1. Ship your luggage. Ship it. Shhhh! Just ship it. Not the actual luggage, the but what's inside it. Clothes. Cameras. Bathroom stuff. All the stuff you don't need until you get to where you are going. Put all your stuff in a simple cardboard box and ship it. Consider the cost as a fee for adding years to your life. It's easy. UPS Store will take care of it for you. Ship it to your hotel, Grandma's house, or wherever it is you are going. Do not bring carry-on luggage. You don't need it. Really, you don't. Are you changing on the plane? It's dead weight, weighing you down. Put essentials like snacks (have plenty) and an empty water bottle in a small backpack or bag. Once you travel luggage free, you will never want to travel with luggage again.

2. Early bird gets the plane. They say to arrive 90 minutes early. That means if you get there 90 minutes early, you will just barely make your flight. It's the legal industry minimum they must have to tell you. I travel alone, with no luggage, and I get to the airport 120 minutes ahead of time. The spare time is what iPods and iPads are for. If I have great airport karma and get through the line(s) and to the gate in good time, I kill the extra time by watching a movie or taking in some new music or reading the news. If the airport is a traffic jam of delays and people, then two hours is more than enough to navigate TSA and get to the gate.

3. Skip check-in. Print your boarding pass at home. Make this a habit. Have it and your ID out at TSA, then put your ID away and your boarding pass in your back pocket. You'll need your boarding pass two more times; once to get past the metal detector, and once to board the plane. That's it.

4. Pack an empty water bottle. Fill it up at a drinking fountain and enjoy cool, clean, and free water on your flight.

5. iPod earplugs. There are headphones which you hear music through, and there are earplugs, which block out all outside sound. Why not have the best of both worlds? These iPod earplugs from Apple shut off the outside world, and lets your music sing. You can't hear crying babies or snoring neighbors or people chatting for three hours about their wedding plans. I leave them in my ears the whole flight. In order to keep flight attendants from asking me to turn off the iPod, as they think it is hooked up and playing, I unplug them from my iPhone and put the cable end on my lap. If they do look my way, I just hold up the unattached cable end and they "get it" instantly. These things make me feel like I'm the only one on the plane.

After months of work, my B&H iPhone app is live in the app store! It's free and I geared it toward photographers who are in the field who need to get gear fast - as well as valuable info.

My top 5 useful features:

1. Download user manuals for close to 3,000 items (see the manual offerings of the Canon 5D Mark II in the app to see just how comprehensive the documentation is)

2. Search (it's very fast, and the filtering allows you to narrow a broad search to something very specific with just a few taps: thanks to Endeca, our developer/vendor for a job well done!)

3. Item photos - pinch and zoom on some of the product photos - they look really great in high-resolution on the Retina display, you can really zoom up close!

4. Checkout - we're one of the few non-public retail stores (if the only?) that offers full checkout with credit card right in the app without having to load a regular webpage. Check out is done all right within the app. We don't save credit card info yet, but probably will someday.

5. Break a lens on set in Zimbabwe, we can ship you a new lens in 3 days. In the USA, shipped overnight - right from your phone in just a few taps!

The best one  is probably the downloadable manuals. If you've lost or don't have your Canon 5D Mark II manual for instance, to find how you set a particular function, you can download it right over the air! The manuals are in PDF and you're able to scroll through them, but for the next version we'll integrate with iBooks or get a better UI for that, so you can search, bookmark and browse manuals. But for now, it's certainly better than not having the manual.

Let me know what you think - and what we should work on for the next version! (Wishlists? Order Tracking?)