A conversation with Seattle
For those of you who didn’t already know, Macy’s has a small window to shop their Black Friday specials. For the brave, Macy’s opens its doors at 12 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 23 (the midnight of Thanksgiving night) and deals end that same day at 1 p.m. Yes–that’s 11 hours to shop your little heart out. Continue reading Forget Sleeping, It’s Gonna Be Black Midnight at Macy’s
Tony Ridder, who knows from newspaper past-tenses, was quoted as saying in a 2009 Seattle Business Monthly feature, “Journalistically, The Seattle Times was a good newspaper. But Frank absolutely did not make good business decisions.” It sounds more and more like an epitaph. Continue reading Op-Ed: Careful with That “Fail Faster” Mantra, Seattle Times Company
Browsing is still surfacing off-kilter categories that feel translated from another language–“Exciting Foreign Movies Featuring a Strong Female Lead,” anyone? Sure, but don’t think you know me, HAL! On the desktop, though, you can search by actor or director, and now that’s true of Netflix on Xbox 360 (and PS3), too. Continue reading Can You Search Netflix by Actor or Director? It Depends!
WhitePages does have an iPhone app that lets you do some of the things, manually, that Current does automatically. But it’s on Android that the app is fully integrated, so that it supplements the native Android call screen with relevant information. The result has been called “the future of smartphone calling” (VentureBeat), ” the ultimate app for chit-chat” (GeekWire), and “caller ID for the mobile and social era” (Fast Company). Continue reading WhitePages Makes a Social Splash with Android Caller ID
The most indispensable combo for the hardcore filmgoer is an iPhone with the SIFF mobile app on it. Refreshed for 2012, the app allows you to buy tickets, enjoy a mobile SIFFTER experience (“you are currently viewing 447 films”), and build a list of films you want to see (or went to see, for when things get bleary in week three). Continue reading Download SIFF 2012 to Your iPhone
The Tabbedout mobile phone app (in iPhone and Android flavors) lets you walk into a bar or restaurant, open a tab without reaching for your credit card, eat and drink, and pay–all on your phone. Well, not the eating and drinking part, unless you are messy. If you have ever waited 20 minutes to pay because your waiter got slammed just as you called for the check, or got stuck in a massive line at the end of a show because everyone is paying at once (or trying to), or have blithely walked out of a bar with your credit card tab open, you can see the benefit. Continue reading Inside Tabbedout, the Futuristic Way to Dine (and Drink) and Dash