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You’ll blend better in Paris if you use the RATP Metro app and leave the sensible shoes at home
The reputation Paris has for being fashionable (and snooty) can be intimidating to travelers. If you’re coming here, there are so many ways that you can blend in. And trust me, you want to. Because even if you try to … Continue reading
When you need to know what time it is right now in Hong Kong and Austin: Synchronize
I’ve lived in France for over six years and still nobody in my family in California has a clue at any given moment what time it is here. I gave them an easy trick: count back three hours and change … Continue reading
Toshl (and its adorable monsters) keep me from being a total flake with money
I have balanced my checkbook exactly once in my life, shortly after I got my first checking account. I rarely have a precise idea of how much money I have, how much I’ve spent, or what I spent it on. … Continue reading
Printic: shiny, happy, nostalgic prints of your digital pics
I’m old enough to remember when we got a Polaroid camera, when it was the hottest new gadget. The sound it made when it spit the photo out, my dad waving the not-yet-picture around in the air to dry it, … Continue reading
I defy you to guess what kind of music I want to listen to when I feel sexy, Stereomood!
Just not possible! Seriously. Because for any woman it might be princess sexy or dominatrix sexy or anything in between, and they all have different soundtracks. Right? Plus, it looks like a bunch of 25-year-old guys (mostly) put together the … Continue reading
Cowgirl Confab: Sam and Pam talk about Instagram
Instagram is a mobile app that lets you share visual moments, either privately among your own friends and family, or publicly on the Internet, as well as on Facebook, which bought the company this year. Until very recently, you could … Continue reading
Mr Mood will tell you if it’s time to reinvent yourself
The best system I ever encountered in my life was the one where I’d get a slip of paper with a smiley face or a frowny face (or something in between) on it when I picked up my preschool son … Continue reading
Just want to dash in and leave Jim Morrison a joint? iPèreLachaise
So my nephew came to Paris all by himself to visit his auntie for the first time this summer, a week before he turned 13. I planned the gothic and gargoyle teenage boy trip for him, though I did sneak … Continue reading
Billr, so you don’t have to do math after three glasses of wine
I don’t want do math after even one glass of wine. Or before it. Or ever. And, though you want to be cool, after a while you get tired of splitting the check four ways when all you ever order … Continue reading
Yes, Virginia, the world really DOES need another photo app: Starmatic
I am one of those Instagram (IG) people (although with only three food pics out of 642, I’m not one of those Instagram people). But a little part of me died the day Facebook bought IG. I knew that little by … Continue reading
