Americans spent $74 billion just to say “I Do” last year. A story on ABC’s Nightline focused on a couple that budgeted a “mere” $75,000.00 for their wedding. So what could possibly add up to that kind of figure? For starters, they spent over $9000.00 for French tips and pedicures for the bride, mom [...]
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Don’t get smacked with expensive heating bills this winter. Seven minutes of your time, now, could save you a lot of your hard-earned $$$ later. According the Cleveland Plain Dealer (Sept. 5, 2010 – Business section page one), “Dominion East Ohio Gas has been quietly shifting customers into higher priced plans. The only way to [...]
Keeping in touch with older relatives can be challenging when they don’t use a computer. Now, there are several products and services available that can enhance communication between those who use e-mail and those who don’t because they lack a computer or the skills to operate one. Whether you want to send grandma a quick [...]
GPS-enabled smart phone apps could lead to true love… or maybe even death. There are at least three different apps that help users find potential “love-interests” based on how close they are to the user at any given moment. Users simply log into the app, create a brief profile, upload a photo of themselves and [...]
The Mocha Monkey had a close encounter of the bizarre kind when he got caught up in the Carnaval parade in San Francisco’s Mission district in May. As a group of dancers passed by, one of the girls nabbed MM for a quick photo. Although it was love at first sight, MM quickly came back down [...]
Are you trying to get out of debt? My wife and I were – so we decided to do something about it. We took a class from Financial Peace University (FPU) – sponsored by Gateway West Church in Cleveland. What once seemed overwhelming is now quite manageable as we put into practice many of the [...]
Is it time to simplify your photography and ditch that fancy, new digital camera? The founders of The Impossible Project, headquartered in Vienna, Austria, think so. Recently they released its first color instant film, PX 70 Color Shade, designed for use in Polaroid SX 70 cameras. PX 70 Color Shade, the company says, is reminiscent of [...]
By now, you’ve seen the photo of the 33-foot, 40-ton whale that crash-landed on a sailboat off Cape Town. When I first saw it, I immediately thought something was “fishy” with the picture. I’ve seen photos of huge fish hanging on ordinary fishing poles that were created by combining two different photos in Adobe Premiere Elements or [...]
When I first saw the photo of the 33-foot, 40-ton whale that crash-landed on a sailboat off Cape Town, I thought the picture was a fake. For years photos similar to this have been created by combining two different pictures in Adobe Premiere Elements or Adobe Photoshop. Apparently the whale photo was not done this way but is an actual, [...]
