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New Lonely Planet Translation apps!
by Natalia
News + Travel / September 28, 2011
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This past week I’ve been on vacation in San Francisco, my first trip outside Canada in some time. Heading back to work this morning through familiar streets, armed with my cell phone, bus pass, and a steaming mug of home-brewed coffee, I was struck by the conveniences of being a local. The everyday practicalities of travel can be frustrating—tracking down wifi, finding a pay phone, dealing with public transit—all these small details of life which you wouldn’t give a second thought at home can become a big hassle in an unfamiliar city.
So I was excited when I heard about Lonely Planet’s latest offering to beleaguered travellers: The Lonely Planet Offline Translator, available on Android and iOs. From the Lonely Planet folks:
The perfect travel companion, Lonely Planet Offline Translator acts as your own personal translator, providing bespoke translations based on what the user has typed or spoken into the phone. Unlike other language translation apps, Lonely Planet Offline Translator is completely offline, which means it can be used anywhere with no data/roaming fees or connection delays.
Initially launching in eight languages, the app translates words, phrases or whole sentences into immediate audio or text translations. Designed specifically for travelers, the app utilizes over 40,000 words for its translations. It also features a completely searchable dictionary.
I love travel apps, and this one sounds pretty nifty—to my mind, this make much more sense than lugging around a heavy dictionary everywhere you go. What do you all think? Ever used the Lonely Planet apps abroad?
Happy travels everyone!
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Two New Free iPhone Apps From Moleskine and Lonely Planet
by Crystal
Art & Photography + News + Travel / April 20, 2011
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If you had asked me a week ago where my cell phone was I probably would have stared at you blankly and had to ponder the question for awhile. My cell phone... did I leave it in the car? Is it buried at the bottom of my purse? Did I leave it sitting on the bar at home? The only people who regularly phoned me on it are my husband and my co-worker Dani. I'll admit I didn't even have voice mail set up. Text Messaging? Why is everyone so into text messaging? And how do they do it so fast? It took me 20 minutes to type out a text message! Who has time to press the 2 key 3 times to get the C to pop up? Email and Social Networking? That is a computer thing. My phone didn't have the capabilities..jpg)
First Up- The official Moleskine App for iPhone and iPad. Price- Free!!! 
Second up- Royal London Audio Walking Tour from Lonely Planet. Price- Free!!! For a limited time (AKA Hurry up and go download it!!!)Alice for the iPad
by Dan
Fiction + Kids / April 13, 2010
Here at Raincoast, we definitely love our paper books. But that's not to say we don't like e-books as well.
As we saw with Lonely Planet app last week, there's some pretty amazing stuff happening with the iPad, and we were pretty blown away by this video of Alice for the iPad posted at Mashable.
The app takes Lewis Carroll’s story of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and adds all this charming interactive stuff. Just watch:
The full version of Alice for the iPad is available at the App Store for $8.99 and there is a free lite version if you want to take it for a test-drive.
And for those of you who would like a book-book version of Alice (and who doesn't?), then Chronicle Books have recently released an (paper) edition of Lewis Carroll's incomparable text with a treasure trove of artists imaginings of Alice over the decades.
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Lonely Planet on the iPad
by Dan
Travel / April 06, 2010
Well, as the internet can hardly contain its excitement about the release of Apple's iPad, I just thought I would let you know that our friends at Lonely Planet have created an app especially for the device based on their book 1000 Ultimate Experiences.
Taking advantage of the iPad’s pretty amazing capabilities, LP have built the 1000 Ultimate Experiences app from the ground up. It has a revolutionary user interface that they say will have you "feeling, swiping, pinching and punching your way around the world in no time." Nice.
There is more information about the app on the Lonely Planet website, but if can't wait, you can download it directly from iTunes. Or there's always the analogue version...