Posted on May 13th, 2011 by Joy Schwabach
“E la Carte,” from elacarte.com, has provided iPad-like tablets at twenty restaurants in San Francisco and Boston. This is their first step in going national; a former executive from the big restaurant chain, Applebees, is a major investor but not the only one interested. The tablet screen displays the menu and you enter your order there.
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Posted on May 11th, 2011 by Joy Schwabach
Cardbrowser.com collects business cards at trade shows and makes them searchable online. They have 210,000 of them currently and thousands more each month. You can search by market, industry, tradeshow, title, location, etc.
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Posted on May 9th, 2011 by Joy Schwabach
“The Parent Show” is a new once a week online-only show from PBS. Go to pbs.org and click “parents” to try it out.
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Posted on May 8th, 2011 by Joy Schwabach
For about the same amount some people spend on a wedding, they could rent an entire Swiss village, a wine estate owned by a German prince, a village in the heart of the Gutenberg forest, or for $70,000, the whole tiny country of Liechtenstein.
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Posted on May 6th, 2011 by Joy Schwabach
We got an email from our dentist a few days ago. He was thanking us for our recent teeth-cleaning visit. Clicking a link in his email took us to Google Hotpot (google.com/hotpot), where we saw pictures of many of the dentists in town, along with patient ratings under each. After awarding our dentist five stars, we opened wide and explored further.
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Posted on May 4th, 2011 by Joy Schwabach
You’ve got a loan document, a spreadsheet, an illustration, and a complex diagram — and you want to email them all to a client who doesn’t have the programs that would open those. “PDF Fusion” is a new $70 product from Corel that lets you put them all into one PDF.
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