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.

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….

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

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…

ScroogeYourself

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.

BlogRush is a great free service that allows bloggers to get instant distribution for their latest blog post titles across a network of related blogs. The BlogRush widget is poping up everywhere and has gained a fair amount of press in a short amount of time. GadgetGrid started using this widget about a week ago (Bottom right sidebar) and we could not be more happy with its results thus far.

BlogRush is a “Cooperative Syndication Network” that rewards its users for their contributions to the network — from the impressions they provide of the BlogRush Widget to the referral of other users through 10 ‘generations’ of activity and the impressions of the widget that they provide. BlogRush was designed to be incredibly viral and to provide its users with tremendous distribution leverage to receive exposure for their blog content (onto related content blogs) that they could never achieve on their own… at least without a massive advertising budget.

It’s simple and free… Start using BlogRush now and put your blog on the map…

I think podcast is the best thing since sliced bread. Now you can create your own shows professionally with the USB Podcast Studio. It’s like a portable studio to create your podcasts. You get everything needed for crystal clear audio recording and editing. The included USB mic features a 19mm internal shock mounted diaphragm with a cardioid pick up pattern ensuring pristine studio quality. A shock mounted desktop mic stand and Cakewalk Sonar LE audio workstation software round out the package. You even get a sharp looking aluminum briefcase to store all your new audio goodies. Get recording!
Product Features

• Everything you need to make professional quality audio recordings and podcasts
• USB microphone features a 19mm internal shock mounted diaphragm with cardioid pick up pattern
• Includes mic clip, desktop mic stand with shockmount and USB cable
• Comes in durable, lightweight aluminum case
• Includes Cakewalks Sonar LE digital audio workstation software (Compatible with Windows 2000, XP, ME, Vista)

Samson CO1U USB Condenser Mic

Focus and retain what I’m about to say. You can make between 6% and 29% profit with your money that is sitting in the bank at 1-3%. If you’ve run up credit card debt and don’t want to pay the 19% they’re ramming you for, borrow some money at a much lower rate.

Chris Larsen (Former Chairman and CEO of E-LOAN) has started another brilliant business called Proser. Prosper.com is America’s first people-to-people lending marketplace that was created to make consumer lending more financially and socially rewarding for everyone. It can help you make more money and help others save more money.

Prosper is a marketplace for credit that enables people to lend money to other people in a safe, efficient manner. Prosper is a leap back to a time when people formed credit communities to help themselves live better lives and earn a fair return on their money. Prosper’s founding principle is that people from close communities act more responsibly towards each other. Prosper leverages this powerful concept of community responsibility and applies it to person-to-person lending—resulting in better interest rates for people that borrow and lend.

Prosper enables borrowers to request loans up to $25,000 by posting listings (Like EBay) indicating the amount they want to borrow and the maximum interest rate they wish to pay. Lenders search for and select these listings based on the borrower’s credit history, debt profile, and other factors. Lenders bid on listings (Like EBay) by indicating a minimum rate they are willing to accept. When a loan is matched between borrower and lender, Prosper handles all of the tasks needed for payment and collection of the loan. Prosper makes money by taking a small share of these transactions (.5% – 1%).

I’m using it now (earning 10%) and I highly recommend signing up. Plus you get $25 just for doing so! Everybody wins and you get to stick it to the bank or credit card company just a little bit…

Prosper.com

The other day, GadgetGrid was emailed this stat machine link and I was floored at some of these statistics. I can’t account for it’s accuracy, but it will make you think… Thanks Judy

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