Category: Holiday

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It’s Memorial Day, My Birthday, My Day Off and I’m on Tour

Have a great day! Enjoy your family and friends. Thanks goes out to all of you out there that risk your lives to keep us safe.

I'll hopefully have some more posts this week from the road. Looking forward to seeing you all in Sydney and Melbourne this week!

 

Terry

 

A funny moment when the simultaneous translation failed during our event in Turkey

During our live CS5 Evolution Tour in Istanbul the sound system failed going up to the two people doing the simultaneous translation. I took this opportunity to have a little fun with them and the audience even after the system started working again. At one point I brought up Google Translate and just started typing bits and pieces of my presentation to have it translated for the audience in the meantime. 

Enjoy 🙂

Funny Moments #CF-Istanbul 2011 from Hayati ?entürk on Vimeo.

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So what’d you get?

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photo compliments of iStockphoto.com

It's that time of year again. My annual "So what'd you get?" I've been reviewing my favorite gadgets, services and photo gear all year long. Now it's your turn! Tell us what you got this holiday season (tech wise) that you're excited about? Use the comments section below. Tell us what it is, why you like it and provide links if you can? Did you get or give anything from my holiday gadget gift guide?

 

Hey! If you got an iDevice as a gift, check out Must Have Apps here.

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Last Minute Gift Ideas Without Leaving Your House!

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You forgot _______________. It happens. That relative or friend walks through the door that you totally forgot to get a gift for and you feel bad. Yep, it happens. Personally, I wouldn't sweat it. However, for those of you who do (you know who you are) here are a couple of things you can do to save the day.

First off it may not be too late to get overnight shipping! Be sure to check out my Holiday Gadget Gift Guide here.

 

iTunes Printable Gift Certificates

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When you go to hang up their coat, head to your computer and fire up iTunes. Then go to the iTunes Store and buy a "Printable" gift certificate. You can print it (quietly) on your printer, fold it and stick it in one of those emergency cards that you keep around. Oh yeah, you forgot those too. OK, a handwritten envelope will do. You can then explain to them that with this they can download music, movies, apps and more. Whew!

 

Amazon Printable Gift Certificates

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OK, so the person that just walked in is not into digital entertainment. I get it! No problem. Head over to Amazon.com (here's the link to get you directly to the gift certificates. This way you won't be out of the room any longer than you have to be) and buy a gift certificate and print it out. Now they can go order whatever they want since Amazon sells just about everything.

 

Lastly pride yourself on avoiding the mall 🙂

 

Happy Holidays, Merry Christmast  and get back to your guests 🙂

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A Couple of Cyber Monday Deals

It's Cyber Monday 2010 and I thought I'd share a couple of deals with you…

NAPP & Kelby Training

The guys over at NAPP and Kelby Training are having a ONE DAY Sale on, well, just about everything.

Check it out here.

 

Adobe Lightroom 3 (Mac/Win) is Half Off!

Amazon is running this sale (Full version for $149.99/Free Shipping) with no indication of how long it will last so hurry!

 

Amazon's One Week Sale

Amazon kicked off their one week holiday sale on Black Friday. However, there are new deals every day. Check them out here:

 

The guys over at LCD 4 Video are also have a Cyber Monday Sale

Many of the Black Friday Deals are still in effect until November 30th. Check them out here.

Also don't forget to check out the Deals on Apps here. 

CompUSA Best sellers

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Happy Thanksgiving!

I want to take this opportunity to wish everyone a very Happy Thanksgiving!

One of the things that I'm most thankful for is the overwhelming amount of support that I receive from my readers and fans. Enjoy time with your friends and family.

If you get into the whole holiday shopping thing be sure to come back tomorrow to take a peek at some hand picked Black Friday Gadget/Tech Deals.

Otherwise, enjoy! I'm looking forward to the long weekend.

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My 2010 Holiday Gadget Gift Guide is Here

 

That's right it's my guide to help you with you holiday shopping for the gadget lover (freak) on your list. The way this thing started was each year towards the holiday season all my friends started asking me and emailing about what my picks were in various categories and of course the answers were usually the same. So I decided to compile a list and just email it to the folks that asked.

Once again I've put together a Holiday Gadget Gift Guide to help you pick out gifts for the techies and gadget lovers on your gift list. However, instead of making a PDF with links to multiple sources, I've decided to go with once source this year. I've chosen Amazon.com simply because they are the one online retailer with not only the largest presence, but also the one that carries 99% of the items I recommend. Another advantage is that I can continue to add things that come up all the way up to the final days of the holiday season. In previous years I would always find some cool gadgets after the static gift guide was published. Now because they don't carry every single item on my recommendation list, you can check for some Extras at the bottom of this post.

 

How did you pick the items that you recommend?

Simple! If it's in my guide it's because I either use it now, have used it in the past or one of my close friends or colleagues use it and I trust their opinion. Now in some cases there may be an item in the guide that is NEWER than the one I use and I had to list that one because my model is no longer available. Two examples come to mind: The Epson Workforce 610 (I have the 600) and the Sony BDP-S370 (I have the 350). So there was no choice but the recommend the current model. Each year, I get dozens of emails from companies trying to get into the guide. However, unless I've used it or know someone who has, it doesn't get in PERIOD.

 

How does the gift guide work?

The guide is broken out by Category so that you can shop accordingly. This way you can pick your gift by the kind of person you're shopping for. I know that sometimes you have to buy a gift based on a certain dollar amount or budget (like gifts for co-workers), so I've given you a couple of dollar amount categories too. Happy shopping and in case I don't see you later, Happy Holidays to you and your family! You can go straight to my 2010 Holiday Gift Guide here.

 

 

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