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Watch Review – Croton 1650 Feet Dive Watch CA301062SSGY
by: Zai Zhu

One of my very favorite things to do is swim. But its not just swimming I enjoy, its anything having to do with the water, whether it’s on the hot sands off the Atlantic coast, skiing on the ocean’s surface or feverishly pounding Olympic-sized pools with breast stroke after breast stroke.

No matter what kind of water sporting events you enjoy—snorkeling, deep-sea diving, scuba diving, sailing or ocean dwelling—your best swimming companion could very well be the Croton 1650 Feet Dive Watch, primarily due to its amazing water resistance capacity.

To say that 1650 feet is deep is to state the blatantly obvious. In light of this, perhaps the best way to illustrate such a depth is by offering a record-breaking feat. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the deepest dive with scuba gear is 437 feet off the coast of the Bahamas. If you don’t think this is deep, consider what Open Water Sport Diver Manual has to say about going deeper than 250 feet, saying “…the average diver is more or less useless and becomes a safety menace to himself and others.” In other words, the Croton 1650 can withstand what the human body cannot!

Some of the other impressive features of the Croton CA301062SSGY include the band, which is stainless steel with a diver’s clasp and safety lock. This truly is a strong lock that’s a bit difficult to latch into place and equally as difficult to take off. However, if you’re a swimmer, this is exactly what you want (as anyone who has lost his or her watch while swimming will tell you).

Outside of the Croton 1650 Feet Dive Watch’s water resistant capability that places it in the upper echelon of high-end watches (e.g. Tag Heuer), its sleek design is impressive as well. The luminous hands and number markings seem to harness light for a generous amount of time. What’s lacking in this model, I find, is the sweeping second hand that I always look for in watches. However, because this model has a quartz movement, which traditionally keeps better time than automatics, it offsets the drawback of not having a sweeping second hand (the “drawback”—if it can be called that—being that I find sweeping second hands more pleasing to look at).

Another nice thing about this watch is the weight it has. At the rock bottom price of $170, I was expecting it to be on the lighter side, but the weight is considerable (not as much as other Ceylon watches I’ve tried, but at 5.9 ounces, it’s enough weight to satisfy).

Some other features: a unidirectional rotating bezel with a luminous marker at the top of the bezel; the case material is stainless steel with a screw down case back (I like exhibition back’s more, but considering it’s the back of the watch, it’s really a non-issue) with dimensions of 42 mm in diameter and half an inch in thickness.

The dial of the watch has a nice textured look to it, with a zigzag, vertical design. It’s a nice embellishment of the dial because it gives it a dual color look when light reflects off it (i.e. the color of the face is black but if light hits it just right, it has a light grayish hue). The watch is also available with a white face.

Once again, this Croton watch is a great watch for the money and a watch that anyone would enjoy. However, its specs are geared for swimming enthusiasts, all of whom are sure to be impressed by its performance for many laps to come.

My Review of the JVC Digital Video Camera
by: Morgan Hamilton

My brother is an amateur film-maker. It was he who introduced me to the wonderful JVC digital video camera. He loved it so much that I was tempted to buy one of my own. After a few years I finally had enough dough to purchase my very own JVC digital video camera. I had no idea that I would be in for quite a surprise.

After buying it I began a thrilling adventure as an amateur film-maker. The quality you get from this amazing camera was close to that of feature length films made in Hollywood. As long as you have proper lighting, and acquire a competent sound boom, you can make a decent movie with the help of a JVC digital video camera. All at the cost of the camcorder and the editing software needed to put your movie together.

I become hooked with the idea of being a film-maker after trying out my JVC digital video camera. Watching movies is great, but it pales in comparison to the thrill you can get from making your own movie. I was also able to involve my fiend’s in my new found hobby.

We would fashion out a script and with my JVC digital video camera and a few necessary filming equipment, we were on our way in making a potential blockbuster. It usually takes a couple of weeks to finish a respectable twenty minute film.

We would then get together and watch the finished product and try to figure out ways to improve our project. The JVC digital video camera is also excellent for filming the final project. WE entered our project in a amateur movie contest and although we have yet to win a competition our work elicited a good bit of encouraging feedback.

A Review of Spelling Games for Kids
by: Morgan Hamilton

Spelling games for kids, like all education, prepares our children for the real world. Though the formal education ends with a high school or college degree, the informal education continues until the end of one’s days. While it comes to starting the learning process, there are certain basic qualities to develop in the children. They quickly identify the relationship between different things they find in nature and they begin to approach problems in a logic way. In the age of knowledge explosion, no one can keep themselves away from educating their children. Knowledge is power and problems solving skills alone is the thing in demand today. You find learning spelling is the first step towards exploring the wonderful world of knowledge.

Online and offline toy stores and puzzle games help you introduce your kid to the world of letters and numbers. You can find a variety of spelling games for kids will help your children get a head start in the formal education process. My wife suggested me teaching our little one the art of reading. In fact we spent most time reading for her. We are proud that we introduced her to the world of reading early on. As usual we wanted to give her the simplest books with big letters and bigger pictures so that she would see a book as something to enjoy. Leap Frog books came handy help so that we could easily introduce her to this amazing world. There are many other spelling games for kids. Just make a Google search and you will be amazed with the kind of spelling games for kids.

You make the initial learning process pure fun for your kids. Even for adults things learned through fun stays longer in their minds. You never teach your child, instead you entertain them with the games – learning happens in the due time. The only problem seems to be choosing one or ten spelling games for kids from thousands of available ones. I feel content for introducing her to the world of reading. Thanks to Leap Frog books, she gets the highest grades in every class. I am glad I listened to my wife suggesting that we introduce our kid to the world of learning as fast as we could and spelling games for kids played a part in it.

PS3 Game Previews and Reviews
by: Andrew M. Lawrence

The Sony PS3 will be the most powerful game console ever released. The impressive parallel processing architecture and powerful GPU allows for arguably the most ambitious releases on a console ever. Certainly, the graphics and performance the system will deliver will outstrip that of its more prudent competitors, Xbox 360, and Nintendo's Wii. It should come as no surprise then, that many of the most anticipated titles of 2007 will launch on the PS3, some on multiple platforms, others exclusively. As impressive as the hardware is, it's really not important in the scheme of things; what really matters is what games you can actually play!

The PS3 is costly enough as it is, and as with anything else you invest in, you wouldn't want to do it before reading up on it first. What better way to do that, than to check out some PS3 game previews? Generally speaking, the best sources of PS3 previews will come from those websites and magazines that have generally covered PS2 and the original PS from the outset. General gaming sites like Gamespy/IGN, Gamespot, 1up, and GamesIndustry.biz are generally good sources of quick, easy to read news, game previews, and reviews. The quality varies, but what is common to each of these is that they will compare their subject matter to the competition. In this case, exclusive PS3 titles would be compared against games on Xbox 360 and Wii in any PS3 game review.

If you're already a fan, and you're set on having a PS3, you might prefer PS3 reviews from sites that deal with nothing else. Dedicated community fansites tend to have active discussion forms full of analysis of every last detail. More to the point, the staff who run such sites are generally fans themselves, and are just as interested in the system and games they post about, which is usually reflected in their reporting. Sites like PSXextreme, PSrules, PS3 Power, and PS3 Land are all good sources of PS3 game previews. Naturally, there aren't any PS3 reviews out yet, but these sites are already geared up and equipped to start posting them as soon as they hit the shelves in November.

Anticipated titles at release time will include the fourth game in the ever popular Gran Turismo series, Madden 07, Vampire's Rain, Crysis, Fatal Inertia, MotorStorm, Assassin's Creed, Call of Duty 3, NBA Live 07, Need for Speed: Carbon, Mobile Suit Gundam: Crossfire, Resistance: Fall of Man, and F.E.A.R. Also keep in mind that the PS3 is going to be widely backwards compatible with older PS and PS2 games, which you'll be able to buy from Son'y PNP service, if you don't already have them – one of the major selling points! For your PS3, game reviews already written will be just as useful. Finally, going back even further, Sony has announced that a wide variety of Sega Genesis (MegaDrive) games will be also be compatible with the PS3, opening up yet more games to its repertoire.

Review of Cheap Digital Cameras
by: Morgan Hamilton

Do you take a lot of pictures? I have come to realize the advantages of taking photos recently. The pictures we take of our lives and the moments our children have growing up are our sole link to reminiscing. They are literal snapshots of time and can never be replaced.

We do have our memories of course, but they can and do fade away over time. The mind can also forget certain details that a photo never relinquishes. Thank God for the photograph. One of the major factors regarding picture-taking now days is the method. While there used to be only one, things have changed for the better.

The digital camera has turned out to be an innovation that has really made picture taking an incredible experience. We can now take virtually an unlimited amount of pictures without ever having to worry about wasted film and reloading. It all centers around the computer. We simply plug in our digital cameras, upload the photos and we're done. Have you had any experience using this technology? Check out a variety of cheap digital cameras at any of your local superstores. They are quite easy to master and the memories are well worth it.

A great place to shop for cheap digital cameras is on the Internet. You can really get great deals there and there is plenty to choose from. Brands such as Canon, Kodak, Sony, and Toshiba all offer a wide range of products. In just a short time on the World Wide Web deal have more cheap digital cameras to choose from than you could shake a stick and. It's impossible to not notice how much easier the digital camera is to use over the old-school models.

For one thing there are no more journeys to the photo developer. That in itself is a great plus. You also have to master control over what photographs stay and which are deleted. While cameras using film only grant you with tangible pictures, digital cameras allow you to save any and all pictures onto your computer. As for the ones you don't like, you simply discard them, no film wasted here. You can also download your photos onto your computer.

This allows you to send them to whomever you wish. Maybe your folks want some new pictures of the granddaughter. Just attach them to an e-mail as a file and zip them straight through. It doesn't cost you a dime. With the addition of a color printer and some high-quality photo paper you can also print them out and do whatever you wish with them. You really have a lot of options and that's always a good thing.

Are you currently looking for cheap digital cameras? Maybe you haven't really given them a whole lot of thought. It really is a wonderful tool that I'm sure I will give you quite a bit of joy. Let's face it, pictures can actually record our memories and outlast us. One glance at an old photo and you go straight back to that particular occasion. So hold onto those experiences forever with a cheap digital camera.