Product Resources
Buyers Guide(22)
Airports as City Centers
Frictionless connectivity
of goods to buyers and people to ideas will give rise to the aerotropolis, a
city built around an airport. John D. Kasarda and Greg Lindsay explore this
notion and its implications in their book, Aerotropolis: The Way We’ll Live
Next. According to the authors, the aerotropolis thrives when businesses can
seamlessly plug into an airport’s logistics network. “Airports are noisy and filthy,”
they admit, but that won’t prevent more of these planned cities from popping up
across the globe. Greg Lindsay will speak at the CCIM Live! conference in
October. The book costs $30.
Contact Farrar, Straus, and
Giroux at (212) 741-6900 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting(212) 741-6900end_of_the_skype_highlighting or us.macmillan.com/FSG.aspx.
The Multipurpose Outlet
FastMac’s U-Socket eases
outlet competition by combining two USB ports with a standard duplex AC outlet.
The ports are compatible with the iPad, iPhone, Blackberry, and other devices
with USB power cords. Owners won’t pay for unused electricity because the
U-Socket cuts power to the ports when they are not in use. The U-Socket costs
$22.95.
Contact FastMac at (408)
850-6232 or www.fastmac.com.
Giving Wireless a Boost
Internal wireless Internet
cards keep Web users tethered to an invisible signal range, which typically
isn’t very wide. The BearExtender, a business-card-sized Wi-Fi signal booster,
increases that range by up to four times its original reach. The device, which
can double as an Internet card, connects to PC and Mac laptops via a USB cable.
The BearExtender costs $44.97.
Contact BearExtender at
(352) 372-9902 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting(352) 372-9902end_of_the_skype_highlighting or www.bearextender.com.
Saving E-mails
MailStore allows
individuals or companies to back up e-mail to CDs, DVDs, or USB drives. Users
can search archived messages and restore them to Gmail, Outlook, and other
Internet and desktop e-mail programs. MailStore Home is free; pricing
information for MailStore Server 5.2 is available upon request.
Contact MailStore at (800)
747-2915 or www.mailstore.com.
Find My Car!
Was the car here or one
street over? Get a quick answer to that question with Find My Car!, an iPhone
app that allows users to save a car’s location on the phone’s map function. The
app also can capture prompts through the phone’s camera. Find My Car! costs 99
cents.
Contact Presselite at
www.presselite.com.