Loading ...“Press one for English.” Here’s a better idea: use Fonolo. It makes the call to that large, impersonal corporation, presses the right buttons and stays on hold for you until a human comes on the line. Then your phone rings and voilà, you can talk to a live person about your account. Fonolo even gives you the option to record your conversation as an MP3, just in case your chat with customer support becomes an argument. Is this for real? Totally! How does it know what you want it to accomplish? Fonolo shows you a visual map of the phone trees of various big companies and allows you to pick your point of entry. A computer does the rest.
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Most serious travelers carry a folder with printouts of their flight, car and restaurant reservations. With TripIt, you can simply forward all that information to plans@tripit.com, and the website’s “itinerator” does the rest. Everything is organized in one place, and the itinerator will fetch weather forecasts and maps, so you’ll be totally prepared. The information can be printed, accessed via iPhone and shared with friends. Even cooler, a social-networking feature of TripIt will alert you if you’re about to cross paths with a friend who is also signed up with the service. So if you and one of your old buddies happen to have a similar layover, you’ll know beforehand and be able to meet up.tripit
OpenTable is the leading supplier of reservation, table management and guest management software for restaurants. In addition, the company operates OpenTable, the world’s most popular website for making restaurant reservations online.
The old way of cooking at home included figuring out what you wanted to eat, looking up the recipe in a cookbook, buying the ingredients and whipping the meal up. Here’s the Supercook way: Open your fridge and pantry, type the ingredients you have into the site’s search bar and stand back. Supercook will look through its database of 300,000-plus recipes and spit out the ones that match. The result? You can start cooking right away, using food that would otherwise spoil. It’s a painless alternative to traditional menu-planning and a great way to find new recipes and economize at the same time. Check it out for yourself
