Archive for April 28th, 2007
See what 300- to 400-calorie meals look like
The Diet Blog has a great gallery of 300- to 400-calorie meals that look mighty healthy and tasty to boot.
This is a good follow up to the previously mentioned 200-calorie gallery, which put into perspective a 200-calorie portion of healthy foods versus less healthy fare. This gallery actually displays several healthy 300- 400-calorie [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Chilly Billy Ice Pops
Amidst the chaos of dietary requirements, five-a-day, buying organic, food miles and a new fangled sense of providence, choosing food has never been so wrought with issues. Whatever happened to buying something based upon the principle it tasted good?
Well, thankfully, one company has ticked all the ethical boxes and made sure their new lollies [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Terrorist Chic
“No doubt these will be the next big thing in Yeading..”
Terror fashion” is about to invade cities. The new French brand Anticon is launching a new concept of hooded sweatshirts. Graffiti artists, people with acne, snowboarders or simply superheroes would certainly be into them. To order your sweatshirt, you’ll have to wait a few more [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Top 10: Exercises For Back Pain
If you don’t suffer from back pain, there’s a good chance that someone in your family or your workplace does. In fact, back pain is one of the most common work-related injuries; it is the second leading cause of missed workdays after the common cold. But people with physically demanding jobs that require heavy lifting [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Download of the Day: Thunderbird 2.0 (All platforms)
Windows/Mac/Linux: The good folks at Mozilla dropped the latest version 2.0 of the Thunderbird email client today, which supports Gmail-like tagging, Windows Vista and better search capabilities.
Gmail users will love this T-bird build, which makes setting up a Gmail POP account a one-step affair. My initial tests, searching over an archive of thousands [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Fresh & Frozen Gourmet Baby Food
While organic and gourmet baby food aren’t new, they’ve mostly been limited to jarred varieties. Start-ups in two categories are widening the options for parents who want to feed their infants something fresh, but don’t have the time or talent to prepare their own gourmet purées. They also provide inspiring examples for entrepreneurs interested in [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Learn to use Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn)
Hot on the heels of the celebrated 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) release of Ubuntu comes the Unofficial Ubuntu 7.04 Starter Guide, a free online guide to using the Linux distro.
The guide covers a massive range of subjects, everything from updating Ubuntu to mounting Windows partitions to working with various kinds of hardware. I wouldn’t say it’s [...]
Gloucester Road Tube Station Art – London
For years now, the London Underground have been running their underground art programme ‘Platform For Art’ in order to promote London’s eclectic art scene and to entertain and enlighten commuters on the cities bustling underground.
Gloucester Road Tube station has been graced with the imaginative and beautiful work of artist Chiho Aoshima , who’s [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Where Are The World’s Best Hotel Rooms?
Cool Hunter believe they have one of the most influential subscriber lists around. Over the past 18 months, their subscribers have come from all over the globe, with hot tips, suggestions and ideas for the site as well as an insight into their own creative lives. Through your help they have brought you the [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )World’s Healthiest Cuisines
Dieting is usually viewed as a temporary process that one endures in order to shed a few pounds before the summer, shape up for a big event or lose a beer belly that may have sprung up after an indulgent vacation.
Unfortunately, the majority of Americans today are constantly battling with food and searching for the [...]
Ice Cream Vans
As Cool Hunter mentioned previously , ice-cream vans and mobile treat delivery are going to be big this year. They’ve scoured the neighborhoods to provide you with a selection of what you might find trundling down your street in the forthcoming months.
Not content with selling their fruit concoctions in shops, the people at Innocent [...]
The Dream Makers
When Osman Ozcanli and his team of technology hunters get their hands on the world’s best technologies, something remarkable happens.
When Griffin Technology was developing their iTrip nano, they needed a better way to attach the player to the transmitter. So they turned to a tape dispenser they’d recently been sent by Inventables––a Chicago-based innovation [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Create an organization chart with OrgChartWiki
Need an organizational chart for your company? You might want to check out Forbes’ new site aptly named OrgChartWiki, where you can create org.charts for your company or take a looksee at a few publicly listed companies such as Google, Motorola, and Microsoft.
The interface is very simple: all you do is pretty much drag and [...]
Send An Email To Post A Letter
Using Postful, anyone with access to email can send a real, paper letter to anyone with a postal address. How it works? Send an email to quickletter@postful.com, with the mailing address in the subject line, write the letter in the email’s message body, click send, and the email is printed and posted. Postful does not [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Xplorer2 file manager (Windows)
Windows only: The Xplorer2 lite file manager is a superior alternative to Windows’ built-in file Explorer.
Xplorer2 sports a tabbed, 3-paned interface. The first displays the file and folder hierarchy for easy navigation. The other 2 panes are specific folders, which make it really easy to move files between two places or work with two [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Fill out PDFs online with PDF Filler
Web app PDF Filler lets you upload and fill out PDF forms online.
Just upload your PDF, then click and enter text anywhere on the form you need. PDF Filler is a great tool for filling out any PDF when you don’t have access to the right desktop tools to accomplish the same thing. On the [...]
How to get the best looking garden in the street
It’s beginning to look a lot like spring/summer in my neck of the woods, with the dulcet tones of lawnmowers filling the air. British DIY store Godfrey’s has a few tips that practically guarantee jealous fits from your neighbors, such as:
Cut it regularly, ideally once a week.
Water occasionally – watch your moisture levels.
Check out the [...]
