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Living out in Madison, Ohio, I wondered how do I get to the Cleveland Hopkins Airport and how do I get a good rate on shuttle service from Madison, Ohio? I should be able to do this with my Smartphone. I went to my Apple browser and put in the term, “Cleveland Airport Parking Shuttle“.  I first  went to clevelandairportshuttleservice.com.  I wanted to compare prices and was open to limousines, vans, and taxicabs. What caught my eye was ClevelandAirport.com/Transportation was the phrase “there are 19 limousine companies” that provide services to travelers to Cleveland. I clicked on a tab To/From Cleveland. Than I clicked on Taxis and Shuttles which took me to a page with rates from 5 to 40 minutes away. Out here in Madison we are more than 50 minutes away and the rate for 40 minutes awas was $87. Below were links to 5 taxi companies with phone numbers when you click on each of the names. Where were the 19 limousine companies?  Well on to the next site. superexpresstransportation.com. It did show shuttle service to Cleveland Hopkins International Airport.  Not happy that the text was so small. Not a mobile optimized site, sigh. I saw a link called Airport Shuttle. I put in my Zip Code and got a rate at $92.00. Mission accomplished.

I was searching for a cool gift for my nephew. I also heard a lot of good things about Converse through the internet grapevine. I came upon a page titled the Converse Holiday Gift guide.  Below were swatches of shoes, hats and other apparel. There was a button “Called design  your own shoe”, which looked interesting”.  I clicked on a shoe and a larger image appeared with color swatches. There were options to customize your shoes which I liked. The fact that you could buy a shoe that was unlike any other tennis shoe was appealing. But the site was too difficult to view and I ended viewing it on a PC.  I will continue to search for a good clothing mobile site. I am sure there is a good one out there. If you know of any, please let me know.

The easiest way to explain what a push notifications is say you want to be updated on the score for your favorite sports team, like the Cleveland Browns. You can download an ESPN Fantasy Football app to your smartphone. called This app will send you the scores of the game and you will get them even if you are on the phone, sending a text, watching a video or playing game on your Smartphone.

Let’s say you have a business. You have a special on Margarita’s since you got a special price on Tequila. You could call your customers, but that would take a long time and the phone may be busy or not powered up. You can send an mass e-mail, which would get to a certain percentage of customers, usually 14-40% have opened up newsletters when I have sent them out. You can use a text messaging service or for less you can set up push notifications on a mobile App.

Per wikipedia the Apple Push Notification Service is a service created by Apple Inc. that was launched together with iOS 3.0 on June 17, 2009

If you want to get information on how you can set up Push Notifications for your business, contact Ohio Mobile Ads at 440-221-4464.

It’s Friday morning and I am getting hungry. I would like a sub, but I also need to go to the cleaners and pay a bill with not much time to this at Lunch. I would like to preorder a sub and pick it up. I would like to preorder a Subway Chicken breast sub with the works and spicy mustard on my smartphone. Can I do this? It is 2012 and you should be able to preorder a basic sub through your smart phone.

I go to my Smartphone and searched for Subway. There is a offer for a Tuscan Sub, and a popup which instructs you to install a Subway app. I install the App and click on the Menu button. I found the oven roasted chicked sandwich and clicked on it and was given nutrition information. Maybe I should click on the store locator.I found a store 5 miles a way. There were no links for pickup. No, this does not work. on to plan B.

I went to Google and selected restuarants. Scrolling, scrolling scrolling, scrolling scrolling, scrolling scrolling,scrolling scrolling,. I found sub shops but nothing that you can preorder. I went to Yelp, but same thing. I tried Dave’s Cosmic subs and I tried Penn station. I finally tried Jimmy Johns. They advertise themselves as fast and wallah, they have pickup and delivery. They are far away from me, but I was glad to know it can be done. Anybody else have success ordering for pickup on their smartphone?

P.S. Jimmy Johns, there are no stores in Madison, Ohio

I have reviewed the Nike + Smartphone Ap  in the past, but I have seen improvements to it, so it would be a good idea to review again.
I have an Apple 4 phone and you do not need the small sensor attachment as it is built in. It is also connects to
Facebook easily and it can also be connected  to Pinterest.

As for running, you can also set for indoor or outdoor with several options of Music playlists. You can also choose a powersong which you can easily summon during a tough hill climb or at the end of the race. Overall, with the improvements,  it is a very technologically advanced application well worth its 29.95 price in most stores. It says to buy a Nike shoe with a slnave for the sensor chip, but I can get away with cutting a slit in the tongue of my shoes to save cost.

I don’t know how many times I have had to find a password on my computer. Or I have passwords saved on an old computer, and that computer is broke and I can’t get to it. I needed a simple place to remember passwords on my smartphone. The name of the app is Remember!!! and it is in the Itunes store for .99 cents. You have 4 textboxes to enter username, password, pin, and anything else. I have used Roboform for passwords which is more complicated and I have had problems having it work on different browsers and it is constantly updating. Sometimes simpler is better.

There are enough mobile websites out there that there should be something of value when you go to the home page. I will no longer be reviewing any sites unless they have a special or a coupon on the home page. I believe it is important to get to the point and help users save money I am not reviewing McDonalds, Wendys or Arby’s because they fail to meet this criteria. I finally found a resturant that did so. So I can now get off my soapbox.

KFC did meet this criteria with a special on the home page, and so I will be reviewing Kentucky Fried Chicken. Well some people may say Fried Chicken, that just isn’t healthy. Which may be an individuals choice, but this is not a review on nutritional content. It is about getting me info fast, and saving some money because I found you on my smartphone. On the home page, there was a Special.

It says “Get a free cake when you buy a 10pc meal or larger”. You click on the special and it takes you to a map. I had to make the text bigger to see the map, I put in my address and 20 branches came up, I than clicked on the one closest to me and the phone number and address appeared on the screen. It would have been great if I could have clicked on the phone number to call, but oh well.

Me being me, I also wanted to know about nutrition. It took me a couple clicks, but I did find a nutrition guide which you needed to make larger.

All in all, the positives were the special and the nutrition content, while the negatives were that you needed to make the content bigger on the nutrition chart and there was no click to call number, when you found the store nearest you.

Disclaimer
I do not benefit from the restuarants that I review. This way I can say whatever I want to. But I do have mobile marketing books which I recieve an affiliate income below this page which will help pay for my time.

Well tires can be a logical phone ap. I wondered if I needed a specific brand of tires, how fast would it be to find tires that I could purchase at a great price.

Upon pressing The first link at the top of the page, a list of different car brands came up. After finding my car brand, I was directed to the different models. After that I was directed to a page which shows different stores nearby with a map. It took 2 minutes to find all the info I needed to call nearby branches to get prices on Goodyear tires. There was also a mobile coupon to save $60 for 4 tire purchase.

All in all, I would give this website 10 out of 10 stars, because of its ease of use and high visibility.