Flashy Favors

Are you trying to come up with a creative, unique favor for your wedding guests? If so, I may have a solution for you. I recently came upon an easy, unique favor that guests would go crazy for.

It's a cute flash drive that you personalize with pictures and your own playlist!

Photo from Real Simple.

You can upload pictures for the guests to take a look at when they get home.

Add your personalized playlist with some of your favorite songs! Guests will be excited to see

if they made the slideshow, as well as hear some of your favorite music.  It's super easy and eco-friendly.

You can buy flash drives that fit with your color scheme, and attach a cute note

thanking the guests for sharing your special day with you.

Check out these adorable ones from Blogshop (I want one so badly!):

If you don't have time to upload the pictures and playlist to each flash drive,

some companies will do it for you.

Check out the Plan Your Meetings website and

go to the Promote Your Message. When you order your flash drives, your sales

representative will help you with the upload process.  You can also check out Lookin Up Promotions.

If you have any creative favor ideas, I would love to hear them!  Feel free to leave us a comment.

Megan

Headed to a Non-English Speaking Country for Your Honeymoon?

Have you and your fiance, discussed who will be the Driver and who will be the Map Reader on your honeymoon travels overseas? 

image from Google Images

Look like a SuperStar on your honeymoon with this app: http://questvisual.com/. 

Instant translations of street signs with your cell phone camera

What if you could point your cell phone video camera at a foreign-language sign and see an instant translation of the words on it? Word Lens allows just that. The iPhone/iPod Touch-only app, released mid-December, uses your camera to perform Spanish-to-English translations, without making a single keystroke on your phone.

Want to know what "las salchichas a la parrilla" means on a restaurant sign in front of you? Just point your camera and Word Lens pulls up the relevant English translation ("grilled sausages") immediately and displays itwithin the image, replacing the Spanish words. So you don't have to go to another screen or wait for more than a half-second.

Another huge plus for travelers: Word Lens works with a built-in dictionary. It does not need to connect to the Internet, and your phone is not hit with data charges while roaming in a foreign country.

Being offline makes it different to Google Goggles, a straightforward translation app for Android and iPhone devices that provides more accurate translations because it pulls results from the Web.

Downsides: Word Lens translations are far from perfect so far, and the tool doesn't recognize handwriting yet. Translations for other languages are in the works, and the focus on Apple products is just the beginning.

Word Lens is "free" to download but you have to pay about $5 for each language you want to translated. The tool is available via iTunes. Find more info about the tool at questvisual.com.

Posted by: Sean O'Neill, Thursday, Dec 30, 2010, 10:03 AM on Budget Traveler: http://current.newsweek.com/budgettravel/2010/12/instant_translations_of_street.html