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Your Personal Travel Assistant (1/2)
Spb Software House Traveler v2.0
INTRODUCTION
There's a lot to manage when you're on the road:
flights, car rentals, meetings, time zones. Keeping this information
close at hand is what Spb Traveler does for you. Spb is out with a new major release of this program, and we'll take a look at
it to see how well it does as a personal travel assistant!
WHAT'S HOT
Here are the key features of Spb Traveler:
- Trip scheduling and assistance
- Weather forecasts
- World time clocks
- Currency and unit conversions
SETUP
Spb Traveler can be set up on your desktop computer and
installed on your mobile device using Active Sync. The whole process is
very straight-forward and common to most Windows Mobile software.
PRODUCT FEATURES
Spb Traveler is designed to assist you when planning
trips and while traveling. It is packed with numerous traveler-friendly
features that can make your travels easier and more enjoyable.
A Today screen plug-in can be configured to display the time and weather in any cities that you choose. If you're traveling across time zones (or if you just work with people from multiple time zones), you can quickly jump from city to city to confirm the local time and see the current weather.
When you add a city to Spb Traveler, details are a simple screen tap away. Spb Traveler can download photos of the city, provide weather forecasts for the coming week, or go online to help you find more detailed information about the city, such as historical information or tourist sites.
If you need to schedule a business meeting in another city, you can begin planning your trip by adding the meeting to a trip itinerary. Spb Traveler will create an appointment on your Outlook calendar, assuming the times you've entered are for the time zone in which the meeting will take place. Now you can plan your flight...
Spb Traveler can search online for flights on the day and time you specify. From a list of flights, you can select the one that suits your needs and add it to your itinerary.
Similarly, you can add car rental and hotel reservation information. Everything is neatly listed on your trip itinerary.
In addition to tracking your travel arrangements, Spb Traveler provides a collection of helpful travel tools: a tip calculator, unit and currency conversion tools, and a common phrase translator.
If you like to bring gifts home for the family after being away, you can keep clothing sizes stored away for each of your family members.
There's even a geography quiz game that can test your knowledge of world cities and flags.
Finally, you can see a nice three-dimensional view of the world with your cities highlighted. It doesn't provide a great deal of functionality, but it's sort of nice watch.
