Moved all the way over to MP3s? Never, ever, ever, ever going to watch Toy Story again? Before you trash your old CDs and DVDs, consider the alternatives.  The most attractive option, money-wise, is to try to pocket a few Forint by bringing your English-language DVDs  down to Treehugger Dan’s, which will buy …

Power cycled it?  Checked all the connections?  Internet’s up, but your icons are frozen, so what do you do next?  The Wall Street Journal recently reviewed a number of remote fix-it options for your home computer.  These can be especially useful for the expat who’s new to town and unfamiliar with the local services.  As …

Claiming to be the largest photo, or a least the most densely pixilated, 360world.eu has just published an incredibly zoomable pic of our very own Budapest.  Very, super cool.
Check it out at: www.70-billion-pixels-budapest.com/index_en.html

Avid expat readers will all sympathize with the following problem: finding the book one craves to read in one’s own language. Bookstores in towns and cities across the world will rarely have a wide range of foreign language-books in stock, or when they do, prices are often high. Not to worry, though.  A range of …

The United States Embassy in Hungary
presents the
2010 TOLERANCE VIDEO COMPETITION
“CELEBRATE DIVERSITY”

Celebrating diversity is to understand that each individual is unique. Differences of race,  ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, age, physical abilities, religious beliefs, political beliefs, or other ideologies makes us individuals. It is about understanding each other and moving beyond simple tolerance to embracing …

Heading to the Alps over the weekend for a ski trip?
Check out this brilliant iPhone application which enables you to check out how much snow is on the runs!

Planning a vacation next month but have no clue where to go? Don’t fret, Joobili is there to help you!

Websites for tracking Santa as he journeys across the night skies – and for checking your naughty or nice rating!

Getting tired of lugging around your heavy books everywhere, whether it’s for travel or for everyday use?  Then you will be delighted with this reading gadget that can hold up to 1,500 books within one digital ‘slim book’.

Most of us accept that when on foreign vacation we do without our regular dose of sport, soap operas and more localized T.V. Equally, globally mobile professionals are long resigned to the fact that travel means missing out on way too many NFL games.

Expat life has always been exciting, you adapt to a new culture, make new friends, see new sights, explore new territory etc… If there was ever a downside, it was the occasional bout of ‘homesick blues’ and the difficulty in keeping in touch with the folks back home.