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JustStepsAway

Posted by on Mar 29, 2006 | 9 Comments

Sometimes you just need to get away from everything that represents normality in your life and take a vacation. You can only take the same old thing for so long before you begin to let your mind drift to that favorite vacation spot that you wish you could stay at forever. Unfortunately, most of us just can’t take a wide variety of vacations all of the time, so when we do it, we have to do it up right. Knowing where you want to go is definitely important, but you should also plan out where you want to stay in advance. JustStepsAway will search over 65,000 vacation rentals for you.

As soon as you arrive at the site, you’re pleasantly asked about where you want to go. Type in the location that you’re interested in, and you’re sure to find at least a few listings that match your geographic curiosity. The listings are pulled from a number of different vacation rental Web sites, and map points are graphically plotted out for you for a number of locations. What’s preventing you from getting away for a few days? Take the vacation – you need it.

[tags]vacation,rentals,trips[/tags]

  • http://remarkablogger.com Michael Martine

    I love the service overall but it’s a bit strange that the desktop app has FEWER features than the web interface. Where’s my social sharing?

  • http://twitter.com/justacityboy Peter

    That’s all great, but I’m not allowed to stream music at work over the corporate network. Is this app available on Android so I can listen through my cell phone?

    • http://twitter.com/motch_master Matyas Lajos Homer

      Yes, there is a Pandora App for Android

  • http://remarkablogger.com Michael Martine

    I love the service overall but it’s a bit strange that the desktop app has FEWER features than the web interface. Where’s my social sharing?

  • http://twitter.com/justacityboy Peter

    That’s all great, but I’m not allowed to stream music at work over the corporate network. Is this app available on Android so I can listen through my cell phone?

    • http://twitter.com/motch_master Matyas Lajos Homer

      Yes, there is a Pandora App for Android

  • Anykey

    Ya, I agree with MM below – just got a (although free) Game Changer scoring app (currently for baseball, plans for basketball, football, and hopefully soccer) and they flat out say on their site they have no intentions of making a laptop/desktop app. At all? At all. That is complete and utter nonsense to me. Their logic points? 1 is that they say there aren’t enough dugouts or press-boxes for their market. Huh? Their market is little league (granted), but high school and college! No press-boxes? Please.

    Anyway to my point on Pandora directly, I have a deference to a fact in the article. I have the pay version,and there is definably a click limit even for that – it is NOT unlimited, You can click up to 6 times per hour with the paid – unless they have changed it since February 10th 2011?

  • http://profiles.google.com/techie.geek.girl Tracy Fortune

    Loved Pandora at the same time lala.com came out & offered users who could swap CD’s.

    In the time since, I have moved to Australia (lost access to my Pandora library because of) & have found other things to take their place (in case they believe they’re special).

  • Anonymous

    You may want to clarify. You stated the 3GS has a “lack of Flash” which as written implies the iPhone 4 uses Adobe Flash. I believe the article should state the 3GS “lacks a flash” in reference to the camera.