We’re happy to see one of Backwoods’ best sellers – The Marmot PreCip Jacket – make The New York Times Frugal Traveler’s Holiday Gift Guide. This is the list of gifts perfect for the frugal travelers in your life that will inspire them to cross oceans and deserts — and give them the tools to do so easily, cheaply and with style. Here in Austin it is a Festival backup staple considering the rain this year at ACL and FFFFest.
Got a great picture of people, places or events in Austin? Weekly winner gets a super terrific robot sticker and has their photo featured as the background of our blog.
Hypertext-matching analysis, patented algorithms and over 200 other constantly changing factors help Google provide the world with the most relevant search results. How do you get numerous leadership positions on a subject with over 200 million other competing pages? A great starting point is to provide the most relevant and complete information. From Google Webmaster Central, here’s the Webmasters/Site Owners Help.
With 37 million users, Ning, the web service for social networks, continues to gain followers . Coolhead manages the ning Backwooders.com, a social network for outdoor enthusiasts. This article from mashable has some great ideas and examples on how to get your business started in using Ning. Share your own ideas with us in comments. http://mashable.com/2009/11/18/ning-business/
If you’ve ever thought how great it might be to be half-robot, or even a complete cyborg, then you’ll be impressed by the initiave of Jerry Jalava, who lost a finger a year ago in a motorcycle accident. Jerry apparently was not satisfied with a normal prosthetic replacement finger. Instead, he modified his new finger to incorporate a USB “thumb” drive, allowing him to take his geekness to new levels of weird. And awesome.
You can visit his personal blog here and see pictures here.
The headline seems a bit misleading but For the first time scientists matched a meteorite found on Earth with a specific asteroid that became a fireball plunging through the sky. It gives them a glimpse into the past when planets formed and an idea how to avoid a future asteroid Armageddon. The Full story is here.
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Traveling to another country can be a life changing adventure, providing new perspectives of the world and its cultures. It can also be a big problem for those of us who want to stay connected abroad using our laptops and cellphones. Every country seems to want to use different outlet plugs, and much of the world outside of the US uses either 110 or 220 volts. Luckily, most newer laptops are designed to automatically adjust the input voltage, with the output voltage to the system remaining constant. This means you probably won’t have to worry about converting from 110 to 220 – but please confirm that your computer is capable of this before plugging in!
In our search for a simple, easy to use digital camera, CoolHead came across the Canon Powershot A590 . We found it to be priced well and definitely easy to use, even with a built in "Easy Mode."
Thanks for your question Julie. Adding a coupon in shopsite with a set end time is deceptively easy. Here are all the steps.
Go to the merchandising tab on the top menu.
Then click the COUPON button.
Then hit ADD COUPON. (more…)
