Archive for August 29th, 2008
If your garage is anything like most of the other garages in America, then I would almost bet it’s a mess. Maybe it’s so unorganized that you can’t even fit your car in it. That’s a part of life. Things get collected and put away leaving it to just build up over time until you [...]
Iowa Moms Share Everyday Experiences Through Blogs
Nonpareil Online: Community is defined as a group of interacting people living in a common location and has become a well-known, often-used word in the 21st century. Community of believers. Community service. Living community. Community center. With the help of the Internet, a new kind of community is quickly emerging, no longer confining community to [...]
'Beddbuggs' Business Booms For Local Woman
The Whig Standard: When Alison Turnbull-Smith’s children suffered growing pains a few years ago, she fabricated some homemade hot bags to ease their discomfort. “They were always wanting a hot water bottle and some of them would leak or be messy,” said Turnbull-Smith, owner of BeddBudds BeddBuggs. A mother of five children, she stitched hot [...]
PR Free: When Michelle Aarnes and her husband decided to start a family, Aarnes knew she wanted to work from home. The thought of leaving a newborn in someone else’s care was unbearable. And as a former Sales Assistant who had worked twelve years for a well-known financial management company, sales – which might seem [...]
No matter where you go or what channel you watch on TV, there are endless commercials for women’s products. Where as most people wouldn’t blink an eye, some men would have to wonder, “What about me?” Joe Rowett is the Managing Director for Man Junk, a business dedicated to men’s products. Their organic body wash [...]
Inventions That Make Life Easier… or Not
Daily Cognition: Lock Cup – Anti-Theft Coffee Cup Are you tired of others stealing your coffee cup? Well now there’s a solution. The Lock – Cup has a hole which prevents most people from using it. Only the owner of the cup can use his/hers shaped key to close the hole. “The Zaky” – Infant [...]
8 Skills They Didn’t Teach You In School
LifeHack: Lately, I’ve been simultaneously using less and less of what I learned in school while discovering more and more skills that are vital to success which were never even offered in school! So what are the top skills that should be taught to every man, woman, and child who enters our education system? • [...]
Worcester News: A Malvern-born inventor is celebrating after his company received a £200,000 investment from the Dragon’s Den TV show. Guy Unwin presented Toastabags, as well as a number of other innovative cookwear products, with partner Caroline Kavanagh on the BBC 2 show. Unwin, who is managing director and chief inventor of Planit Products, based [...]
Mailbox Does More Than Hold Letters
WYFF4: If you watched Chet Brannon get his mail at his home in Simpsonville, you’d never know there was anything special about his mailbox. But it’s mostly unlike any mailbox you have ever seen. “This is called the Home Emergency Lamp Post,” said Brannon standing next to his mailbox. “The acronym is HELP so it’s [...]
More than 150 billion SPAM messages circulate daily, accounting for more than 85 percent of the total number of emails sent throughout the world. The sheer volume of spam consumes an enormous amount of bandwidth and remains one of the Internet’s biggest security problems. Often these goods are pirated, counterfeit, or cheap knock-offs that would [...]
No matter where you live, there are people interested in an indoor tanning facility that they can use to get their own “perfect” tan. That’s what keeps franchises like Hollywood Tans in business. It helps that they’ve also been named as the “Top Tanning Salon Franchise” by Entrepreneur Magazine. By using their proven system and [...]
