May 4, 2010
Mother’s Day Gift Ideas!
Mother’s Day is coming up quick! Need a gift idea? This Sunday May 9th, give mom a gift she can use every day. A new purse, clutch or wallet! These stylish and practical designs by Hobo International are cute and very well made with glazed Florence leather…
Metro Slide
FL-7000
Hobo International
$54.00 Buy Now
Stand By
TR-5339
Hobo International
$158.00 Buy Now
Clio
FL-7011
Hobo International
$64.00 Buy Now
Flight Path
TR-5332
Hobo International
$118.00 Buy Now
Euro Slide
FL-7001
Hobo International
$38.00 Buy Now
For a larger selection of leather goods, handbags, purses, wallets and clutches come into the Handbag & Luggage Store, or give us a call at 1-866-334-7744.
April 9, 2010
First ever, airline charges for carry-on bags!
Spirit Airlines, the Ryanair of the U.S., is pushing the airline fee frenzy to new levels with the introduction of fees for carry-on bags –- as much as a whopping $45 each way to put something in an overhead bin on a flight.
Spirit says it is dropping fares, particularly on the low end, as it imposes new fees. It may well be the first airline in the world to charge for carry-on bags — Ryanair, easyJet, Allegiant, AirAsia and other ultra-low-cost carriers don’t — yet. It’s doubtful bigger airlines will follow, but then again, it was once hard to imagine how aggressively former “full service” airlines embraced tacking on fees for airline passengers.
One advantage of fees for carry-on bags is that they’ll likely discourage fellow passengers from boarding planes like pack mules. Spirit’s chairman and chief executive, Ben Baldanza, says fees for checked baggage upset the balance between carry-on and checked items as passengers tried to avoid checked-baggage fees. The carry-on fee, he said, “will make our boarding faster and easier.”
April 5, 2010
Apple’s IPad Passes Through Airport Security
The iPad, as Steve Jobs told us from his comfy leather chair at Macworld, represents a new computing form factor that falls squarely between the laptop and the smartphone. Which raises a curious problem for the Transportation Security Administration: Is the iPad a “laptop” that must be taken out of a bag and put through a scanner separately? Or does it fall into some other, less bomb-like category of gadget that can slip through security hidden in your briefcase?
The answer, according to Altimeter Group technology analyst Charlene Li, seems to be another point in the iPad’s favor. As she wrote in her Twitter feed today, Li took a flight with her iPad in tow and discovered that she wasn’t required to pull it out of her bag in the security line.
Li tells us that she removed her iPad when she approached the TSA guards to ask where it fell on their laptop to non-laptop spectrum. Given the iPad’s brand spanking novelty, the guards didn’t know. So they ran the device through their scanner looking for “a visible CPU and hard drive,” which would qualify it as a laptop. Somehow they didn’t spot that hardware, despite the iPad having both a CPU and a Flash hard drive. (Or at least not one “thick enough to hide explosives” according to Li)
That means that on her next flight, Li can breeze through the checkpoint without exposing her wünder-tablet.
The TSA seems to draw a fairly fuzzy line between what does and doesn’t qualify as a computer capable of hiding a bomb. Li says a Kindle doesn’t count, but a netbook does, and so does an XBOX. “The iPad is basically a big phone,” says Li. “You don’t have to show your smart phone, right?”
Given these shades of semantics, we’ve put in a call to the TSA for the whole story about the iPad’s airport security status. In the mean time, any other early Apple adopters out there with an airport security story to share? Let us know in comments below.
We got the information for this blog from the FORBES.com blog.
March 23, 2010
New Wine Tasting Room in Santa Barbara!
I’m so excited to have found this little wine tasting spot. But don’t get me wrong, its anything but cute. This place is legit and super friendly:
This cozy new tasting room is set quietly off the street towards the back of the same building that houses the Kunin/Westerly tasting room at 28 Anacapa Street, just a couple hundred yards from the beach. Visitors who discover it are rewarded with a rich tasting experience – a full immersion into the Muniverse where wine is demystified through friendliness and education.
February 4, 2010
30% Off - Briggs & Riley Transcend is on Sale!
For a limited time Briggs & Riley will be offering up to 30% off of their Transcend luggage in the colors and styles that are being discontinued. Take a look…
Sale on Briggs & Riley Transcend
Click here for info on the Briggs & Riley Sale
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December 1, 2009
Briggs & Riley Holiday Sale!
Save $50 or $100 during our Holiday Sale:
Save $50 on luggage priced from $249-$349. Save $100 on luggage priced over $350. The offer applies to full price Baseline and Transcend styles only. Shop now, offer ends December 24th 2009.
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