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Map is important for travel, especially self travel. It is not cheap to get a detail map. I want to get detail map for few countries prepare for my trip next year: Macau, Zhuhai, ShenZhen, Hong Kong. I didn’t any Zhuhai’s map exist in travel magazine.

It is time to explore more power in iPod touch! How good if I can utilise iPod touch “Maps” feature offline. The Maps app detail enough for me, it includes some place of interest, hotel name, location name, and subway station.

Google Map Enhancer

There are so many offline maps app but most of them retrieve map from Open Street Map which is too rough. They don’t have details and even don’t have road map for some locations. The best still Google Maps! (more…)

With cheap ticket from AirAsia, we are travelling more especially young ones. Self tour or backpackers are so common nowadays. I wish to have my own self tour experience too.

Am targeting ShenZhen, ZhuHai and Hong Kong self tour on next year. Yes, self tour for more adventure, more flexible time and less product selling shop. My experience in Shanghai and Seoul told me group tour want us spend more money on their affiliated shop so they get better commissions.

Electronic Travel Guide

Since self tour don’t have tour guide, we need to plan trip by ourself. Travel guide book in bookstore could provide more ideas on attractions, things to do, transport and food. (more…)

The best part about iPod touch / iPhone is not only the device itself, but also plenty of interesting and useful apps from iTunes Store. I’m now having 90+ apps in my iPod touch 2G!

Just imagine one page contains 16 apps, I need to scroll up to 6 pages to find an app. Of course the spotlight search might help, but how about we forgot the app name?

Categories Organizer App

In order to make iPod apps tidy and clean, I need an app named Categories. So sad it only available for jailbreak iPod / iPhone. Fortunately, I’m on it. (more…)

A very cool App for DSLR photographer with iPhone or iPod touch. Do you believe can control your DSLR (Nikon and Canon) right on iPhone or iPod itself?

Yes, DSLR Camera Remote App enables you to use Apple iPhone or iPod touch to wirelessly adjust cameras settings, fire the shutter, review images, even get a liveview.

Setup DSLR Camera Remote

The setup is quite easy. Here is what you need:

• Canon EOS DSLR or Nikon DSLR camera
• Apple iPhone or iPod Touch
• A WiFi enabled computer (no active internet connection required)
• DSLR Camera Remote Server software (download ~65mb)
• DSLR Camera Remote Professional OR DSLR Camera Remote Lite software for iPhone/iPod Touch. Available at iTunes Store for $19.99 (Pro) and $1.99 (Lite).

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There are always rumors for Apple product before it comes out. And the rumors are always true. Glad to see iPod Nano has more power in its new release.

Guess what is new? Yes, latest iPod Nano brings in video with the new built-in video camera. Also, it has larger screen size 2.2-inch and its aluminium cover present in nine brilliant colors.

It mainly has 4 new features:

• Video Recording – It record up to 30 frames per second at 640×480 pixels. You may select one out of 15 real time special effects for the video, such as Sepia,X-Ray, etc.
• FM Radio and Live Pause - The built-in FM radio allow you to tag songs you like so you can preview later for purchase or whatever. When phone call comes in, you won’t miss any beat from radio with Live Pause. It allows you to pause and continue listen radio station on temporary buffer space. You even can rewind back as far as 15 minutes and fast forward to catch back live broadcast. (more…)