Apps That Can Ease Your Traveling Blues
HOLMES: All right, 22 minutes past the hour. A lot of you going to be traveling and information, of course, is key to choosing the best options. Now you can find a lot of that information on your phone. Digital lifestyle expert Mario Armstrong here to show us what we need to pack if we're taking a trip. And what we're talking about packing here, you have to take with you these particular apps that can help you out there. So first let's start with this Mario. There's nothing worse than being out there, you're trying to get online. You can't find a Wi-Fi, you can't get a signal. Help us out.</s>MARIO ARMSTRONG, CNN DIGITAL LIFESTYLE EXPERT: Right, because you need that Internet connectivity. But the thing is, you don't want to always have to pay exorbitant rates for it. So a great app that you can check out is called free Wi-Fi Finder. This will help you find free, paid or as well as free Wi-Fi hot spots near you. So if you're traveling and you're in an area where you don't know and you want to be able to connect to the Internet, if you had this free app, it would say oh, if you go around the corner here, there's a free Wi-Fi hot spot you could use to download data or connect to the Internet, very, very helpful. I use that one personally a lot.</s>HOLMES: That one's very helpful. The other, a lot of people might be traveling internationally. You need to know about money exchange, the currency exchange.</s>ARMSTRONG: Big one for currency exchange. This one gives you - it's called XE Currency. This one will give you live real time currency exchanges. It also features a calculator on the phone itself in the app itself so you can actually do calculations for different currency. And one of the other cool things is about this app. I love the fact that not only is it available, T.J., on all the smart phones, your Androids, your Apple, your Windows phones, but also they have a mobile site. So even if you just have a regular cell phone, you can access this currency converter just by going to their mobile site.</s>HOLMES: Here's another important one. You go through a new city, you don't know the area, don't know neighborhood, maybe you're not talking to the locals about the spots to go. You can find your spot to Relax.</s>ARMSTRONG: Are you talking about, for relaxation for happy hour relaxation?</s>HOLMES: Whatever you want to call it.</s>ARMSTRONG: There's one called Happy Hours, and so you can find all the good deals and the discounts that are happening in an area that you may be visiting. So you're absolutely right. You go to a place. You don't know all the hangouts, all the local spots but you're looking for the deals and the discounts. So you can do searches like, you can say hey, I want to find a place that has live entertainment or I'm looking for a rooftop bar or I'm looking for outdoor seating. All of that can be done from the power of your phone, really cool.</s>HOLMES: It's not all technically happy hour?</s>ARMSTRONG: No, but it's a lot of specials on there. If you are looking for those two for one drinks, I know you like your Mai-Tais.</s>HOLMES: I already know the places already. I don't need that app. But last thing here, you need some help in catching your flight. That's a big deal.</s>ARMSTRONG: Yes, absolutely a big deal, a lot of apps out there. Two of my quick favorites is one is caused Flight View (ph). I like this one a lot. It helps you track flight changes, anticipate any emergencies or issues that you might be dealing with. And then also, Tripping. Tripping is great, T.J. It's free and it really helps you bring all those itineraries. When we book flights these days, we're doing rental cars, hotels, things to do and attractions. This can build one easy to read itinerary so that when you travel, all the information is there for you at your fingertips.</s>HOLMES: Mario, always good stuff. Do me a favor as always because people are curious. What is that one he said, what did he say, send those to me. Shoot me a quick e-mail so I can pass those along to everybody.</s>ARMSTRONG: Give you a list of them.</s>HOLMES: Yes please. That would be awesome. Mario, good to see you as always buddy. Thanks so much. And for our viewers, join us here every Saturday for digital lifestyle expert Mario Armstrong has the latest scoop on all the latest technology. Also, take a look and listen right now to the reception that Rupert Murdoch is getting these days in some places.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Shame on you! Shame on you! Shame on you!</s>HOLMES: Yes, this is some of the reaction in London over that tabloid hacking scandal. He is now offering a private but also a very public apology. Plus, tomorrow a big day for the U.S. women's soccer team. We here in the U.S. are cheering for them and cheering for them hard, but we may be the only ones in the world really cheering for this team. We'll explain why. Stay here.