Does watching or hearing the economic news each day make tiny little beads of sweat pop out on your forehead?
When you see Ben Bernanke on TV do get a clammy feeling on your hands and does your stomach start hurting?
Have you slipped to the point where you’d rather watch reruns of “I Love New York” [...]
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Have you ever landed at an airport and wanted to know the status of your next flight as your plane taxied to its gate (w/o wading through your airline’s voicemail system?)
Want a quick way to check flight status on your laptop before leaving your office or hotel? – or while riding in a cab to [...]
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If you were expecting to visit my old blog, LifeApps.wordpress.com, you’re in the right place: welcome to my new blog!
The domain and look may be different – but every post which appeared on LifeApps is here – and I’ll continue to work hard to bring interesting, informative and useful content to PracticalHacks.
The site itself [...]
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First, happy weekend and a quick look at 4 nifty gadgets I stumbled upon this week:
1. Alessi “no hands” watch. Available at Buy.com and other retailers, the Alessi AI3002 features a slick, “handsfree” design: the current hour and minute appear in two distinct openings that rotate around the face of the watch, revealing only [...]
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Hi, my name is Kevin and I’m an English major.
Worse yet, I actually taught high school English for a few years before going to grad school and subsequently entering the business world. These things, coupled with my love for the language, has made me a bit of a purist when it comes to grammar and [...]
So you’ve booked a flight from Charlotte to Los Angeles, traveling coach, and get on the aircraft only to discover your seat doesn’t recline… or that you’re seated near the lavatory… brilliant! Fortunately there’s a terrific online resource to help you avoid this type of situation.
If you’re a frequent traveler and haven’t [...]
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If you’re a wine enthusiast and haven’t sampled wine.woot yet, you definitely ought to check it out. Brought to you by those wonderfully wacky folks from woot.com, wine.woot features one wine deal (usually two or three bottles) per week at very attractive pricing – until it sells out. Shipping is a flat $5 during most [...]
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Do you have favorite websites and blogs that you visit frequently? Would you like to get updates from those favorite sites – including PracticalHacks, I would hope – all in one place, and when you prefer?
That’s what RSS feeds do. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication, and it enables you to discover what’s new on [...]
As regular readers know, we had a few tornadoes touch down in our town on May 29th. As a result, we were without power for several hours and cell phone service was also knocked out. A radio would have been really handy so we could get some sense of the damage and whether we [...]
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First, another terrific performance from the Clapton 1996 Hyde Park concert – a spirited rendition of “I Shot The Sheriff” with some great interplay between EC and drummer Steve Gadd…
If you’re a Clapton fan and don’t own this DVD, it’s well worth it!
Now on to a few favorite posts from this week:
Should Small Businesses Whine? [...]
“If at first, the idea is not absurd, there is no hope for it.”
-Albert Einstein
Ever find yourself attempting to solve a vexing problem and feeling blocked mentally? Need to brainstorm a solution to a product design, marketing problem or even a personal issue but feel you’ve run out of creative steam?
Don’t just slog away, hoping [...]
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If you’re buying a new car, there is one thing you absolutely must NOT do: do not, under any circumstances, agree to purchase any dealer installed options. Let me quickly point out that I’m not referring to items like spoilers or audio equipment, although you ought to be careful there as well. I’m referring to [...]
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