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Knapsack, the personal travel organizer for Mac OS X Leopard. Version 1.1 is the first major update and offers many user-friendly features including map pins with location postcards, a flexible itinerary planner, trip checklists, two-way iCal sync, and professional-looking printed itineraries. Stick a pin on the map Just as you might stick a pin on a map to mark a spot that you've visited, you can use the map in Knapsack to place pins that represent locations from your trips. Click on any pin to see a postcard from that location. Create an itinerary for your next trip With the flexible itinerary planner you can build an itinerary with as much or as little detail as you need. Shuffle activities between days or even rearrange entire days. When you return from your trip, add notes about what you liked or didn't like to create a memory of your trip. Use checklists to store all of your to do items As you plan your trip, use checklists to keep track of all your unfinished business. Create packing lists, shopping lists, or lists of all the things that you need to do before you leave. Check each item off as you complete it to track your progress. Never forget your toothbrush or camera again. Sync your itinerary and checklists with iCal Sync your trip with a new or existing iCal calendar. Update your activities or to do items in iCal or Knapsack and the changes are immediately synchronized. Take your trip with you on your iPhone or other PDA and make changes while you're traveling. When you return and sync with iCal, your changes are automatically made in Knapsack. Alternatively, publish your trip to iCal with a one-way export. Print your itinerary and go Print a professional-looking itinerary to take with you. While you're at it, print a copy to leave behind for family and friends. You can even email your itinerary to anybody around the world.
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WHAT'S NEW
Version 1.1:
  • New feature: iCal integration allowing two-way sync and one-way export with new or existing iCal calendars. Users can now create trips in Knapsack and sync with iCal, iPhone, .Mac, and anything that syncs calendar events or to do items with iCal. Changes made while traveling will sync back into Knapsack upon return.
  • New feature: Dragging activities to a text editor now includes the complete activity name and details text. This was requested by users to allow copying trip details into a blog or other application.
  • Deleting an empty trip no longer prompts for confirmation
  • Fixed issue with importing trips from read-only media (like a CD or DVD)
  • Fixed issue with importing trips that had been downloaded via Safari
  • Fixed issue where exporting a trip and replacing an existing exported trip file could fail
  • Fixed issue where the Add button could not be clicked in the Add Days sheet (pressing return worked, though)
  • Fixed issue where adding details to Day 1 would block details from being added to any other day
  • Fixed issue where pasting a license key into the registration panel could sometimes fail to validate if the licensee name contained non-standard characters
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.5 or later, 1 GHz or faster G4, G5 or Intel Processor, 64 MB VRAM.


SCREENSHOT

Developer:TinyPlanet Software, LLC
Downloads:572
  - Version d/l:270
Home & Personal:Health & Fitness
License:Shareware
Date:07 May 2008
Platform:PPC/Intel
Price:$39.95
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Knapsack User Reviews (5 posts)Write A Review
Mar 14 2008
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LOPAN  1. Good interface, Looks like it will work for what I want it to.

2. Expensive.

3. I have had a couple of blowups already

but it is a new release of something that doesn't exist anywhere else to my knowledge so I am more willing to put up with it.

4. Web site doesn't have a forum. It needs one for proper feedback. Blogs are ok for announcing info but a forum makes or breaks it.  (Version 1.0)

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Mar 13 2008
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DRUMSHANBO  I am one that likes to plan out trips well in advance, and also revisit past trips, so this program caught my eye when I first saw it. I've been playing around with this for the past couple of days, and though fun and easy to use, there are a couple of things I think (though I am not a developer) the developers might want to consider.

Firstly, the map used in Knapsack looks awful when you zoom all the way in. I'd prefer them to use Google Maps instead (though there is a link that takes you to Google Maps), or something more detailed. There were multiple activities I pinned in Paris, and it's not possible to pick specific activities from the map without having to click the horde of pins multiple times until you find the activity you're looking for. It'd be nice if you could get in closer to specific areas (ala Google Maps) on the map so you can plan or access more specific memories. Also, since the pins ask you for longitudinal and latitudinal positions, it'd be swell if you could search for specific places (cities, restaurants, etc.) within Knapsack, instead of having to find the information somewhere else.

Secondly, I wish you could add photographs for each activity in the itinerary. It would also be nice if you could add multimedia to activities as well. For example, I have a short video I made of the Eiffel Tower lighting up and would love to be able to access it from the itinerary. This would help "re-live" old trips.

Those are the two major things that come to mind. I'll keep playing with it during the trial period, and then I'll decide whether to buy it or not.   (Version 1.0)

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