Frecklebox – personalized books and gifts for kids

by Adminstrator on July 7, 2009

Here’s a delightful site, jam-packed with personalized books, posters, journals, lunch boxes, growth charts, puzzles, coloring books and even party favors. It’s well-designed and the prices are more than reasonable. Check out Frecklebox.

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Discover – and remember – wines that you love

by Bruce Kasanoff on June 15, 2009

The Spanish Grans Muralles 2000 is a “deep inky opaque purple with an intense aromatic bouquet, showing raw meat, black pepper, charcoal, eucalytus and freshly turned soil.” I have no idea what this means, but five people found Gabriella Opaz’s review helpful.

Adegga is a social discovery site for wine lovers. In English, this means other people help you discover wines that you like, and vice versa. The site also intends to help you “organize your wines. You can keep track of wines you taste, make a wish list or organize your home cellar.”

André Cid, André Ribeirinho, and Emídio Santos are co-founders of the site. Here’s their blog.

Also, if you have an iPhone, check out Drync, the highest rated wine app at MacWorld.

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New site has a Hunch about what you’ll like best

June 15, 2009

If you like personality tests, you’ll love Hunch. The brand new site asks you a bunch of fun questions with multiple choice answers. The more you answer, the better it gets to know you. Here’s a quick summary how it works.
Based on this knowledge, Hunch then guesses your best answers to questions such as “What [...]

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Create your own 3D virtual world, in less than one minute

June 15, 2009

In about 30 seconds, I just created my dream virtual world. It’s called AltaSnowVail. All snow, all the time. All U2, too, because that was the first song choice, and it seemed fine to me.
Kickfly lets you make 3D virtual scenes personalized with your photos, friends, and music – with just a few couple mouse [...]

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Mapquest introduces new iPhone app

June 15, 2009

Until now, I’ve been using the iPhone’s own Maps function, which is pretty hard to read and follow. But today I downloaded Mapquest’s new app, and it’s a significant improvement.
When you ask for directions, the app provides a separate map for each step of the instructions, and the directions are very easy to read onscreen. [...]

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Give it a Wrrl

June 14, 2009

You’re at a party or conference, and it’s epic. Why let the moment pass?
Whrrl lets individuals – or better yet, groups of people – capture an event or place in photos and words, and share them. You can use an iPhone or other camera, and creating each story can become a collaborative process.
Since the [...]

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Personalized whisky and wine bottles

June 13, 2009

Whiskey can be so… impersonal, don’t you think? Luckily, you can fix that in quick order by printing a custom label for your Crown Royal, or ordering a deluxe pouch, embroidered with the message of your choice.
As you build confidence, move on up to wine, which has been known to intimidate some. Fortunately, you don’t [...]

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A quick guide to interactive YouTube videos

June 12, 2009

Our editorial standards are very high. For example, we never steal an entire article from The New York Times unless it is very late in the day. (Attention NYT lawyers: we’re joking.) So we seldom refer you to another site that tells you about another site. But today, let’s make an exception.
Here’s a great article [...]

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Quick! Make something! (You can even sell it.)

June 12, 2009

On a growing number of sites, you can make customized T-shirts, cups, hats and other items that you previously lived without but no longer wish to do so. (Like that special T-shirt that alerts your neighbor to the fact that you are smarter than him.)
CafePress has been at this since 1999. There are now over [...]

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One of a kind photos: helpful websites

June 11, 2009

Is Uncle Ralph closing the gap on you? Are his photos almost as cool as yours? No worries. These websites let you do all sorts of amazing things that will help protect your position as the family’s most creative artist.
FunPhotoBox, PhotoFunia, and Dumpr all let you upload a photo and apply special effects to it [...]

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