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With the holidays upon us, many travelers flock to the Big Apple for all its lights and excitement. Now, the savvy traveler can use FROG to search for restaurants, hotels, entertainment, and much more through Mobile City Guide. You can customize your FROG and at the touch of a finger, you have access to many of New York’s sights. Or just use the ‘jump’ menu and select Mobile City Guide from the Travel or Entertainment categories. City dwellers may also find this site useful as well.
I came across this great story from Treehugger and thought what a truly green business card. If you are on a budget, this would make a terrific and environmentally friendly way to promote your business. Soy-based ink could also be used to stamp your companies name and information on the leaf.
To read more from the original article, click here.
Grist.org is one of my favorite stomping grounds for eco-info and this video is just one of the reasons why!
Enjoy your bike fix.
I added Fuelly.com a couple of weeks ago to FROG’s customizable links and have used it twice to log my fuel ups so far. Fuelly helps monitor and track miles per gallon and offers ways to save gas, or hypermile, with the goal of getting more miles per gallon on a tank of gas. One of the tips includes choosing more direct routes or routes with the fewest stop signs. Well, according to a blog post on EcoGeek.org, the FAA is also trying to save fuel by using some hypermiler tricks.
It’s always a pleasure seeing mass transit trying to conserve gas and decrease travel delays.
After signing up with Fuelly, a way to calculate, chart and compare gas mileage (see the post below about Fuelly), I surfed around their website and found out they have a mobile version. I checked it out on my phone and it looks great. I’ve added it to FROG as one of our customizable links, so the next time I fuel up I can enter my mileage right at the pump using FROG! No need to remember my trip milage and gallons filled. Use FROG to chart your gas mileage with Fuelly.
We recently began using some hypermiler tricks to improve our gas mileage for our 2005 Honda Element. Some of these so called “tricks” include driving the speed limit, coasting towards a red light instead of giving it gas, avoiding routes with a lot of stop signs (sort of difficult in Los Angeles), not punching it at a green light, parking in a direction in which you will be moving. It’s the “Slow and Steady Wins the Race” mentality, or just common sense.
Lately, we’ve been reading a lot of informational articles on this topic. One of those postings I found today on EcoGeek.org is about a website, called Fuelly, that let’s you compare your hypermiling to others with the same vehicle to see how your techniques stack up. I signed up and was able to view what other 2005 Honda Element hypermilers are getting on average. The next time I fuel up I can enter my trip meter reading, how many gallons I filled up, and it will calculate how many miles per gallon I got on my last tank of gas. The website also gives tips on how to improve gas mileage. I think I will be a frequent visitor to this site to see if I can improve my techniques and get as many miles to a gallon of gas as I can.
As I have been fruitlessly searching for interesting mobile news and gadgets, to no avail, I came across an article on Treehugger, about the iZip, an electric assist tricycle. Recently I’ve noticed an increase in cycling in my neighborhood and have seen many people riding a similar looking tricycle. It seems the iZip is even available at Wal-Marts, which would make obtaining one fairly simple. This is a great option for people uncomfortable on bicycles, and I’ve met quite a few adults who feel this way, or for those who need the extra stability. The electric assist feature seems helpful too.
Image courtesy of Wal-Mart Online.
Don’t forget to use FROG’s jump menu to get the latest news on the 2008 Beijing Olympics! Using your Jump link, select the Sports category and you will find the NBC Olympics link.
Just another idea to help extend your iPhone battery, which I’ve read doesn’t last very long, a Solar Charging case from MobileFun. MobileFun claims it will provide your iPhone with one full charge, and I assume if the case is fully charged. According to Ecogeek.org it can take up to 10 hours to fully charge the case (if I’m reading this correctly). It seems like a good idea if, at the end of the day, your iPhone is petering out and you need it to last just a bit longer. These are due out in Mid-August for approximately $54.80 USD or £27.95 pounds.
