Just a quick note to let you know that Diary of a Smart Chick hasn’t gone anywhere in spite of it being a bit quiet around the blog recently. I’ve been gearing up to go on a short trip and it’s gotten a little bit too hectic to stay on top of updating all of [...]

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There are some wild predictions floating around about the predicted growth of Android-based mobile phone handset sales. Analysts in the industry are saying that there will be more than ten million of these handsets sold before the year is over. That’s a 900% increase! Is it possible?
It’s probably true that there will be a large [...]

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Networking is one of the most important things that you can do to grow your business and improve yourself professionally. Although today’s networking takes place primarily online, there are a lot of places where you can go to meet business contacts in person.
Examples of places where you might make new business contacts include:

Conferences. Business associates [...]

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There’s a reason that they call them smartphones. Today’s advanced mobile phones serve as mini-computers that can take a lot of things off of your mind. You hardly have to remember anything on your own because you can program your phone to remember things for you.
The most obvious example of this is phone numbers. It [...]

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I was just compiling pictures of canopy beds for a design article over at Houzz.com. I’ve never had a canopy bed but I used to really want one when I was younger. I can think of a few reasons that I’d still like to get a canopy bed.
Canopy beds seem great because:

They’re playful. They just [...]

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Creative Commons is a really great site. It allows artists and writers to copyright their work and to clearly lay out rules for other people to use that work. As someone who publishes content on a near-daily basis, I really love the opportunity to use creative commons to find work that I can publish.
For the [...]

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I was recently reading about the fact that Windows Mobile 6.5 is designed to have voice recognition software. It’s a really cool idea because it means that people using mobile phones with this service will be able to do hands-free texting, web surfing and dialing. Despite the fact that I think it’s cool, I doubt [...]

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I am one of those people who pretty much ignores every “deal” that I’m offered. What I’ve learned is that I rarely need what’s being offered and the “deal” almost always turns out to involve too many terms and clauses to make it actually wortwhile.
Despite this, I do know that there are some amazing promotional [...]

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Most people do the work that they do in order to earn an income. And the majority of people wish that they earned more than they do for the work that they are doing. However, there are things that matter more to employees than earning money does.
Some of the top things that employees care about [...]

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I frequently read blogs about coupons, frugal living and how to save money. Reading about these topics helps inspire me to reduce my own spending so that I can live a simpler life. Some of the most popular blogs related to this topic are the blogs of coupon queens, women who have turned the use of [...]

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