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More and More people are using Internet Based Video conferencing tools, like Skype, to keep in touch with friends and family across the world.

Unfortunately in most cases the video quality on these calls isn’t brilliant. Low quality cameras or poor internet connections can lead to low frame rate videos or poor image quality. Even if you buy a camera described as HD (like the Microsoft Cinema or Logitech Pro 9000) , most people’s home broadband connections aren’t capable of delivering high frame HQ video, but there is an option, the FV touchcam N1

The faceVsion is the world’s first Skype certified webcam capable of delivering full screen 720p streaming video over the Internet, it achieves this by using High Quality H.264 encoding, which compress HD video to a size where it can be compressed down small enough to be delivered over a normal home broadband Internet connection.

The FV touchcam also features a 78 degree super wide angle lens with fast auto-focus, allowing several people to comfortably get into the same picture, allowing families to chat without having to move the camera between people or swapping seats.The Touchcam is also easy to install and connects through a USB 2.0 connection.

So if you want to see your family in crystal clear HD quality on skype then the FV ExpressCombo can be purchased through the faceVision on line store and other value added partners.

Are you looking to promote your event, then MyEventHub (MEH) by Fashion designer Bian Variani might be able to help. MyEventHub is a social network for Fashion Designers, Models, Club goer’s, Photographers, Musicians, Actors, Directors or in fact anyone who wants to promote and sell tickets to an event that they are organising.

As well as providing ecommerce facilites for you to sell tickets, MyEventHub includes a facility called “My Blog” which has Wall functionality allowing users to comment on your profile and driving traffic to your events. You have full admin rights over your “My Blog”, so you can control which comments are visable to readers.

Another powerful function of MyEventHub is the ability to mass email members with information about your events, so that you can quickly reach a large market.  

So if you organise events then check them out.

Most of us will be familiar with the Go Compare TV ad’s with the Opera style singer singing funny verses about comparing car insurance prices.

Channel 4 have been running a comedy Gala in aid of the Great Ormond Street Hospital, who do fantastic work helping poorly children, and as part of the show some famous adverts have been altered to include the English comedian Jimmy Carr, the results are quite funny.

Below is the video of when the Go Compare Man met Jimmy Carr.

Does this count?? That’s an age old question.

Perhaps you want to know if something you have done counts as stealing, or perhaps you want to know what constitutes a lie, well then this humorous site – doesthiscount.com -  will be able to help.

You ask the questions and then the other users of the doesthiscount site vote of if your question counts or not. The results are often highly humorous. They also have a growing facebook fan page.

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This (Picture Left) is the view that most people associate with Crewe, as most of us have been there whilst waiting for train, but is there anything else in Crewe to see and do?

First a note about it’s famous Train Station. The Station which was opened in 1837, has a total of 12 platforms, has a minimum of 22 trains pass through each hour and was built in the fields near Crewe Hall.

Crewe Hall which is now a hotel was completed in 1636 and has 497 acres of parkland attached to it, the hotel has an associated health club and tennis courts.

Crewe’s  local football team is Crewe Alexandra, nicknamed the railwaymen and currently playing in Football League two, play at the Alexandra Stadium.

If you fancy taking in a film or two then check out the Reel Cinema with its 5 screens, and then afterwards have a game of ten pin bowling at Lakeside Bowling or get a bite to eat at Pizza Hut.

You can learn more about Crewe’s history at The Crewe Heritage Centre, which includes much information about it’s steam Heritage and History as well as the background story of the town.

If you fancy a bit of fun and excitement and enjoy slot machines then check out the Quicksilver Amusement & Slot Machine arcade, before checking out the Coffee bars in the modern shopping precinct.

So Crewe isn’t all trains, there is something to keep most of us entertained.

For those of us that wear eyeglasses it can be an expensive chore when it comes to the time to replace a pair or pick up a second pair of glasses. Even the most basic or pairs can set you back over $100.

There are alternatives though, and I have come across a review of ZENNI eyeglasses at the Examiner.com website.
Zenni sell proper prescription sunglasses and their prices are significantly lower then what you are used too. Their ranges start at the low price of $8 and go up to about $40, there is a slight additional price if you require f you want bifocals or thick lenses, and an extra $4.99 for ant-glare coating, although this would set you back over $50 in other stores.

Zenni produce and manufacturer their glasses in a lab in China so they are able to offer the glases at low prices, and there is a price of $4.95 for shipping, no matter how many pairs you order in a shipment.

When you order from Zenni you will need to provide your pupilary distance number. Which is the distance between the rear of your eyes and it’s used to work out how large your the frames for your glasses need to be. Zenni will tell you how to do this yourself, but you pay to contact your eye doctor and ask for your PD number if in doubt.

It IS possible to get quality eyeglasses for a low cost

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Powermat. All opinions are 100% mine.

If like me you like gadgets then one nagging problem that you will constantly face is how to keep a track of all your chargers, keeping them neat and trying to stop all those wires from getting tangled, this can be a nightmare especially if you travel a lot.

Most house holds could easily find them themselves having to charge their Ipod, mobile phones, BlackBerry’s and Nintendo DS’s all at the same time, and that means that you need several power sockets to plug into and this can cause logistic difficulties, especially if you don’t trust multi plug adapters.

Fortunately I’ve just come across the Powermat which may solve many of these problems.

The Powermat allows you to charge many of your gadgets and devices without the need to plug them into into their power adapter and or the need for many power sockets. You can now charge your devices simply by placing them on the neat looking Powermat, thanks to clever docking technology known as receivers.

There are Powermat receivers available for most popular devices including phones, music players, digital camera and hand held game systems, so house hold wireless charging is really becoming a reality.

There are different models of Powermat available, which makes wireless charging simple and easy to use, whether you are in your home, office or traveling on the road.

If you have a number of gadgets that require regular charging then the Powermat may need to be an essential purchase.

Every now and again the odd Prank or joke can be funny, as long as the victim isn’t hurt or upset and can see the funny side. Occasionally Pranks can also be used to make a point, about peoples behaviour.

We used to have a manager in our office who didn’t like to park in the staff car park but rather on the edge of it as it was closer to the main staff entrance. He wasn’t breaking any staff rules or any laws, and he wasn’t blocking anyone in or out of the car park but it did make it difficult turning out of the car park to reach the exit, especially when other cars where trying to get into the car park.

One of the office administrators had a great idea about how to make the point to him about him parking there, and ordered a fake parking ticket from an Internet based Joke store. The Parking Ticket looked very realistic and you couldn’t tell the difference between it and a real parking ticket until you looked at the very small print on the back of the ticket. The Ticket was placed on the managers car window and we waited for the fun to start.

We watched the manager as he returned to his car and found the ticket, he tore it from the window and marched straight to the chief executives office to complain, it was only after he got into the office that he saw the small print.

He saw the funny side although not quite as much as we did.

Would you like to pull a prank on someone then check out Prank Call, the site lets you decide the topic for a prank call, along with the age of the victim and also how crude you want the call to be,  and then makes the call on your behalf, at a lower cost then some similar services.

As a nice touch, which also sets it apart from some of it’s competitors, it even records the prank call so you can publish it on line, examples of which can be seen on the Prank Call website.

In light of todays sad news I thought I would share a video of Terry reading Janet and John.

Terry Wogan announced this morning that he will step down from BBC Radio 2′s breakfast show in the new year, and will be replaced by Chris Evans.

As I’m a big fan of Terry’s I’m a little but gutted to hear the news BUT it doesn’t look like Terry will be leaving the station altogether, he is reported has said “This is not goodbye – not even au revoir. As we used to say when I was a boy, see you later alligator.”

So hopefully TOG’s and TIG’s we will continue to be able to hear him, and the adventures of Janet and John for some time to come.

It was only a matter of time before this happened…

There is a growing conspiracy theory on the Internet that Michael Jackson isn’t dead, a man was photographed at his funeral that had the same hands as the king of pop, and a very slight passing resemblance…if you squint a bit….although it looks like one of the BeeGee’s to me.

I’ve put the video below – make up your own mind. I know what I think.