Posts Tagged ‘personalization’

Geogad’s Newest Feature: Customized Tours

Monday, September 1st, 2008

There is never a dull moment at Geogad as we work to improve your travel experience.

Geogad has added a new feature to make your travels even more uniquely yours. Now you can create mix and match the individual tour stops on Geogad to create your own customized tours. To create your own customized tour, just sign in and click on the “Create Tour” header option. You will be presented with a two maps, one showing the available tour stops and the other showing tour stops that you have dropped and dragged onto your own tour map. After you have picked the tour stops and arranged them into your preferred route, you can save your new custom tour. It is instantly available to you and to other Geogad travelers.

Your new custom tour can be streamed to your web browser or downloaded to your favorite mobile media device. Your new custom tour is free as are all of the other tours from Geogad.

This is just one small part of making Geogad your personal mobile tour guide.

Pandora for Your Favorite Music on the Go

Thursday, April 5th, 2007

For all you busy travelers who can’t tune into the radio to find new music or may have forgotten to load your favorite CD onto your MP3 player, Pandora can solve your problems.  Pandora came from the Musical Genome Project.  This volunteer project was to break down all songs in the world into a basic description of its musical properties.  It essentially was trying to define the musical DNA of each song in its database.

Pandora is easy to use.  Surf to the Pandora web site using your high speed Internet connection and tell Pandora what are your favorite artists and/or songs.  It will take your starting list of favorites and match it with other songs by other artists that have similar DNA. All of the songs, the ones you know and the ones you are just discovering, are served directly to you over your personal Pandora “station.”  You can mix the song styles to create your own personal Internet “radio” stations. 

The best part for travelers is that your music is always on the Internet for you.  The only down side is that you are going to need a high speed connection.  Pandora can also have trouble if the server that you are using is configured to prevent streaming. 

Try it out, and let me know how well it works for you.   

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