brands to Follow Right Now on Instagram

December 27, 2011 at 1:09 PM | by | Comments (0)

And just like that, social photo sharing app Instagram is super hot. Sure it's only just celebrated its one-year anniversary as an iPhone app, but recent contests and exposure given to it by brands and influential figures in social media have pushed it over the edge. Heck, we jumped in head first! And we're freaking loving it. (Follow us by searching "jaunted" & "hotelchatter" in the app).

It's not just people posting images of their kids eating birthday cake or close-ups of kitty paws, either; Instagram seems to be spreading most rapidly among those interested in design, architecture, analogue photography, nature and—of course—the rest of the world. This is where travel images enter the game, and the airlines are paying attention.

We ran a fine-toothed comb through Instagram to find the airlines you need to follow now, and who else to watch:

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The Next Stop for Angry Birds: Their Own Theme Parks in Finland

Where: Finland
December 21, 2011 at 8:40 AM | by | Comment (1)

Those ubiquitous Angry Birds are at again, and this time they’re on the move in their homeland of Finland. Making the jump from mobile app to stuffed animal and even apparel was easy, but now they’re entering the real world with their very own theme park—kind of.

Rovio—they make the game—along with Lappset have an agreement to build two new parks focused on those birds, the pigs, and their world in two Finnish cities. To us, the spots sound more like fancy playgrounds than true theme parks, but developers do promise to integrate both the virtual and physical worlds into something new and fun.

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The Latest on the Alec Baldwin, Words With Friends, American Airlines Insanity

December 12, 2011 at 8:25 AM | by | Comments (0)

Stop us if you've already seen this, but Alec Baldwin took his Words With Friends cause to SNL's Weekend Update on Saturday night to, well...apologize to himself.

In case you've been living in a cave the last several days, the story goes a little something like this: Baldwin was sitting on an American Airlines plane at LAX, playing the mobile app word game "Words With Friends." The plane door had already been closed (the cue to turn off electronic devices), and Alec refused flight attendant demands to turn off his device. He continued playing the Scrabble-like game, even retreating to the airplane bathroom in anger. So the plane kicked him off.

Alec tweeted his frustrations before being placed on a later flight, vowing never to fly American Airlines again. This was followed by a media flurry over the whole juicy ordeal, Alec mysteriously closing his Twitter account, and an offer from Greyhound to come play Words With Friends with their CEO on their buses.

So, back to the SNL video....

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American Airlines Plane Boots Alec Baldwin Over 'Words With Friends'

December 6, 2011 at 5:20 PM | by | Comments (0)

Did you feel that? If the internet could have earthquakes, we'd have just experienced a minor one as Alec Baldwin went from tweeting like normal, to getting kicked off an American Airlines plane at LAX, to being in custody, to becoming a trending topic, to giving his side of the story via Twitter in just about the span of one hour.

The reason for the tarmac takedown? Apparently, according to Alec, he was playing the popular mobile Scrabble-like app Words With Friends when a flight attendant "reamed" him out. Of course he was probably still playing it beyond the point of being asked to turn off and stow all electronic devices for take-off, hence the flight attendant interference. We predict that the next few days will see news channels rehashing the old argument of whether or not cell signals interfere with airplanes. You know, that old chestnut.

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

November 30, 2011 at 9:27 AM | by | Comments (0)

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

November 23, 2011 at 9:43 AM | by | Comments (0)

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

October 13, 2011 at 9:43 AM | by | Comment (1)

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.

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Will the Advances of the iPhone 4S Make Any Difference to Travelers?

October 4, 2011 at 3:22 PM | by | Comments (2)

Alright. You're disappointed that there's no iPhone 5 announced today. We are totally bummed as well, but still there's a few things to celebrate with the iPhone 4S, and more than a few things that'll prove useful for frequent travelers who rely on their iPhones. Let's take a look at the new, travel-friendly features:

· The Camera. The 4S will boast an 8 megapixel camera. In case you're wondering how that compares to previous models, the 3GS has 3.2 megapixels and the iPhone 4 only 5 megapixels. The 4S represents a huge gain in megapixels and, therefore, image quality. This should do wonder for your Instagram shots, the snaps you email right away from the road, and anything on the fly. Pair this with the 4S' faster shutter, face detection technology, auto-white balance and f2.4 lens to let in more light and you've got a great camera in your palm.

· The Video. Sure, the iPhone 4 shoots HD video, but the iPhone 4S will shoot true 1080p HD video with image stabilization and temporal noise reduction. You can forget the Flip cameras and ignore the film function on crappy point-and-shoots for this. Shoot video postcards to instantly email home, capture panoramas in HD, or record and entire mini video record of your trip.

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'Angry Birds' Takes to the Skies, But For Real Though

September 8, 2011 at 10:20 AM | by | Comment (1)

We're going to tell you something you already know: the iPhone game Angry Birds is big. Huge. Ginormous. It's so big that, the other day during a stroll through a night market in Thailand, we spotted many stalls with bootleg Angry Birds T-shirts, tank tops and even flip-flops for sale. Thus it's probably no surprise that of course the airlines are trying to capitalize on the Angry Birds fervor, though not in the way you'd expect.

You know what would be cool? Adding the Angry Birds game to in-flight entertainment. You know what would be kinda weird? Themeing an entire flight after the game, and offering Angry Birds' biggest fans to fly it. According to The Independent, that's what Finnair is doing with their "Angry Birds Asian Challenge" flight:

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