Tatonka's Amazing 50 Year Warranty

Check Out The Range Of Lightweight Tatonka DayPacks Here

TATONKA has been around for many years now and are one of the biggest distributors of quality packs and outdoor equipment in the world. What makes a Tatonka pack so good I hear you ask? Well for starters OSA (the Australian Distributors) believe so strongly in the quality of the product, that they back it with a 50 Year Warranty just to give you piece of mind that you are buying a quality product. Next you have the stitching on all of their packs. Standard stitching on a Tatonka pack is double stitched & ALL stress points are triple stitched. What does this mean to you? Well for starters you can be assured that when you sell a Tatonka pack to one of your customers you know that it will last and won’t fall apart. Tatonka only use the best quality fabrics and materials available on the market making sure the packs not only look good but will function to the best of their ability. And last but not least, all Tatonka packs are manufactured to the highest standards available in their own factories. That’s right Tatonka own the factories where all their products are made. This means that they can control the quality and workmanship on each and every one of their products making sure that you are buying the best available product each and every time.

Tatonka product that is backed by the

best warranty in the world... 50 years free of charge.

Available on all Tatonka

• Daypacks
• Rucksacks
• Travel Packs
• Barrel Bags

Warranty Does Not Cover General Wear And Tare From Everyday Use. Or Miss Use.

Tips for Budget World Travel : Selecting Clothes for Traveling

Pants, shorts, jackets, sweaters, what clothes do you take with you when packing for a trip. This free travel video will give you some tips and guidelines for selecting the best clothes for your trip.

Envirosax Bag: An Eco Friendly Little Travel Helper

You can grab Jen's Envirosax Here
Why it's a smart traveller's pick: The smart traveller travels prepared, and with these style-friendly and eco-friendly bags on hand you'll be sorted whether you need to carry groceries (preparing your own food is a great way to stay trim, healthy and save money when travelling), carry extra souvenirs and treats you've picked up on shopping trips, or even when you need to carry all the daily necessities around with you but don't want to pack a day bag. These bags are so stylish and smart that they are favoured by numerous celebrities, including Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck.

* Did you know that Envirosax bags can hold up to 20kg of shopping?

* Envirosax bags last 5 years and can be washed.

* Envirosax bags have been tested to ensure they do not pass toxic heavy metals into the food they are carrying.

* Envirosax bags are printed using vegetable and soy based dyes, which are environmentally friendly.

* Envirosax will never be made from the cheap polypropylene fabric as it may release a toxic dust as it breaks down and its lifespan is too short.

* Envirosax bags were the first of their kind and are still the best due to the quality and strength of the bag, the range of designs and the company's commitment to the environment.

Pickpockets... This is why you need Pacsafe Travel Gear

Check out the video... this is why PacSafe product are so popular. See the PacSafe Range Here

Ford Models Use ToothPaste Powder

Alejandra's Packing Advice.. great tips from a supermodel!

You can buy Toothpaste Powder or "Dry Toothpaste" online Here

And you can buy "body paste" moisturiser here

Travel Smart

"Seven inventive travel tips to lighten your load, improve your ride, and make your time on the road more fun and productive."

Great tips for technology lovers!

Travel is stressful for just about everyone, whether you're hitting the road for fun or taking to the skies on business. We have a few travel tips that will take the turbulence out of any journey. Read on to get better seats on a plane, more entertainment on the move, nicer food on the road, and more.

Find the Best Seat on Any Plane via SeatGuru

Even for seasoned travelers, long plane trips are a bear. The simple key to toughing one out is to get a good seat. SeatGuru is a free service that provides you with a detailed, color-coded layout of virtually any plane to help you find the seat with the best legroom and most convenient nearby power outlets while avoiding nonreclining seats stuck right next to the john.

Not that we're advocating messing with your airline seat (or with other passengers), but if you're desperate to prevent the person in front from reclining into your precious space, try wedging a water bottle between your open tray and the seat in front of you.

Convert a DVD to a Video File, and Endure a Long Flight

All you want to do is sit back and watch a couple of movies on your 6-hour cross-country flight--but playing a DVD will drain your laptop battery before the second flick's final car chase even starts. The solution? Copy the movies to your hard drive to play them with less drain on your battery. Download HandBrake, use it to rip the DVD to the hard drive of your other computer, and then transfer that file to your portable for a little cinema on the go. If you have no interest in tweaking the file settings of your DVD rips, give bitRipper a try for simple, one-click rips.

Follow One Bag's Packing Tips to Lighten Your Travel Bag

As if the long wait at baggage claim weren't reason enough to reduce your luggage to carry-on only, the extra fees for checking large bags ($25 or so each) have most travelers strategically planning their necessities. If you struggle to achieve single-suitcase bliss, let One Bag give you a hand. This site offers lots of useful packing tips, including suggestions for what to bring, tips on what you should pack it in, and methods for folding, rolling, and arranging your stuff so everything fits.

Find Wi-Fi Hotspots and Stay Connected Everywhere

Sometimes getting work (or play) done when you're away from home hinges entirely on whether you can find a Wi-Fi hotspot. Fortunately you have a lot of options for finding Wi-Fi quickly. First, if you're sufficiently foresighted to check before you find yourself without a connection, JiWire's Wi-Fi Finder in­­dexes both free and for-a-fee hotspots all over the globe. If you're in more of a pinch, turn to your Wi-Fi-equipped smartphone and scout the neighborhood for a promising hotspot.

The best choice, though, may be to let your smartphone make the connection. PdaNet is a $29 app that works with Android, BlackBerry, iPhone, Palm OS, and Windows Mobile handsets to get your laptop online through either a USB or Blue­­tooth connection. Just make sure you have a high-usage data plan to avoid overage charges from your carrier.

Work With a Group Through Google or Vyew Collaboration Tools

Collaborating with colleagues can make your life simpler, but the set­up and coordination involved can add complexity to your workflow. A few no-cost, online tools have stress-free collaboration options built right in, so you can get down to business. Google Apps provides tools for centralized e-mail (Gmail), calendar (Google Calendar), and document (Google Docs) collaboration with minimal setup. If you're looking for something that's a little more meeting-centric, check out Vyew, a free service (with upgrade options) that provides live online Web conferencing, whiteboards, file sharing, and more, inside its virtual meeting rooms.

Use LogMeIn for Remote Access to Your Data

On trips, you might have a laptop with you at all times, but if you forget an important file or if you need to access anything else on your desktop computer while you're traveling, give the tried-and-true favorite LogMeIn a try. With a free account, you can control your home computer remotely, from the comfort of any Web browser. With a LogMeIn Pro account, you get drag-and-drop file transfer for retrieving important items, file sync for ensuring unfettered access to critical data in the future, and a ton of other practical features.

Find a Good Restaurant on the Road With Yelp

You already check the Yelp Web site when you're looking for good grub in your hometown. Get the same benefits on the road with the free iPhone or iPod Touch Yelp application. It will determine your current location and automatically tailor your results based on what's nearest to you. If you don't have access to the Internet, whip out your phone and text to Google (466453), including your location if necessary. You'll receive fewer options, but it's better than nothing.

Adam Pash, PC World

PC World
Tuesday, May 26, 2009; 12:19 AM

SIGG Bottles Cleanest of the Clean

SIGG: Cleanest of the Clean

SIGG Bottles Beat Other Leading Brands in Independent Test

Last year, Julia Roberts told millions of viewers on the Oprah Show, “Everyone just needs to get a SIGG!” And after testing leading brands in his state of the art laboratory, Professor William Shotyk agrees.

Professor Shotyk is Canadian-born but now resides in Germany where he is in charge of the Lab for Trace Inorganic and Isotopic Analyses at the University of Heidelberg, one of the cleanest labs on earth for measuring trace metals in the environment. And when he’s not investigating samples of Arctic ice thousands of years old, he’s teaching about the environmental impact caused by the bottled water industry. “Not only does the manufacturing, transporting and disposal of PET water bottles leave a huge carbon footprint,” claims Shotyk, “but the tap water in North America is some of the finest in the world."

After testing bottled water brands from around the world for trace metals, he found that fresh spring water from Elmvale, Ontario was in some ways the cleanest of all simply because it had no packaging! Shotyk now uses this same spring water as a teaching tool for understanding the environment, creating the Elmvale Foundation, and the Elmvale Water Festival (http://www.elmvale.org/).

As a scientist who studies the damage man has caused to the planet on a global scale, Professor Shotyk is a tremendous advocate of kicking your bottled water habit and switching to a reusable bottle. Many visitors to the Elmvale Water Festival asked him which reusable bottle to choose, so he went back into the laboratory with some of the leading brands. He chose not to include polycarbonate bottles because of the consumer movement away from plastic in all forms. Shotyk selected three brands: two leading brands of stainless steel bottles, both manufactured in China, and the SIGG bottle manufactured in Switzerland; the SIGG is aluminum, but has a protective, proprietary liner.

Professor Shotyk placed samples from all 3 brands under the same conditions: 13 days filled with extremely pure water from the clean lab. At the conclusion of the test, both stainless steel bottle brands were shown to leach metals such as chromium and manganese at levels nearly 1,000 times more than the SIGG bottles which showed virtually no leaching through the protective liner. “While the levels for all three brands were in the safe range for regulatory requirements, I was truly impressed by the quality of the Swiss brand. For the elements tested, there was effectively no leaching!”

Based on these findings, the professor’s message to his students, visitors to the Elmvale Water Festival and anyone else who will listen is, “Think before you drink. If you want a truly clean bottle, get yourself a SIGG.” Julia Roberts would agree!

5 Quick & Dirty Tips: Packing....

1. There are just three things which are really, really essential on your travels.
   -Passport,
   -Plane Ticket
   -ATM card
   As the famous saying goes: everything is essential, only some things more than others.
   There are two kind of travellers in the world: those who pack light and those who wish they had....but....if some people prefer to take extra things which they think they can’t leave without, then live and let live...
   
2. As a general rule of thumb, if you’re packing for a one week trip or a six months trip you basically would pack the same stuff (obviously I’m not talking about a six months trip where you would be experiencing all types of weather... still the basics are the same....) of course if you not going to move around a lot then the weight of the bag will not matter to you as much as someone who is planning to make some serious tracks on his/her travels...
   
3. The more money you have the less you want to take as you can always buy things on the road, but if you’re on a budget you really should organise yourself before you go. The saying goes: 'Lay everything out that you really want to take, halve it and take twice as much money', but from personal experience this is not always an option so it does pay to/save you money to organise yourself before you go.
   The funny thing is that the best time to pack for a trip is straight after one, at least make a note of what to take or not take for next time..... Which brings me to the next point: When Packing for a trip you would ask yourself: will I cry if it gets stolen tomorrow? Maybe leave some things at home if you can’t replace it.
   
4. Packing lists are so individual and it is a ‘skill’ which improves with the amount of travel you put under your belt .You can easily make a packing list (perhaps even a spreadsheet) to keep for every time you go travelling... You would have the basic list to which you would add to or adjust depending on where you are travelling to.
   
5. If you need some help there are a lot of packing gurus out there with very sophisticated systems for different types of packing , just do a Google search and you’ll see how many there are...
   You can download lists which everything that you might ever want to take with you anywhere. Doesn't mean you have to pack it, just that you want to consider the option so you don’t miss something.
   Happy tracks!!!