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1999
Travel Technologist
Archive
Irreverent commentary about
gadgets for travelers, recommended by Forbes, NPR's Science Friday, and
numerous other publications. From 1998 to 2000, the column ran on Trip.com.
It appeared on on Biztravel.com
until late 2001 and was discontinued when the site went out of business.
Tech
Predictions
What's in store for 2000?
Direct with Dell
Wanna be like Mike?
Cutting Through
Info Overload
Where do I get the good data?
Laptop Rewriteable
Disaster
How can I rate this gadget?
DSL Dreams Become
Nightmare
Why high-speed is just a lot of
hype
Once in a Blue
Moon
A columnist confesses: 'I got it
wrong.'
When Good Users
Go Bad
Microsoft story brings out the dark
side
Microsoft Monopoly?
What the judge's ruling means to us
Dead Mice
When your pointer stops working
PC In Every
Room?
Liberating us from the laptop.
Don't Ship It!
When gadgets don't work, who's to blame?
More Laptop Tales
Stories from the road
Fallen, Frozen
and Reformatted
What we subject our laptop computers
to
Not Another
Beeping Pager
Motorola device is ready for the road
The Last Word
It's a column about columns
Headsets and
Headaches
Two gadgets fix traveler troubles
A Voice on the
Web
One business traveler pipes up
Seminar Software
Is it better in person?
Can You Trust Me?
Tech columnists and credibility
E-Fax or Real Fax?
What you can expect from the "e"
Orchestrating
Mail
Not just another spam scam
Driving With
Mac
How to get your PC to talk to a Mac
Clik!
Replaces Disk
Will Iomega's storage system outdo
floppy?
Speech Recognition
Revisited
Perhaps it's time to give technology
another try
Travel's Holy Grail
How one road warrior gets wired
Is Amex THAT
Bad?
What readers had to say about the card
Ditching Amex
Why I cut my green card to slivers
Traveling With the
Ant
Road testing the Gateway FireAnt
Mac Attack!
Reaction to PC switch
Abandoning Apple
Why one traveler ditched his Mac
Sabre or Sci-Fi?
Is res system the Matrix of travel?
A Column of Sequels
Readers respond to the portable dilemma
Can't We
Get Along?
Readers respond to the portable dilemma
Ban Cell
Phones?
Should portable phones get the axe
on mass transit?
Tribute
to an Extreme Road Warrior
Meet Scott Hancock, frequent traveler
When PDAs
Go MIA
Tiny Palm Pilots are easy to lose
Hotel Hazards for Laptops
Beware the dangers that await your laptop
Can Cosmic Rays Hurt Hard
Drives?
Readers react to zapped column
Zapped
In-Flight
Radiation can hurt you and your laptop
Dead Cells
Why your phone doesn't work at the airport
Look Before Leaning
Rude recliners can harm your hardware
Lighten Your Load
Two new products make your burden easier
Throwaway
Batteries
Powering your portable with a disposable.
Airport Connections
Why is the Internet everywhere except where
we need?
A Taxing Decision
How to file your form 1040 without paper
Computer Speech Impediments
Laptops don't make good listeners on trips
Flight Attendant Technophobia
Are crewmembers needlessly scared of gadgets?
Travel Turn-Offs
Which electronic devices can bring a plane
down?
More Heavy Laptops
Readers weigh in on portable problems.
Heavy Laptops
Portable computing is a perilous misnomer
Laplink vs pcANYWHERE
How do the programs stack up against each
other?
Travel2K Troubles
What happened to the innovation we were promised?
