When I read the post “Travel Advice with Twitter: 5 Tips” earlier today it got me thinking about how useful Twitter (and other social networks) really are when travelling. I’ve been asking for travel tips on Twitter and Facebook since the Europe a la Carte Summer ’09 UK Blogging Tour. by SteveGarfield The problem is [...]

I used to hate looking at pictures. I always felt like I was being forced into moments that weren’t mine.  A strange sense of voyeurism that was thrust upon me.  Of course, this was before digital cameras were pervasive and when phones were used to call people. You know, way back when – like the [...]

Update 1 January 2012 – I’ve received four out of the five cashbacks with no problems, just one more to go at the end of the month. Update 24 August 2010 – I’ve updated the free gifts which have changed since my purchase last month. I just signed up for an 18 month mobile broadband [...]

I was given a complimentary set of Sony in-ear noise cancelling headphones (model MDR-NC33)  for review purposes. Sony in ear noise cancelling headphones Now I had no prior knowledge of this product but I assumed from the name that wearing these headphones would block out a very high percentage of surrounding noise.  Therefore when I [...]

Summary: |If you’re looking for a mobile phone on which you want to be able to go online to check your email, keep up on Social Networks such as Twitter and Facebook and upload photos and videos, don’t assume that an iphone is your only option. I recently purchased a Samsung Jet S8000 at a [...]

In September 2009 I finally took the plunge and purchased UK mobile broadband to use on my netbook. In theory this means that when you insert the mobile broadband modem or dongle (a sim card enclosed in a plastic sheath with a USB plug which you insert into a USB port in your laptop) you [...]

When I received an email from earthTV.com telling me about their service,  I thought it sounded such an amazing technological feat, that I asked them to do a guest interview for the Europe a la Carte Blog. The company founder Thomas M Hohenacker tells us about the challenges of setting up earthTV.com. 1 What is [...]

I found a link to the Laptop Friendly Cafes site, which lists cafes which offer free wifi in a user friendly environment, in one of my Google Alerts and my ears pricked up. Since I bought my netbook in February 2009 and my unsatisfactory experience with the FON wifi community, finding free, reliable wifi has [...]

The 3 UK network is now offering free Skype to Skype calls from your mobile phone. This seems like a great offer, enabling you to make free calls when you are on the move, using Skype software loaded onto your mobile. However curremtly you do a need a 3 X series mobile phone to use [...]

FON is a wifi communty where members share part of their home wifi with other members, in exchange for the use of the home wifi of the other 300,000 global members. Your home broadband is split into a secure private access and public FON part. I started doing research into availability and cost of wifi [...]