WAF’s Five for Friday – touch, tap and slide with ease, free ebook downloads, magazines for a steal…
by editor
Filed under On Life, WAF's Fab Finds
Five fabulous finds we think you’ll like…
1. It’s freezing cold! You’re all bundled up, but you’ve got to make that phone call or get to that app on your iphone. Enter Etre Touchy gloves. The gloves are designed without thumb and index fingertips, allowing you to “touch, tap, stroke, slide and pinch your devices’ controls in any way you desire.” Sounds clever (and a bit suggestive.) The gloves, sold by a company out of the UK, are about $30 and come in four designs. It’s great for photographers too!
2. Fashionistas, there’s a search engine just for you! Glimpse.com (Now a part of TheFind.com) lets you browse for high-fashion apparel and accessories by look, category, store or brand. You can request sales alerts via email and even grab that great necklace or those perfect jeans you saw your favorite celeb wearing.
3. Magazines at 50% – 90% off cover – Everyone knows Amazon.com is great for deals on just about anything, but did you know that you can get magazine subscriptions like Cosmo, O Magazine and Newsweek for as little as $.65 per issue? And now through February 28th, there’s an extra $5 off some of their most popular titles.
4. Teach a man – or woman – to fish… Kiva.org’s goal is to help alleviate world-wide poverty by allowing micro-lenders like you and me to give as little as $25 to an applicant in the need of funding for their business. The site’s home page includes the faces and stories of men and women from all over the world (including the U.S.) for which a micro-loan can help jump start or sustain their businesses and in turn, their families. Kiva handles payment disbursements and boasts a 1% default rate and a 97% on-time repayment rate. Because Kiva’s a charity, you won’t earn interest on your loan – well, not the monetary kind anyway. We’re signing up today!
5. Project Gutenberg was the webs first producer of free ebooks. On Project Gutenberg, you can download over 30,000 free ebooks to read on your PC, iPhone, Kindle or other portable reading device. The books are available for free, and legally, because their copyrights have expired. Browse their online catalog by author, title or top 100. The site is great for classics including those from Jane Austen, Charles Dickens and Frederick Douglass.
