Part of my family live near Leeds, while my close family live in France. I was looking to compare prices for flights from Paris to Leeds and a little green thing caught my eye next to the results on Google.
My mum’s flight from Leeds to France a few weeks ago was just after the foiled […]
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The Google advert will call you
Published 1 year, 11 months ago in News, Experimental, Travel, Trend, Advertising, Web and Marketing. 0 Comments
If you travel a fair amount as I do and also need to ring people up who may live on the other side of the world it’s not always easy to remember what the best time to ring people is.
Well, fear no more, you’ll never make a mistake again with the World Clock Meeting Planner […]
An article in the Guardian getting their source from Wired.com recounts how Lukas Grunwald, a German security consultant has been able to copy the data from biometric passports using 200 dollar equipment. Although the cloned data cannot apparently be modified, the so called unbreakable RFID tag technology seems less secure than expected.
The technology behind the […]
The coyote profits are set to rise
Published 2 years ago in Travel, Politics and Society. 0 CommentsA Newsweek article discusses the adverse effect the US move to tighten border control is having, by making smugglers richer.
There is often a hot debate about what legalising certain drugs would have, but a tighter control can sometimes make things worse for all parties except the real bad guy : in this case the coyote.
One […]
Remove the tourists from your photos
Published 2 years, 1 month ago in Travel, Photos and Web. 0 CommentsI was curious when I came across Snapmania’s Tourist Remover. I thought now how on earth can they guess what is behind the tourist and fill it in.
The system actually relies upon you having several (for a better result) photos of the same place. This way it takes the photos and uses each to patch […]
Love at first sight in an airport; can be complicated
Published 2 years, 4 months ago in Travel and Unusual. 1 CommentA young French man (why young, just a guess actually) called Kevin Amoros, seems to have met the love of his life in an airport. The problem is that he didn’t get her number or her name for that matter, but love “gives you wings” as they say in French. So he placed an advert […]
Travelling like Trump : you can !
Published 2 years, 5 months ago in Design, Travel and Marketing. 0 CommentsHaving just launched a web site in French about travel (mainly writing articles about it) I was interested to hear about Donald Trump having just launched a travel web site. The fact that Donald has fair amount of money to spend on this type of venture had my expectations high. Well the design is pretty […]
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