Holiday TV shows

My wife Natalie & I love watching Christmas movies this time of year. We have a large collection of over 30 holiday classics that we watch year after year. A few days ago while Natalie was baking pumpkin bread for all our friends I decided to try something different. I went onto YouTube and searched "Christmas TV shows" and after playing around a little bit I found a bunch of full episodes of classic TV shows Christmas episodes. We watched Mr. Ed, Donna Reed, Married with Children, Home improvement, & Roseanne. It was fun to see old TV shows celebrating Christmas. Since this was on YouTube these clips may not be around forever, so I suggest trying YouTube first then also Google searching. I am sure you will find plenty to choose from. Happy Holidays and have fun!

Movie mess ups / bloopers

Growing up my dad owned a video rental store and I felt as though I lived in the movies. When I was younger I loved hearing stories of movies set in mid-evil times and an actor or extra left his watch on, or as in the movie Days of Thunder Nicole Kidman calls Tom Criuse by his real name during a scene instead of his character's name; I love stuff like that. I know I wrote a blog about IMDB.com before, but for this reason alone I feel as though this may get you to check out the site if you have not been there before. IMDB stands for Internet Movie Data Base. All you need to do is type in the movie you are looking for and check out what they have listed as bloopers. I enjoy using this feature on classic movies I have seen tons of times and I feel as though I am watching the movie all over again with new eyes. Check it out I think you will enjoy it.

IMDB.com

Free online zombie game

Last night was Halloween and as I was trolling around the internet for something to do in between trick or treaters I stumbled upon this game. The name of the game is DEADLY CITY SURVIVAL. I am not a big fan of first person games but I had a lot of fun with this one. It is super easy to play and the game sucks you in right away. I hope you enjoy it!

Good luck and watch out for the ZOMBIES!!!

Click on this link to play right away.
http://www.agame.com/game/deadly-city-survival.html

Free Massachusetts travel site

Natalie & I just spent a week in Massachusetts visiting Salem, Plymouth, Boston, & Cape Cod. Natalie's parents went with us on this trip. We had a great time using a free travel site to recommend restaurants, places to see & things to do.

If you are planning a trip to Massachusetts check out this free page before going www.massvacation.com

Want to learn a new language for free?!

Natalie & I have had a lot of fun with google's translation device. We are learning Italian very very slowly, but we have not spent a penny and we are not working real hard at it either.

Google's translate program has over 60 languages to choose from. You choose your native language and the language you want to learn, then type in a word or sentence and the computer speaks what you just typed in the new language. You can even switch if you have a word in another language and don't know what it means; you can type that in and the computer will tell you in your native language. What is cool about this program is that essentially you do not need to learn a new language if you travel to another country and meet someone, neither person need to speak the same language as long as they can type and know how to use this program they can communicate with ease...

Try it out for yourself at http://translate.google.com/

Free Auto Repair Help

I am a full time Magician & Illusionist, I know magic but lots of other things allude me. I am not good at fixing things, building things, etc. Last week Natalie (my wife) & I were performing at a school show and after the show we loaded our van, plugged our destination into the navigation, and went to start the car and nothing happened. My battery seemed OK so I called my personal mechanic and we decided it was probably my starter. He told me I could hit it with a hammer and that would loosen corrosion which would make it fire, he then had to tell me where it was on my van. When I looked under the van all I saw was metal. I did not even know what a starter looked like, I had to Google a picture of a car starter. I found it and hit it like crazy but nothing happened so I went onto youtube.com and typed in "how to fix a car starter" and got several videos. Howcast had a video called How to Fix a Car Starter. It was great. It was in laymen's terms and seemed to really speak to me. I was able to fix my own starter because this video showed me what I was working with.

Howcast is devoted to making the best 'how to' videos on the internet. Not only does Howcast have auto help videos, but at this time they have 7,950 other videos on youtube. Their videos are on all kinds of subjects broken into categories: sports & fitness, food & drink, technology, personal care & style, arts & recreation, & more. If it were not for Howcast and their video I may have had to spend a ton of money on a tow truck, they saved the day.

Check them out online at Youtube.com/howcast

Can't cook? You need Betty!

I stumbled upon Betty looking for new free recipes online. Now over 1 year later she has taught me how to make several of my favorite dishes. Betty is a retired math professor who teaches people to cook on youtube.com. Her husband Rick is the cameraman. Betty said "We try to present recipes that are very simple and take very little time to prepare. Our recipes have been taste-tested, and taste is our highest priority, although we do take into account nutritional value of our recipes. You will find a variety of recipes--some low fat, some vegetarian, some absolutely decadent! I think everyone will find something that fits their taste and philosophy of staying fit."

Some of my favorites are:
Twice baked potato's
Ham & Cheese omelet
Chocolate flavored popcorn

Look around her youtube channel I am sure you will find something that will interest you.

Check her out at Betty's Kitchen

Free Ultimate Wedding Checklist

A close friend is getting married tomorrow morning and that got me thinking; are there any free sites that can help with all the chaos associated with putting on a wedding.

realsimple.com has a wedding checklist that is like non other. The check list starts 16 weeks out and helps you deal with everything in bite size manageable steps. If all that is not enough, a lot of the steps even have spin off pages that break that step into even smaller bite size pieces. An example of a spin off page is "Planning your Honeymoon" the spin off page for that page is "Honeymoon Planning Checklist". They have really thought of everything. This wedding check list is just the tip of the iceburg with realsimple.com, check it out.

realsimple.com

Free coupons and samples

freeflys.com is a great website for free stuff. If you are into getting free samples they have several categories to choose from; food, beauty, children, health and other. As far as free coupons they also have 2 sections for that; groceries or pharmaceutical. Their website even features a blog of limited time offer deals on coupons and samples. Check them out, I think you will enjoy what you find there..

Freeflys.com

IMDB Free TV & Movie Database

IMDB.com is an awesome free service. You can search your favorite movie and get a ton of info such as official trailer, movie poster, list of actors, cost to make movie, movie box office and much more. I love the actor pages, it has their bio info and a list all the movies they were in. With the actor and movie pages you can easily go full circle navigating around their easy to use free site.

If you love TV & Movies you will love IMDB

IMDB.com

Free Flashlight

Have you ever dropped your keys in the grass between your car and front door late at night or the electricity goes out and you need a light to find your flashlight. Your problems are solved! Their is now a new free flashlight app for your smartphone. It uses your flash from your camera and lights up your room with ease.

For your Blackberry click this link: http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/reviews/1792?lang=en

For your iPhone click this link:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/flashlight./id285281827?mt=8

Free Internet Radio - Pandora

This is an awesome service Pandora is free internet radio. No commercial interruptions!
No DJ's! Just Music you choose! Check out Pandora.com and you will never listen to the radio again.

Pandora.com

Free online games

My wife turned me on to the addicting games a few years back, she said she was turned onto the website back when she was in college. This website has hundreds of free games to play from classic arcade games to new games developed just for them.

www.addictinggames.com

Free pumpkin carving patterns

Every year people buy pumpkin carving kits which is crazy because there are great FREE patterns online. DLTK has over 45 patterns to choose from, along with lots of other activities for kids to do at other times of the year.

www.dltk-kids.com

Crackle TV & Movies

Crackle is a website that has TV shows and movies streaming for free. OK, so you got a few commercials but it is free. The web site has a ton of old TV shows to choose from and they even have their own original TV programs available. As far as movies, with a couple of hundred to choose from you can spend several workdays in your cubical working hard catching up on classics.

http://www.crackle.com/