This past weekend PetSugar took a little trip to Portland, OR, and while out doing some shopping at a local craft exhibit, she found the perfect case for her BlackBerry Pearl! PetSugar picked up one of these $14 leather cases with a hand-painted yellow flower accent to protect her cell phone. The company that creates these cases is called Appetite and thankfully has an Esty store, so we can check out its other cute designs.
Appetite also makes an assortment of vegan as well as nonvegan cases for everything from laptops and cell phones to itsy bitsy cases for iPod nanos. Here's hoping it updates the online store with some BlackBerry Curve cases so I can get my hands on one just in time for Fall!
I'm pretty sure I've gone on and on about this before — or maybe it was in a recent chat with lilsugar — but I can't stress enough how fantastic iPhones are when you've got kids that need to be kept busy (aka distracted!). You can pull up either downloaded movies or TV clips from YouTube, and you can even exercise the right sides of their brains with a wonderful app called Scribble!
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The online TV and movie streaming site Hulu has just launched some highly configurable widgets that can easily be embedded on your iGoogle page or on social networking sites like Facebook. New Hulu widgets include the player widget, Summer widget, show and movie widget, and picks widget, so you can select the best one to suit your needs.
With the widgets, you'll constantly get updates on the most popular or recently added videos, and you can even watch all your favorite vids from the widget, making it that much easier to watch TV while at work — shh, did I just say that?!
I have a questionable habit of saying "Woot! Woot!" a couple times a day so naturally I adore this Woot Note Set ($6).
"Woot" ("w00t" is the real geek spelling) is a sort of cry of joy and celebration used by online gamers. It's used in place of saying "yay!" or "yesssss!" Oddly enough, it was named word of the year by Merriam-Webster in 2007.
I know it seems like common sense, but if you are looking to save energy and money, plug your gadgets into a power strip with a circuit breaker so you have the ability to flip the switch off instead of draining energy. I suggest hooking up devices like your TV and DVR or TiVo to one strip (so they can stay on and record all your favorite shows), but keep everything else on strips that can be turned off whenever you leave the house for an extended period of time.
There's a neat site called MyGreenElectronics that offers a simple energy calculator so you can guesstimate what your electronic use means for your wallet by the minute, day, month, and year.
The new search engine Cuil (an old Irish word for knowledge), has been receiving quite the press across the "Internets" today. I didn't know what all the hype was about until I gave it a try. Cuil actually searches more pages on the web than anyone else (over 120 billion) — that's even three times as many as Google and 10 times as many as Microsoft. Rather than deriving search results from those that rank high, Cuil actually finds websites based on topics, content, and relevance by sorting web pages into groups and categories. This new way of searching helps you refine searches and get you to what you're looking for faster. And since it was created by three former senior Google employees, you're guaranteed a search experience that actually works!
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