Lately I was in a debate of which pocket camera to purchase for the new season of my daily vlogs. After much thought and consideration, I ended up purchasing the Kodak Zi8 and I must say, I am extremely impressed with it! Even though this is only an unboxing, I will go over my first impressions and my expectations VS what is actually offered with the Kodak Zi8.

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The cameras I had in mind were the Kodak Zi8, the Flip Ultra HD, and the Sony Vado HD. While I was researching the features between the three I discovered that the Vado HD was only Windows compatible and so right away I threw that option away. Next I had the Flip Ultra HD, which was actually my first choice. The main reason why I liked the Ultra HD so much was because of the ability to use regular AA batteries for a quick swap on the go. When I went to go pick up the Ultra HD I talked to an employee and he recommended the Kodak Zi8 over the Flip Ultra HD because of all the extra features the Zi8 has to offer and even better, the Zi8 was on sale that day.

So that is basically the story behind why I purchased the Kodak Zi8 and not the Flip Ultra HD or the Sony Vado HD and after some use I will put out a review for what I think of the Zi8 and whether or not I would recommend it to others looking for a HD pocket cam.

Right out of the box the Kodak Zi8 presented a very sleek sexy look and feel to it with a much bigger display screen than the other two options and immediately upon booting the Zi8 you are presented with 5 video recording quality options to choose from. One other feature I really liked was the removable memory. This allows you to be able to upgrade to up to 32 gigabytes of video storage space on your Kodak Zi8. This fact alone was a major plus in my opinion and I can say right now that I am extremely happy with my purchase of the Zi8 over the other two pocket cams.

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Bump Top was officially released for Mac on January 22nd, 2010 and immediately took off right on launch day. Not only does it make a small monitor more convenient and easier to use, but it makes desktop organization extremely fast, easy, and fun!

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I remember back a few years ago now, when Bump Top had just been released for Windows and it was a huge hit! People were ranting and raving over this little program. Some people didn’t know how such a simple, yet complex, idea could make such an impact for every type of user. I never actually downloaded Bump Top for Windows, because I already had a large monitor and I didn’t see the need for it, I just figured it was going to use up more resources in the background and slow down my computer, but now that I have a 13″ Unibody MacBook, I see the need and Bump Top was here to fill it!

BumpTop basically takes all the features you already have with your desktop and combines them together with its own little twist to each. Most programs that try to do this, or something similar, usually fail miserably, but I have to give Bump Top props, because I couldn’t find anything that I would change that hasn’t already been done. To list a few of the features, Bump Top makes icon selection much easier and more precise, it offers the ability to stack icons, as well as group icons in many different designs.

Bump Tops main eye catcher is the 3D desktop environment it has to offer. You can have up to 5 different desktop wallpapers and to put it simply, you have 5 separate desktops all conveniently woven into one. I’m sure at this point, if you haven’t looked at the program, you are extremely confused as to what this all means. Well, if that’s the case, check out the video above and look for yourself as I capture my first reactions to all that BumpTop has to offer!

Overall, BumpTop is extremely user-friendly and easy to pick up and start using. It has lots of features included in the free version and I think they even put too many features in the free version, because I don’t even see the need to upgrade to the full version due to the access to so many tweaks and tools included. Bump Top is a must have for anyone with a laptop, but for a desktop, I don’t really see the need, but it definitely helps with organization and even does it with some style, so for you desktop users, the choice is yours, but I would recommend you give it a shot no matter what kind of computer you’re using.

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I know I’m not the only one who hates going to a website and having ads all over the place getting in the way of you trying to navigate around the website and ruining the overall experience. This has bothered me for years and eventually, most people develop tunnel vision and just ignore them, well that works, but there’s a much easier way and it’s called AdBlock Plus!

AdBlock Plus is completely free and I recommend it for all levels of users!

The download link is below, so click the link to download and keep reading and I’ll walk you through how to set it all up and get started!

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Once you’ve downloaded the plugin and clicked install, it should ask you for the region you’re in and then have a long list of websites that AdBlock has deemed unwanted. You can go ahead and sort through all these if you would like, or you could just leave them all checked like I do and as you come across websites that are blocked that you would like to unblock, just manually unblock them with a click of the mouse!

So, once you’re done installing AdBlock Plus and you’ve customized all your settings and restarted FireFox, you should see a red stop sign in the top right-hand corner of your browser. When the icon is red, it means it is enabled and blocking all ads on the web page you’re currently on. If you would like to temporarily turn it off, click on the small arrow to the right of the icon and it will give you a drop-down box that has an option at the bottom that says, “enable Adblock Plus” and a check mark next to it. Just click that option and the check mark will go away and the icon will turn grey meaning that it is now disabled. To turn AdBlock back on, just do the same thing you did to turn it off.

There is one more option you have in AdBlock as far as the status of the plugin. Instead of having to disable AdBlock every time you go to a specific website, you can turn it off for the entire domain or just a specific page on the domain and every time you go to there, AdBlock will automatically turn itself off until you leave that page. To do this, click the drop-down arrow again while you’re on the web page you want to do this on and click on either “disable on this page only” or “disable on insertwebsitehere.com” and each will do as they say.

There are other minor tweaks you can do, but they’re not main components, so you can mess around with the rest of them on your own time, but that’s how to set up AdBlock Plus so you will never see another ad again unless you choose to!

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I’ve finally purchased my first Mac! It’s the new Unibody Macbook Pro and I’m loving everything about it!

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I’ve been wanting to switch over to the Mac Os X Platform for years, but I didn’t have the money or the motivation. Now that I’m going away for most of the summer, I needed a laptop and I decided to make the big buy!

I decided to purchase my 13″ Unibody Macbook Pro from Craigslist because purchasing a new Macbook was slightly out of my range. This turned out to be a bonus, as Apple’s Mighty Mouse and Incase’s Black Incase came included with my purchase. I will have separate reviews for each of these products later on.

I must say, for the first time owning a Mac, it’s not too hard to get used to, and the multitouch trackpad is just amazing! The trackpad should have been invented years ago, it is by far the easiest trackpad to pick up.

As far as I’m concerned, this is the best purchase I could have made and am extremely happy I bought it!

Check back later for my full reviews on everything included with my 13″ Unibody Macbook Pro!

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Thank you so much Unique Skins for sending me some skins to review and give away!

So here’s the review of UniqueSkins.com products, watch it and see what it’s all about and be sure to let me know your entry for the giveaway!

GIVEAWAY DETAILS:
1. Be Subscribed.
2. Send me a message telling me what device you want the skin to be for.
(3. Optional:) Send me a link to the image you want to be on the skin.

Once you complete those two or three things, after a week I will pick a random winner and I will make the skin for the winners specified device and if they sent me an image link, I will use the specified image as well.

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Last week, I was looking around for more products to review and I came across UniqueSkins and thought their products looked like a winner! I looked into it further and UniqueSkins was kind enough to send me out some skins to review! After receiving the skins and looking them over, I turned out to be correct in calling Unique Skins a winner, because these skins are super durable and high quality!

As far as how I like it, I think that Apple should include one of these skins with every iPod purchase, because everyone hates to scratch up that beautiful silver backing on their brand new iPod. This makes them go buy a case, even if they don’t want it and most of the time people shop around for a case, so Apple doesn’t get the money anyway! Skins are a perfect and inexpensive way to fix this problem! I’ve always had cases with all of my iPods and I never liked how fat it made the device, but now I know what to buy with my next iPod upgrade!

Overall my opinions on UniqueSkins products are that I’m simply amazed that I never came across them before. Their products are phenomenal and I don’t think there’s any better skins out there! The skins are made of thick, almost a silicon material that isn’t going to get ruined if wet and won’t tear unless you’re trying to tear it. Another amazing thing that Unique Skins pulled off is the quality of the custom image after being made into a skin. I gave them a high quality image and that image is just as high quality on my skin, no quality was lost in development and printing! Now that’s something to be proud of! Keep up the good work Unique Skins!

The skins start at $6.99 and vary in price depending on the size of the skin.

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