Upgrade Your Brain – 5 Killer Travel Apps

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The top 5 travel apps in the Google Play Store:
(I’m an Android, but some of these apps or equivalents, are also available for Iphone.)

 

1. Map Factor Navigator.
This awesome free app gives you GPS navigation maps on your phone or tablet.
You do a one-time download of each country, and after that you never need internet again.   You start the app, activate GPS, and you can see exactly where you are.
Map Factor allows you to see town and street names and nearby points of interest.  It has a good map search facility, and you can drop flags on the map, to help you find your way back to your hostel or navigate to places of interest.

 

2. WikiTravel Offline.
It’s a user generated guidebook to the whole planet.   It’s detailed, reliable, searchable and free!   After the initial download, no internet is required, so you can use it anywhere.  As users edit and expand the online database, the app is periodically updated, so it stays current.  There are even phrase books for most countries!
What more can I say?   WikiTravel rocks.

 

3. Google Translate.
This app is awesome.  You can do speech or text based translations instantly, and even hear the translated text spoken.   Now Google have added offline language packs, you don’t even
need internet to translate between your favourite languages.   This is a must-have!

 

4. SkyScanner.
You’re in Amsterdam.   You want to go somewhere sunny and tropical.   You start SkyScanner and select Amsterdam as your location.   You select “destination: anywhere”.   Up pops a list of destinations, ranked by price.   Serious bargains can be had, especially if, like me, you aren’t fussy about the date you fly.   THE easiet way to snap up cut price air tix.

 

5. Offline Browser.
When you’re out and about it’s often hard to get reliable internet, and even if you can, mobile broadband is expensive.  Offline Browser allows you to download your favourite web sites when you have access to internet, so you can read them later at your leisure.   There are tools to control the depth of hot links so you can actually browse offline within the parameters you set.

 
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