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You’ve booked your first-time trip to Spain. Just before leaving, a million questions run through your mind. What is the time zone in Spain? What’s the weather like? What type of currency do they use? And most importantly, what key phrases will you need to know to get around? Travel-savvy site WorldTravelTips.net can answer all of your questions and more with the click of a mouse.
On this award-winning site, you can find geographic information, time zones, languages, currency, climate information, translations, native foods, best time of year to visit, how to tip your waiter, what cabbies to trust and top destinations of just about every country on the globe.
In addition, the website acts as a community for travelers who wish to share travelogues, photos, travel tips, horror stories and things they’ve learned with other members. Signing up for a membership is simple, free and only requires standard demographical information and an e-mail address.
WorldTravelTips.net is an easy to navigate, at-home guide to everything you need to know about your next trip. By using its international, person-to-person tips, you’re sure to feel confident asking the natives if they can speak your language.
Hot New Electronics
Amphibious Film Frenzy
Worry no more about dropping your expensive video camera in the ocean while trying to capture your family’s beach vacation moments. With the recently released Sanyo Xacti E1 digital video camera, your recorded memories will survive both land and water.
Record your vacation on the beach through the Xacti E1’s 2.5-inch LCD display, with hours of video recording in MPG-4, iTunes compatible format at 640x480 pixels. Film underwater snorkeling, then make 6 Megapixel still images from that recording and transform them into photographs.
“Practically four cameras in one,” according to Sanyo’s website, the Xacti E1 camcorder is easy to use and “ergonomically designed to fit comfortably in the palm of your hand.” It also comes in blue, white, and hard-to-lose yellow.
Online reviews claim that the camcorder has a fast startup time and can go from sleep mode to ready-to-shoot in under four seconds. One man called it “fantastic” during his trip to Europe and because of its small design, good construction and ability to compress a file to MPEG 4 format, allowing for storage of hours of video onto just one DVD. He claimed that “videos and photos from pools and swimming in the Mediterranean turned out beautiful. The underwater capability is a fun bonus to an overall solid camera.”
For more information on Sanyo’s Xacti E1digital video camera, log on to sanyodigital.com
Hot Photography Trends
Treasuring Travels
Having sold over 500 million photos and uploaded 1.5 billion photos since the company’s launch in 1999, Shutterfly.com makes sharing, printing and creating memories a cinch.
With Shutterfly.com’s user-friendly site, members can upload, edit, share and print thousands of photos at a time. For the more creative person, Shutterfly.com offers the option of compiling photos into a leather or cloth-bound album, adding captions and creating borders, turning treasured memories into a travel book similar to those found in a bookstore. The albums are quality made to last as well.
In addition, Shutterfly.com helps users transform their photos onto a coffee mug, calendar, postcard, greeting card or even a Sesame Street kids’ book. Options are endless and make a perfect gift for anyone.
Giving back to the community, the company has developed Shutterfly Foundation, which “helps organizations, institutions and communities harness the power of sharing motivation stories.” The 501c3 foundation aims to support youth education and family wellness organizations. Donations can be made on the website or through mail.
