Trip Mobile Device Usage Primer Tutorial
The word trip, in English, conjures up many thoughts for many of us. We hope that a trip conjures up happy memories for you, but we realize sometimes that is not the case, but be that as it may, a trip often …
- is an opportunity to go somewhere new
- is an opportunity to learn something new
- is an opportunity to meet people, and other animals, who are new to you
- is an opportunity to experience something new
- is an opportunity to plan for something new
- is an opportunity to share information and experiences
… and a lot of these characteristics are well pandered to with modern mobile device technology.
We like to use mobile devices for both trip planning and execution. We own an iPad tablet using iOS and a mobile phone using Android, and though we prefer to use the iPad for the trip planning, sometimes the Android is better to use for the trip itself because it is that bit smaller.
Our favourite mobile device ideas to use are …
- Web browser to use for the research planning, in the form of typed in search engine wording you can type straight into the address bar, if you like …
Eg. Eltham Palace (typed into, went to, for us, here … this)
Eltham Palace map (typed into, went to, for us, here … this … and then choosing “Maps” on Google search engine resulted in this … and then, while you’re there, “as they say” check out the menu options up the top left)
Barbican to Eltham Palace (typed into, went to, for us, here … this … and then choosing “Maps” on Google search engine resulted in this … and then, while you’re there, “as they say” gape at the brilliance of modern day “where” software) - Google Maps as an app or via the mobile website to help with questions regarding how to get there, as we last discussed with Google Maps Primer Tutorial
- Screenshot functionality, as we last discussed with Emailing iPad Screenshot Primer Tutorial, to screenshot maps of interest useful if connectivity is not there as you are out and about on your trip, as well as for the soft copy of any Receipts resulting from the online purchase of travel tickets, as, these days, this is often as acceptable as hard copy, which could also use …
- Camera and Video creation functionality is mainly useful as you are out and about on your trip.
- Photos or Gallery app on the mobile device to store those trip memories, as we last discussed with YouTube via iPad Photos App Primer Tutorial, and to utilise that app’s Share functionalities to post to Social Media or Online Photo Repositories or to attach via eMail off to other folks, there and then, or later, as we discussed with Email Photos on iPad as Attachments Primer Tutorial. The Event or Moment photo and video organisation this app uses helps you remember what you did, even much later after the trip, as we last discussed with Moving Pictures on an iPad Primer Tutorial.
- Clock apps can help you keep track of time zone differences as you travel.
We just wonder what Macon Leary, out of The Accidental Tourist, would have made of it all … the “third person” English about travel matters often makes me giggle inside about this movie.
We’ll be writing more on the trip theme soon … just as soon as William Hurt writes me back … chortle, chortle.
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