grocerylists.org » Technology http://www.grocerylists.org The Grocery List Collection (weird lists, funny books, downloadable PDFs & more) Mon, 05 Mar 2012 14:54:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Free iPhone shopping list app, and more http://www.grocerylists.org/2010/08/12/free-iphone-shopping-list-app-and-more/ http://www.grocerylists.org/2010/08/12/free-iphone-shopping-list-app-and-more/#comments Thu, 12 Aug 2010 12:25:09 +0000 Bill Keaggy http://www.grocerylists.org/?p=2314 In the App Store!
A while back someone asked if they could use The Ultimatest grocery lists as a starting point for their iPhone shopping list app. I said “go for it!” and have been using it since spring when it was released. It works great and I’m happy to recommend it.

Here’s the deal… everyone who sends in a grocery list during the month of August (through this site only — sorry but snail mail won’t count for this) will be entered into a random drawing to win a promo code for the app. So you’ll get it for free. The app is Awesome Shopping List and truthfully, it’s already a bargain but hey, everyone likes free things, right?

Upload lists here.

Out-of-print!
What else is going on? Hmmm. The Jimmy Kimmel experience was fun. It caused a run on MEV books at Amazon which pretty much immediately sent Milk Eggs Vodka into “out-of-print” status. Here’s hoping there’ll be another edition one day. Thanks to everyone who bought it. You can still get it in lots of places — including Amazon — but the original printing is now officially out.

In honor of this historic occurrence maybe we will make these White Russian Cupcakes, which feature milk, eggs and vodka as ingredients!

Sandwiches!
August is National Sandwich Month and every year I challenge myself to each a sandwich a day for the entire month. So far, so good.



#8: Greek tuna sandwich | NSM2010, originally uploaded by ★keaggy.com.

Good links!

That’s all for now. Bye.

]]> http://www.grocerylists.org/2010/08/12/free-iphone-shopping-list-app-and-more/feed/ 1 Saving money with printable coupons and technology http://www.grocerylists.org/2009/08/28/saving-money-with-printable-coupons-and-technology/ http://www.grocerylists.org/2009/08/28/saving-money-with-printable-coupons-and-technology/#comments Fri, 28 Aug 2009 21:19:53 +0000 Bill Keaggy http://www.grocerylists.org/?p=1924 From the American Chronicle: Contest Winner Shows How to Save With Coupons

Marcia Metzger seems harmless enough.

As she pushes a grocery cart through the produce aisles of Shop Rite in Hudson, her 4-foot-11 frame is further dwarfed by the shopping basket.

She surveys the fruit — nectarines: 99 cents a pound — from behind wire-frame glasses and keeps no shopping list except for the one in her head, where she also stores facts about Martin Van Buren. She knows an awful lot about him because she works as an office automation assistant at The Martin Van Buren National Historic Site in Kinderhook.

Waiting in the seat of the cart usually reserved for wiggling children or delicates like loaves of bread is the thing that makes Metzger one dangerous customer: her coupon folio.

Lime green and plastic and organized in broad categories, that folio can leave a register reeling — backward, of course — as it subtracts, and subtracts and subtracts, from her bill.

Technology is changing coupons — and shopping in general. You can now print valid coupons from your computer rather than browse the weekly newspaper circulars. Here’s a roundup of what’s up:

]]> http://www.grocerylists.org/2009/08/28/saving-money-with-printable-coupons-and-technology/feed/ 0 Coupon Sherpa Mobile Coupons: In Store Coupon Application for the iPhone and iPod Touch http://www.grocerylists.org/2009/05/23/coupon-sherpa-mobile-coupons-in-store-coupon-application-for-the-iphone-and-ipod-touch/ http://www.grocerylists.org/2009/05/23/coupon-sherpa-mobile-coupons-in-store-coupon-application-for-the-iphone-and-ipod-touch/#comments Sat, 23 May 2009 10:33:00 +0000 Bill Keaggy http://grocerylists.org/?p=745 “Coupon Sherpa gives iPhone and iPod Touch users access to in-store mobile coupons and printable coupons (found on the Internet) for many of the most popular retailers. The coupons on Coupon Sherpa are for in-store use and not online use. Coupon Sherpa is the logical next step in the convergence of shopping and technology.”

]]> http://www.grocerylists.org/2009/05/23/coupon-sherpa-mobile-coupons-in-store-coupon-application-for-the-iphone-and-ipod-touch/feed/ 0 Grocery Shopping Out of a Vending Machine http://www.grocerylists.org/2007/10/08/grocery-shopping-out-of-a-vending-machine/ http://www.grocerylists.org/2007/10/08/grocery-shopping-out-of-a-vending-machine/#comments Mon, 08 Oct 2007 10:39:00 +0000 Bill Keaggy http://grocerylists.org/?p=712 “Japan is truly the innovator behind the vending machines, having invented them about 80 years ago. Now the new news is the fact vending machines are popping up all over the country selling beer, underwear, fried foods, potted plants, sexual lubricants, and anything else you could possibly imagine. In fact, it is quite possible this year that a Japanese consumer could complete their entire grocery store list just by hitting the vending machines if they knew where to go.”

]]> http://www.grocerylists.org/2007/10/08/grocery-shopping-out-of-a-vending-machine/feed/ 0 Omigod, the SmartShopper makes shopping lists for you! http://www.grocerylists.org/2007/01/31/omigod-the-smartshopper-makes-shopping-lists-for-you/ http://www.grocerylists.org/2007/01/31/omigod-the-smartshopper-makes-shopping-lists-for-you/#comments Wed, 31 Jan 2007 10:54:00 +0000 Bill Keaggy http://grocerylists.org/?p=646 “Gawd, making a shopping list is just so hard. It’s like, first you need to go find a pad of paper, right? Then you are all like, ‘yo, where my pen at?’ And once you finally get your pen and paper together, you have to like, write down what you need to buy. Who has time for that? Not me, girlfriends. This SmartShopper is great, cause all I have to do is just tell it what I want and it prints a list out for me.”

]]> http://www.grocerylists.org/2007/01/31/omigod-the-smartshopper-makes-shopping-lists-for-you/feed/ 0 Grocist http://www.grocerylists.org/2007/01/25/grocist/ http://www.grocerylists.org/2007/01/25/grocist/#comments Thu, 25 Jan 2007 11:25:00 +0000 Bill Keaggy http://grocerylists.org/?p=644 Wow, this is cool — basically an automated grocery list maker. How it works:
1. You plug a barcode scanner into your computer (preferably one in the kitchen)
2. Simply scan the barcodes of any packages before you discard them.
3. Grocist looks up the product’s information from the UPC database
4. It keeps a running grocery list for you.
(Thanks a.wholelottanothing.org!)

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]]> http://www.grocerylists.org/2006/12/30/f-d-a-says-food-from-cloned-animals-is-safe/feed/ 0 MIT Advertising Lab: future of advertising and advertising technology http://www.grocerylists.org/2006/11/09/mit-advertising-lab-future-of-advertising-and-advertising-technology/ http://www.grocerylists.org/2006/11/09/mit-advertising-lab-future-of-advertising-and-advertising-technology/#comments Fri, 10 Nov 2006 01:57:00 +0000 Bill Keaggy http://grocerylists.org/?p=602 The MIT Advertising Lab thinks you’ll like my upcoming book. I happen to agree. MIT’s blog “follows the future of media and ad technologies, bridging the gap between geekdom and advertising…”

]]> http://www.grocerylists.org/2006/11/09/mit-advertising-lab-future-of-advertising-and-advertising-technology/feed/ 0 High-Tech Shopping Carts Face Hurdles http://www.grocerylists.org/2006/09/27/high-tech-shopping-carts-face-hurdles/ http://www.grocerylists.org/2006/09/27/high-tech-shopping-carts-face-hurdles/#comments Thu, 28 Sep 2006 03:40:00 +0000 Bill Keaggy http://grocerylists.org/?p=573 “It took a grocer’s offer of a cookie to finally tear 4-year-old Trey Malcom away from the small TV screen in his shopping cart. Even then, his eyes shot back to the monitor the moment he accepted the sprinkled treat from the Publix grocery store clerk. ‘He’s in his own world,’ said his mother, Amy Malcom, who was for once at peace as she filled her cart with veggies and snacks.”

]]> http://www.grocerylists.org/2006/09/27/high-tech-shopping-carts-face-hurdles/feed/ 0 Online grocery shoppers heed diet tips http://www.grocerylists.org/2006/09/25/online-grocery-shoppers-heed-diet-tips/ http://www.grocerylists.org/2006/09/25/online-grocery-shoppers-heed-diet-tips/#comments Mon, 25 Sep 2006 11:40:00 +0000 Bill Keaggy http://grocerylists.org/?p=571 “Online grocery shoppers who receive dietary advice make healthier food choices, researchers have found. The Australian team compiled a list of commonly purchased foods that contained up to 92 per cent saturated fat and a low fat alternative for each. In a step toward a healthier heart, shoppers who received product-specific dietary advice reduced the saturated fat in their shopping baskets by 10 per cent compared with those who received general diet tips, the team reports in Friday’s issue of the journal PloS Clinical Trials.”

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