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Foodsnooper Canada’s Food Delivery and Takeout Guide

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My husband and I don’t order take out too often, but when we do we think of it as a treat for ourselves. Perhaps we’ve had a great day or week work wise or maybe it’s been a terrible and exhausting day – it’s still a treat when when we order take out or have a meal delivered.

I’ve just heard about a new website called Foodsnooper. It’s billed as Canada’s Food Delivery and Takeout Guide. This is fantastic because I live in Toronto and this site will make it that much easier for me to find some great new restaurants to order food from when we’re in the mood.

The site is just about to fully launch so I don’t think they have quite as many restaurant listings yet as they should. I say this because I live in the heart of the Danforth in Toronto and when I typed in my Address and postal code it only came up with one restaurant for my area. The results probably should have shown at least 100 that delivered and maybe another 100 that were just take out.

Once they get more restaurant listings I think it will be a great site to use. I mean, just type in your address or postal code and a map comes up that shows you all the restaurants in your area. From there you can specify which type of food you are interested in and narrow your choices. Once you select a restaurant you can click on the magnifying glass and the map will zoom in to show you where the restaurant is located. You’ll also have a bubble that shows the restaurant address and phone number.

It looks like you’ll be able to view the restaurant of your choices promotions and menus too. I think that’s great. I hate calling a place that I don’t have a menu for and taking a lot of time on the phone asking the person who’s answered what’s on the menu. I’d rather know before I make my call. In fact, when a restaurant has a website that allows ordering to be done on line I’ll often make my orders right from my computer. Perhaps they’ll include restaurant websites soon too.

If you’re Canadian, keep an eye on this site. I’ve bookmarked it and I’m hopefully that they will list more restaurants in my area soon.





Submit posts to Thoof and then use the ThoofRank badge to measure your articles popularity

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Surely by now you’ve been hearing all the buzz about Thoof?

Just in case you haven’t I’ll tell you about it. Thoof is a site where you can read interesting current news stories, blog posts, watch videos or look at photos that have been submitted by Thoof members. It’s a great way to keep track of what’s happening in the world and you might even discover some websites or new blogs to read by viewing stories on Thoof.

The more you visit Thoof the better Thoof gets to know what stories you like. Each time you click on a story that interests you Thoof remembers that you were interested in that type of topic so the next time you visit the site you’ll see stories that might suit your interests based on your past Thoof visiting history. In this way Thoof can become your very own personalized news website.

Membership in free and once you become a member you can submit interesting articles that you’ve written, or posts from your blog or other sites you’ve visited.

I’ve heard from other bloggers and they say that once they started submitting some of their posts to Thoof they started seeing an increase in traffic to their site. So you could say that Thoof is another way to promote your website!

Once you submit a story to Thoof you’ll have the option to add a ThoofRank badge to the article that you’ve just submitted. When you add the ThoofRank badge you’ll be able to see at a glance just how popular your story is on Thoof.

You might even say that the ThoofRank button could give you an idea as to how well you’ve written a story that grabbed the Thoof members attention.

I’m going to submit this post and then I’ll put a ThoofRank badge on this post to see how popular my story is on Thoof. It’ll also give you an idea of what the badge looks like and how it works once you see it.

Why not visit Thoof today and see if there are any stories that interest you. Also, don’t forget to submit one of your own riveting posts to the site and watch the visitors flock to your blog!

Turn a photo into a canvas wall hanging

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I don’t know how many of you read my other blog Tricia’s Musings but I’ve been talking about a great company called Canvas On Demand on that site.

Why? Well I visited their site and discovered that I could use their service to have one of my favorite photos printed on canvas.

When I saw the site and read more about their service I thought to myself “Wow, getting wedding photos printed on canvas would make great anniversary gifts”, not only that, any kind of favorite photo printed on canvas would make a great gift for friends or family or it could be used in your own home.

So I uploaded one of my favorite photos and in less than 10 days they sent me my new canvas! Take a look:

Canvas on demand - Monarch butterfly

Isn’t that gorgeous? I’m thrilled!

The company is great too! They emailed me and kept in touch with me throughout the whole process. I’m very happy with their service and their product.

Now I just have to decide where to put my new canvas!

In the old days before our PVR

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I was just thinking about something I used to do when people would call while I was watching a television show that I didn’t want to miss. I used to switch the TV over to closed captioning. Sure it distracted me a little bit from my telephone conversation, but I could still keep up to some degree with what was going on in the show.

Now of course we have a PVR. That’s like a TIVO for those of you who don’t know what a PVR is. We almost always record our favorite shows on the PVR because we don’t always watch the shows when they are on TV. We watch them hours later. One bonus to this is we can skim through all the commercials.

The PVR also lets us pause or even rewind a live program. I love this! If the phone rings while I’m watching something interesting or if I need to use the washroom or go cook dinner I can either just pause the program or let it run and rewind it back to where I’d left off when I’m ready to watch the show again.

I love it!

Who else has a PVR?

Changing advertising trends?

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It seems that over the last few days I’ve been on a writing frenzy. I can’t keep up.

I’m not complaining. By no means am I complaining at all. It’s just that I keep getting link requests, article requests, offers to send me samples, and private offers from big affiliate companies. I’m quite happy that all of this is happening, but it’s hitting all at once. How’s a girl to adjust???

Since the work has been coming to me I’ve barely been looking for work in my usual paid blogging haunts. They’ve been a little slow lately anyway which makes all the private offers I’ve been getting all the more surprising.

Perhaps internet advertising trends are changing?

Has anyone else noticed an increase in private offers? Surely a few of you must be getting some new action as well.

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