Moviestorm is a great utility to create animated movies, without much trouble. You can make amazing animations using it in no time. And if you are worried about it burning a hole in your pocket, well, dont worry. Unlike other movie creators, you dont have to pay huge chunks of money to use Moviestorm. Instead, Moviestorm is subscription based. The subscription costs mere $8/month (which is roughly $0.25/day!)
If you want to try it out before subscribing to it, you can try the free version of Moviestorm, which is available on Windows and Mac platform. (You will need to provide a valid e-mail address to register and try out Moviestorm)
You also control how much you pay and what you pay for. You can rent “content packs” using your subscription. You can selectively buy only the content you need, and not all the junk which you do not, thanks to its unique content renting system.

They also have a Moviestorm Challenge running in which you can win a cool iMac worth USD 1,999. All you have to do is make a kids movie with Moviestorm, and get it shown on tv. It can be anywhere in the world, anytime, any duration etc, but it should be made using Moviestorm.

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

Festive season kicked off a few days ago with the thanksgiving day. A lot of you must have bought a lot of things offline and online on “black friday” and “cyber monday”. But if you have missed the shopping and vacationing mood this festive season so far, you do not have to loose heart. MasterCard has given its users one more reason to enjoy with their family and loved ones this festive season.

There is a MasterCard Cardholder – Exclusive Deal MasterCard in partnership with Accor hotels in Asia are offering three nights stay at over 188 participating hotels at the price of two (i.e. if you check out using your MasterCard).

The brands participating include Sofitel, Pullman, MGallery, Grand Mercure, Novotel, Mercure, ibis and all seasons.

Whats more, If you book now, you stand a chance to win a 3 night stay in 5-star Pullman Sanya Yalong Bay Resort’s private villa. The winners will also get free complimentary breakfast for two persons. The private villas has facilities such as 1 King Bed with Private Pool, spacious villa features a private garden with a private swimming pool, outdoor massage area, jacuzzi and separate living room.

The prize itself is worth about $1000 and there are 10 of them up for grab. If you want more info, please head over to their website for more details.

The offer is valid till 28 January 2010

So where are you going this new year?

They provide eye gasses in many categories and price range. You also get free UV protection and anti-scratch coating with your eye gear. The designs are awesome too. These are my favorite high fashion eyeglasses which will help you make up your mind. You can also read on CBN “how you can start spending smart“.

A bonus cash prize of $100 and $50 will be also be awarded to two random participants at the end of all the competitions.

The rules for participating in the contest are simple. You can participate in the competition by:
- Tweeting about it.

- Writing a blog post about the contest.

- Or if you don’t have a blog or you don’t tweet (seriously?), then you can participate by commenting about why they like a particular product we are offering as a prize and why it beats the competition.

The competition started on 18th May and will continue for the next 40 days (from 18 May), or depending on when they run out of prizes, whichever is latter. You can read about the competition here.

At webhostinggeeks.com many web hosts are reviewed and enlisted under different categories. The categories are blog hosting, budget hosting, dedicated server hosting, e-commerce, email hosting, Fantastico, Unix hosting, green hosting, PHP hosting, reseller host, VPS host, Windows host, and more. So now any newbie doesn’t need to just blindly trust a hosting company, but they can first look at the reviews and ratings of the host they want at WHG. That way, they can be saved from scams.

Webhostinggeeks have reviews in many categories like:

a) Top 10 Web Hosting: Web hosts offering hosting for less than $10 per month with at least one free domain name registration (and 30 days money back guarantee).

b) Multiple domain hosting: Hosts which allow up to addon domains (more than one domain on a single hosting account)

c) Free domain names: Hosts which provide a free domain name are listed here.

if you are buying a hosting account, better have a look at the reviews of web host at webhostinggeeks.com

• Issue of giving your bank details/ credit card information on the internet:  This issue can be addressed if you do your transactions on a secured server and make sure you are not entering your details on a phishing website.
• Other is, you can go out with your friends/ loved ones for shopping, take their opinions, talk to them making the experience overall memorable and fun which is so not the case with online shopping where you just shop sitting alone in front of your computer and you cant talk to your friends and cant take their opinions/ reviews about the product you want to buy.

Shopcorn is a wonderful new portal which changes just that. Shopcorn is India’s first online social shopping destination. You can chat to your friends over text, voice or video, share their views and reviews about a product, pick great deals and kick bad deals. Not only that, you can read/ write product reviews and blogs, watch videos of products uploaded by the community members or upload a video of your own. You can also ask  questions about your product and also help fellow shoppers if they want help in something they are buying in Q&A. (this is a social shopping portal after all, the more you participate, the better it becomes, and more fun it is).

This all makes shopping interactive and a fun experience, just like normal/offline shopping.

Have a look at this presentation to get what I am talking about:

The best part of Shopcorn is that it lists the BEST deals from different shopping websites like Rediff.com, Indiatimes.com, Shoppersstop.com under the user generated section “Deals Box“. You can be sure that the deals are one of the best as users “pick” only the good deals and “kick” the bad deals. More the similar deals, more are the deal challenges and eventually, you, the buyer is the winner of the competition between the sellers. If you have more challenges for product, you can do comparison shopping and pick only the best deals for yourself.

And since this is a “social” portal, you can also maintain your own profile wherein you can tell people more about yourself, write and recieve messages (scraps) from people, add friends and favorite deals etc.

All these great features make Shopcorn a perfect destination for community shopping.

There is one last thing though which can make you dicth online shopping. A slow to death internet connection. If you are a “victim” of slow internet connection then you will love this. Tata Indicom have introduced Photon+, an amazingly fast wireless broadband internet service, which gives blazingly fast speeds of  3.1 mbps (downlink), 20 times faster than any wireless technology taht we have right now in India. And as it comes on a USB device, you can carry it with you with ease. You can just plug the USB modem into your pc and you are good to experience a never before internet ride. This will for sure to make your shopping experience at Shopcorn a smooth ride.

If you have been facing the above mentioned problems, www.consumermate.com is here to change the way you and me buy laptops, at least in India.

www.consumermate.com is a great new portal that helps you easily select a laptop of the brand of your choice and with all the features you want. All this, and more, with just a few clicks and from the comfort of your home.

consumermate.com have a diverse listing of laptops. The laptops are from reputed brands like IBM, Acer, HP, Dell, Compaq etc. Laptops are categorized under weight, screen size, cost etc. Just select what you want. You can also club more than one category to refine your search and get more personalized suggestions. Like, you can mention the maximum weight, minimum screen size etc. Accordingly, you will be shown all the laptops fulfilling all these requirements. Laptop computer shopping made easy, isn’t?

All the products are reviewed by Digit test center so that you have an idea about the performance of the laptop before you buy to purchase it. They also have a deals section which lists all the hot deals which you can avail on laptops. If your laptop is listed there, you are lucky.
try it out or tell your friends about it. Do tell me if you liked it or not.

Samsung LED TV’s: A cut above the rest

Samsung’s latest LED television range is unique combination of technology and design. They combine the latest in technology to give you the HD picture quality to enjoy your movies, and at the same time delivering a breathtaking design. Not only this, these televisions use less power as compared to other TV’s and are hence also eco-friendly. The new TV’s promises to be unlike anything you have ever experienced.

Un-paralleled picture and sound quality:

For Samsung the “three C’s” are the most important part for a breathtaking picture quality; color, contrast and clarity. Have a look at the LED TV series 6 & 7 from Samsung and you will know what I am talking about. These LED TV’s bring out the darkest shade of gray and the most pristine white in front of your eyes, for your viewing pleasure. Every pixel is vibrant and robust which enables the TV to render a higher range of natural colors with great depth. Add to that the pioneering 100Hz Motion Plus technology, and you get an un-forgettable television experience.

You will also get true surround sound experience, thanks to Samsung WS1* Sound Bar Surround System.

Great design:

Samsung are known to produce televisions which can please your eyes, even when they are turned of. The series 6 & 7 are one of world’s slimmest television sets. The “actual” width of the television set (without stand) is 2.99cms! The new crystal design is sure going to impress you.

Eco-friendly:

These televisions are not only a treat for your eyes, but also for the planet as well. They consume less power, use mercury free LEDs and produce less CO₂.

Not only this, you can create you own content (like games), transfer you movies, music or pictures from PC or DLNA mobile device with ease. You can also connect your cameras to the TV and watch and share with your loved ones all the great moments you captured in those pics and videos. All you need is a USB 2.0 movie connection cord.

The sets are available in two sizes, 40″ and 46″. There are currently 4 models on sale in India, 2 each from 6 & 7 series. 7 series 46” – UA46B7000 40” – UA40B7000 B. 6 Series 46” – UA46B6000 40” – UA40B6000. Do check them out.

There are a lot more features present with the series 6 & 7 LED TV’s from Samsung, do have a look here to see all of them.