Optimalresume.com and other videos resumes services help create impressive presentations for job seekers.

In this tight job market, anything that can help job seekers to have an edge and land that interview, is a plus. In that context, video resumes are emerging as an interesting avenue worth exploring and several companies have positioned themselves as the leaders in that area.
These companies require job seekers to register with them and then use their computers' web cams to record their videos. Once recorded, the multimedia resumes will be uploaded to the sites with links forwarded to potential employers.
The Wall Street Journal tested four different video resumes sites and found that two of them require that users type in manually all their information that would go on a traditional resume, while some of them are more hands on than others.
The four sites tested were: Resumebook.tv, Optimalresume.com, InterviewStudio.com and Britetab.com. Among the three, only Resume.tv was a free service while the three others charge fees of $8 or $50.

For more, see WSJ.com

Unhub Web-service allows you to create a landing-page for all your Web activities.

If you are an active Web user with a heavy presence in social network sites and want a central point to go to access all the sites that you frequent the most, Unhub.com may appeal you.
Described by AppScout as "part personal landing page, part quick-access to your presence on the Web," Unhub.com is like a parking place for all your profiles in social networking sites, blogs and other places. You can use it as your start page and have a "personal profile bar" at the top of the page with links to all the services you've linked for a quick access right from the browser.
The personal profile bar has a unique URL that you can link to all your social network or personal blogs or sites. Doing so will give you a central point that links to all your points of interest, allowing you to choose where to go from there, just like a remote control.

For more, see AppScout.com

iPhone 4 enveilled to the public for the first time.

Weeks after the the lost iPhone's saga and the mini drama that enfolded, Apple finally unveiled the new iPhone called iPhone 4, yesterday. From the exterior, the new phone is thinner than the previous one thanks to its stainless frame that serves also as an antenna.
One of the phone striking new features are its two cameras, including a front-facing one that allows video chats thanks to the FaceTime video chat utility. It gives you a full-screen view of your caller and puts your head in a little thumbnail on the same screen. The new iPhone 4 has a bigger battery that allows for seven hours of talk time.

Another thing that spurs excitement, is the fact that the operating system dubbed iOS 4, allows users to run more than one application at a time.

The iPhone 4 will go on sale June 24 in the U.S., U.K., France, Germany and Japan. In the U.S., it will cost $199 with a two years contract with AT&T which remained as the exclusive carrier for the iPhone. Another hundred dollars would provides an iPhone model with additional storage.

For more, see WSJ.com

Annual hotel ranking lists luxury hotels still charging for Wi-Fi.

It may be hard to believe but certain luxury hotels still charge for in-room Internet access, according to the blog HottelChatter.com which just released its annual hotel WI-Fi ranking.
On the list, is Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts which charges about $10 a day, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group($18 a day); at Ritz-Carlton Hotel, a subsidiary of Marriott International,Wi-Fi access will cost you about $10 a day. An exception to the list is Peninsula Hotels which includes the price of Internet access in its room rates world-wide, according to the Wall Street Journal.

For more, see WSJ.com

VillageVines.com is a member-only site for reservations and discounts at high-end restaurants.

Inspired by sites like Gilt.com that offer overstock inventory from designers clothes to members only, VillageVines is trying to do the same with high-end restaurants. The site went live last week with New York, where else? as the first market.
VillageVines.com concept is very simple: anyone can register for free and there is no obligation to purchase anything; when to use the service is exclusively at the sole discretion of users.
Once registered, users will pay $10 every time they have plan to use the service to reserve a table at one of the most exclusive or popular restaurants in the city with the list of restaurants featured, changing every day. In return, they will get an hassle free guaranteed reservation on some pre-determined days of the week- Sunday through Thursday generally, and some weekends occasionally- and discounts between 25 percent to 30 percent off their dinning bills.

For more, see NYTimes.com

Lifeline with AutoAlert will detect a fall and automatically call for help.

With a staggering 13 million of older Americans who fall each year, it is no surprise that a big industry has sprung around that fact of life. Faced with the prospects of an elderly loved one falling at home and unable to get up or summon help, the next best thing for a relative, is to rely on some devices that can be activated or better yet can self active themselves and call for help in such circumstances. Philips is one of several companies that that offer devices that can be pressed by the fallen person to call for help. Known for its LifeLine brand of monitoring devices, now, the company is offering a new device called AutoAlert that can detect a fall and summon help automatically.Worn around the neck, LifeLine AutoAlert uses accelerometers and pressure sensors to detect a person's fall and call for help within 30 seconds. LifeLine says that the AutoAlert which has bee available since April, has a 95 percent accuracy and will cost $13 a month on top of the basic monitoring fees.

For more, see NYTimes.com

Microsoft's Kin phones are fun-centered and very convenient .

When speaking of smart phones, it is more likely that names like iPhone, Blackberry will come to mind. Microsoft which until recently dominated the sector with phones running its operating system, has never been seen itself as a house name when it comes to the actual hardware. But the computer operating system giant has been lately redirecting its focus in the smart phones business and has recently come up with two products that received high marks from reviewers.
The products in question are the Kin One and Kin Two smart phones that arrived on the market May 13 and are offered exclusively by Verizon Wireless.
They are priced at $50 and $100 respectively after a $100 mail-in rebate and a two year contract .
According to the Wall Street Journal who has reviewed them, the Kin phones come with some neat features such as a "2.6-inch square touch screen that responds to gestures like swiping, pinching, double tapping, dragging and dropping."
But according to the Wall Street Journal, the most interesting feature of the Kin smartphones, is their connection with Kin Studio, "an online repository for activities performed with the devices, laid out in a timely fashion."
What sets the Kin Studio apart, is the fact that it acts like a time machine for your phone by storing everything you do with the phone, Online in your private personal space. The cool part is that all the storing and archiving of all your activities, is done automatically with no input at all from the user. All pictures and videos captured with the phone, appear on your personal space five minutes afterwards. Even your contacts , phone calls and text messages are stored and archived automatically. And this may be the icing on the cake, all your data is accessible from any Internet connected computer from anywhere in the world regardless where your Kin phone is. You access your personal account using a password and username chosen when you first set up the phone right after purchase.

For more, see WSJ.com