If you are looking for a great stocking stuffer or a gift for someone who has everything, Road Mice is another gift you have to get.  Everyone has a boring mouse for their computer.  Road Mice takes that boring mouse, dresses it up like a car (and they have a ton of models to choose from), and you have a great talking piece for your house now.  The mouse works just like a regular mouse.  The hood has the left and right buttons to click, and it also has a scroll key.  There is no extra software that has to be installed either.  Best of all, this is a wireless mouse.  They are copatible with Macs and PCs and even laptops.  The new line of these Road Mice include a Chevy Camaro concept car and a Dodge Charger SRT8.  Every person who has seen our new mouse wants to know where we got it from.

If you know anyone who loves cars or hates to be boring, they will love this mouse.  I know my husband couldn’t wait to try it out when we got it!

Have you ever wanted to learn to play guitar? If so, Fretlight is your answer.  You plug their guitars into your computer (PC or Mac) and off you go.  They teach you everything from scales into playing songs.  It is like Guitar Hero, but only with a real guitar instead!

Like I said above, the Fretlight guitars plug right into your computer.  After you install the software, you are able to go through the lessons and the neck of the guitar lights up.  You basically have a guitar teacher right there with you!  I have went through quite a few lessons and like everything else, the more you practice, the better you will get.  I loved that you are able to go back to the lessons at any point and repeat them.  You also can do a lesson as many times as you want if you are having problems with it.  They really take it down to a level of a person who has no music training.  However, even with a small amount of training, I didn’t find it too easy or too hard.

This definitely make a great gift for yourself or anyone else wanting to learn to play guitar.  This makes a great unique gift for the person who has everything too!

In a rough economy, gifts that you can do at home that have sentimental value are becoming more common place.  ProShow Gold allows you to take your photos and make slide show with it.  You can then put your slideshow on a DVD or even online.  We did this for my inlaws several years ago, and they absolutely loved it.

My favorite part of this software has to be how easy it is to use.  All you need to do is drag and drop the photos you want.  You can then crop the pictures, add borders, and even remove red eye.  There is even one click color correction that automatically optimizes your pictures for you!  You can also set up custom timing for each photo or modify a bunch at once.  Next, you can add transitions to the slide show also.  There are 280 transition styles including dissolves, fades, wipes, and shapes.  You can even add custom captions and backgrounds to any photos too.  You are also able to add a soundtrack to your slide show.  You can import your music from your CDs, WAV files, and MP3s.  There is an auto trimmer too, so you can crop songs and apply fades too.  If you want to do some narration, you can do that too!  When you are done, you can save your slide show into 40 different formats!  Those included are DVD, Blu-ray, and you can even load it right up to YouTube!  It also automatically backs up, so there is no losing your show that you just spend five hours on.

The software alone makes an awesome Christmas present for yourself or someone else.  What you can make with the software makes an even better gift to your loved ones.

With a lot of studies now showing that the expensive bottled water is no better than the water coming out of our tap, we now need to get water bottles that we can take where we go.  Tappening’s water bottle are made from 100% BPA free plastic and are available in green or blue.  The Green bottle says “Think Global, Drink Local”, and the Blue bottle says “What’s Tappening?”.  You can also get these in stainless steel bottles in Silver, Blue, Gold and Red.  All of the money raised from these bottles has been put back into their campaign and website to help keep the world a cleaner, better place.