Surviving the Holidays/Make Life Easier

Are you one of the 59 million people who will be traveling this holiday season? We dug up some of our favorite useful tools to help you keep a peaceful pace this season.

For the Speed Demon

This is a free iPhone app that warns you of speed traps and traffic cameras, helping you avoid fines and points on your driver’s license.


For the Jet Set

Mobile application for the iPhone, Treo, Blackberry and Windows Mobile. Great for Business and family travel, it can track itineraries and all related details for a trip.


Great travel-oriented social networking site

Capture Precious Moments



Stickam - Stream live videos of your vacation from your mobile phone.




Upload mobile photos and share them with all of your social networking sites.

Make Life Easier: Priceline and Hotwire Forum

This site won't win any design awards, but if you're looking for serious insider help getting the best hotel rates, you won't care what the site looks like. My hubby and I are planning a trip to NYC for our anniversary and I was coming up short with my usual research; the room rates in NY right now are sky high. Googling away, I found this site called BetterBidding.com. If you like to use Hotwire (and I do), they have all kinds of cheat sheets to help you figure out which hotels match up with your Hotwire search results. You can then go check those hotels out on TripAdvisor or another review engine and see if it's a decent place. And if you still can't figure it out, post a request for help on the boards and you'll get very useful tips, rates, and links. It's like having a travel agent who really knows how to "game the system." Be sure and use the links they provide you; this guy makes his money through the referrals.

Priceline and Hotwire Forum on BetterBidding.com