Pimp my Flash Drive all day!

Talk about the ultimate customization for storing media files and documents. Not only can you have storage on-the-go, but I found out that now you can even get Personalized Flash Drives to use or give as cool holiday gifts. This is sweet!

A friend and working associate hipped me to the whole flash drive deal in recent years while I was trying to complete a short movie. If you do not know about flash drives, they are small portable storage devices that allow you to save photos, documents, music files, videos and more while being able to use them on any computer with a USB port. These little gadgets come in handy, especially for saving music, photos and small video files. The ones that I have seen up until now were either black, silver or a combination of the two. Now, you can get flash drives/thumb drives in more colors like red, blue, pink, you name it.

That is not the only fun part about these new storage gadgets. The same items can be personalized with an engraving of your choice. If I liked more people, I would given tons of these out as holiday gifts with the phrase "Happy Holidays: Watch my Movies!", but I just may get one for myself and a relative. I like the fact that you can get these flash drives/thumb drives engraved to say anything you want or even get fun graphics or logos on them. Pexagon Tech has these cool babies with no setup fees and quick processing time in 3 days or less. That is something that I can really get behind, especially since the ones at this place are way more affordable than other shops and the flash drives/thumb drives that they carry have lots of storage space.

Prince Among Slaves Documentary Screening in Washington, DC

If you are in or near Washington, DC on Saturday, check out the documentary Prince Among Slaves. The movie is narrated by hip-hop artist, Mos Def with Reenactments by actor Bill Duke.

Prince Among Slaves examines the life of an African Prince enslaved in America. It won Best Documentary at the 2007 American Black Film Festival and will be showing at Cramton Auditorium on the campus of Howard University Saturday December 1, 2007 at 2:00pm.

There will be a VIP reception prior to the premiere .
Advance Tickets can be obtained through the website.
http://www.princedc.org

Check it out and Support Independent Films!

How many widgets does it take to get an iced out Blog?

It amazes me how people comes up with all of these surveys, widgets and other Blog Stuff to keep us occupied online. There are so many tools to pimp out a blog that it may be hard to know when one has gotten out of hand. Bloggers can receive better results if they avoid layout and design choices that overwhelm or annoy their readers.

There are some blogs that use fun questionnaires, animations and other stuff that makes you get attached to your computer/laptop. What some bloggers do not seem to pay attention to is the fact that these items can overshadow their blog. Now, the limit may be difficult to determine because blogs are designed the same. Until then, I suppose we will continue to load our blogs with fun items to keep ourselves and our readers from being bored. I tend to like some widgets and questionnaires so I may implement them as I deem fit for this blog. If they do not provide any form of entertainment or useful information, I may decide to skip these surveys or interactive widgets altogether. There is one fun badge that I found that generates a film rating for blogs. The rating is similar to the ones that they give movies when they come out, so I may check that out soon. It should be fun!