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The Travel Technologist

Elliott's technology column first appeared online in 1998 on the now-defunct TheTrip.com. It was later picked up by the also now-defunct Web site Biztravel.com and then briefly moved to Smartertravel.com in 2001. It now appears occasionally on this site and in other media outlets.

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» Extend your laptop battery's life

» The tablet PCs are turning

» Online travel, version 2.0

» Wireless hopes fizzle

» Tech travelers start over

» TSA slow to pay for laptop damage

» Cool holiday tech toys

» Is your PDA cleared for takeoff?

» Turn off your phone?

» Is your laptop available for a steal?

» No future for tech travel?

» A last look at the mail

» A technologist retrospective

» Time to throw it away?

» Prepare, prepare, prepare

» The backside of your palm

» Tech luggage gets an upgrade

» How HP let one traveler down

» Free software for your next trip

» Cheap software for the road

» Click and save

» Assault and batteries

» Turn off your phone

» Desert island devices

» This story will self-destruct in 10 seconds

» Consolidate your cell phone

» Travel, lies and videotape

» Which camcorder? The envelope, please

» Beware of dot-com con

» Traveling film buffs save money

» That's not long-distance

» Help! My cell phone doesn't work

» Lighten your tech burden (and save money)

» High-speed prices head south

» Cell phones lose their charge

» Moneysaving tech tips

» Six more gifts

» Six cheap gifts

» On the road with AOL

» Should you rule iPass out?

» Tech help isn't everything

» Batteries give travelers a charge

» Going back to school this fall

» What does XP mean to me?

» We can't all be road scholars

» The Travel Technologist logs off

» Will they allow cell phones on planes?

» High on high-speed access

» Making Your mobile go global

» Technology or toiletries? It's a tough choice

» A fine SMS we've gotten ourselves into

» Mad as hell and I'm not going to tech it anymore

» Surprise tech innovations discovered at NBTA

» Cell rage boils over, but solutions are scarce

» Do new laws persecute wireless travelers?

» 3G threatens to unravel your wireless world

» New charges shock tech travelers

» Don't trust technology at the airport

» What do business travelers want?

» Cool accoutrements for the traveling technologist

» GPS modules break new ground

» Roam, roam on the range

» Psst! three secrets of the laptop traveler

» Technology that makes you less dependent

» Road trip

» A cure for PDA sync-shyness

» Ouch! Mobile users zap columnist

» Time to ban cell phones at the airport?

» It's a phone! No, it's a Palm Pilot! No, it's both!

» Confessions of a flying tech commuter

» If standards don't fly, we all lose

» Stupid users? No, stupid technology

» Look before you book

» Breaking our tech-help dependency

» Killing Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

» Is Windows ME for you?

» The art of disconnecting

» The laptop that inspired poetry - sort of

» Logan's Run: Travel technology's inspiration

» Mysteries of the tech traveler's universe

» A better way to buy a cruise

» Stop the presses - but not the clocks

» Lies, urban myths and airport standard time

» Real road warriors use satellite phones

» A tech checklist for every traveler

» Confronting transfer fears

» Tech help for the homeless

» Great Getaway deals

» Will wireless airport access make us happy?

» Give us what we need

» Pricier holiday presents

» Inexpensive holiday presents

» Travel's digital 'gap'

» Technology I can't live without

» End of common sense among travelers?

» Fall sites ready for takeoff

» Trust me, I write for the web

» The web has its limits, too

» Airline tickets get a makeover - slowly

» MessageClick's big-time wakeup call

» Cell contracts anger travelers

» Joe made me do it!

» Talk isn't always cheap

» Wireless companies take cue from airlines

» Dropped calls irk wireless users

» Cell phone madness

» Solving the help desk dilemma

» Weighty world of wireless wonders

» Hardware leaves you with 'synching' feeling

» Thanks to microbrowsers, e-mail is cool

» Is cracking my tech vault worth the effort?

» Finding my eVoice in a dot-com world

» Hotels two-faced laptop policy

» E-mail? V-mail? It's all the same to etrieve

» The hotel connection controversy continues

» The other side in the connection controversy

» My kid, the travel agent

» The tech view from terminal K

» Who's got time for in-flight entertainment?

» Motorists fume at cell ban proposal

» Driving under cell phone influence is a crime

» Are telephones becoming obsolete?

» Marriott bills bother travelers

» Ceci n'est pas une pipe

» Mining for gold yields new rule

» IBM user has second thoughts about Pad

» Being wired isn't what we think

» When should you dump your OS?

» Tech help is hard to find

» Leave the surfing to the pros, please

» Dell disciples launch e-mail offensive

» Don't leave home without your cell phone?

» Open your Windows - but mind the Blinds

» Traveling at the last minute

» Confessions of an e-mail junkie

» Readers rant about overcharged connections

» Hotels sock it to wired guests

» Zapping expense headaches

» The year ahead in technology

» Wanna be like Mike? Then get to the point

» Fighting info overload on the road

» Drives ahead of their time

» DSL dream is a nightmare

» Once in a blue moon for this columnist

» When good users go bad

» The hard truth about Microsoft's monopoly

» Dead mice and other sticky issues

» Do we really want a PC in every room?

» Secrets of internet travel deals

» If it doesn't work, don't ship it

» Dogs destroying laptops

» Fallen, frozen and reformatted

» Not another beeping pager

» A column about columns

» Headsets and headaches

» How one traveler found his voice

» Do seminars make good software?

» Can you trust your technology columnist?

» Does adding an 'e' to fax improve communication?

» Can e-mail and phones perform in concert?

» Can your Mac talk to a PC?

» Clik! sets portable standards

» Speech recognition revisited

» Searching for travel's holy grail

» Bad American Express

» Who needs Amex on the road anyway?

» Traveling with the ant

» Mac attack!

» Abandoning Apple

» Sabre - or science fiction?

» A column of sequels

» Can't we get along?

» The portable phone chatter problem

» Tribute to an extreme road warrior

» When PDAs go MIA

» Hotel hazards for laptops

» Can radiation zap your data in flight?

» Radiation response

» Why wireless doesn't work at the airport

» Look before leaning

» Lighten your laptop load

» Throwaway batteries

» Airport net access: The weak link

» A taxing decision: How to file?

» No cure in sight for speech impediments

» Flight attendant technophobia

» Why do gadgets have to be turned off?

» More on weighty portables

» The heavy toll of a light laptop

» LapLink vs. PcANYWHERE: You decide

» Travel2K: A look at the tech future

» Remote web publishing dreams

» Tracking travel expenses

» Holiday tech toys for travelers

» Backing up is hard to do

» Games travelers play

» Smile, you're on internet camera!

» Beware virus hoaxes

» Mind-bending gadget questions

» The pen is mightier than the scanner

» A false sense of security

» Wired or wireless?

» Don't count low-tech out

» Cool but costly

» Primal screen therapy

» The sounds of silence

» A dogged view of contact managers

» Don't know jack