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This freeware application for Mac and PC lets iKaraoke users make their own free karaoke videos using any song that they own. Griffin Technology’s iKaraoke supplies the music, you supply the words and you can enjoy karaoke with any song, anytime and anywhere.

You can get the TunePrompter at griffintechnology.com

iLessonPlan

Are you a teacher … do you know a teacher? If so, then iLessonPlan is the software you’ve been looking for. iLessonPlan is the web’s best online lesson planning tool for both teachers and school administrators. The software is bringing the lesson planning process online, a process that has been traditionaly done by pen and paper. iLessonPlan offers teachers the ability to create, search for, share, re-use, and align their lesson plans to national/state academic standards online. Utilizing iLessonPlan’s administrative features, school administrators can view, review, leave feedback, and perform observations online. The software was created by and for educators and was designed to meet the needs of lesson planners everywhere. If you’d like to know more about this break-thru product for educators, visit their website at www.iLessonPlan.com to see additional features, sign-up for a free trial, or speak with one of their online sales representatives. If you know a teacher and would like to make their job easier, consider purchasing a gift certificate … the perfect gift for any teacher during the holiday season.

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VMware Fusion–the most seamless way to run Windows applications on your Mac. VMware Fusion combines a clean and intuitive interface that Mac users expect with a virtualization platform trusted by millions of users today. VMware Fusion allows you to launch your Windows applications from the Dock and switch between Windows and Mac applications using Exposé. With the industry’s most advanced virtualization technology VMware Fusion is ready for the future and lets you leverage all the hardware available on your Mac to simultaneously run 32 and 64-bit operating systems, use two processors at the same time, run select 3D games and utilize USB 2.0 devices. Access the widest range of USB 2 devices, allocate up to 8GB of memory to virtual machines, run over 60 guest operating systems from DOS to Microsoft Windows Vista, Linux, Solaris, Netware and FreeBSD. Run your Boot Camp partition side-by-side with Mac OS X without any additional setup. Run any of the more than 550 virtual appliances available from VMware Virtualize your existing PC with the free VMware Converter Starter Built Exclusively for the Mac - Built with features such as customizable toolbars, easy-to-manage virtual machine packages, and much more The powerful Unity feature transforms your Windows applications and gives you a seamless Mac experience Requires Any Intel Mac computer with a 1.5GHz or faster Intel processor; 512MB of RAM (1GB or more recommended)

Product Features:

  • Play DirectX 9.0 games on your Mac
  • Easily move your virtual machines
  • Create powerful multi-core virtual machines
  • Run 64-bit operating system
  • Turn back time when Windows goes awry
  • Freedom to choose over 60 operating systems

Price after rebates from Buy.com: $32.49

VMware Fusion

In fact, elf the whole family! These two flash sites are a great way to bring holiday laughter to friends and family. Upload your pics, record a message and send your dancing elf’s or scrooge to whomever you’d like. It’s free, so go try it out….elfyourself.png

This holiday get what you’ve always wanted. The miraculous ability to turn yourself into an elf. And now you can cut the arctic rug with the whole elfin’ family. Upload as many as four faces, record a message, and send your holiday helpers off to a friend…

ElfYourself

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The holidays are here and there’s entirely too much cheer floating around. Do your part and add a touch of frost to the air this season. Upload a picture of your face, then send your crotchety curmudgeon to a friend…

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Jott

Tired of text messaging while your’re driving? If so … Jott is the service for you. Jott is an online service that you register your phone with that allows you to convert your voice to text messages. With Jott you can send these messages to yourself, to others, to groups (i.e. your entire family), etc. Your Jott message can be sent as a text message to a cell phone or via email. Jott is also being used in a variety of ways, including creating to-do lists, tracking expenses, recording blogs from your phone, settting/sending reminders, and many more. Sign up is free and you can easily import contacts into your account. In addition, there are gadgets that you can download that allow you to manages your Jott’s on your desktop or display them on your webpage. So, go check it out and get your Jott on.