Nancy Hendrickson

Lonely Planet TV is offering $500 for the best travel video submitted to their site.  They’re looking for “anything and everything” , including footage from your cell phone about your backyard getaway.

Just read the User Terms before registering with lonelyplanet.tv and uploading your video. If they really like your stuff,  you may just be $500 richer.

Don’t know about you, but I’m hauling out my Flip Video and heading down to San Diego Harbor – who can resist an iron-hull sailing ship sitting next to a Cold War era Russian sub?

I just downloaded a tried a freebie screen capture program called SCREEN2EXE–and it’s definitely a winner.

SCREEN2EXE is a full-featured recording program that allows you to record any action (opening new windows, mouse movements, etc) on your monitor. Audio is optional but available.

You can then edit your capture, add images and annotations, delete clips, zoom in, and when satisfied with the end result, save the file as a standalone executable (.exe) file.

Amazon announced today that there are now more than 185,000 books, blogs, newspapers and magazines available for immediate download.

As a Kindle owner, I can tell you there are things about the Kindle that I don’t like (i.e. no back-lighting) but they’re fabulous when it comes to portability and pricing. Because I travel so frequently for business, I appreciate being able to carry dozens of my reference books with me on the Kindle.

Plus, you can’t beat the $9.99 price for NY Times bestsellers (and most other hard covers).

I have to admit, in my recent 5 hours of being trapped at the Charlotte, NC airport because of a US Airways screw-up, the Kindle was a life-saver.