Free online service for wine lovers

www.corkd.com

Free online service for wine lovers

Cork’d is a free online networking (and more) service for wine lovers. It’s kind of like Flickr for wine.

You can use Cork’d to catalog, rate and review wines you’ve tasted. You can also keep track of wines you’d like to try and buy as well as subscribe to what your buddies have reviewed. It’s a new way to discover and share wine — and we think it’s perfect for people like you.

It’s really a neat service. If you’re new to the WWW (wide world of wine) or a wine expert who’d like to share their favorites with others, Cork’d is the online arena built just for you.

Cork’d

SmartCharge

SmartCharge isn’t sexy, but with two double-A’s it can charge your cell phone in a pinch.
Click here to read full review from PC Magazine.

Hand-Cranked Radio

Sony ICF-B01 Hand-Cranked Radio

Sony announced the ICF-B01, a hand-cranked portable FM/AM radio that might come in handy this hurricane season. It’s battery-powered, but when that internal battery runs down, a minute of cranking gives you an hour of AM reception, 40 minutes of FM and can charge up your cellphone, too. It has an LED light so you can read the instructions on that freeze-dried food, and hey, maybe the cellphones will still be working when the power’s out. All this hand-cranked goodness will be available June 10th for $54.

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Toll-free Numbers To Reach Human Beings

http://gethuman.com/us

 

Our site has information for many types of consumer companies including credit cards, finance companies (banks and mortgages), insurance companies, cell phone providers and many others.

The most popular part of the gethuman website is the gethuman database of secret phone numbers and codes to get to a human when calling a company for customer service. (See also our general tips.)

Affordable Europe

The New York Times published a series of articles on how to travel through Europe affordably.  Click here for the main article (reprinted below)

Affordable Europe

Live well, spend less. It?s a nice concept ? but one that?s often hard to pull off when you are an American tourist traveling through Europe and struggling to find ways to offset the weakness of the dollar. Here is some help: money-saving tips on everything from hotel rooms to cultural events from New York Times correspondents and contributors in 16 major European cities.

• Amsterdam by Gisela Williams
• Athens by Anthee Carassava
• Barcelona by Andrew Ferren
• Berlin by Richard Bernstein
• Copenhagen by Seth Sherwood
• Dublin by Brian Lavery
• Geneva by Anne Glusker
• Lisbon by Pavia Rosati
• London by Heather Timmons
• Madrid by Dale Fuchs
• Milan by Elisabetta Povoledo
• Oslo by Bruce Bawer
• Paris by Elaine Sciolino
• Prague by Evan Rail
• Rome by Brian Wingfield
• Venice by Elisabetta Povoledo