Wouldn't it be nice to have your own personal travel assistant? In this day and age it's got to be digital. Enter WorldMate Live, a mobile travel application that quickly compiles all those little bits of information regarding your upcoming trip, into one place, your beloved BlackBerry. Most of the application's merits come free, including a customized itinerary detailing flights, hotels, rental car information, and meetings; easy access to flight details, maps, and confirmation numbers; and alerts that notify you when, for example, it's time to leave for the airport.

The amount of time I spent writing down each piece of information for my trip last night astonishes me. Flight number, departure time, hotel name, address, etc... Somehow the exercise, necessary as it is, just adds to the anxiety. And guess what? My flight was cancelled. No joke. Had I been a WorldMate Gold member, for the price of $9.95 a month, or $99.95 a year, I would have been alerted about my canceled flight, and maybe gotten myself on another one, with the click of a button, and a phone call to the airline. Then I could have moved on to the next part of my itinerary "Check-in: The Laguna Resort & Spa, Nusa Dua, Bali." Now that's luxury.