By: Co-Editor, Bobby B:

A lot of you may have heard of the diet book Eat This, Not That. It is the wildly successful diet book from Men’s Health Editor-in-Chief David Zincenko and Men’s Health food and nutrition editor Matt Goulding.
The book does an excellent job exposing the obscene number of calories in certain foods, such as Outback’s Aussie cheese fries that weigh in at 2,900 calories, Chili’s Awesome Blossom at 2,710 calories , and Lonestar’s 20-ounce T-bone — an astonishing 1,540-calorie steak. And as a result, several restaurants have removed calorie-laded items from their menus.

However, most of us presumably do not walk around with a book under our arm that will let us know what is in the foods we eat. Now comes an iphone application developed by a San Franscisco entrepreneur that was designed to enhance not only healthy eating but food safety as well. Dwayne Ratleff, the sole proprietor of a house keeping business spent six months developing the recently launched iPhone app-Don’t Eat That.
The app is based on the premise that most consumers are not able to understand, let alone pronounce, many of the ingredients listed on food labels. Their food decisions are frequently based on convenience and taste, with few knowing the impact of what they are actually eating. The Don’t Eat That app was designed to enhance food safety with the touch of a finger. Read more

By: Co-Editor, Bobby B:

Small business owners, I have another valuable resource that you might want to check out.

Winmark Business Solutions is an online small business resource center that provides entrepreneurs and small business owners with a wealth of free business management tools and small business information. They recently announced the launch of its newly redesigned site, which is enhanced with the latest social networking functionalities to provide users with an interactive and personalized experience.

Founded in 2004, Winmark Business Solutions is a division of Winmark Corporation. Winmark Corporation is a franchiser of over 850 value oriented stores including Play It Again Sports ® , Once Upon A Child ®  Plato’s Closet ®  Music Go Round ® and Wirth Business Credit ®.

Winmark Business Solutions currently works with more than 800 small businesses in North America and have become experts in helping businesses succeed. With over 6,000 pages of comprehensive, detailed and accurate business information, Winmark Business Solutions is a wonderful free online resource for small businesses. WBS online provides a resource of tools for success, articles from leading industry publications and selected vendor partnerships to save time and money.
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By: Co-Editor, Bobby B:

The Internet is the perfect vehicle for aggregating information for those disseminating and those consuming that information. However, as myriad startups demonstrate everyday finding a niche that will bring user back over and over is the hard part. Usually, when a site does heed that call, it is almost so simple that you want to say, “why didn’t I think of that.”

The newly launched Rentjungle.com based in Pittsburgh is just such a site. The concept is simple, but it is in the execution that it succeeds. If you are looking to rent an apartment this site should be your first stop.

The site has more listings than any other online site, and its innovative technology shows you every available listing on a user-friendly map. You instantly know where each vacancy is located and what’s nearby: parks, shopping, ultra hip watering holes. Rentjungle.com works much like Google in that it scours the Internet and pulls together apartment listings from a variety of sites and puts the listings on a single results page.

RentJungle.com launched on June 1, 2009 and within four weeks had experienced nearly 1000 unique daily visitors though word-of-mouth advertising only. Behind its success is Rick Ferris, a real estate broker with over 30 years experience in residential and commercial realty. He founded RentJungle.com to fill a real void in the online real estate market by offering a simple, easy-to-use directory and one-stop-shop destination for leasers.
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By: Co-Editor, Bobby B:

Getting leads is an integral part of many businesses. Sales lead websites are everywhere on the web. Sites such as Salesgenie, and Hoovers are United States based companies that provide leads to businesses.

Now comes London based WebleadsB2B. This startup, launched just this past month, seeks to enable marketing and sales executives to improve sales by providing B2B lead generation solutions that capture, identify and convert both visible and invisible visitors.

They deliver a fast online service that combines the ability to single out your target audience from the many who visits your websites, with a state-of-the-art user interface. They state that their company is the first to optimize, integrate and simplify combined marketing and sales efforts for b2b companies.

WebleadsB2B is the brainchild of its two co-founders, Richard Charles and Laurent Zuijdwijk, who met while working on lead generation projects together. Both have a great wealth of knowledge in developing Web applications and have worked for a number of successful web based companies such as Tridion, one of the most successful web content management vendors of today, and Silverstream, a leading Java based web development solution.

After years of experience in the content management and digital marketing space, they sought to build a new generation of lead generation software that offers a more attractive, effective and affordable way for marketing and sales executives to improve their sales results and reduce costs. After years of trying a number of difficult-to-use and over-priced solutions in this market, they applied their development expertise and practical business knowledge to develop WebleadsB2B, which they feel, is a new best-of-breed lead generation platform.

So try the free 30-day trial and see if it is better than they other sites out there. I believe it is.

By: Co-Editor, Bobby B:

Our reader base is legion with those who spend countless hours at their desks and at their computers. Hand stiffness, elbow pain, and wrist pain are the inevitable results of this sedentary lifestyle.

Clinically Fit, Inc., a Melville, New York based company, has created a device to deal with these problems and as well as other repetitive motion injuries such as arthritis, tendonitis, tennis elbow and carpal tunnel syndrome.

After three years of research and development The Xtensor was released in June of 2007 and has changed the way people deal with common issues affecting the upper extremity.

Winner of the prestigious Medical Design Excellence Award, The Xtensor is the first product to correctly counteract the gripping actions our hands go through every day by strengthening the muscles that open the hands to improve core strength and stability in the wrists and elbows allowing users to better handle repetitive stress and improve dexterity in the fingers.
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By: Co-Editor, Bobby B:

Numbers, in the form of passwords, IDs, account numbers, and phone numbers etc., pile up every year. In addition, health care information and financial information are more detailed and complicated than ever.

A Chicago based start-up launched in early September of 2009 provides an online solution to this prolific personal information explosion.

Orggit.com (Short for “organize it”) is an online solution that allows its users to store so-called wallet information, medical information, passwords, and documents all in one secure online location. Orgitt.com’s customers can access all of their information anytime; anywhere they may need it–wherever there’s an Internet connection. The company offers a free iPhone application that allows for true on-the-go access. With the emergence of cloud computing and storage, Orggit.com aims to be at the forefront of consumer focused solutions.

Orggit.com empowers its users to organize, store, and retrieve life’s essential information anytime, anywhere. You can neatly store your personal and family medical information, and retrieve it from any computer or smartphone with an internet connection.
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