Archive for April, 2008
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
WHY? I'm leaving for vacation today but have found some websites I want to access while traveling.
I am going on vacation with my wife today to Alaska! We cashed in frequent flier miles and are staying with friends who live in Anchorage. We've tried to do this trip before ...
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Saturday, April 26th, 2008
Welcome back for week seven of our weekly eNewsletter summary. This week has been fun at 170spoons as we've had some good conversations on the two main posts. We also had a little "spoon humor" and a tip about reading the email version.
Now on to the meat of ...
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
If you are one of many who receive updates from 170spoons.com in an email, you will get something that looks a bit like this at the top:
I wanted to point out that if, for any reason, the email comes in a bit garbled, funky, or dorked up, you are ...
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
WHY? There are more uses for your camera phone than just taking photos for fun.
You may have a camera on your cell phone. Do you use it? Here are some creative ideas for using the camera on your cell phone:
Take a photo of friends and contacts ...
Posted in Mobile | 5 Comments »
Monday, April 21st, 2008
WHY? You can make free PDF documents faster by making it your default printer.
PDF files are the files that you usually use Adobe Acrobat Reader to view. A PDF document is nice because it's almost like a screen shot but better.
Unfortunately the ability to create a PDF file probably ...
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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
Sometimes it's just fun to have, well, a little fun around here. I've got a couple options for you:
A bowl for your spoon
No spoon needed
What is your pick?
Posted in Humor | 1 Comment »
Friday, April 18th, 2008
If you are thinking, "Hey, I didn't get the 170spoons.com eNewsletter last week. What happened?"
To you I say, "Oops. Sorry."
My plan is to be able to send these eNewsletters on the weekends, hopefully every week. But sometimes I won't be able to do it weekly. This ...
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
WHY? It's free and simply incredible.
Just watch this video...
Video Demo of Google Earth 4.3
Download Google Earth
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
WHY? A DVR will change the way you watch TV forever.
Okay, that sounds like an exaggeration, but I love our Digital Video Recorder. Seriously, if you don't have one, get one. Well, if you like TV. Here's some of my favorite reasons why:
Record what you want to watch and ...
Posted in Misc | No Comments »
Monday, April 14th, 2008
WHY? Images are embedded in PDF documents but you may just want the image.
This was a little solution I needed to come up with last week for a friend. He had an image inside a PDF file and needed only part of the image to use in a document ...
Posted in Misc | 4 Comments »
Sunday, April 13th, 2008
WHY? If your cellphone gets wet, you actually have a chance to save it -- if you do it right.
Hopefully you have never had to deal with this problem before. However many have. Just yesterday I was in a Disney park and one of the kids in a ...
Posted in Mobile | 1 Comment »
Monday, April 7th, 2008
WHY? The world runs in time - so know yours.
Time is of the essence. And we always want to know what time it actually is. We have clocks all around us. We have them on our mobile phones. We even put them on our wrists.
And what about when ...
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