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You know what I’ve been doing this week?

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Guess what I’ve been doing in what little spare time I’ve had this week? I’ve been surfing, surfing, surfing over at blogadvance. Actually I’ve been trying to type my posts and surf at the same time- not an easy task to do, not at all.

Blogadvance has been having a contest this month and they are going to give the top surfer $100. The contest ends today, and as I type this at 3 a.m. I’m in second place and closing fast.

Wish me luck! I should know sometime later today if I won or not. I could certainly use the money if I do.

Update:

I stayed up until 7 a.m. clicking away but my opponent was clicking too. We were about 500 points apart all night. I finally went to bed. My husband got up and started surfing for me at about 9 a.m. but my opponent hadn’t stopped. He woke me at 10 am to tell me he thought it was a losing battle. She was more than 700 points ahead of us and it takes about an hour to collect between 120 and 150 credits. The contest was to end at 12 noon. We conceded the race.

I could have used that $100 though. 🙁





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.

Help a fellow blogger raise money for Cancer Research

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Colleen from 3 Day Mom and Simple Kind of Life is busy working to collect donations for the Three Day Walk for Cancer Research that she’ll be doing in Tampa next year. She completed the Three Day Walk in Philadelphia this past October and she’s raring to go for next years walk.

Her goal is to raise $2200 in donations for her Tampa three day walk. Can you help her? Anyone that donates $20 will get a personal thank you and a write up in her blog, plus a link in her side bar for the next twelve months as a 3-Day donor.

If you want to help her, and or read more about the walk and her goals just visit her 3 Day Mom Donation post. I’m going to make a donation sometime in the near future, I just need to figure out my finances etc first, but I will. Why don’t you join me in helping Colleen with her goal?

If you can’t make a donation right now perhaps you could blog about her goal to raise money for the Three Day Walk for Cancer Research and help her in that way?

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