Accorhotels 50% Sale again

Yup, if you are loyal Accor hotels customers, this is your chance to book and stay in luxury hotels but pay in half price.

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The sale is applicable to all Accor hotel brands : Ibis, All Seasons, Mercure, Novotel, Gallery M, Grand Mercure, and also Pullman, for stay between 12 December 2010 to 12 February 2011.

Travelling Abroad with unlimited Internet flat rate

Having Internet access during traveling is almost mandatory for me as I have to regularly check business emails as well as responding to customers inquiries. Many hotels offers free wifi or Internet connection during your stay. We can find free hotspot in restaurant and cafe as well.

But for those who wants to get connected all the time, whether using Blackberry, iPhone, or other mobile devices, finding free hotspot means you can't be mobile as you have to sit on free hotspot location to get connected. The solution is clear, you have to pay for data plan. This will also eliminate your necessity to choose lousy hotel because they offer free Internet service.

First option is you have to buy local GSM SIM card, but you will loose ability to be contacted with your Indonesian number. This may also more expensive for Internet usage only, but for cheap local calls you must choose this option.

The other option is to bring your own Indonesian number and activate roaming service. You can be reached using your own number, but beware of expensive roaming rate. Apparently there is another plus point of bringing your own country GSM: Unlimited Internet with flat rate.

Photoblog: Swiss Cuckoo Clocks

Swiss is renowned for its expensive watch makers, but even when you want to buy a cuckoo clock at Swiss for souvernir, the price for this wooden clock (doubt it is made in China) is as expensive as one Tag Heuer watch.

Browsing through a Casagrande store in Luzern selling …

Photoblog: Zurich

Zurich is the largest city of the Swiss Confederation (Switzerland) by land area and population. It is the financial center of Switzerland and houses the stock exchange and the headquarters of a large number of national and international companies. National and international media agencies as well as most of the national TV channel companies are also located here. Because Zurich is the central node of the Swiss-wide train network and also runs the biggest and busiest international airport in the country, it generally is the first place where tourists arrive. Because of the city's close distance to tourist resorts in the Swiss Alps and its mountainous scenery, it is often referred to as the "portal to the Alps". Source: Wikitravel

iPad and Mifi : The New Travel Companion

Bringing laptop during travelling is very handy, as we need to stay online or check email wherever we are. But laptop (or you may bring netbook) is (sometime) heavy, and battery life cannot last for long-haul flight (unless you sit in business class that offers electric plug).

So, iPad is coming to save the world. It is lightweight, less than 800g, can be used for 10+ hours of work, at least you can watch movies or play hours of game in your flight across continent. What do you want to do? Read emails, rss, work with documents or presentations, play games, listen to music? Most of laptop functionality are there in iPad. When AmericanAirlines offers inflight wifi, you could not be happier since you can browse Internet to kill time.

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Adobe CS4 Installation and License Check

This is a bit unrelated to my usual post, but hope this is useful for you.

I managed to install Adobe CS4 for Mac for editing some design stuff. After successful installation, when I launched one of the programs (Photoshop CS4, inDesign CS4, etc), the message box popped up in …

Luggage Tag from KLM

Just received personalized luggage tag from KLM sent to my address, took longer than expected but the design is pretty good.
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I forget the date, must be one or two month ago, KLM offered via email to make free personalized luggage tag, you could choose one of several designs, from …

Pia Legong from Bali

A box on top of dining table looks not inviting. As I am not a huge fan of such snacks called 'pia' (something like dry cake) because bad taste brought by my friend from Semarang or Yogyakarta, so the box would not be touched by me unless told by my lovely wife.

She said that to buy this Pia Legong, you have to order 3 weeks prior pickup!! The producer is unable to catch huge demand of their product so the waiting list now is 3 weeks time. wow, this is quite a story to tell in my blog then.
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