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Make Tuxedo Rental A Thing of The Past

dickybow.ie logoIf I was a bit more confident that my waist size wouldn’t change I would definitely stop renting tuxedos.

I’m not sure what the going price for renting a tux is, but I know that it can easily hit the €75 mark.

So surely it would make more sense to own a tux?

The people behind DickyBow.ie seem to think there is a market in online tuxedo sales and I’d have to agree with them

Basic maths – full tuxedo from Dickybow.ie from €150 (delivered) vs. €75 for one night

They’re even offering a printable measuring tape on the site! Nice touch.

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Comment on Images Easily With Finetuna

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Being able to upload an image from your computer and add notes to it can save a lot of time and hassle.

Images are easier to understand than words!

Finetuna is a pretty cool service which allow you to do just that.

You can grab an image off your hard drive. Upload it and add comments and notes. Once you’re ready you can pass the link to it to someone else and they can continue the work and so and so on.

It’s a really nice idea and best of all it’s free!

And did I mention it was Irish?

I guess I should have done.

Finetuna is from the guys in SpoiltChild (they’ve done a lot of work for me over the years, so I may be a wee bit biased)

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IMDB The Ultimate Movie and TV Database

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I think I first accessed IMDB sometime during my first year at university. At the time, 1994, the site was still in its infancy, even though it held a lot of information.

Skip forward 14 years and The Internet Movie Database (IMDB) has to be ranked as one of the most useful sites on the web if you’re anyway interested in film or tv. The site is packed with information on films, actors, directors and upcoming releases.

Unfortunately  you cannot get local movie times unless you’re in the UK or US, but even so the wealth of information that the site provides is amazing.

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Louder Voice Reviews

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People buy goods and services based on recommendations from other people. You can advertise to your heart’s content, but other people’s recommendations make all the difference.

LouderVoice, which is Irish by the way, allows people to share their reviews of products, services, books, films, etc., etc. very easily. You can either post your review directly on their website or interact with them using a range of other methods, such as SMS or “tags” on your blog or twitter.

While the service always struck me as being “cool” and all that I couldn’t see how they were going to make any money out of it. However they have since unveiled their business solutions which do have a proper revenue stream.

Their new business service allows business owners to easily collect reviews and testimonials from their customers (one company is encourages customers to post reviews by putting stuff on the bottles they sell!)

It’s a really nice idea and hopefully the business side of it will prove successful.

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Amazon Makes Parting With Your Money Easy

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I’ve been buying books, cds, dvds and other stuff from Amazon for about ten years. One of my lecturers in university introduced me to the site and it’s been downhill ever since (it’s been a wonderful ride, but my credit card suffers!)

While Amazon is not without its flaws (some of its shipping policies have sparked debates in the past) it is still, without a doubt, the best place to shop online as far as I am concerned.

Why?

Because the stock everything from the latest releases through to weird albums that only a handful of people are going to want to buy. A lot of the smaller vendors won’t bother, but that’s one of Amazon’s selling points.

The “recommendations” have led me to discover new music, new writers and a number of new films. At times it will fail miserably by recommending a load of stuff to me simply because I bought a book for my younger sister, but that’s acceptable to me.

Amazon makes spending money easy. If the main store doesn’t carry the item you want the marketplace vendors probably do!

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