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Hello TripLittle fans!

We have been overwhelmed by the great feedback that all of you have given us! Between the feedback site, our support email address, and our Twitter account you have highlighted a number of things we can do to make TripLittle even better. If we haven’t responded to your request individually, be assured that we are looking at all of them!

Today we’re releasing a few new features, and a bunch of bug fixes (most of which you have helped us to identify!). First of are event maps: now, when you open or add an event you will be able to click on a map icon next to any location text box (like an address) and see a Google map of that location! On some events (like sight-seeing) you will see multiple locations on one map. We’re going to be adding even more map features, this is just the first round!

We’ve also added a “trip time zone” to the basic information (like the number of days and people). This is going to help with the iCalendar export which will now show up with the correct timezone for your events. We’ll be adding time zones for individual event times as well, but we knew this would help a lot.

As always, if you have anything you want to share with use, please do so! We’re always open to ideas – we want TripLittle to be the best it can be. Did you know you can even vote for your favorite new features on our feedback site?!

Thanks, and happy travels!

–Jordan

Hey TripLittle fans, as you may have guessed from the title, we’re headed to our first conference, South By Southwest (SXSW) Interactive! We’re out here in Sunny Austin, Texas for the next week to spread the word about TripLittle and give away some cool stuff.

Beginning tomorrow (and running through SXSW) we’re going to be holding our first Twitter contest. We’re givining away a free iPod Touch for your next trip! All you have to do is help us spread the word. You’ll see a banner on the TripLittle home page beginning tomorrow morning (3/12) with instructions, all you need to do is tweet the message below between 3/12 and 3/16 and we’ll pick a winner after the conference. We’re also giving away some cool stickers, buttons and shirts – look for us if you’re out in Austin this week.

As you may have noticed, we’ve been working really hard here at TripLittle the past few months to roll out some great features for planning, organizing, and sharing your travel info. We’re continuing that this weekend with the release of the downloadable (and printable) PDF Itinerary. This has been a long time in the making, and we’d love to hear what you think of it. You can access the PDF by clicking on the printer icon on the Itinerary page.

In addition to the new feature release a number of small bugs have been fixed, making TripLittle more stable and hopefully easier to use. We always want to hear your feedback, so please feel free to shoot us an email at support at TripLittle dot com!

Lastly, in March we’ll be heading to Austin, Texas for SXSW Interactive festival to share TripLittle with the world. Not only will we be talking up the project as much as possible while attending the many panel talks, but we’ll also be doing some fun stuff for our users. More details on that later, but suffice it to say that you’ll want to be in on it.

–Jordan

Hey all you TripLittle fans, we wanted to let you know that we’ve released the shared Packing List feature – actually, we released it over a week ago, but I’m just now getting around to announcing it. We hope that you find it useful, we have! The Packing List lets you specify items that you need each day, or just for the whole trip (similar to the budget planner). You can just enter that you need 1 pair of pants a day and the system will figure out how many you need to pack (not that that’s difficult). But maybe you need 2 pairs of socks each day, or even 3 pair every 2 days (1.5 a day). You can enter this into the system and TripLittle will figure out what you need.

You may be wondering what I mean by “TripLittle will figure it out for you,” well you can print your Packing List and when you do so the PDF file will spell out exactly how many of each item you need to pack. It will also have a check boxes next to each item so that you can mark off what you’ve already taken care of.

Most exciting of all, however, may be that you can specify whether an item is “per-person” (everyone needs one or more of this item) or not. If an item is not per-person, then you can specify who’s carrying it (even if multiple people are carrying it)! When you specify who’s carrying an item, the printable PDF Packing List will have separate lists for things everyone needs and things each person on your trip needs to pack.

We think this is a great addition to the TripLittle line-up of features, but don’t take our word for it, try it yourself! Remember, its completely free, and you don’t even have to register.

Thanks for listening!

–Jordan
(Founder and lead developer)

The sky isn’t falling, you’re just planning a trip. ®

Hello TripLittle fans! We hope that your holidays have been (and continue to be) festive and your travels safe. There are a lot of families that take vacations this time of year; sometimes its to see relatives, and other times its purely to get away. In any case, TripLittle is here to help. With budgets tight and schedules packed, we can help make sure all of your plans go off without a hitch and stay within your spending comfort zone.

We took some time off here as well, but there’s still a lot of work to be done, and it continues even today at the beginning of the New Year. We’re working on a shared packing list which lets you plan out who’s carrying what items on your next trip. Check back in the next week or two to get a peek at it!

We’re also working on a print-friendly version of your trip itinerary which will list all of your activities – and all of the information required for them – in one concise and travel-ready document. You’ll even be able to download it as a PDF – perfect for emailing to friends or relatives that need to stay informed.

Let us know how you’re using TripLittle by sending us an email and we’ll send you a little something special. That’s it for now.

Thanks,

–Jordan
jordan at triplittle dott com