Tech tips from USA TODAY's Road Warriors

"The live link in (my BlackBerry with Bluetooth GPS) to traffic updates allows me to quickly reroute around congested freeways. No longer do I have to print out my routes with Google or Yahoo maps."

--Bill Pelster, consultant, Seattle

"One of the greatest difficulties for me is carrying file folders of various papers and forms. At (work or home), I scan documents and e-mail them as PDFs to myself. Then these are retrieved and filed on Lenovo (ThinkPad) X61 Tablet PC for easy and zero-weight storage. The tablet PC allows hand-written notes and annotations on the PDFs."

--Vaughn McVey, IT program manager, Houston

"Really a wonder how I did without Bose's noise-canceling headset all those years."

--Will Slade, development director, Cincinnati

"The best of all worlds for me is a mobile phone that works around the world (GSM) and can also connect to my laptop ...