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I’m pleased to announce the official launch of the world’s largest recipe search engine; www.recipebridge.com

Recipebridge helps anyone who uses the Internet as a source of cooking knowledge to more efficiently find quality recipes.  Today, cooks using the Internet use general search engines or specific cooking websites to find recipes.  RecipeBridge eliminates the inefficiency of visiting multiple websites by providing one search engine that allows a user to search all recipes on the Internet in a simple and easy manner.

Please feel free to send me any feedback on the site that you may have or partnership inquires for that matter.  In all I hope that this site helps other people quickly and easily use the Internet to find great recipes!

Sincerely, 

Andy Theimer

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I was searching Amazon.com for a particular Beethoven album that I lost many years ago. It had a great presto piano concerto from Sonata No.7 (very fast piano playing) and I was jones-ing to listen. I found the cd I was looking for and examined the option to buy it used for $5 but paused to think; shouldn’t this music be public domain and basically free? After all Sug Knight wasn’t around to shake down Beethoven or Mozart. I did a quick search on public domain Beethoven music and found Musopen.com which has a large collection of freely downloadable classical music. True, the performances here aren’t by the London Pops but it’s not bad if you’re just looking for a few piano sonatas or a casual listener. Heck, you can even follow along and print the Beethoven sheet music. Here’s a link to a couple of my favorites:

Moonlight Sonata (also known as the theme song for the 1985 PC game Thexder)

Sonata No. 7 in D Major, Op. 10 No. 3

Enjoy!

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I’ve been using http://kuler.adobe.com/ to create website color schemes for months now. It’s a simple, free, easy-to-use tool that finds analogous, monochromatic, triad, complementary, and compound colors that look great together. Give it a try

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Back in 2003 I approached my friend and go-to designer Scott about a cooking website and not just any cooking website but one aimed at helping men cook dinner for a woman  the site was called www.dinnerforher.com.  Scott crafted an amazing logo and I started doing some research.  Here are some of the great books I uncovered in the process:

Win Her With Dinner

Cooking to Hook Up

Well, at the end of the day there just wasn’t enough interest in the subject matter for me to continue and the project stands where it is today.  I’m writing on this topic because Techcrunch posted an article yesterday about a new site with a similar goal: Culinary Seductions

Hopefully I’m proved wrong and millions of women will have dinner made for them tonight.

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I was recently planning a January 08 trip to visit a friend in Phoenix and ended up being plunged into a jungle of travel websites all promising me the best fare, what was I to do?

The Answer: Spend several days searching and monitoring the all too standard travel sites; Hotwire, Orbitz, Expedia, and Travelocity for the best flight deal to AZ.  In the process I came across several tools that were a great help which I wanted to share with everyone.

1. Farecast – http://www.farecast.com

Farecast allows you to search flights from all of the major aforementioned travel sites but at the same time provides you a handy historical graph of prices for your trip.

Lucky me! I happened to be searching for my ticket around the 6th of December (the low spot on the graph) Farecast correctly predicted that prices were rising (holiday traffic no doubt) and I got in on a great deal; $202 from Milwaukee to Phoenix on Midwest. 

2. Kayak – http://www.kayak.com

Kayak has been around for several years now and has helped me find the best fare on several trips.  That said, there’s very little special about Kayak other than it searches all the major travel sites and airline direct sites to  show you the best fares.  It’s a good site to check out if you’re looking for a ballpark price but I often find myself heading over to :

3. Orbitz – http://www.orbitz.com

Orbitz is just like the other travel sites out there but I find their interface well organized and the process of booking painless.  Furthermore Orbitz offers a grid-view of the search results

this is what I mean when I say organized, it’s easy for me to find flights that match my search and compare the cheapest with preferred airlines (Midwest & Frontier). 

 Added 12/20 – I just read a review from TechCrunc that taked about www.Mobissimo.com as another great site to get travel info, and although my trip is already planned I’ll be sure to try this one next as it looks great.

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