May I vent about passporter for a minute?

[eva]

Hmmm, that's weird. It was offered at a Barnes and Nobles also with the same date, but I went with the cheaper one. I guess I won't be reading Passporter anymore. Sad, I really enjoyed it

Just thinking the same thing. Reading with blue back light is very bad for your eyes and should be limited. So I use either hard copy or my old black and white Kindle. Guess I will need to look for another source. Love the old Passporter guides for WDW and the cruise. Oh well....

 

[DLM1980]

Just thinking the same thing. Reading with blue back light is very bad for your eyes and should be limited. So I use either hard copy or my old black and white Kindle. Guess I will need to look for another source. Love the old Passporter guides for WDW and the cruise. Oh well....

Not sure on an Android, but on the newer iPhones 6 and 7's as well as iPads there is the NightShift feature that turns the blue light off and makes the screen a warm white. You can turn that on by going to Settings > Display & Brightness > Nightshift. There you can set the times you want it on and color temperature. Once you setup nightshift you can Swipe Up from the bottom of the screen and manually turn on and off nightshift.

I know the feature exists either in an app or as part of the Android OS I just don't know where...someone will most likely chime in to help out though

 

[eva]

Not sure on an Android, but on the newer iPhones 6 and 7's as well as iPads there is the NightShift feature that turns the blue light off and makes the screen a warm white. You can turn that on by going to Settings > Display & Brightness > Nightshift. There you can set the times you want it on and color temperature. Once you setup nightshift you can Swipe Up from the bottom of the screen and manually turn on and off nightshift.

I know the feature exists either in an app or as part of the Android OS I just don't know where...someone will most likely chime in to help out though

Tried it on my iPad 3 and found no Nightshift setting. Just a slider from bright to dark and an on/off for Auto Brightness. I did a little reading and found Nightshift is only in later versions. Not sure I am going to buy a brand new iPad just to read the Passporters. Thanks for the info. Maybe down the road I will upgrade.

 

[TigerLaw]

FWIW, the new edition was supposed to be available today on Amazon and Barnes and noble but are now listed as delayed.

 

[EastYorkDisneyFan]

FWIW, the new edition was supposed to be available today on Amazon and Barnes and noble but are now listed as delayed.

There are no more print versions of any passport guide books. All of them have moved to the live guide format. It cost them too much to keep publishing them every year to make a profit now. The live guides they can update any time they need too for example when Pandora opened they updated all that information int it the day it officially opened. With the cruise line guide they can add or take away ports of call based on what port that DCL puts out for that year.

 

[cush1]

Does anyone know where I can get the latest PDF before they started printing it? I have the deluxe binder and know I bought access to PDFs, but the website hardly works now. Thx for the help.

 

[lanejudy]

I think the company as it was is gone; I didn't even know the website was still active - last I tried it wouldn't open. You might try asking on their new forum PixieDustLane, though I don't know if the PassPorter owners are involved - it was started by some of their moderators and regular posters.

 

[Starwind]

The Passporter website goes up and down. I check it every do often and at times it is up although it spends a lot of time being down, unfortunately.

If you had purchased access to the electronic copies of the guidebooks, when it is up, take advantage of the opportunity to download them so you have your own copy. Likewise the worksheets and free ebooks. http://www.passporterboards.com/concierge/ebooks.php?sort=pubdate&dir=desc

Also, one of the worksheets is a blank page template with printing guide including whole punch locations, which is useful if printing and wanting to insert into the old binders.

SW

 

[squirk]

I never used the binder, but I really enjoyed the guidebooks, especially when I was newer to cruising DCL. They were pretty dang thorough and much better than the Unofficial Guide’s book, IMO.

When the Marxes moved to online, I didn’t make the transition with them. Partly because I preferred leafing through the physical book, and partly because I had become knowledagble enough to no longer need the guidebook.