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Category Archives: Product Reviews
Fly-by-gridview: innovative new flight pricing visualization
This new flight search tool has a great interface. But I see they are missing Southwest in the search I tested. http://www.hipmunk.com/
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PayPal: Send Money Free
Recently, PayPal introduced free money transfers – I find it a convenient way to send and recieve money. It’s fast. In some cases, it’s free to “Send Money”. Sometimes there are fees. Here’s how it breaks down. Within the US (in USD): Personal transfers to friends and family Must be: Fully funded by PayPal balance or Bank [...]
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How Well Can LEDs Meet the Energy Challenge?
I just bought some LED “Ribbon Strip” for a new version of my Motion Studies light boxes. I came across this interesting article that details why LED technology is not ready to replace fluorescent lighting in many situations. I recently read that IKEA is going to eliminate all incandescent lighting by the end of the [...]
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HDSLR Cameras for video
I’ve enjoyed shooting video on my 5D and have been reading up on how the professional use of HD DSLR. this is a blog from a pro hollywood director of photography: http://hurlbutvisuals.com/blog/ he’s a big proponant of using dslr’s for video. i found a couple others too http://www.cinema5d.com/ with detailed techinical discussions here’s another with [...]
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Google Maps: Biking directions
This is exciting news for us bikers here in San Francisco… A quick check shows they seem to have good data. Today we’e added biking directions and extensive bike trail data to Google Maps for the U.S. My team has been keeping close tabs on all the public support for biking directions that’s been steadily [...]
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Yelp negative reviews: Take a Deep Breath
I often hear from clients who are unhappy with negative reviews or missing reviews on Yelp. More often I hear small businesses that rave about what a boon Yelp has been to their bottom line. Here’s some advice for small business owners on what to do with those pesky negative reviews: The site removes reviews [...]
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New on-demand copy-editing service from wordy.com
I have lots of ESL (English as a Second Language) clients and family who might find this service really helpful. i have not used it yet but it seems very well organized and the interface is slick. and with wordpress plugins it’s all integrated into your blog publishing workflow: Wordy gets it…It’s on-demand copy-editing, and [...]
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Decline of world fisheries: Aquacalypse Now
Amazing article about the decline of world fisheries. Hear the NPR interview also. Beginning in the 1950s, as their operations became increasingly industrialized–with onboard refrigeration, acoustic fish-finders, and, later, GPS–they first depleted stocks of cod, hake, flounder, sole, and halibut in the Northern Hemisphere. As those stocks disappeared, the fleets moved southward, to the coasts [...]
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Amron Experimental
Interesting group of inventions by Scott Amron. 1. newsoap: brand new liquid soap packaged in old plastic soda bottles 2. TheEndo: magnetic clip 3. Brush & Rinse Toothbrush 4. Split Ring Key Blank “Keybrid” (today their paypal account is ‘unable to receive income’ so not sure what’ sup with that.) Amron Experimental.
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Best Stevia you can buy