Italy Train Travel - How to travel on Italian trains (FREE eBook)

We've been receiving several requests about the Italian train system. Questions like 'How do I make a reservation?', 'What types of trains are there?', 'Can kids travel for free?', and more...
So we decided to extract the Trains chapter from our eBook and transform it into a mini-eBook on its own. It's FREE for you to enjoy, print it out and/or pass it along to your friends. We're quite sure that if you'll like this chapter, you'll probably like our full eBook too.

Download the FREE chapter about Trains in Italy
(PDF 540K - Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)

How do you say 'Goodbye' in Italian? Ask Google...

UPDATE: Click here to watch a video on How to say Goodbye in Italian.

Did you ever need to do a quick word translation or a simple currency conversion? Google has been offering for some time a few useful extensions to its Search engine that may just be what you need. Google language tools lets you translate text or entire Web pages in 9 different languages. I tried English to Italian and the results are good for single words, but fairly inaccurate for entire sentences.
The Currency Conversion feature performs quite well. Check out how much is '1 Euro in USD' at today's exchange rate. These services are also available via SMS using your US cell phone.

Doors of Italy, a free screensaver

Doors of Italy is our first screensaver product. It depicts 16 original photos of doors of Italian buildings. It's FREE (yes, no cost, no viruses, no adware, no spyware, just pure enjoyment). Please let us know what you think.

Download Doors of Italy screensaver
(Self-extracting EXE file - 3.2MB)

How to install this screensaver (Instructions for Windows XP machines)
1) Click on the link above and save the file Doors of Italy.exe on your Desktop.
2) Double-click on it and extract (unzip) the file Doors of Italy.scr onto your C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32 folder
3) Right-click in the Windows Desktop background (yes, the empty background) and select "Properties". A dialog box opens. Select the "Screen Saver" tab. Select the screensaver called Doors of Italy in the list (it should appear in this list if you copied it in the correct folder). The screensaver appears in the Preview screen.
4) You can adjust the screensaver settings or display it full screen.
5) When all done, click OK. You can now remove the file Doors of Italy.exe from your Desktop.
6) To uninstall it, just delete the file Doors of Italy.scr from the C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32 folder.