I recently came across one of the cooler products I will likely ever see in my generation. Digital picture frames!

Its really superb. You take your photos on a digital camera, so why not display them in a digital photo frame? The picture quality is second to none. Theres a setting for which photo to display to display in your digital picture frame.

Also interesting is the frames capabilty, these devices can play movies, mp3’s, display photos. So your digital picture frame can play your wedding song, while displaying a slideshow of the event!!

I cant think of a better gift than one of these wonderful digital photo frames.

Theres something of a variance with his device just as there is in any item, some cars are just 2 seaters while minivans are  larger, both are automobiles and yet they have much different features, digital photo frames are no different.

Some digital photo frames  can only display JPEG pictures. Orthers support a greater variance in media. Some  can also play movies recorded in the digital camera, MPEG & MP3’s. Some frames can even load pictures over the Internet from RSS feeds,  Flickr and Picasa and even from your e-mail. Networked models usually support wireless. Many  frames display the pictures as a slideshow  with an adjustable time interval.

Most digital photo frames often display the photos directly from a camera’s memory card.

I been thinking about getting a credit card.

Seems the process is not to entirely difficult. I would then be able to live a bit between checks.

I would seek to get one with no annual fee and a low interest rate. Hey a Walmart credit card would let me get a sweet Dell computer for like 18 dollars a month! Hmmm.

Of course some places offer cash back credit cards, which give you a portion of your spending back at the end of the year. Very nice for the shopaholic. Theres always balance transfers to move the balance of a card with a higher interest rate to one with a lower one, allowing you to save money that way.

I guess like all things you must compare credit cards before deciding a financial decision of this caliber.

 Skype is blaming last week’s two-day nonservice on “massive restart” of user computers worldwide.

Skype says that in a very short period of time users worldwide rebooted their PC’s because of the Microsoft Windows Update.

The Skype system crashed after a flood of request from users requesting authentication to the skype servers, this appears to be a large flaw in Skypes network resource allocation.

Skype claims it cannot confirm  there was no activity that might be called malicious.

How does this look for skype? Not well. Of course Skype is Ebay’s black sheep. Ebay bought skype in 2005 for almost 3 billion. People have always wondered why.

This outage will only serve to make people very leary of Skypes ability to deliver the service.

I like Zookoda, allow me to elaborate.

Zookoda makes things super simple, and by simple I mean a kid could do this. Head over to Zookoda.com to follow along.

You just sign up, and enter the pertinent information for your blog. Let zookoda know when and how often to send a newsletter comprised of your rss/atom feeds to your subscribers. Readers subscribe via a little registration box made fo code zookoda supplies to you. Easy right?

Its quite apparent that sending blog summaries to your readers will boost your site traffic. It reminds your readers that your blog is active and shows them what current content looks like.

I thought I would need to make a second account for a different blog, but I was wrong! Zookoda allows me to have multiple blogs and contains settings for each blog I add. Did I mention Zookoda is free? Yeah, its free and it works!

I am boggled by the length of time it took to get a service liek this to the blogging community, but now that its here I cant imagine not having it. I am pleased I have a way to reach my readers, especially those that may not understand how to use a rss aggregator. Now I can send them my posts at regular intervals. This is email marketing simplified!

  Microsoft announced officially that they will be dropping their price on the Xbox 360 gaming console.  In fact, all three versions will recieve a price cut. The elite will be 449, the 360 will be 349, and the 360 Core will be 279.

Microsoft feels that leading the console market in sales while maintaining their initial price says alot about their product. They also feel that with the Launch of the latest Madden game their numbers will hit record peaks.

Developer “All-in-One Game Software” now has BlackJack!! Black jack adds to the already addictive fun of games like backgammon, poker, and perudo.

Of all the sites I have gone to and enjoyed this is the only one that allows you to play free, in an animated client. It allows you to use 10 languages. (Spanish, Arabic, Turkish, Hebrew, French, Japanese, Danish, Greek and German, and English). This particular provider of interactive entertainment boasts thousands of players networked at any given time. And now that they have BlackJack on the menu you can expect the number to grow exponentially.

The game itself offers high speed play, coupled with stunning visual graphics, each table holding up to 5 players. Each player can choose to create his own avatar which i had a bit of fun with. You can chat with fellow players, and even more interesting, the games possess a “view” mode, which allows other players to sit out and just watch the action!

Backgammon

Backgammon is a board game for two people in which pieces are moved based on the roll of dice. The first player to remove all of one’s own pieces from the board is said to be the winner. It is a part of the tables family, one of the oldest classes of games in the world.

Perudo

Perudo is popular dice game played in Peru, Chile, Bolivia and other South American countries. This game may be played by two or more people and, basically, is made up of guessing how many dice, under cups, there are on the table showing a certain number. The player who loses a round loses one of their dice. The last player having a die is the winner.

Blackjack

Blackjack is one of the most popular casino card games in the world. Blackjack’s popularity is due to the mix of chance with elements of skill, and the publicity that surrounds card counting . Blackjack’s precursor was vingt-et-un (”twenty-one”), which originated in French casinos around 1700, and did not offer the 3:2 bonus for a two-card 21.

Poker

Poker is a popular type of card game in which players gamble on having the better card combination (”hand”), by placing a bet into a central pot. The winner is the one who holds the hand with the highest value according to an established hand rankings hierarchy, or otherwise the player who remains “in the hand” after all others have folded (the player who makes an un-called bet.

Enjoy playing Backgammon, Perudo, Poker, and Blackjack.

   Two firefighters were killed and a half dozen others injured in a fire in an abandoned skyscraper adjacent to the Twin Towers site.

Smoke was seen from the fire and it panicked people concerned with toxicity.

These fears  appeared to be unwarranted.

It seems the NYC fire department keeps taking hits. We salute these fine men and the efforts they put forth and the risks they take.

The injured men are recovering well. The cause of the fire is not apparent.

Yeah, we all want it, but how exactly does one get money? Theres the working method. Thats good for paying the bills, but suppose those the hot girl ( or guy) you want to impress, Fridays on its way, but your check it spent! Argh! The bills!

So here’s what i do:

I get a personal loan from a trustworthy lender, this gets me through the pinch, and can really impress the girl. *smiles*

Theres an alternative for those of us that require it, and its often the best and fastest choice, a secured loan will often do what you thought impossible.

Both of these options are viable and recommended. I have found the very low fee I pay is more than worth the pleasure and success I enjoy because of the extra money I possess on the weekend, or on vacation.

I enjoy UKpersonalLoanStore.co.uk because they are fast, friendly, have the best loans.

The russian President said the reason they are resuming long range patrol flights is due to security threats.

Mr Putin said they had 14 bombers take off on Friday.

Moscow said its bombers began  training over the North Pole.

Russia has been conducting joint military training with the chinese.

Russia is complaining that we are too strong, and they appear to fear US aggression.

“Flights by other countries’ strategic aircraft continue and this creates certain problems for ensuring the security of the Russian Federation,” Putin said.

Russia stopped alot of its patrols due to inability to fuel their planes.

I waqs flabbergasted when i saw this.I thought it was a prank. But perhaps the old adage “if you cant beat them, join them” comes into play. Microsoft will not overcome the beauty and grace of the Open Source movement.

Perhaps its not a true concession. When music style changed from the 80’s to the 90’s, instead of retiring Metallica simply adapted their style and still sold tickets and albums. This cost them a few fans but gained them more, and kept them in the game.

And now Microsoft, who once referred to Open Source as communism steps into the fray. In my opinion thats real nice, finally skilled coders can review the drivel put forth by the capitalist giant  and maybe in a round about way Microsoft will turn out some good code.

Not only releasing a few pieces of Open Source code, but also surrendering some of its home grown licenses to the Open Source Initiative, Microsoft is really making waves in the Open Source community.  Whats going on?

I think its simple, in this age, theres no longer 1 single way to do things, and when open source didnt prove to be just a trend, they realized it was a “get in or move on” thing. Blend, and continue with business as usual. A quote from the Microsoft Press release:

“Open source is neither an industry fad, nor a magic bullet.”