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Travel: Top 5 Costly Mistakes for Online Travel Bookings
Jul 30th
I’ve had a number of people recently ask me for help with online bookings, for some reason I.T. guys can also double up as travel agents……(Just kidding). With that being said, one of the fox TV stations had a story about the top 5 mistakes one can make when trying to book online.
Since this is Tech Geek and More, I guess the following (Courtesy of Fox 29 in Philadelphia) can be said covers for the More part of our site.
Travel: It May just help to know if there is another airport near where your going.
Mar 12th
(http://www NULL.rj-diamond NULL.com/alex/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Plane NULL.gif) Sometimes you may not be aware of all your options when figuring out airline travel destinations. Many cities are close enough to one another (especially in the east coast) that you may just find a way to your destination, even when the city you intended to go to has no seats on your travel day. A great site to see if you can use an “Alternative Airport” is (LINK) http://www.alternateairports.com/ (http://www NULL.alternateairports NULL.com/) .
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At alternateairports.com you can check out a long and comprehensive list of Alternate airports next to the city name (airport name) of most major cities in the U.S. (Like the example shown for Los Angeles – LAX)
Using the listed example, did you know that you could fly into Long Beach on an airline like JetBlue instead of crowed LAX possibly save a lot of money on airline tickets or fly into Burbank airport on Southwest and be just up the road from major tourist sites like the NBC Studios (Jay Leno) or Universal Studios Tour.
I have been a road warrior for many many years now, and alternateairports.com has come in handy more times than you can believe.
ALERT: What to do if your accelerator sticks, how to stop your car.
Jan 28th
TechGeekandMore may have a focus on Technology, however, we all drive cars. Toyota has just announced that they are recalling Millions of Cars and also stopping production of much of their car line because of a sticking accelerator issue (until Toyota can figure out why its happening http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/2010-01-26-toyota_N.htm (http://www NULL.usatoday NULL.com/money/autos/2010-01-26-toyota_N NULL.htm)), TGM felt that it was important to share this video from abc news. We all hope that something like this will never happen, but if it does it is very important that you know what to do.
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