Unpackaged is a small, charming shop that sells affordable organic and fair trade dry foods--unpackaged. You bring your own container or buy a reusable one. It sounds like old news to North Americans, but here in the UK it is unique. The owner, Catherine Conway, is very serious about her business and has made great efforts to push the envelope, using a low carbon delivery service, publishing a newsy and informative monthly newsletter, and becoming a community resource for the area. Now she has had an environmental analysis of her business done. The "...
Send that big PowerPoint presentation or Excel spreadsheet without clogging up your recipient's email inbox straight from Microsoft Office using previously mentioned file delivery service YouSendIt. Their new Office add-in puts YouSendIt into, appropriately, the Send to menu above the Email option. The YouSendIt Microsoft Office add-in is a free download. [via]...
File delivery service YouSendIt announced Thursday that it has released a plug-in for Microsoft Office 2003 and 2007 that will allow users to send any file from Word, Excel, or PowerPoint to recipients through the company's service. Based on my testing, the plug-in, which requires registration to download, works quite well. After surfing over to the company's plug-in page, which is already populated with other plug-ins for iPhoto, Outlook, Photoshop, and others, I downloaded the file in seconds. Once installed, the plug-in embeds itself in Microsoft Office. On my version of Office 2007, I found YouSendIt's plug-in added under...
Filed under: Industry, Misc, Displays, Sony Apparently launching its Take Back Recycling Program just wasn't enough for Sony Electronics, who has now announced a Green Glove delivery service for those looking to have a new 32-inch (or greater) BRAVIA HDTV delivered. At its core, the service provides in-home delivery and setup of one's new HDTV, and the same kind folks who show up to handle that also haul away your old set for recycling. Or to sell it on eBay, you never know.[Via I4U News, image courtesy of CtrlAltDel-Online]Sony's Green Glove recycling service hauls away your old TV when buying...
Not content with trying to solve the PC to TV problem, TiVo has teamed up with Dominoes Pizza to “give broadband connected TiVo subscribers the ability to order pizza for delivery or pick-up, and track delivery timing, right from their TV sets.” While ordering a pizza directly through the TV, all without leaving the couch, seems like a neat idea, it’s utility maybe limited, particularly for the laptop generation. As Dave Zatz points out, the 10 foot UI of a TiVo will have a hard time beating the efficiency of the 2 foot browsing experience provided by a PC. And...
Help yourself to some Eater Tastings, why don't you? 1. Amici's delivery service blackballs the Western Addition, but just won't step foot in the 'Loin and SoMa after dark. 2. Amuse Cochon competition serves up five heritage piggies, menu including, but not limited to, their uteruses. 3. Mission Street Food moves inside Lung Shan Restaurant: food, just as good; wait, just as long. 4. And finally: who's your nomination for douchiest SF bar? 76 nominations and counting....
The New York Times writes that Microsoft introduced its “operating system for the cloud, Windows Azure, at the company’s Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles on Monday morning.” This project, previously named Red Dog, is supposed to be “a scalable hosting environment for deploying applications in Microsoft’s cloud.” ZDnet has the following (my emphasis): <<Windows Azure is part of a set of new and existing technologies behind the Azure Services Platform, a development and execution platform that runs end-user and corporate software on Microsoft’s own servers, accessible over the web. It joins Google’s App Engine and Amazon’s EC2 in an...
Microsoft is suing delivery service DHL for their refusal to compensate the boys in Redmond for the destruction of over 21,000 Xboxes in a Texas train derailment. The consoles were due for Hong Kong when the train, carrying two large containers of Xboxes, went off the tracks, sustaining a substantial amount of water and impact damage and, interestingly, "pilfering." Microsoft is seeking $2 million in compensation for DHL's negligence. That the phrase "fiery train wreck" is missing from the report makes me think it wasn't as exciting as it could've been. Imagine the headlines! [PC World]...
Filed under: Gaming, Transportation You know who Microsoft hates? No, not Apple. It really hates DHL. Apparently, the delivery service has hit the folks in Redmond where it hurts: in the Xbox. It seems that 21,600 consoles were totally messed over by "impact damage, wetting, pilfering and shortage" when one of the company's freight trains derailed en route to Long Beach, California. The big M claims that DHL refuses to compensate for the lost goods, and has filed a complaint at a US District Court in Seattle, calling for $2 million in damages and stating that the shipper "negligently breached...
I just found out that later this week Aweber (the newsletter delivery service that I use) is adding a new feature that will allow their publishers to automatically send an update to their Twitter account when they send a new broadcast/newsletter. The tweet will link to an online version of the newsletter so that your twitter followers will get to see what you’re sending out to newsletter subscribers. This new option will appear in the ‘Syndicate’ section of the admin area of sending out new newsletters. It’s a cool little feature that should help publishers extend their newsletter reach. Share...
When we talk about video content on the Web, it’s now customary to speak about control. Things like on-demand, skip forward, skip back, shuffle, etc., are pretty common. They’re expected, really. So what BitGravity, a self-described content delivery network, is looking to do at the server side of media management, is give video producers more controls of their own, and all through its new Advanced Progressive API. What kind of control? A few items include auto-bitrate adjustments, scene selection, and establishing start and stop clauses, just to name a few items. BitGravity also talks about things like advertisement injection, virtual...
There are businesses with a rock solid presence and value that won’t have to worry about search and its meaning at all. Take the depanneur here at the corner of the street, your typical corner store with milk, bread, and other assorted useful stuff. I know it’s there. You don’t – and the reason you don’t is because you don’t need this one. When we’re in need of a corner store there’s no reason to pick up the Yellow Pages or get Google buzzing; you know. But obviously we also have business that should worry about search and its meaning....
Last Meals Delivery Service in Toronto will bring you a last meal (but only if you live in Toronto). Not your last meal, but the meal someone on Death Row chose as their last. They all cost $20 and must be ordered a couple of days ahead of delivery. You don’t get to pick it out, but when it’s delivered it comes with a DVD to watch and a paper mask of the convict who selected it. Frank at BlogTO tried it out and wrote up the experience. I don’t know what I was expecting. Possibly someone dressed as...
As you probably know, a couple of weeks ago Google decided to open AdSense for feeds to all publishers, and by doing so they also started the migration of Feedburner feeds to their own servers (Google acquired Feedburner a while ago, that is why). In other words, people that wanted to start using the AdSense for feeds feature would need to apply for a migration, and get their feeds changed from feeds.feedburner.com/feedname to feedproxy.google.com/feedname. The migration process is not smooth and automatic, as one would expect (it is 2008 folks…) Instead you need to manually send a request via this...
