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Planning your wedding?

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This is the time of year when many couples end up getting engaged, and you know what happens almost immediately, sometimes minutes, after the proposal happens don’t you? The wedding planning begins. Am I right? Of course I am, I did it myself when I got engaged.

Once the wedding planning begins the bride to be’s mind will start to think of first where to get married, then who to invite and eventually somewhere along that long line of planning she’ll wonder what wedding favors she might give her guests.

Perhaps when she does start to think of what kinds of gifts to give her guests she might decide to take a look at Cheap Wedding Favors. This online store touts itself as an “Internet Wedding Superstore”. It has inexpensive personalized wedding favors for the guests, as well as for groomsmen and bridesmaids. You can have many of the items personalized at no extra charge.

There’s even cute novelty wear like the Soon to be Mrs. hoodie that can be personalized with the name the bride to be will take when she gets married. Visit the site if you or someone you know is planning their wedding.





Chicago Cubs spring training

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Remember I was talking about how my family – siblings and their spouses – get together every year for some family related activity or holiday? I mentioned it in a post a couple of months back. Well my brother and his wife are baseball fanatics and they suggested that we go to the US and catch some of the major leagues spring training camps while we are there. Everyone has agreed. So that’s what we’re going to do.

We’re thinking about getting some Spring Training tickets to the Chicago Cubs spring training. They train in what is known as the “Cactus Leagues” Most of their games at the beginning of March are in Mesa or Phoenix Arizona which is fantastic because I’ve always wanted to go to Arizona. In Mesa the games are going to be held in Hohokam Park and the best seats for those games are right behind Home plate in section 100 row L. I think those will be the seats we try to get.

Wish us luck! I guess we’ll know in a few weeks if we are definitely going and we’ll try to get the best seats if possible.

Crack me up Friday

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Tomorrow you should to go over to LifeCruiser and participate in her Crack me up Friday event. She’d love to have you come visit. Bring some funny jokes, hilarious stories and comments with you, or point her other visitors towards funny pictures and sites.

Have you been to a blog party before? I have and they’re lots of fun. Visit and see what it’s all about. I’m sure you’ll like it, and if you’ve never been over to visit LifeCruiser before you’ll find a great blog and blogger that I’ll bet you’ll want to visit again and again.

Oh and she’s up for a Weblog award for best diarist. Did you do me a favor the other day and go and vote for Mrs. Lifecruiser? If you didn’t you still can. Once today and once tomorrow- then the awards are over for another year.

Bluebox image compression software

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I just came across and interesting new product called BlueBox. The company says “If you have a digital camera you need this product.” . Alright – I guess I’m one of the people that need this product. What does it do?

It’s a software product that lets you compress and encrypt images and text. The Bluebox software can compress over 480 different types of image formats including the most popularly used ones like JPEG, TIFF, and BMP. It will compress the files up to 95%.

Why would this come in handy? Well, I don’t know if you’re like me, but when you take a photo digitally you might set your camera to take the best quality photo that it can. Have you ever noticed the file sizes on those photos once you load them onto your computer? Yeah, their huge, 1 or 2 MB or more. Run them through photoshop and add some special effects to the photos and they only getting larger in file size unless you end up making the image smaller.

Again, if you’re like me, once you’ve fiddled with your photos you want someone to see them, so you send them to friends and relatives by email or upload them onto free photo display sites like flickr etc. It can take forever to send an email with a large file in it … and to make matters worse, if the person to whom you are sending the photo too has a small or fairly full mailbox sometimes they don’t end up getting the photo at all because their inbox couldn’t accept it because the email was too large.

It’s frustrating isn’t it?

Well that’s what BlueBox has come along to solve. Simple compress your photos or large text based files prior to sending them to someone via email or uploading them onto a site and TADA the file size is drastically reduced and much easier to transmit.

You can save up to 20 times more data on your hard drive and memory devices when using this compression software. Also, the compression technology doesn’t alter your original image. It’s easy to use too. Just drag and drop your images into BlueBox and they’ll be compressed to a fraction of their original size, and stored in a secure and encrypted box. Learn more about this amazing new software program at the BlueBox website.

Information site for DVD recorders and players

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I’ve just learned of a site that’s just been launched that I wish was around last year when we purchased our DVD recorder. The site is called DVD Recorders and Players Guide and it’s full of information on DVD players, DVD recorders, DVD combo record and player systems, DVD home cinema systems, DVD TV combo systems, DVD Video combos, HDMI Compatible DVD Players, Portable DVD Players, and Types of Blu-Ray Disc Players.

If you’ve been thinking of purchasing a DVD recorder or player and wanted to learn more about a specific model or do a comparison between brands and models this would be a great site to visit. As I said I wish we’d been able to visit this site last year when we were picking out a DVD recorder for our system. We ended up getting an LG DVD recorder and I’m not happy with how we ended up having to hook it up to our complex HD TV and home theater. The quality of play back is not great because of how we ended up hooking it up.

There’s also a whole section on the new blue ray Disc players where you could find information about this new type of DVD format and products such as the Samsung Blu-Ray Disc Player. I think that anyone who is thinking of purchasing one of these items for Christmas, or perhaps someone who’s just received on as a gift over the holidays would do well to read this site and learn more about the model of their choice.

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