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To Buy Or Not To Buy

December 31, 06 //
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I have seen a few things that I am thinking of buying but I am not sure if it’s worth it. Does anybody have information or opinions on these things?

1. Apara Jammies with Aloe Vera – These are those super soft fuzzy socks with built in Aloe Vera! You are supposed to wear them if you have dry feet. I think they would be great for the winter since my feet can get dry and very cold! I love soft socks too. But how do these work to moisturize your feet? Do they even work? I can’t seem to find any information about socks with built in Aloe Vera. Anybody have experience with these? They are pretty pricy….I saw them at Bed Bath and Beyond for 7 bucks a pair. Even with my 20% off coupon it’s hard to justify paying that much for 1 pair! haha.

2. Chia Herb Garden – Ok, I don’t really have a green thumb AND I don’t even cook that often but when I do it’s such a pain to have to buy fresh herbs when I use so little! Sometimes I just forego the herbs because I don’t have any on hand or I only need like 1 tsp and it’s not worth it to buy a whole bunch just for that. I also think it would be nice to have fresh herbs on hand! The only problem I have with these is it looks extremely small. The box itself is small and supposed to hold 4 pots so I could tell what size it would be. In the picture it looks like it’s so much and so big but I know things like these are very good at advertising themselves to be much better than they really are. The most tempting thing about buying this for me was I saw them at Target yesterday marked down to 7 bucks!!! The list price is 30 bucks! Then again, if something is marked down that much…that’s a bad sign right? :P

Gmail Hacked? And Backing Up Your Emails

December 30, 06 //
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Hey sorry for not being so great about updating this site. It’s the holidays and I am enjoying them. :) Boyrobot’s meet with the parents went great. They loved him! I will update with some pics later on this week.

Anyways, I just read this article about gmail getting hacked(?) and about 60 users’ contacts and emails getting PERMANENTLY deleted. OMG, I’m so glad that didnt’ happen to me! I have close to 1000 emails and 150 contacts in my gmail including a lot of unique information that I don’t store anywhere else. But even though this happened, I still love google and trust them. Although google won’t state how exactly it happened, it was a very isolated incident and considering how many people use gmail, 60 is a very small percentage.

For all of the paranoid people, here’s the gmail help center’s link on how to backup your emails.

On another note, while reading up on gmail I found this article. If you click on this link (make sure you are logged into gmail before you click), you can see who in your list of gmail contacts is “closest” to you by who you email the most often and even the interests you share. My roommate beat out boyrobot for my top spot! hehhe.

Alternative To Evite: Renkoo

December 27, 06 //
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There’s a new website out there hoping to compete with Evite, the popular electronic invitation system. Renkoo, which just opened it’s public beta, is a web 2.0 version of evite. The design and color scheme is very cutesy and the AJAX code makes sending out evites easy on the eyes. I signed up and the only problem I noticed was it was a little slow loading. It’s still in beta though so I expect there to be a lot of problems. My favorite feature so far is being able to import all of my contacts from gmail. It also works for other popular emails like hotmail, outlook, etc. From what I remember, evite did not have this feature. Another cool feature is you are able to add your chat name and it will notify you by Aim or whatever you use about upcoming events. Also, it automatically uses your flickr profile picture for your Renkoo profile picture too!

Some things I noticed that it did not have that evite does are:

1. You can’t create unique invitations with cool themes
2. The profile information is simple and boring. Evite allows you to add your favorite restaurants and review it. I kind of liked that feature even though not everybody used this.
3. From what I see, you can’t see when people view your evites. This was a nifty feature to see if people actually got your evite or not.

One thing I will not miss about Evite is that whenever I sent out invitations about 10% would usually not get it for whatever reason. I hope that does not happen with Renkoo. Perhaps I will try them out the next time I need to send an invitation out.

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