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Cale’s Guide to Efficient Living: Lost Cell Phones and Fruit

January 21, 2010 by Cale

I love finding products/gadgets/services/ideas that increase the quality of life in little ways. I decided to profile some of them here on BYT. If you have suggestions for something I should check out, email me

With all a smartphone can do these days, one feature that is still lacking is a homing beacon (altho there will prob be an app out there before I hit publish).  Granted it’s always under that shirt on the bed, but it still can be maddeningly frustrating when you’re trying to get out the door for work.  There are some locater contraptions out there, but they’re bulky, expensive, and for retards.  There are land lines to give it a call, but I haven’t had one since the 90s.  You can boot up your laptop, VPN in, launch IP Communicator and call it from your virtual desk phone, but if you work at City Bikes that may not be offered.  You could call your friend and have him call it for you but you lost your phone dumb ass.  Don’t fret, http://www.wheresmycellphone.com/ is here to the rescue.  Just plug in your digits and it’ll make it ring.  I also found some weird guy that will do it manually if you email him but the above URL works just fine thank you.

Have you ever eaten an orange?  It sucks dick sauce.  I mean, not the actual eating but the labor intensive process to get to the goods.  Pears?  Never as soft as you want them.  Bananas?  Either too green or too brown.  So I often go for the juice instead cause I’m lazy/picky.  It’s hard to find stuff that’s not full of corn syrup or only contains 3% juice though.  And even when you do find the all natural, the extra pulp varieties, or the Naked smoothies, they don’t quite make up for being able to chew on that sweet sweet plant meat.  Fruit2Day tries to solve that problem by dicing up fruit, dropping it into a broth of 100% fruit juice with nothing else added, and selling it to you for like 3 bucks in a cute little portable bottle.  And well, it’s pretty awesome.  Supposedly it’s two servings of fruit, granted it’s processed and pasteurized and lacking in the fiber you get from eating a whole apple, but it’s still better than drinking a Snapple.  Way better actually.  At first it’s a little strange, sorta like drinking tasty boogers, but I’ve grown quite addicted to these things.  Head over to their web site for a dollar off coupon: http://www.fruit2day.com/

Also of note is the Izze.  Terrible, terrible name, but soooo good.  They take 100% pure juice, and simply add a little sparkling water.  Instant fruit soda without the saccharin and brominated vegetable oil.  Clementine and the elusive Peach are especially good.  http://www.izze.com/

PS. I’m not a hippie or a vegan, I just like my fruit juice all natural yo, I think it tastes better.

In case you missed us last time on Cale’s Guide to Efficient Living:

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