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SALT LAKE CITY — As summer approaches, vacation planning is kicking into high gear.
Make your planning a little more high-tech with these helpful apps.
Flee
For your before-trip planning and booking, the just-launched app Flee takes basic information about travel dates, city of departure and budget and generates suggestions from experts and globetrotters. Though the current lineup of departing cities is limited to only major U.S. cities, the app offers easy-to-digest information about popular destinations.
Get the beta app online.
aMetro
Once you reach your destination, you may need some help getting around. aMetro has compiled transit route maps and schemes from more than 180 cities throughout the world. It finds the shortest and closest route to its users, as well as stations.
Find it on the Android Market.
Google Translate
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These 5 apps will help you beat the weather, from helping you choose an outfit to predicting future conditions.If you're headed to a foreign country, the Google Translate app will help decode the language. Though it's not a substitute for learning enough of a foreign language for conversation, it's a start.
Find it on iTunes or Android Market.
TripAdvisor
The popular travel site has its own app, with all the goods. Find hotels, flights, restaurants, rentals and reviews on the site or app as you plan your trip.
Download the app on your Apple, Android, Nokia or Windows devices here.
Expensify
Keep your travel budget in check with an expense report generator like Expensify. The app tracks your credit cards and bank accounts, pulls eReceipts and creates digital copies of paper receipts for you. If you're travelling for work, you can add in your mileage expenses with a GPS or odometer entry, too.
Download on Android Market or Apple.
Free Wi-Fi Finder
Need to get online? Find the nearest free hotspot with the Wi-Fi Finder app. The app features more than 550,000 free and paid locations in 144 countries.
