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Heading out with your iPhone? Learn what apps you’ll need to make your travel experience a convenient (and cheaper) one. Traveling with your iPhone can be costly if you want to have internet access internationally. An AT&T international data plan starts at for 20 MB of data for the month, which many of us will soak up within a few days. Aside from unlocking your phone and using an international sim card, you may want to consider staying offline. This doesn’t mean your phone will be rendered useless. There’s plenty of offline applications that use GPS, or databases of information to help you along your travels. Mauricio Balvanera puts together a travel app goodie bag for your globe trotting needs. OpenMaps Version 2.0 | Developed by IZE, Ltd | .99 PROS: – Compass Mode – Scalable Tile Downloads – Point to Point directions CONS: – Address lookup not available offline – Pin deletion unintuitive 02:05 Frommer’s Guide Books Version Depends On City | Developed by Modality, Inc. | .99 PROS: – Wide variety of Cities – Fantastic content – In application maps CONS: – Address lookup not available offline – Pin deletion unintuitive Appbox Pro Version 3.1 | Developed by AllAboutApps | .99 PROS: – Tons of great apps in one – Includes Google books for reading! – Great UI CONS: – Translator doesn’t have a cached database

Create and share online documents, spreadsheets and presentations. It’s free. You can: 1) Access your documents online from any computer with an internet connection. 2) Add collaborators to your document and Docs will send them a link to access the doc online (no need to send email attachments back and forth) 3) Decide who can view and edit each document (only you, some people, or everyone) For a quick product tour, check out: www.google.com Or to get started, visit: docs.google.com