I checked in online for my flight back from New York after the Inman Connect conference, only to remember the obvious: I didn’t have a printer with me in my hotel room. But fear not: Continental Airlines now allows you to check in online and have your boarding pass appear in a mobile web browser which can be scanned by security. It was pretty slick, though I felt sort of funny handing my iphone to the TSA guy holding a scanner as the whole line of people gawked. It’s the future of travel though, no doubt.

Advice to anyone who tries this:

I thought it would be smart to take a screenshot of the boarding pass from the iphone web browser. (BTW, you can take a screenshot on an iphone by holding down the round button and the on/off switch at the same time.) But that doesn't work because the TSA guy needs a super-duper zoom of the bar code, and photos can't zoom large enough. So you need to pull it up on the browser rather than the camera roll.