116 - Playtripper, Sherpa and Hostelhero with Jason Morris

Jason Morris has developed several applications for travellers and today we speak to him about Playtripper, Sherpa and Hostel Hero. These three applications help us to research and to use our tech as we travel.

* Playtripper
Playtripper is a specialist travel podcast directory. It allows you to search for destinations and find a wide variety of podcast episodes. Unlike iTunes, it will find episodes across multiple shows, rather than just searching the podcast's title or description.

* Sherpa
Podcasting is great but, without a laptop, it's really hard to keep up to date as you travel. What if there was an easy way to stay up to date in an internet cafe? Sherpa is a small programme that runs on your iPod and allows you to keep a list of podcasts which it checks. You can then download them and copy them to your iPod.

* Hostel Hero
Hostel Hero is an iPhone/iPod touch app that helps you research hostels using Hostelworld's database. You can choose locations and those hostels will be pulled over to your device, allowing you to read them offline -- like on your plane or at the beach.

If you're an iPhone/iPod touch user, see our five travel applications for the iPhone.