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TripWhat is a Web and iPhone app made by the same people behind the excellent Sortable, the money-saving Geekaphone, and the effective CPUBoss. After helping us choose everything from smartphones, tablets and cameras, to CPUs and cars, it's time to find the best things to do, eat, and see in almost every city in North America.
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A day at the beach is often imagined as the most relaxing vacation possible. But, like any trip, a visit to the beach isn’t always ideal. Coastal areas can have weather conditions dramatically different from those just fifty miles inland and water temperatures may be cold even when the weather is nice. Just a few minutes of planning can ensure that your day (or week) at the beach is beautiful rather than windy, rainy or cold.
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Though none of us look forward to attending meetings, there are fortunately a number of useful online and mobile applications, such as AgreeDo, that make the task of planning meetings easier. All successful meetings start with a well thought-out agenda which includes a clearly defined goal and purpose for each agenda item. A well developed agenda can help you and your team members stay focused, and perhaps reduce the amount of time you meet.
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I love road trips. Just saying or writing this word sends shivers of excitement down my spine. If you think I’m crazy, it’s probably because you grew up in a country where road trips are taken for granted, and the number of places you can drive to and go to are endless. To me, road trips are fun and exciting, no matter why I have to take them, but regardless of how you feel about road trips, it’s always good to prepare before you embark on one.
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I'm sure many of you have thought about whether you're doing the right things every day, whether you're getting anywhere, and whether you're headed in the right direction. To-Do lists and organizational apps will help you keep all of those daily tasks and projects well-organized, but they don't really help as much with future planning.
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Traveling is a giant pain in the rear. You have to book all of your flights, hotels, rental cars, dinner reservations, and so on. After you book it, you have to keep track of all the important times and information for the trip. Sure, once you get to your destination and start doing all the fun stuff, it is enjoyable, but the preparation for a trip is usually less than pleasant. Thankfully, we live in the age of smartphones, where applications can help make everything easier.
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This year for the holidays, we decided to do something a little different. Instead of staying at home or visiting family for Christmas, we planned to take a family vacation to Boston throughout the entire holiday. That's a family vacation for 4 days and 3 nights. The planning phase of this trip had me rethinking my usual process, and how my new Android Prime tablet could help in the process.
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If planning is too much of a bother, try out a Chrome app (which directs you to the main web application) like Mapnificent. Mapnificent shows you areas you can reach with public transport in your city in a given time. Based on just that information, you can decide where to live, work, and thus save money. Mapnificent visualizes the data on an overlay on top of Google Maps. Let’s see how.
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Doing a home improvement project on your own isn't always a simple matter. Sometimes it seems simple enough when you get started, but before you know it, you realize that if you had just taken proper measurements and planned out your renovation in a little more detail ahead of time, it would have saved a whole lot of headache. Since I happen to have a DIY project that I'm planning out this year, I needed a program that would help me plan out the entire project.
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When it comes to fitness, one of the things that always makes me give up over time is the inability to actually see progress. Not that I can't drop 30 pounds if I try, but to feel as though that 30 pounds was something substantial can really give you that boost to continue on and lose the next 30. Planning and tracking your fitness efforts is really the only way to get that feedback.
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So you think you are ready to tie the knot and propose to your significant other? Well congratulations are in order! Of course, your wedding is supposed to be the happiest day of your life, but that does not mean that there is not an incredible amount of work and planning required in making your wedding go off without a hitch. A lot goes into the perfect wedding, and you will need to be well prepared to handle any situation that comes along.
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Do you work better after planning out your day? 30/30 is a free organisational godsend for people who take on too much and then don’t know where to start. It’s also great for workaholics who don’t realise taking regular, short breaks actually increases productivity.
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GiddyUp, is a free, dedicated event-planning app that combines Facebook events and Group.me group chat, and aims to make event planning as seamless as it can be. Not only does GiddyUp tackle one common problem, it does it in an intuitive, efficient and time-saving app that is available for iOS and Android, though it can also be useful to non-smartphone owners.
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The value of social networks such as Facebook is connecting with your friends to know what you and they have been up to. Most of the time though, these updates are made in reference to something that’s already past. Enter Foreca.st, a smart twist on the check-in phenomenon that aims at helping you plan ahead so that you and your friends can meet up in the future.
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Road trips are one of the best ways to travel. If you’re lucky enough to live in a country large enough for road trips, you should definitely make use of this form of travel. There’s nothing better than the freedom of being on the road, driving for miles and miles, and discovering interesting new places [...]
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