Know Your Wines for the Holidays (Articles from BNET)

Almost too late for the holidays...but better late...

If you're like me, you enjoy the occasional bottle of wine; but when it comes to selecting that bottle, it can be a challenge. There are so many wineries and so many varietals of wine. Any help I can get before going into the liquor store relieves some of the anxiety. For me, it is fun to just go up and down the aisles and look at the cards that our local store (Premier Wines) has in front of many of the bottles; which list ratings and taste qualities.

BNET has a very good article summarizing all the varietals of wines available:
Wine Types: What They Are and Where They're From

While your at it look at this article on BNET for a lot more information on wine:
Hot to Survive Dinner with a Wine-Snob Boss

Web Browser Recommendation...Switch Off Of Netscape

AOL announced today that after Feb. 1, 2008 it will no longer be supporting (issuing updates for) the Netscape web browser. Myself, I haven't used Netscape in years. I'm a big fan of Mozilla Firefox (and Thunderbird for the email client). With AOL no longer supporting Netscape, if you continue to use the browser, you will open yourself up to potential security threats. Switch to one of the other available browsers (IE, Firefox, Opera, etc.) now so you can get adjusted to the 'change of scenery'. In the Netscape Blog, they even suggest switching to Firefox and installing the extension to add the Netscape theme (will give the appearance of Netscape). This is what I love about Firefox, the program is open so programmers are able to create extensions/add-ons which you can install to greatly increase the utility of the program. Maybe sometime I'll list all of them that I use just for reference (for now, visit the Squidoo lens I made which has some of my extensions).

Free Recipe of the Week at Gooseberrypatch.com

I know there are lots of free recipes out there. I just came across this one that sounded particularly good to me at Gooseberrypatch.com. Register for an account to see previous recipes of the week.

Free Recipe of the Week at Gooseberrypatch.com

Evernote Portable Free Download Today at GiveAwayOfTheDay.com

Very worthwhile download at GiveAwayOfTheDay.com for today only. This program I've heard has gotten rave reviews.
Resolve to get organized in 2008...starting with Evernote Portable. This freebie is the portable version which you install on a USB drive or memory card and carry with you. Especially with the plugins for FireFox and Thunderbird and Internet Explorer you can easily clip into a note almost anything (webpages, emails, spreadsheets, documents, pictures). It has some sort of word recognition where if you type into its search function 'thrifty', for example, it will find all notes with 'thrifty' in it including any pictures which might have the word thrifty in it. Very good categorization. Can create to-do lists, shopping lists, expense reports, etc.
I've installed it on my drive. I'll be trying it out over the next few weeks. Download it today because the free offer expires at midnight. Read more about Evernote Products on their website: Evernote

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Try Feevy to Create a Dynamic Blogroll

I came across this site called Feevy which lets you create a widget containing a list of blogs to put on your blog side bar. See the Feevy in my side bar. Kind of a different way to create a blogroll (although it does take up a lot of space). It lists the blogs which I like as well as a preview of their most recent post.