Here are some site we have found helpful for different reasons and also some of the other blogs we read.  We are alwayslooking for new sites and technology to help us share, connect and simplify life.  If you have any other recommendations for sites programs to check out, we’d love to hear from you here.  Enjoy!

Travel Blogs We Like

Eat Your Kimchi – This site has been very helpful for our time in South Korea.  This upbeat Canadian couple shares knowledge and information about how to survive in Korea in a fun and humorous way.  Make sure to check out their You Tube Channel and sign up for future updates to stay up on Korea and Korean Pop Culture!

JGriffinStewart – This is Griffin’s personal portfolio site and also the home of his travel blog before he married the love of his life.  Griffin has traveled to over 100 cities in more than 30 countries across five continents and has been recording his travels here since 2006.  Griffin studied product design in college and many of hissketches, renderings, and models can also be seen on this site.  Enjoy!

Technology We Use

Dropbox – Dropbox allows us to share large files and also sync them between multiple computers.  We use this to sync our personal computer files with our school computer for presentations etc.  This is also helpful for sharing and receiving files to big for email from anywhere in the world.  Click the link to get an additional 125MB free!

WordPress – Worpress is the free and open source platform this entire website is built on.  It is a powerful blogging and content management system that allows for easy posting and social network integration.  There are two options for WordPress with your blog.  You can either host it on your own server as we do here, or you can have WordPress host the site for free!

Apple – We love Apple!!  Griffin used to work for Apple and Valerie has been a huge fan ever since Griffin bought her her first Mac as an anniversary present.  We use many Apple products for the editing and backing up the content on this site such as iMovie(Part of iLife ’09), Aperture 2, Final Cut Studio 2, Time Capsule and iWork.

Google – We love Google!!  They have so many great products.  We use Reader to keep up with the latest news, Google.com to search for anything and everything, Analytics to track this and other websites traffic, and most recently we have fallen in love with Translate!  Translate is a great tool for people living in other countries, or wanting to learn new languages.  Check out the video here and the try it for yourself here.

Canon – We love canon Cameras!  We currently use the Canon XTi for all our shots, but plan to upgrade to the 7D soon.  We really enjoy the picture quality, detail and manual controls that SLRs offer.  For lenses, we love using the 50mm f/1.8 lens to capture portraits and the Canon EF 75-300mm f/4-5.6 for long distance zoom shots.

Photography We Like

PhotoMasterNow – Griffin’s website for displaying and selling his ravel and landscape photography.  He custom designed the site to try and make it user friendly and easy to navigate.  It is a perfect way to pick out photographs for interior design based on color, country, or time of day to give you the look and feel you want.  Enjoy!

Griffin’s Flickr – Griffin’s flickr page.  This is where Griffin used to store his travel photography before he married the most amazing woman in the world.  Now they share their pictures from the same Flickr page here.  Hope you enjoy following along on the adventure.  We’s love to hear from you in the comments and if you really like any of our pictures, go ahead and mark it as a favorite for later.

Other Cool Sites We Like

Taekwondo Info – This site is full of information and tips for Teakwondo, it’s history, how to improve, what to expect and more.  We really enjoyed reading about their trip to South Korea here and learning what the flag means here.  The thing that inspired us the most about this site though, was their story.  Read it here and enjoy!