FAQ

SPB Traveler
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How many favorite cities can I have in Spb Traveler?
How can I run Spb Traveler tools?
How can I integrate Spb Traveler into Spb Pocket Plus
How can I integrate Spb Traveler into Spb Mobile Shell or Spb Diary?
What is the difference between Spb Traveler and Spb Weather?
How can I plan an international conference call?
How can I use the clothing size tool?
What source is used for currency rates?
What source is used for weather forecast information?
What source is used for flight search tool?
How can I use the city info feature?
How can I clear downloaded files?
Why appointments are always created in my home time zone?

1. How many favorite cities can I have in Spb Traveler?

Spb Traveler allows you to add up to ten favorite cities.

If you already have 10 cities to add a new one you first need to remove any of them.

2. How can I run Spb Traveler tools?

There are several possible ways to run Spb Traveler tools:

Tap-and-hold on the Spb Traveler Today plug-in area to get a context menu and choose a proper tool from the Tools submenu.
Run Spb Traveler open Tools screen (third page) and choose a proper tool.
Start the proper tool from Start/Programs/Spb Traveler Tools

3. How can I integrate Spb Traveler into Spb Pocket Plus?

Spb Traveler can be integrated into Spb Pocket Plus. If you have Spb Pocket Plus installed on your Pocket PC you can configure Spb Traveler to appear in a form of a separate tab of the Spb Pocket Plus Today plug-in, which will provide the best screen configuration. To add Spb Traveler into Spb Pocket Plus Today plug-in:

Open Spb Pocket Plus options
Select the Today Plug-In feature and tap on the Feature Options button.
You will see the list of the existing Pocket Plus Today plug-in tab names. Tap on Add and select Spb Traveler from the item list.

Or, within the Spb Pocket Plus Today plug-in, just tap-and-hold on the tab header and select New Tab -> Spb Traveler.

The integration is available for Spb Pocket Plus version 2.5 and higher.

4. How can I integrate Spb Traveler into Spb Mobile Shell or Spb Diary?

Specailly for a smooth integration between different Today plug-ins Spb Software House developed a Smart Today technology. Spb Traveler, Spb Mobile Shell and Spb Diary support this technology. It means that Spb Traveler Today plug-in can be easiy integrated into those of Spb Mobile Shell or Spb Dairy in a form of a separate tab.

The Spb Traveler Today plug-in can replace the default Spb Mobile Shell Weather plug-in providing more functionality.

You can get more information about Spb Mobile Shell and Spb Dairy from the following links:

5. What is the difference between Spb Traveler and Spb Weather?

While both Spb Traveler and Spb Weather provide weather forecasts for world cities and have very similar Today Plug-ins, Spb Traveler is a more complex product. It consists of both Today Plug-in and Spb Traveler application and provides more functionality: world time, currency rates, unit and time converters, clothing size convertion tool, flight assistant and even a mini georgaphical quiz game.

Spb Traveler uses a new Spb Weather engine that supports more than ten thousand cities and comes with new default weather sources.

Spb Traveler Today plug-in provides almost the same functionality as Spb Weather does extending it with a number of extra options — ability to view the local time in cities, ability to create appointments in cities and launch all Spb Traveler tools.

6. How can I plan an international conference call?

When you need to plan an internatioal call you need no worry about time difference between you and your partners' cities. You can plan a call by creating an appointment in local time of the city where your partner is located or by using the Spb Traveler Meeting Planner.

When you create an appointment with Spb Traveler you specify the appointment time in a local time of the target city and Spb Traveler automatiacally adjusts the time to the proper value and adds an appointment to your Pocket Outlook.

When you use the Meeting Planner you can track the time in sevearal cities simultaneously to ensure that the selected time is comfortable for all involved parts. When the time is chosen and agreed you just need to choose Next to create an appointment.

7. How can I use the clothing size tool?

To help you avoid problems with choosing clothes for your relatives and yourself Spb Traveler provides you with a Clothing Sizes tool. Spb Traveler database inludes comprehensive information about different intrenational clothing size values for different types of clothing. You can access convertion tables in two different modes:

By Clothing
Convertion tables are orginized by clothing type
By People
The data is sorted by person, so you can easily convert all clothing types for a specified person.

8. What source is used for currency rates?

Spb Traveler uses currency rates provided by European Central Bank.

9. What source is used for weather forecast information?

Spb Traveler weather features are based on the new Spb Weather Engine that uses two trusted weather sources for providing users with weather forecasts. Depening on a city the data comes either from Foreca.com or Gismeteo.com.

10. What source is used for flight search tool?

The up-to-date online flight schedules are provided by OAG (Official Airline Guide), the world's most reliable flight data source.

11. How can I use the city info feature?

To make traveling more interesting and confident. Spb collected a number of links that should be useful for all travelers. Every city has a special page hosted at the Spb Traveler server. This page can be accessed with a Links tool from the City Details dialog. The links tool saves the first level link pages in the Spb Traveler cache and access them offline. This is very useful when you have a long flight and want to read some information about the city or country you visit.

You can access the Links tool from the city details via Menu -> Links.

By default the City Links includes links to the CIA Factbook country page and links to the corresponding city page in Wikipedia and Wikitravel.

12. How can I clear downloaded files?

In the Cache Options you can control the cache data used by Spb Traveler. You can view and change the currently used cache folder and clear the cache folder when it occupies too much storage space.

To access Cache Options use Spb Traveler Tools and choose Cache tab. Here you can find cache folder settings and four Clear buttons for each cache.

We recommend you to change the cache folder location to the storage card (if available) to save valuable main storage space on your device.

13. Why appointments are always created in my home time zone?

Imagine you live in New York. Apparently, your home time zone is GMT-5 (Eastern Daylight time). This year you plan to spend your Christmas holidays with your friends who live in Paris, which is situated in another time zone, GMT+1.

So you book a flight:

NYC → CDG
Departure time:  24 Dec, 06.00 
Arrival time:    24 Dec. 19.30 
Flight duration:  7 h 30 m

All arrival and departure times are always shown in local corresponding time zones. That means that although you have 19.30 as arrival time in Paris, that corresponds to 13.30 in New York. This way, when manually entering an appointment to your Calendar, you'll have to remember the time zone difference.

So here comes the formula:

(Departure time)+(Flight Duration) = Real appointment ending in your home time zone

..aaaaand here we go:

06.00 + 07.30 = 13.30

So you finally add this appointment to your Outlook calendar:

And now let's see how Spb Traveler handles your wonderful holiday plan.

1. You open the Trip assistant and add your flight:

So you see all your flight details to be able to tell your friends where and when to pick you up.

2. Spb Traveler organises a corresponding appointment in your Calendar, so that you won't miss your flight. There it goes:

All times are marked according to your current time zone, so that you will have an idea of a real event duration. This way:

No maths during your holidays!

Before your trip feel free to arrange any meetings, without keeping in mind the time zone difference, that is going to take place during your trip. Thus, you won't miss any important calls, arranged in New York, 24 Dec, 14.00. Although your arrival time says 19.30, Spb Traveler converts this time for you to know your home time zone equivalent.

After your trip feel free to switch the time zone. No mess is going to happen with all appointments arranged:

No awkward experience!

Your business partner lives in Brisbane and he arranged a call with you on 24 Dec, 21.00 New York time (12.00 25 Dec, Brisbane time)

Thanks to Spb Traveler you know this call will take place 7 h 30 m after your arrival in Paris, not just an hour and a half, although your arrival time says 19.30. If you called Mr Wonder an hour and a half after your arrival, he would be disturbed at 05.00 in the morning, and this will hardly be the best Christmas present to him :)