Everybody knows somebody that is passionate about sport, diet, or healthy living. You know the type – they get up at 6am and go to the gym, or they play football with their friends 4 times a week. At times we question their seemingly super-Human abilities but rest assured they are like the rest of us, and aside from the usual gym gear or football boots; you might be stuck for gift ideas when their birthday comes around.
After all, who on Earth wants to spend £55 on a pair of boots that will only last a few months?
Take a look at these great little gift ideas for health and sport fanatics, on a budget!
Step ‘o meter
These make fantastic little gifts and can be purchased at very cheap prices if you know where to look. In fact, McDonalds were actually giving these away a few years ago (in the United Kingdom) with meal deals – that’s how cheap they are.
These little devices are strapped to the belt or pocket and they simply measure the number of steps you take while you’re wearing it (and it’s switched on!). A fantastic way to stay in shape and measure it!
Custom drinks bottle
Everybody takes a bottle of water or fruit juice with them when they work out or play sports. Why not buy a custom made bottle that suits their personality perfectly? Video games fan? Get them a drinks bottle with a picture of Super Mario on it! Liverpool fan? Get them a drinks bottle with the Liverpool emblem emblazoned across it so they can show their undying support for their team every time they work out!
Heath food voucher
This might sound a little odd, but a lot of people who work out regularly drink protein shakes, and bars, and stick to pretty strict diets (I know – it’s mad isn’t it!!). These can often be rather expensive and they are usually provided by only a few companies. So, find out who your loved one is buying from and see if you can get them a voucher for 6 months-worth of health products.
Gym membership
Some gyms offer gift-card memberships or access to extra services for its members. If you know somebody that is currently looking to join a gym, or perhaps they are already members, have a look around at what local gyms are offering. You will often find introductory offers that you can take advantage of.
Some gyms even offer free gifts on sign-up, so if you fancy getting yourself in shape you could sign up and give the free gift to your friend;)
Cloud Computing is not a new computing technology rather it was present in a diminutive form right since the evolution of the internet. But cloud computing has really broken new ground in terms of potentialities in the last two to three years when companies like Amazon and Google built out large horizontal networks consisting of multiple services, platforms, applications and storage tools that allowed users to access various services from the internet directly without having to store or run the applications on their machines.
Cloud basically refers to the internet where different companies or service providers host or run their programs that the end user, be it the individual or corporate, can easily access without the need to run or store the application or program on ones own computer. A good example of a cloud application is the email or online editing software that allow the users to quickly access and modify the data from any machine at any time.
Cloud computing is beneficial to everyone. Start-ups can keep costs down by storing most of their resources like applications and data in the cloud. Research projects can be sped up by accessing online libraries and collecting and editing reports in the cloud itself. Companies can eliminate capital investments like purchasing state-of-the-art servers for storing their client data and service applications. Rather cloud servers can handle these tasks thus freeing the companies to concentrate on providing best quality services to their clientele.
This not only results in savings as one need not buy costly software, but it also saves time and provides flexibility in terms of access and availability. Also the user need not have knowledge of complex cloud computing technologies rather the implementation details are best handled by the cloud providers while the corporate can focus on providing best quality services to their clients and individual users can use the cloud services at their convenience on pay-per use basis.
Many a time we wouldn’t like to purchase costly software that will be used sparingly or on a test basis. In such a scenario cloud computing presents a cost-effective solution whereby we can test the application in the cloud itself before deciding to buy it or we can use it on a per-use basis like playing online games or using a thumb nailing software.
Companies like Sun Microsystems, Microsoft, Amazon, Google and others have already put in place their cloud computing offerings for individual, small, medium and big players. Companies that are security conscious can also build their own private clouds while others may utilize the public clouds consisting of multiple servers without the knowledge about which server is/are running their services.
Cloud computing also facilitates instant scalability whereby companies can demand higher or lower cloud resource allocation in an instant depending on the current demand. This saves unnecessary overheads like training additional personnel, maintaining extra infrastructure like servers and purchasing costly licensed software.
In future cloud computing will enable users to run operating systems from the cloud on the go rather than from their desktops. Companies will no longer need to maintain huge data-centers rather they can adopt a lean and mean approach to their businesses. Developers will be able to accelerate development cycles from days to just a few hours as clouds will host most of the development tools required and will enable easy collaboration and sharing among multiple development teams. No wonder every one is jumping on the cloud computing bandwagon, are you?
This tutorial will show you how to convert YouTube to mp3, M4A, WMA for your mp3 players or smart phones such as iPod, iPhone and Blackberry etc. In addition, give you two tips about how to make the audio extracted from YouTube video more perfect with this YouTube to mp3 converter. BTW, I even taught an elder 80 years to convert YouTube to mp3 for his mp3 player in only 5 minutes. Do you anticipate getting this method? let’s begin to lead to subject matter.
Step 1: Download YouTube videos to your local disk with wondershare FREE YouTube downloader.
Step2: Download and install Wondershare FLV converter.
Step3: Run the FLV converter, load YouTube files and set output in mp3.
Step4: Click “Start” button to begin to convert YouTube to mp3, and you will get the mp3 files from your YouTube video in minutes.
Two tips about YouTube to mp3 converter:
1. If you hope the mp3 files extracted from YouTube video become more mellow and fair-sounding, you have to learn the audio setting parameter of Wondershare FLV Converter:
Sample Rate: In developing an audio sound for computers or telecommunication, the sample rate is the number of samples of a sound that are taken per second to represent the event digitally.
The more samples taken per second, the more accurate the digital representation of the sound can be. For example, the current sample rate for CD-quality audio is 44,100 samples per second. This sample rate can accurately reproduce the audio frequencies up to 20,500 hertz, covering the full range of human hearing.
Channel: Set the number of output channels to nchannels. A value of 1 indicates monophonic sound, 2 stereophonic. Some devices may have more than 2 channels, and some high-end devices may not support mono. Returns the number of channels the device was set to.
Bit rate: Bit rate is generally measured as the number of “bits per second” (bps) at which the data in an audio is being delivered. A higher bit rate means that the audio has more information.
2. How to trim the audio extracted from YouTube video?
If you only want the wonderful part of the audio in the YouTube video, it’s easy. Click the “edit” button and the popups like below:
And then, you can intercept your favorite parts of the audio via setting “start time” and “end time” manually or drawing the time shaft directly.
The Footy Boots Top 10 Bling list shows the players who like their football boots to be like their cars, watches and women: flashy, shiney and bling-tastic!
Who wears his Bling like a badge of honour and who was the original godfather of Bling? Only our list can tell you whose boots exude decadence and wealth – so let the Bling Begin!
10. Lee Dixon – What the Bling Was That?
Arsenal defender Dixon picked up a handsome fee for wearing Brook’s football boots (technically known as “wellingtons”), but in his first game wearing them, scored an own goal of exceptional quality as he lobbed his back pass over keeper Seaman from 30 yards out. We hope the Bling was worth it. Dixon proves that sometimes players put da bling-bling before everything!
9. Lionel Messi – The Next Big Bling
Widely touted as the next Maradona, Messi plays for Barcelona but Inter Milan have rumoured to have offered
Have you ever been to Youtube and wanted to save the video on your computer to view later with no load times?
There are a few great methods to use in order to extract the video from Youtube. The easiest method to save online video is to visit the site http://www.keepvid.com
Once on the site, you will notice a bar at the top where you can input text. What you want to do is find the Youtube video you’d like to save, and copy the URL. For example if the Youtube video you want to save is at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT1AZE1dpe4
You would type in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT1AZE1dpe4 in the input box. After you type this URL in, click download.
You will be directed to a new page which will ask you if you want to run an applet. Click ‘Run’ and you will then be provided with a list of all available media to download on that particular page. With Youtube videos you will often see videos of varying quality, so you have a choice of whether to download the low-resolution, or high-resolution videos.
This trick will also work for other popular media sharing sites such as Dailymotion, Metacafe, Google Video etc.
In addition to keepvid.com, there are other sites which will allow you to do similar tasks such as keepv.com or videodownloader.net. If you wanted a standalone plugin to do the same job, there is an awesome plugin for Mozilla Firefox which will allow you to download any media on the page you are currently visiting. You can download the plugin called DownloadHelper from the Mozilla Firefox plugin interface.