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3 Ways Restaurants Can Use Social Media

It’s 2012 and brands and businesses are embracing social media by the droves. You can follow your favorites for discounts, news, feedback/customer service opportunities, etc. But what about the places you eat? How are restaurants interacting through social media? How is it useful for them? Here are some ways: 1)     Introduce the chefs – Social [...]

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Textspresso Machine demonstrates what can be done by moving text messaging to the cloud (post by @ashmo6)

If you use iMessage on your iOS devices, you’re no stranger to a kind of “cloud texting.” Send texts to an iPod Touch, iPad or iPhone and receive them on any or all of them, automatically synced. Seattle, Washington startup Zipwhip is no stranger to cloud texting either. In fact, it’s what they do. Zipwhip [...]

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How to Tweet for Rewards with American Express (by @ashmo6)

Do you tweet all the time? (Of course you do!) Do you tweet about things you love like certain restaurant chains, stores or products? Do you ever consider the fact that you are doing free marketing for those places, goods or services, especially if you have a lot of followers? What if there was a [...]

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Don’t just pin things…BO.LT things

What happens if all of the Pinterest pins you’ve been carefully pinning for months just up and disappear? What if the sites you pin things from no longer exist? Or you get the dreaded 404 Page Not Found message? Never fear, BO.LT is here. BO.LT is like Pinterest but a bit more…secure. Want to know [...]

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Do you know what to do if you lose your smartphone?

We’ve all felt that feeling, that moment of panic. Where’s my phone? Seriously, where? Did I leave it in the car? It’s got to be in the car, right? It is indeed almost always in the car or some other simple place where misplaced things go to hide. But what if your phone is really [...]

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The Drool-worthy Adobe Touch Family

I am drooling. Too much information? Well I have a good reason. I just checked out the Adobe Touch Apps. Have you seen them yet? In a word, “wow.” Last fall Adobe announced that they would soon be launching six different apps designed specifically for tablets – Apple and Android tablets to be exact. The [...]

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Fun things to do with your Facebook cover photo

Well, it happened. We’ve all now been switched over to Facebook Timeline. When you’re done hyperventilating over the fact that Facebook changed (again), embrace the cover photo. Hello, it’s a giant picture box! There are some pretty cool things you can do with it. 1)      Check out websites like Facebook Profile Covers, or FB Cover [...]

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Top-Secret Texting Apps

Planning a surprise party? Keeping a secret? Sending someone bank or credit card information? Just plain avoiding nosey coworkers or friends? Lucky for you, no matter what mobile device you’re using or what secret you’re keeping, there’s an app for that. Here are a few apps for top-secret texting. 1) CoverText for iPhone: CoverText allows [...]

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BlackBerry Users: Is it time to let go?

The BlackBerry has long been the king of mobile devices when it comes to business. Nothing has been able to quite compare to its security, its battery life and the ease of typing on that famous full QWERTY keyboard. But, is the iPhone catching up? Recent examples say “yes,” the most loved personal mobile device is [...]

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Pair: An App for Long Distance Relationships

My husband “lives” in the same city as me but works in an entirely different state. And no, it’s not a “drive across a state boarder right up the road on the way to work” kind of thing. It’s more of a “fly twice a week” kind of thing. So, naturally there is a lot [...]

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