It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s a USB Port?
Awesome USB Ports -- Courtesy of SmilePanic.com
Somehow we’ve never come across this one before. 2leep.com – a website that features blogs from what seems like EVERYWHERE. If you look through the links, which are endless, you’ll find posts on creative USB Port Drivers, sneakers made out of paper, weird iPhone holders, creative candle designs. That’s just a limited sampling. The posts linked at this site are on every topic you could possibly think of.
Glamour.com let us know that Christian Sirianos designs are available at Payless – all for under $50! Nice. Glamour has also found boots for under $150 – they’re so good to us!
Lastly, Ellen is finally on the cover of O Magazine! She campaigned for months and she’s finally on the cover. Check out the photo shoot here.
Phight Another Day
PhillyBurbs‘ tweets last night were pretty entertaining. Here’s a sample of some of what they had to say:
We like the one about A.J. Burnett having to pay his way back to the Bronx. Poor guy.
Here are some more Halloween recaps: the website focusing on the NYC social scene, Guest of a Guest listed some of their faves, as did tech blog Engadget. The blog as a post about two guys who dressed up like iPhones using massive LCD TV’s. The costumes are expensive and bulky but still pretty cool.
Philly.com’s Snapglow.tv points the way to coverage of a fashion show held at the Philadelphia Art Museum. The show was sponsored by Sak’s Fifth Avenue and featured designs honoring Tom Marotta, the late VP of Couture for the department store.
NBC10’s Lilliana Vazquez dishes out another serving of style recommendations, including over the knee boots. NBC also has pictures of stars who came out for Heidi Klum’s infamous costume party, as well as information on how sales of sheer pantyhose are down.
Test-drive: style iPhone apps
I’m usually pretty sedentary about getting new apps for my iPhone; I’ll forget about it for a couple of months at a time, then be totally astonished at the amount of apps I’d never heard of that are instant “How did I live without this?” classics (having the AP Stylebook be searchable offline is the greatest thing in the world, as is having the answer to every “What the hell is that song, again?” question).
I realized, though, that all my apps were either Sudoku or completely utilitarian, and that I hadn’t even searched through the fashion/style genre. And so, I give you six style-related iPhone applications I tried out, which ranged from the stupid to the seriously useful, so you don’t have to:
APP: iStylist Makeover
COST: $.99
THE GIST: You either take a photo of yourself or use one already on your iPhone, crop your head into a neck-and-body silhouette, and then plop various celebrity hairstyles, hats, glasses and blush colors onto yourself to see how you’d look as Bai Ling or a mourner at the Michael Jackson funeral.
WHAT COULD USE A 2.0: Oh god, this is really terrible. They don’t even make sure the hairstyles they supply fit the weird face shape you have to try to cram yourself into; a bunch of them are clearly from photos in which the celebrity was turned slightly to the side. It appears you can download even more hairstyles in upgrade packs, but good god, I’m already pretty done with this.
ACTUALLY USEFUL?: No, maybe if you’re at a bar
OVERALL: Why is the worst one the only one that’s not free?
Apps that were actually useful, after the jump…