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H2O Audio iFR Ruggedized Case protects your beloved iPhone from water and other elements such as dust, sand, sweat, as well as scratching and shock.

The Apple iPhone has become a very popular gadget. Its multi funtion format makes people want to bring it just about everywhere they go. The downside to that is that the iPhone’s shiny body makes it easy to slip from your hand and fall into water or a hard surface. Not to mention exposing it to natural elements such as rain and dust.

Now thanks to the cool looking H2O iFR rugged outdoor case you can well protect your Apple iPhone. “We recognized the need to have impact and element resistant protection for iPhones and have designed a completely new product that ensures secure protection covering everyday use as well as trips to the ski slopes or jogs in the rain,” said Kristian Rauhala, CEO of H2O Audio.

I think that’s pretty comforting, knowing that most of us have dropped our cell phones or gotten water in them. I know I have. It was a 3 month old cell phone that I accidentally dipped in water and it was irreparable. Ouch! Imagine if that was the fancy iPhone.

H20 Audio iFR features include patented Armor Series case exclusively designed for Apple iPhone, weather and element resistant case utilizes a durable polycarbonate construction for worry-free impact and shock protection, innovative flip, swivel and stow case lid which provides complete access to all iPhone menu functions.

Designed by H2O Audio, the new H2O Audio iFR Sport Combo is made from a durable polycarbonate construction that will do its job well in harsh conditions. In addition, it comes with a sport armband featuring a unique Dual D-ring design that fits all arm sizes comfortably, plus a built-in cord management that eliminates the bother of tangled earbuds.

Although the H2O Audio iFR Sport Combo doesn’t make your iPhone work under water, like the waterproof and water resistant headphones also designed by H2O Audio, it certainly provides a pretty darned good protection.

The price is surprisingly affordable at USD $39.99 retail. You can find H2O Audio products and accessories at the H20 audio website, Apple stores, as well other places (online or offline) where iPhones are sold.

Posted by Aiden 

A good Zune video converter is supposed to convert movies from other formats such as QuickTime, MPEG, MOV, AVI, WMV, DIVX, XVID, ASF, RM, RMV, FLV (used by Youtube) as well as DVD and VCD to Microsoft Zune supported formats such as WMV, MP4 and MP3.

What other qualities should you be looking for in a Zune video converter? Fast conversion speed, user friendly interface, batch file conversion support are all great features that make a Zune video converter desirable. It also should not require the user to be a geek since I bet most Zune users don’t have advance technical knowledge. Price is also an important factor since you don’t want to spend too much money on one.

Zune backgrounds or wallpapers have also become very popular recently since the release of the new zune.net wbsite. There are quite a number of sites offering free Zune wallpapers, and many of the graphics are really cool. Although a few of them are an inheritance of Zune 30 (the original Zune released in 2006), many are brand new and will fit nicely in your Zune 8 or Zune 80.

In case you’re wondering what Zune is, it’s Microsoft’s newest brand of digital music products and services which includes digital audio players, client software, and the Zune Marketplace online music store.

The Zune devices play music and videos as well as display pictures, and receive FM radio. They also share files wirelessly with other Zunes and via USB with Xbox 360s, and can sync wirelessly with Windows PCs. Pretty cool, huh?

The Zune Software, which runs on Windows Vista, XP, and the Xbox 360, allows users to manage files on the player, rip audio CDs, and buy songs at the online store.

You can read more about the history of Zune on Wikipedia, but if you’re looking for a Zune video converter and Zune backgrounds you should search the internet and visit a few sites that offer them. Free zune wallpapers are great but I’m not too sure about free Zune video converters but you can always give them a try.

Have fun with your new Zune!

Posted by Aiden

MySpace Christmas comments are being searched a lot this time of the year. Funny comments are especially popular. If you’re on MySpace most likely you post comments on your friends’ pages and they do on yours on a regular basis, such as on birthdays and holidays like Christmas, New Year, Valentine’s Day, Halloween, etc. Many even post comments on each other’s page on a weekly or sometimes even on a daily basis.

I’m sure you have seen MySpace comments for every day of the week as well as those wishing you a good morning or good night. Most people do that only with their closest friends but for major holidays and special occasion they would send MySpace comments to most of their other friends on their list. You can find cute and funny MySpace Christmas comments all over the internet and they’re free. Just look around or do a search.

These MySpace Christmas comments come with beautiful graphics, many of them animated and glittered. Some are serious while others are funny and cute. They’re just like e-cards or virtual Christmas cards. All you need to do is copy the codes provided with each comment and graphics, and post it onto your friend’s “add comment” page. However, you have to be careful since some of these sites may contain a virus or other malicious codes which can infect your friend’s page, your own page, and even your computer. That certainly spells trouble!

It’s kind of hard to know which sites are safe as you’re surfing around looking through those cute and funny MySpace Christmas comments since even some of the most popular sites can be infected without the owner knowing it. You just have to take your own precautions. So what can you do to protect yourself and your MySpace friends?

The most important thing is to have good security system on your computer which at least includes an antivirus, a firewall, and an anti malware (adware). Most of the time these programs will protect you from viruses, hackers and malware if you keep them up to date. A few times my antivirus caught a virus during my visit to some of these MySpace comment graphics sites.

There’s also a few things you can do to protect your friends’ and your own MySpace pages. You can choose to approve each comment that everyone sends before having it posted to your page to make sure it’s not a hacking attempt. You can also enable the “captcha” on your “add comment” page, which is those letters and numbers you have to type in before posting the comment to make sure every MySpace comment is being posted by a human.

Probably the safest thing is for you to disable HTML on your “add comment” page since malicious codes are often embedded in the HTML. However, if you do this you won’t be able to have pictures or graphics on your comments. So you can forget about those beautiful and funny MySpace Christmas comments with Santa, Snowmen, Teddy Bears, etc. Your comments will only consist of plain text. Pretty boring if you ask me! But hey, you and your friends can get original and creative writing your own MySpace Christmas comments

I guess if you have lots and lots of friends on MySpace and you don’t have time to approve every single comment they post then this is the way to go. That’s what most celebrities do. The choice is yours.

Whatever you decide, have fun looking for and posting those MySpace Christmas comments, and be safe! Happy holidays!

Posted by Aiden

Elf on the Shelf, Santa’s newest little helpers make trips to the North Pole every night, and they’re flying off the shelves this holiday season.

Its fun, its an activity kids young and old can get into, and it’s just in time for Christmas. This Elf on the Shelf is the inspiration of a collaboration between the mother and daughter team of Carol V. Aebersold and Chanda A. Bell.

Bell, author of Elf on the Shelf, describes her yule tide children’s book. Its about an elf that comes all the way from Santa’s workshop in the North Pole, to keep an eye on kids who are naughty and nice.

The Elf on the Shelf includes a picture book, 8-inch elf doll, a keepsake storage box, and instructions for online registration. The book also comes with activities for children, and you can name your elf, and watch him work his magic!

10year old Emma Watson names her elf on the shelf Chris for “Christmas.”

Chris flies to the North Pole, telling Santa about the good and bad things she has done, as well as letting him know what she wants for Christmas. Every morning, Chris is back in a new lookout spot. How cool is that?

The storybook that comes with every elf spells out the rules…

“If a child touches him, he’ll lose all of his magic, and he’ll never move or do anything again,” explained Emma.

She says she has been nice, not naughty, and has kept her hands off Chris, in hopes that he’ll deliver an important message.

I’ve been thinking of getting an elf on the shelf for my little daughter but knowing how naughty she is I don’t know how long the magic will work

Btw, Jennifer Garner was seen leaving a New York hotem carrying an Elf on the Shelf christmas Tradition box.

If you’re looking for the popular Elf on the Shelf in your local store, you may be out of luck. At a Dallas, Texas warehouse, workers can’t box up the Elves on a Shelf fast enough. They have sold 5000 of these elves. Try the internet (my favorite place to shop) instead.

Elf on the Shelf on Amazon.com

Posted by Tanya

It’s a Wonderful Life, directed by Frank Capra, starring James Stewart, Donna Reed, and Lionel Barrymore is a holiday classic which regularly appears a week before Christmas. In this Christmas story, George Bailey, a regular man who, in a moment of despair and shame, thinks of committing suicide. Instead, he rediscovers the love of family and how his life made a dramatic difference to many in his community.

Former President George Bush narrated and described the scenes in the It’s a Wonderful Life film for the visually impaired through a service called Descriptive TheatreVision. When there was a pause in the action, Bush would describe what’s going on - NBC Friday, 8 p.m.

Besides being able to watch it on TV or DVD’s, you can also listen to It’s a ‘Wonderful Life’ on the radio as plays. The Ojai ACT Art Center Theater, a nonprofit community ensemble, will be presenting a live radio show of this classic story for two weekends, Dec. 14 to 16, and 21 to 23. The show includes keyboard music and advertisements about local businesses.

Source: www.OjaiACT.org

“It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play” also opens the 2007-2008 of MTC MainStage, the Westport-based Music Theatre of Connecticut’s Professional Equity Acting Company. Opening night will be December 15 and the show runs through December 23.

Source: WestportNow.com 

This weekend, the Historical Society of Porter County invites fans to dress as their favorite “Wonderful Life” character and attend a showing of the film at the Porter County Museum from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

Life is indeed wonderful. Let’s celebrate life and this wonderful season!

Posted by Aiden

A Goofy Movie remake is underway. David Lynch, director of Wild at Heart, Blue Velvet, Eraserhead and Mulholland Dr. has agreed to remake the animated Disney movie.

The original “A Goofy Movie” is an animated musical film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios in 1995 featuring the characters from The Disney Afternoon television series Goof Troop. The movie, which could also be considered a “road film” (A film genre in which the action takes places during a journey) uses the voices of Bill Farmer as Goofy and Jason Marsden as Max is about father-son relationship between Goofy and Max as they struggle to find common ground despite Max’s persistence in having his own life and winning the girl of his dreams. A direct-to-video sequel, titled An Extremely Goofy Movie, was released in 2000.

So how’s the new A Goofy Movie different than the original? I mean, if you’re recreating something it’s usually because you wanna improve it, right? Well, a movie reviewer said, “The blue tones, soundtrack, editing and selection of shots make this version of A Goofy Movie seem surreal, spooky and totally unlike anything released from Disney, with the exception of The Black Cauldron.”

I have to agree. After watching the trailer of the new Goofy Movie I get the feeling that remake of this Disney animation is kind of eerie… in fact, it’s probably appropriate for Halloween? Watch the trailer and judge for yourself.

Posted by Aiden 

Charles Nelson Reily was a popular American actor, comedian, director and drama teacher known for his roles in movies, children’s television, animated cartoons, and as a panelist on the game show Match Game.

He was born in the Bronx, New York to Charles Joseph Reilly, an Irish Catholic commercial artist, and Signe Elvera Nelson, a Swedish Lutheran. Already at a young age he would create his own puppet theater to entertain himself. His mother, foreshadowing his future as an entertainer, often would tell him to “save it for the stage”.

At age 13, Charles Nelson Reily escaped the Hartford Circus Fire where tragically over a hundred people died. As a result of that traumatic experience he never sat in an audience again through the remainder of his life (Riley died on May 25, 2007 at the age of 76).

Charles Nelson Reilly made his first motion-picture appearance in 1957, playing an uncredited role in “A Face in the Crowd”, directed by Elia Kazan. Most of his work during this period was on the stage. Reilly appeared in many Off-Broadway productions.

In 1971, Charles Nelson Reilly played “Hoodoo” the evil magician in Lidsville, a psychedelically flavored live-action children’s program produced by Sid and Marty Krofft airing on Saturday mornings on ABC. The show was about a boy who falls into a magician’s hat and enters a magical world of hat-humans.

During the 1970s, Reily also appeared as a regular on The Dean Martin Show, and had multiple guest appearances on television series including McMillan and Wife, Here’s Lucy, Laugh In, The Love Boat, and Love, American Style. He was also a frequent guest on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, appearing more than a hundred times. From 1980, Charles Nelson Reilly was actively teaching acting and directing for television and theater.

Charles Nelson Reily was nominated for Emmy Awards in 1998 and 1999 for his performances in The Drew Carey Show and Millennium, respectively. From the late 1990s, Reilly directed theater and opera, touring the country performing a critically acclaimed one-man stage show chronicling his life called Save It for the Stage: The Life of Reilly, where he publicly proclaimed being a homosexual. Just like Paul Lynde, his contemporary game show regular, Reilly played up a campy on-screen persona. Reiley would also occasionally perform as the voice of “The Dirty Bubble” on the animated series SpongeBob SquarePants.

Charles Nelson Reilly was parodied by Alec Baldwin on Saturday Night Live in which Reilly is interviewed by James Lipton (played by Will Ferrell) on Inside the Actors Studio. On October 8, 2007, Samantha Bee, a reporter for The Daily Show, stated that if someone is ruled to be gay by the Supreme Court of the United States, then they are in Charles Nelson Reilly territory.

Source: Wikipedia

Posted by Aiden

27 Dresses starring Katherine Heigl is a romance flick about Jane who lives the “always a bridesmaid” lifestyle with no happy ending in sight until… her little sister Tess cpatures the heart of Janes boss, whom she has been secretly in love with.

Katherine Heigl, Emmy winner of Grey’s Anatomy is getting married in a couple of weeks and makes the cover of Vanity Fair. She looks really glamorous. However, the star of the upcoming “27 Dresses” also made a rather stunning comment about Knocked Up, another movie that helped her earn $6 million…

“It was a little sexist… It paints the women as shrews, as humorless and uptight, and it paints the men as lovable, goofy, fun-loving guys… I’m playing such a bitch; why is she being such a killjoy? Why is this how you’re portraying women? Ninety-eight percent of the time it was an amazing experience, but it was hard for me to love the movie.”

I guess that’s one of those things that make you go “hmmm…” Well, everyone is entitled to their opinion and be candid about it.

Regardless, I look forward to Heigl’s “27 Dresses” which will open in theaters January 11, 2008.

Posted by Aiden