We all love to travel, and until now, booking flights for the lowest price has often been a crapshoot. Sure, we can guess when we think a flight will be the cheapest, but we rarely have any hard evidence to support that guess.

Have you ever held off on booking a flight because you had a gut feeling that the price would be going down? Do you ever monitor airfare so closely that you feel that you can predict what day of the week it will be the lowest?

Well, with a new travel search engine named farecast, you can back up your inclinations with historical evidence!

Here is how they describe their patent-pending technology:

Fare History shows what the lowest fare was for your trip each day, up to 90 days ago. We monitor price changes multiple times a day and store more than 50 billion observations (and counting). We make a significant investment in data, hardware, and storage costs to provide you with real prices based on availability.

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Google appears to be positioning itself to take a bite out of Microsoft Office and I think they will eventually succeed in doing it. I would much rather have all my records stored online where I don’t have to worry about a hard drive crash and where I can get to them from any computer, any time, for ever. I just had a hard drive crash and believe me, I wish I would have had all my documents stored on the Internet somewhere.

Source: http://www.webproworld.com/viewtopic.php?t=64656

I don’t agree. In fact, I believe that the recently released Google products miss the mark entirely. Now I must qualify my opinion by saying that I am not basing my opinion on actual use of the office system. I have not used any of the “Google Office” features that have recently been released by Google (spreadsheet, calendar, Google Base, etc.), nor do I intend to. Perhaps my reasons are ignorant, and perhaps my reasoning is short sighted, but here is why I will never trust my important documents to an online program:

The Internet isn’t always stable

What do I do if my Internet connection goes out? How will I access my most important documents if I can’t get onto my computer? What if I am traveling on business and need important documents for a presentation? (more…)