Family still at your house? You need the Altoids tin martini kit

I can deal with most asshats without any issues or violence. If people I know get on my nerves too much I just don’t have to see them again. When it comes to family, we don?t have that luxury. You can’t just stop seeing family in most instances and no one can get on your [...]

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wunderlist is a cross-platform free to-do list manager

wunderlist is a minimalistic, pretty to-do list manager. Here's a quick rundown of what it can and can't do:

Pros:

• Looks: It looks quite pretty. You can change the background, and it's generally just lovely.
• Simplicity: That can also be considered a bad thing, I guess, but wunderlist is very simple. There are no nested tasks, for example.
• Multiple lists: You can easily create extra lists for different contexts and move items between lists.
• Fast search: Search is "live" and updates as you type. It's very snappy, but I only tested it with a tiny list.
• Quick filtering: There are quick links to see tasks due today, tomorrow, within the next seven days, etc. You can also filter by "starred" tasks.
• Online sync: When you save the file, it's automatically synced to wunderlist's online server. Then you can run wunderlist on another computer and keep working on the same task list. I love this feature.
• Cross-platform: It works with OS X and Windows at this point. The Windows version doesn't feel "native" at all, though - it feels like a Mac app running in a Windows window.

Cons:

• Simplicity: There's no smart text processing. If I tell it "Buy food tomorrow," it doesn't realize "tomorrow" is a deadline. It's the same for "Talk to Josh @work" - it doesn't make a list with "@work" (or add to it if it exists).
• No documentation: I know people never read it, but come on, technical writers have to earn a living somehow! Seriously though, I would expect at least an HTML page (other than the "Features" page, which is marketing).
• No mobile app (yet): An iOS app is coming, but there's no talk of Android yet.
• No global hotkey: And that's the deal-breaker for me; as I've said elsewhere, quickly capturing ideas and to-do items is crucial for me. There is currently no way to bring up wunderlist's window with a hotkey.

Bottom line: It's nice, if you like pretty software, and it shows a great deal of promise for the future (if the "cons" above are addressed).

Filed under: Windows, Macintosh

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Destination marketing

Summary: New page: Which arguments make a destination attractive for tourists? Is there a correspondence between what tourists expect from a destination, and how the Destination Management Organizations (DM...

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Which arguments make a destination attractive for tourists? Is there a correspondence between what tourists expect from a destination, and how the Destination Management Organizations (DMO) promotes it?

Webatelier.net (www.webatelier.net), a research laboratory of the Faculty of Communication Sciences at the Universit� della Svizzera italiana (Lugano, Switzerland), conducted a research to define which are the reasons that push tourists to visit a potential destination in the online tourism domain. Moreover the research investigates if the promotion pull factors used by the Destination Management Organization (DMO) correspond to the visitors expectations.

The study, called ?Destination Marketing: why tourists like a destination? A research in eTourism and Argumentation?, analyzed the Republic of Malta as a case study destination.
The research aims at giving a practical contribution to the Destination Management Organizations in finding solutions for developing new marketing strategies and to improve and increase the interest of potential customers.

The study received a strong attention by the academic community, it will be presented at ENTER2011 (The 18th International Conference on Information Technology and Travel&Tourism ? http://www.enter2011.org) and that it will be published in the proceedings.

The study can be downloaded at the following link: http://www.webatelier.net/research/reports/white-paper-destination-marketing

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Land Crawler exTreme robot carries 175 pounds of human

Human-carrying (or human-assisting) robots come in all shapes and sizes, but we haven't seen anything quite like this so-called Land Crawler exTreme bot. Weighing in at just 27 pounds, the robot can apparently carry a person weighing up to 175 pounds (providing they have good balance), or it can simply amble around on its twelve legs all by itself. Practical? Maybe not. But it is quite a sight to behold -- see for yourself after the break.

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iOS 4.2 features: Improved Safari web browser

While AirPrint and AirPlay integration, and Find in Page are the big user-facing features new to iOS 4.2 Safari, MobileXWeb points out that Apple also snuck in a few improvements under the hood: Accelerometer & Gyroscope support through the DeviceOrientation API WebSockets API from HTML5 Updated HTML 5 Form Support Partial XHR-2 Support New JavaScript data types New DOM events Enhanced SVG [...]

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HDHomeRun Prime CableCARD tri-tuner comes one step closer to reality

Originally announced at CES in January, Silicon Dust's entrance into the encrypted cable TV tuner market just reached an important milestone on its way to market: CableLabs Certification -- anytime CableLabs is involved things take longer than anyone expects. The price of the three tuner HDHomeRun Prime is still set at $249, but the hope of being released by the "holidays" seems lost (Thanksgiving counts as one of those days right?). Said product is expected to start production in the next few weeks, after which you'll be able to pre-order the elusive tuner from major retailers. The big question of course is with the Ceton InfiniTV 4 still on a three month backorder, and selling on eBay for over twice its retail price, which should you order? We suggest you pre-order both just to be safe; worst case you end up on the good side of a crazy eBay auction.

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Happy Thanksgiving from TUAW

We may forget it from time to time, but today it's clear: all of us at TUAW are exceedingly thankful that we get to write about what we love and share it with you. We wish you and yours the happiest of holidays.

The pace of posts may be somewhat slower over the next four days as our US team celebrates with family and friends, but we'll still be keeping an eye on the news and the sales through the weekend.

[Also, our apologies for the duplicate comments problem -- our confirmation pages aren't loading as they should. We're working on a fix.]

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