Color-A-Cookie Hello Mr. Men and Little Miss- 8 kits

You start with a delicious cookie that contains an image or picture, along with food coloring markers and your traditional cookie eating now has quite a fun twist! This exciting product will turn virtually any occasion into a fun filled activity at the best of a meal...dessert! Color-a-Cookie is a product that will grab the hearts of parents and the smiles of children alike. Through enhancing the control and fun factor Color-a-Cookie encourages creativity through activity. Cookie image is subject to change. 8 Color-a-Cookie Kits Included Price:$39.99

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Fujifilm FinePix AX200 12 MP Digital Camera with 5x Wide Angle Optical Zoom and 2.7-Inch LCD (Black)

Fujifilm FinePix AX200 - 12MP, Fujinon 5x Wide Angle Optical Zoom (28-140mm), 2.7" LCD. Other features include: Face Detection w/ Red Eye Removal, Picture Stabilization, High Sensitivity 3200 ISO, 6 Scene - SR Auto Automatic Scene Recognition, HD Movie 720p w/ Sound, Panorama Mode, 2 AA Batteries. Features 12-megapixel resolution for large, photo-quality prints Fujinon 5x wide-angle optical zoom lens Capture 720p HD movies with sound and still shots in 16:9 that can be played back on any HD-ready television (or a home PC) Panoramic Shooting mode; Picture Search 2-AA Batteries Click to read more details | Customer Reviews

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Some Simple and Useful Health Care Reform Talking Points- Updated

Distortions and lies have been the only weapon they could use against health care reform. With a final bill pretty well set, the House Dems have put out talking points for their junior members in the face of another Tea Bagger invasion. They can be of use to us all. Via The Hill's Blog Briefs, see the full memo after the jump. TPM has obtained the White House's more comprehensive talking points and framing effort see here for that. Democrats plan hospitable greeting for Tea Partiers TO:... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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25 Things You Can Remote Control With Your iPhone [Apple]

One of the more interesting things you can do with the iPhone is use it as a remote control for other devices. Since the iPhone App Store launched almost two years ago, developers have created hundreds of remote control applications. Some of them are for entertainment — designed to control A/V equipment in your living room. Others control household appliances, functions on your computer, or even expensive corporate security systems. For now, most remote control apps operate over the Internet, or via a wi-fi or Bluetooth link between your iPhone and another device. But one company is developing an infrared iPhone accessory, which will open the doors for even more remote control applications. It's conceivable that, with these apps and accessories, an iPod touch could replace the fanciest of universal remotes, and have the bonus of shipping with a Web browser and all the other apps on the App Store. DVR More TV providers are releasing iPhone apps to use as DVR remotes. Recently, Comcast published an app that allows some of its digital cable subscribers program their DVRs remotely. And free apps from DirecTV, DISH Network, and AT&T let you program your digital video recorder from anywhere. Zipcar rental car The free Zipcar app lets you find and book rental cars. But the impressive part is that you can also use your iPhone to unlock the car or make its horn beep. Home lights and automation system A recent Apple commercial highlights this app for the Schlage LiNK home automation and security systems. You can watch your doors, lock and unlock them, turn lights on and off, etc. TV, other gadgets This isn't just an app but a $50 hardware add-on that gives your iPhone infrared support. When it ships — supposedly soon — the L5 remote accessory will let you turn your iPhone into a universal remote, replacing any number of remote controls that are on your coffee table. Chevy Volt This free app lets you access info for a Chevy Volt electric car via OnStar, including charging info, driving stats, door locks, horn, and lights. iTunes Via Apple's free Remote app, search and change the song playing on your computer's iTunes jukebox from bed, across the house, or even outside. Or change volume settings, or hit pause, etc. Another app called PodLink ($2.99) lets you wirelessly control music playing on another iPhone or iPod touch, perhaps one that is being played in a docking station across the room. There's also a $3.99 app to control WinAmp if you use that. Mouse and keyboard Apps like the $1.99 Air Mouse Pro (limited free version also available) turn your iPhone or iPod touch into a wireless trackpad and keyboard. This is helpful if you want to kick back and don't have a wireless keyboard, or if you're using an old computer hooked up to your TV and want to access the cursor or type something from the couch. A reader notes a free, similar app from Logitech. The $3.99 TouchPad app is another alternative. Blu-ray Discs Several Blu-ray discs include Internet features that can be accessed via iPhone apps. For example, the free "pocket BLU" app can act as a remote for Blu-ray discs that support "pocket BLU" — including "Bruno," "Funny People," other movies. Features include controlling playback, browsing through chapters, the soundtrack, etc. Other Blu-ray remote apps are available for different systems, including the Sony PS3. Roku video player If you use a Roku video player — the cheap, no-frills box that plays Netflix, Amazon, MLB.TV videos, etc. — you can get the free Rokumote app and control your Roku without its plastic remote. Presentations Apple's $0.99 Keynote remote lets you control Keynote presentations if you own the iWork suite. Other apps, like Evan Schoenberg's versatile $0.99 Rowmote can steer PowerPoint slides. Desktop PC or Mac This one takes a little tinkering, but free VNC — "virtual network computing" — remote desktop software on your computer (Mac, PC, Linux, etc.) will let you view and control it from anywhere, provided it's turned on and hooked up to the Internet. A search for "VNC" in the App Store turns up more than 30 apps. The VNC app we've been using for our iPhone is the free Mocha VNC Lite; there's also a pro version for $5.99. Logitech Squeezebox If you use a Logitech Squeezebox home audio system, the $9.99 iPeng app seems to be the best reviewed remote control. Control volume, switch songs, etc. Slingbox If you have a SlingBox — a device designed to let you watch your home TV/cable service from anywhere, over the Internet — you can use your iPhone to watch TV. The $29.99 SlingPlayer Mobile app recently got an important new feature, which allows you to stream TV from your SlingBox over 3G. Previously, it only worked over wi-fi. iCarly - Sam's Remote This one is for the kids: Fans of the cable TV show "iCarly" may appreciate the $1.99 "Sam's Remote" app, which includes sounds from the show. Photoshop A $2.99 app called PhotoKeys:Photoshop Remote puts the Adobe Photoshop toolbar on your iPhone. Not for everyone, but could be helpful for some setups. Apple TV Apple's free Remote software also controls the Apple TV set-top box, if you have one of those. A recent update adds a nifty feature that lets you use your iPhone's multi-touch screen as a "gesture pad" to scoot around the Apple TV display. This is much easier than using the small, plastic remote that came with Apple TV. You can also use the Boxee remote app to remote-control Boxee, if you've loaded that onto your Apple TV. Sonos Home Stereo If you have a Sonos multi-room sound system — especially the popular, newish S5 — your iPhone is a remote via the free Sonos Controller app. Pro audio software The ProRemote ($99.99) and ProRemote Lite ($35.99) act as sliders and other controls for pro audio editing software, including ProTools and Apple's Logic software. Burglar Alarm CPI Security customers can use a free iPhone app (with additional service) to monitor their home security system, turn it on and off, see activity history, etc. X-Plane Flight Simulator Sort of like how Nintendo's DS has a touch-sensitive second screen that often controls what's happening on the first screen, this will let you control and observe some of your flight simulator's features — on your computer — using the iPhone as a smaller, second screen. Requires the $4.99 X-Plane Remote app and the $29 desktop X-Plane software. Boyfriend Ladies: We're not quite sure how this one works, but the $9.99 "Boyfriend remote" app is worth every penny if it performs magic. You can tell it to "give me money," "forget about beer," and even "take me to the mall." Classy. Also available: Girlfriend Remote and Parent Remote. Boxee If you use the free Boxee media center software on your Mac, PC, Linux box, or Apple TV, you can use your iPhone as a remote via Boxee's free app. (What's Boxee? Think of it as a multimedia-specialized Web browser that you're supposed to steer from your couch. Lets you watch Netflix movies, MLB.TV, and other Web video streams.) VLC Media Player If you use the free, popular VLC (Video LAN client) media player app, you can control it with your iPhone via the free VLC Remote app or its $2.99 premium cousin. Security Camera Plenty of security camera monitoring apps in the App Store, depending on your rig. By far the most expensive, though, is Lextech Global Services' $899.99 iRa Pro, which delivers "a video command center to the palm of your hand." Digital SLR Camera onOne software makes a lite ($1.99) and pro ($19.99) version of its DSLR remote app. If you hook your Canon EOS or Nikon DSLR camera up to a computer via USB, you can remotely control settings, fire the shutter release, and see your camera's viewfinder remotely over wi-fi. The main drawback is that your camera has to be hooked up to a computer.

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3BR/2BA, $294,900, Open House this Sunday 1 PM to 4 PM (Not In Subdivision)

This rare find vintage home in historic Micanopy has been beautifully restored. Just 10 minutes from UF and Gainesville, yet still enjoy the small town lifestyle of Micanopy as it was featured in the magazines NY Times Travel, Country Living and the movies Doc Hollywood, Cross Creek. Many features include custom maple kitchen cabinets, granite counters, upgraded stainless appliances, stained glass transoms, arts and crafts style wood columns, original heart pine floors, airtight wood burning stove, and vintage claw foot bathtub. A detached artists studio, workshop, potting shed, and carport are also located on the lushly landscaped property. Electric, plumbing, heating/air and metal roof have been updated. This gorgeous home needs nothing!

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Media Engineers At New York Times And CNN

The Guardian.uk has an article about how the New York Times and CNN are becoming technology companies. How the New York Times and CNN try to keep up with the tech companies "The New York Times is now as much a technology company as a journalism company," its executive editor Bill Keller said recently. ... While CNN.com closely collaborates with technology companies like Facebook, Apple or Google, the New York Times anticipates technical change in-house with the help of its research and development department. ... "We made an experiment and put an RFID chip into the phone, the computer and the television. The chip was there to track the user's reading. When a user stopped reading a story on the phone as he or she arrived at work, it opened it again on the desktop. When the user entered the living room, related videos to the story were presented on the television screen," explains the NYT's Nick Bilton. ... CNN has launched an iPhone application, redesigned its website and reached out more to social media. CNN was among the first TV broadcasters to understand the full impact of social media on television, and teamed up with Facebook for the presidential inauguration. ... Today, CNN's iPhone app is as much a news-making as a news delivering application, and as the iReporters can add their telephone number, email and location to their report, CNN's editors can get back to them or even assign them to certain content CNN is looking for. ... ...it looks like the news organisations that tear down the wall and build a bridge between editorial and technological thinking will be most likely to survive. I'm glad to see these types of stories. For the past five years I've been writing about the need for 'media engineers' - part software engineer and part media professional. And also 'media architects' the people the create the media technology infrastructure for media companies (BTW every company is a media company.) Media engineers will be better paid than software engineers because you need a broader skills set. - - - Please see my PearlTree on 'media engineers.' [PearlTrees is an SVW client and its a great media technology that organizes web pages in a visual way.]

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How does Amanda Seyfried look this good? By eating an 'awful' raw food dietHow does A

*How does Amanda Seyfried look this good? By eating an 'awful' raw food diet * By Daily Mail Reporter (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?s=y&authornamef=Daily+Mail+Reporter) Last updated at 8:09 AM on 16th March 2010 Posing in a basque and stockings, Mamma Mia star Amanda Seyfried shows off an enviably slender figure. But in a refreshing burst of honesty the 24-year-old admits it isn't without effort. She says she sticks to a rigid raw food diet in an attempt to stay slim. Image: http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/03/15/article-0-08BAD2A0000005DC-533_468x663.jpg Raw food only: Amanda Seyfried appears in the April edition of Esquire 'It's intense. And sort of awful,' she tells Esquire magazine. 'Yesterday for lunch? Spinach. Just Spinach. Spinach and some seeds.' The blonde blames the pressures of Hollywood for forcing her to worry about her figure. 'If I didn’t run and work out, there’s no way I would be this thin,' she told Glamour magazine in an earlier interview. 'But I have to stay in shape because I’m an actress. 'It’s f***ed up and it’s twisted, but I wouldn’t get the roles otherwise. Image: http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/03/16/article-1258204-08BB6B55000005DC-323_468x712.jpg Dazzling: Amanda last night at the premiere of her new film Chloe in New York with co-star Julianna Moore 'If I’d been a bit bigger, I don’t think they would have cast me for Mamma Mia!' Amanda is currently promoting her new film Dear John. Although she already has a house in LA, she is reportedly apartment-hunting in New York with English boyfriend Dominic Cooper, who lives in London with Gavin & Stacey star James Corden. The couple, who met on the set of Mamma Mia! three years ago, are currently in a long-distance relationship, splitting their time between LA and London. Image: http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/03/15/article-1258204-089F4FD8000005DC-24_468x571.jpg In great shape: Amanda at last week's Oscars Read more: How does Amanda Seyfried look this good? By eating an 'awful' raw food diet | Mail Online (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1258204/How-does-Amanda-Seyfried-look-good-By-eating-awful-raw-food-diet.html#ixzz0iM6jk7ON)

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3BR/2BA, $278,750, Open House this Sunday 2:00 - 5:00 (HP/Haile Market Square)

Another great floor plan by Paul McArthur Builder. Features include 10' ceilings, Low-E glass windows, R-38 ceilings with cocoon insulation., plus, plus. Tile and carpet, double vanity in owners suite bath. Dinette off kitchen plus dining room, large owners suite walk in closet. Charming location in Market Square, offering a treed preserve, common area at the rear. Home now complete and ready to occupy.

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4BR/3.5BA, $399,900, Open House this Sunday 1:00 to 4:00 pm (Turnberry Lake)

Estate home in a beautiful private neighborhood; minutes from shopping, restaurants and schools. This home features loads of upgrades, both inside and out. The private wood fenced backyard is truly unique, with a brick-paver porch and various fruit trees. Inside upgrades include quartz counter tops, maple cabinetry, designer window treatments and more.

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4BR/3BA, $349,500, Open House this Sunday 1:00 to 4:00 (Eloise Gardens)

Outstanding Jeffrey Wilde home in a convenient and private location. This lovely 4 bed/3 bath home features a large European kitchen with gas range and electric oven. Brazilian Cherry engineered floors throughout. Open floor plan, french doors and overlooks a beautifully landscaped and fenced back yard. This home exudes quality, taste and is move-in ready! Must see to appreciate!

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