iExplorer HD [review] for iPhone, also available on iPad

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With iExplorer HD you can virtually travel anywhere and be able to open your files from the comfort of your iPhone/iPad. It is not just the cloud servers like Google Drive, DropBox, Sky Drive, CloudMe, Box, Google Docs and Microsoft Live Mesh that it can access but Windows sharing servers as well. The app is pretty easy to [...]

WorldPenScan BT – Wireless Portable Pen Scanner and Translator

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This cool pen scanner works with Mac, Windows and Android devices. You can attach it wireless via bluetooth or use the included USB cable. The WorldPenScan BT works fine as a single line scanner, but the real appeal is in the translation functionality. You can translate between 200 languages, so this gadget could be very [...]

Escape to Whistler – Finding Your Perfect Mountain Resort [infographic]

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Whistler offers a home away from home for every traveler, whether looking for luxury or on a budget … strapping on skis or snowboards or shopping in boutiques … this is the place to be! Whistler Mountain is a mountain in the Fitzsimmons Range of the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains, located on the northwestern edge of Garibaldi Provincial Park. It is the [...]

Welcome to “The City Beautiful”: What Orlando Has to Offer You

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“The City Beautiful”, the nickname for Orlando, Florida, is a fitting moniker for good reason, because it’s beautiful all year long. It is a great place to live and an even better place for a vacation. Fifty-one million people a year can’t be wrong, after all (that is the number of people who choose to [...]

Top Ten Most Expensive Hotel Rooms in the World

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Do you have any travel plans in your future? If so, check your budget and see if you can afford a night at one of these incredible hotels.  The folks at All Time 10s have compiled another awesome list, and this time they rank the ritziest hotels in the world. I don’t know about you, [...]

Ten Must-See Natural Wonders of the World

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Have you made a travel “bucket list” yet? You know, a list of the places you want to visit before your time is up. If you need some ideas, I found a video that might add a few places to that list of “must see” destinations. The only problem is, you won’t find any four [...]

Check Out These Epic-sized Examples of Public Art

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I’ve always been a fan of outdoor art, and I happen to live in Richmond, Virginia, a city with a growing number of impressive, large-scale murals.  On a recent hike around the downtown area of Richmond, I took these photos of my favorite works and thought I’d share them with you. I did my best [...]

These Dock-jumping Dogs Are Guaranteed to Make You Smile

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Every May, Richmond, Virginia hosts a huge outdoor sports festival called Dominion Riverrock and it attracts participants and spectators from all over the U.S. and other countries. Richmond is one of the few cities in America that has a whitewater rapids river (The James) running through it and an extensive running and biking trail system in the [...]

50 cool scenery images, places and spots

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Kick ass view of islands below   Beautiful Norway   Cathedral made out of beer   View of London from a plane view   Some clear water   Fiery sky   Badass air bubble reflection   House in the middle of nature   Slick tree house   Crooked forest in Poland   Dandelion at sunset [...]

Cool Places: The Museum of Edgar Allan Poe

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Richmond, Virginia, is a city full of museums, and a person could spend years exploring all of the art and artifacts that these institutions offer. I must admit that I’m woefully behind on my plan to visit each and every museum here in Virginia’s capitol, but I’m making progress. For example, on a recent Saturday [...]

Cool Places: Wabi-Sabi Sushi in Petersburg, Virginia

The sign for the restaurant, Wabi-Sabi.

I admit, I’m something of a foodie and so I’m always looking for interesting restaurants to check out. One of my recent finds was a great sushi place called Wabi-Sabi, in Petersburg, Virginia. A small town in central Virginia might not seem like the most likely place for awesome sushi, but don’t let the location [...]

Artists Let Imaginations Soar in Street Painting Festival

This is an image of a street painting from February 2012. It depicts the characters Beavis and Butthead.

My advice for any city that wants to give its downtown area an instant upgrade and have a lot of fun in the process – hold a street painting festival like Lake Worth, Florida does every year. Just block off a street, offer some cool prizes for the best creations, and then let a bunch [...]

Costa Rica, Ed Mercer and Entrepreneurial Acknowledgment

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I’m gonna start off by saying that I wish I recorded my videos holding my iPhone horizontally … and I don’t even feel like editing these beautiful videos of Costa Rica with them being vertical. Next time I’ll know better. Although I’ll still post them up periodically over at YouTube.   The individual sitting next [...]

Richard Branson’s Bash at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

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On the forefront of things it’s interesting to see how certain events shape themselves into progressive connections. In case you didn’t know. Sir Richard Branson started a chain of record stores called Virgin Records, after that the Virgin brand grew rapidly during the 1980s. At that time Virgin Atlantic Airways was set up and the [...]