Find recipes based on available ingredients

Allrecipes.com lets you search their recipe database based on ingredients you have available, or want to cook with, and also lets you exclude recipes that have particular ingredients. 

Allrecipes Recipe Ingredient Search

Source: Lifehacker

Leasing Luxury Items

Leasing luxury with the click of a mouse

BY ANNE D’INNOCENZIO

Associated Press

NEW YORK - Ever want to borrow the latest Fendi bag for a month or drive around in a bright yellow Lamborghini for a day?

A number of companies are tapping into consumers’ penchant for leasing luxury. They’re targeting both the affluent who don’t want to hold on to anything for long and those less monied folks who want to get a taste of the lifestyles of the rich.

Seattle-based online service Bag Borrow or Steal allows customers to borrow designer handbags through a monthly membership fee. New York-based Gotham Dream Cars will deliver exotic cars like a Lamborghini Gallardo to customers’ doorsteps for a rental fee ranging from $595 to $1,950 per day.

Golf manufacturer Callaway Golf Co. is making it easier for customers to trade in old golf clubs and get discounts on new ones at 4,000 golf stores and pro shops nationwide.

The retailers get reimbursed for the price difference, and Callaway resells the old clubs on a website called callawaygolfpreowned.com.

Then there’s Portero, a two-year-old online luxury exchange site that sells secondhand high-end electronics, fashion, jewelry, art, cars and home items.

The site now has 8,000 buyers and 6,000 sellers registered.

”The whole mind-set is changing. Customers are no longer buying things to hold on to,” said Daniel Nissanoff, president of Portero. ”The brands need to embrace this, and the retailers need to embrace this.” Nissanoff is also the author of FutureShop, a book about the new auction culture.

Picture Cloud

http://www.picturecloud.com/

From the website: Picture clouds bring photos to life by showing items on the web from a new perspective. With a little creativity, you can now show items online just like you see them in person. Whether it is a house for sale, or a fun 360 of yourself, picture clouds are easy to create and easy to post. No software to download, no special cameras needed, and no signup is required, and best of all - picture clouds are free.

Picture clouds can…
  •Show around items up to 360°
•Assist in consumer buying decisions
•Be created in under 5 minutes
•Be placed in your web pages, auctions, blogs, personals, emails, and more…
free

See an example here: http://www.picturecloud.com/examples.php

Bates Stamping in Adobe Acrobat 7

With Adobe Acrobat 7, Bates stamping documents is simple, and you can preview the results.  For the lawyers reading this, this is an especially great tool for document production. Here’s how you do it:

Go to:

1. Document|Add Headers and Footers

2. Click the footer tab.

3. You’ll see three windows reflecting the left, center, and right side of your document.  Whatever you type in a particular window will appear on that side of your document.  Any variables, such as date or page number, will appear to the right of your text.  So, for example, if you want the first page to say "Plaintiff’s Documents 0001" you type "Plaintiff’s Documents 000" and then, click on "insert page number."  The first page will then read "Plaintiff’s Documents 0001."

4. Click "preview" in the bottom right corner to make sure everything appears as you expect.

Swim MP3

Underwater music for swimmers

             
The SwiMP3 consists of swim goggles with an MP3 player using headphones that rest flat on the cheek bones, between your ears and your eyes, so that you hear the music through bone conduction rather than through your ears.

Music breaks up the tedium of lap swimming, of course, but even better is the fact that it encourages proper form. It sounds better when your head is in the water, so I keep my head down.

Source: Cool Tools