Articles written by Dan Florio
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Buying a Skype Phone for Travel
With a lot of Skype phones on the market, it's hard to pick the right one for regular home and work use. If you travel for business, you need to be even more choosy.
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12 Business Travel Resolutions
After a long year of traveling for the company, you deserve a little down time around the holidays. Because in the new year you'll be starting it all up, all over again.
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Voters Stay Germ-Free on Flights
Business Travel readers choose booze and keeping their hands to themselves when flying.
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Lake Gregory Trail, Crestline CA
This 2.5 mile easy and scenic lake trail in the mountains of Southern California is great for hikers, trail runners and even families.
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Last Minute C-Store Xmas Gifts
Out on another business trip and forgot to finish your Christmas shopping? Try these eleventh-hour tips so no one will worry you love your job more than your family.
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Top Portable GPS Models
Discussion of the three top model GPS units on the market for Christmas 2007.
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Picking the Best GPS for Traveling
Features business travelers actually need when looking to purchase a new portable GPS (Global Positioning System) for their car. Avoid paying for stupid extras.
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Free Seattle WIFI Locations
Finding wireless Internet service is much easier than locating a parking spot in the Emerald City.
How to log onto free WIFI in Seattle's public places.
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Postal Service Tips for Travelers
The US Postal Service now makes life easier - and cheaper - for business travelers. Print your own postage and shipping labels while arranging for free package pickup.
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Dollar Store Tips for Travelers
If you can find a "dollar store" when traveling, business travelers can find tons of useful supplies at the low, low cost of a buck.
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Driving Safely with Cell Phones
Be smart when you talk and drive - use a headset, know your laws and give the road your full attention.
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Take Healthy, Quick Naps at Hotels
Tips to get a better handle on travel stress via 20-40 minute power naps.
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Best Fast Food for Travelers
Eating healthy on the road means avoiding trans fatty fried foods, adding fresh veggies and using common sense. Top fast food joints and tips for junk food navigation.
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iPhone. The Good, Bad, and Ugly
The newest, smartest cell phone released to cheering crowds are expensive to buy, but offer affordable service plans with carrier AT&T. Is iPhone worth the wait and hype?
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Prevent LaptopTheft at Cafes
Watch your laptop. Nail it down. At least back the thing up. Laptop theft in coffee shops is increasing. Tips to prevent opportunistic notebook snatching.
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Organize Travel With Pill Boxes
How to hold office supplies, personal effects, toiletries, and even spices in your bags? A tidy roll of small connected boxes holds more than pills for the travel savvy.
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Office Depot Mini Stamp Set Review
Organize your papers and correspondence from when traveling with this pre-inked stamp kit.
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Targus Ultra Mini-Mouse Review
Too tiny for the human hand, this laptop mouse is a product to file under "great idea, lousy execution".
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Avoid Car Theft at Seedy Motels
Bad motels and scary parts of town await the intrepid business traveler. Ensure your car doesn't get hijacked at those low-rent overnight dives.
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Hotel Parking Lot Safety Tips
Business travelers need to develop car awareness to prevent theft and personal attacks at hotel parking lots.
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Travel Receipts You Need to Keep
Business Travelers can save a lot of dough just by keeping those itty-bitty slips of paper thrust at them all day.
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Gen X Expect Upscale Hotel Service
Todays Business travelers are more often from Generation X as Baby Boomers pass on the torch and retire. Hotels take note - Xers expect high end service and amenities.
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Keep in Touch with the Office
Stay abreast of office developments using your portable tools - your laptop, Blackberry, cell phone, Skype headset
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Bose Triport Headphone Review
Bose Triport Headphones offer uber quality sound with a comfortable band, but only middling noise reduction for travelers.
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High Gas Prices Influence Travel
Planes and trains are more economical than automobiles for the US Business Traveler. Gas prices are at an all-time national high. Real-time costs broken down here.
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Traveling Uses for Cell Phones
Organize your business travel lifestyle. Use a plain jane cell phone as your personal travel concierge.
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Free WIFI in Cities, Airports
Find free wireless hot spots in urban downtowns, in airports and along the highways in North America.
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Airline Coffee Tips
If you need a good blast of coffee to start your flight, try these tips to get yourself a better cup.
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Alternative Barf Bag Uses
Be creative in flight or at the hotel with free air sickness bags you've snagged from airplane seat pockets. You will be surprised what uses the bag can be put to.
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Checked Luggage Tips
Business travelers beware the black rolling bag - get smarter with your check-in luggage when you fly. Pack with the realities of plane travel in mind.
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Prevent Farting When Flying
Tips to avoid flatulence when you fly.
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Airport Check-in Kiosk Tips
E-tickets are very easy to buy at home. Business Travelers can buy them online and get the printout at the airport. Not so easy in practice. It's a jungle in there.
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Portable Antioxidants for Flights
Three portable antioxidant cocktails suitable for carry-on flu and cold protection when you fly.
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Proper Clothing for Air Travel
Dress comfortably for the plane, and simply for the security checkpoints. You'd be surprised what can set off those metal detectors.
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Radisson Hotels Cut Out Trans Fats
Business travelers concerned about healthy meals on the road should look into trans-fat-free Radisson chain hotels.
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Avoid Flu Germs in Planes
Use these tips to prevent catching colds, the flu and other germs when you fly.
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Travel Head Massager Review
Folding up compactly and sliding into its velvety-drawstring travel bag, the Head Trip works for easing pain in the brain.
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Tips for Snacks, Drinks on Flights
How to bring your own snacks or just drink yourself silly on the airlines that won't feed you.
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Eyeglass Lens Cleaner Kit Review
For under five dollars, the Rite Aid eyeglass lens cleaner kit keeps things shiny and all screws tight. Fully recommended for business travelers.
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Biz Gear - Tot Slim Stapler Review
The Tot Slim Stapler is a good addition for your business travel kit. Not perfect but decent.
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Free WIFI at Office Depot
You can use supply store Office Depot as a WIFI depot for those traveling days and sleepless nights you MUST check email from the road.
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Shred Documents When Traveling
Even from the hotel the business traveler needs to prevent identity theft.
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Laptop Cleaning Basics
When you travel for a living, or even if you need a laptop for hopping to a business conference, you need to learn some tricks to keep your mobile computer running right.
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Finding Hotels with WIFI
If you are like me, you need to connect to wireless Internet when you're on the road. Here's how to find hotels with a proper WIFI connection for your laptop.
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Coffeeshop Laptop Etiquette
Laptop people taking over your cafe space? Are you one of those laptop people? Here are Dan's Coffeeshop Rules for the Oblivious Business Traveler.
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Airline Security Checkpoints Tips
Those airport security and carry-on checkpoint lines could move much faster and more smoothly if everyone knew the drill. Here are some tips for you and your luggage.
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Always Travel with Business Cards
Never leave home without it. Not American Express. I mean your business card. Actually, bring LOTS. Not every traveler realizes how useful they are.
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Google Alerts For Travel
Why search for the news yourself? That's just so old school. Let Google do the walking for the news you need when you travel for business.
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Readers' Top Conference Cities
Suite voters dish on where business conferences should take them, given a choice.
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10 Best Business Hotel Freebies
I don't need freebies to enjoy a hotel but I sure like them. Here are the top ten faves ways a hotel can make my day.
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Baggage Flight Poll Results
Most business travelers attempt to pack light - one carry-on with or without a check-in - when flying the friendly skies.
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Business Trips with the Kids
Bringing the kids along on business trips? I've collected some articles to help business travelers taking children along for those working vacations.
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Hotel Bath Basics for Dogs
Traveling with a small, stinky dog on your business trips? Or even a bigger, more smelly mutt? The down and dirty on the quick and easy hotel room bathing routine.
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Travel Soap Tips
How to use liquid hand soap for practically everything when traveling.
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Business Traveler Menus
The savvy traveler can eat right and maintain healthy diet plans, whether you follow low carb, low fat or vegetarian menus, or even those just counting calories!
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Mobile Office Poll Results
Where do you the majority of your business done when traveling? Your April/May 2006 poll votes were revealing.
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Female Menstrual Travel Kit
Every woman who travels needs to plan for expected and unexpected menstrual cycles. Make sure you've got your menstrual travel kit all stocked and loaded for go time.
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Hotel Room Safety Tips
Are you inviolate in the sanctity of your hotel room? How to protect yourself when traveling.
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Hotel Room Security Tips
Protect your valuable items from theft. Here are the savvy business traveler's best - and most common sense - hotel security tips.
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Vegetarian Travel Dining
Vegetarian diets are easier for business travelers to handle than in years past. Planning veggie menus from the hotel starts at home, and continues while on the road.
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Laptops at the Airport
Most airports these days have free WIFI for your laptop, great cell phone connections and big chairs with tarmac views. The business traveler can get a lot of work done!
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Hotels and Low Fat Diets
You can travel on a heart healthy, low fat diet quite easily with those free hotel continental breakfasts.
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Best Hotel Business Amenities
If a hotel wants my business, then they need to help me handle working from the road. They need to think like a business traveler.
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MP3 Player Basics
Why a business traveler needs a decent MP3 player.
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Jabra Headset Review
The Jabra Ear Wave Boom is not the business traveler's cell phone hands-free headset of choice, in spite of sleek styling, a fair price and plenty of marketing hype.
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Hotels and Low Carb Breakfasts
You probably enjoy the free breakfasts offered by most hotels when traveling. If you eat on the low carb diet, those sugar and starch-laden buffets are frustrating.
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