(Budget Travel) -- With these handy tools, you can update the folks back home without ever having to slow down. Use your Twitter acount to ask those following you for recommendations on the area you're staying in. Mapness (mapness.net) Although it's ostensibly designed for travel journaling, this clickable atlas can also help with planning by letting you create custom maps of your travels. Adding a waypoint or something of interest -- a hotel, a landmark, a train station -- is as easy as double clicking. Mapness will automatically plot routes between your various stops, and store your map online so that you can pull it up on the go. Even better, you can share your map with others via an e-mailed link, or export them to Google Earth so that everyone in your party can find their way to the chalet. Finally, once you've arrived, you can also add photos and videos to document your trip for posterity.
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Mapness, a clickable atlas, can help you plan by letting you create custom maps
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Eye-Fi Explore is a memory card that gives your camera Wi-Fi connectivity
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TripIt organizes travel plans into a sorted itinerary you can access from any computer
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