Love watching Christmas movies with your family? How about football? Give your whole family the gift of stunning HD quality with one of the holiday deals available from Comcast Cable TV. We’ve been Comcast customers for years, and being able to watch our favorite TV and movies in HD just makes having Comcast that much better!

Comcast has great holiday deals on individual digital TV, high speed internet, and digital voice packages, but as a long-time customer I can tell you that their best deal is on what they call the Triple Play, which is a package of all three. Comcast Digital TV includes both TV and Xfinity OnDemand programming in HD, with digital quality picture and sound. High Speed Internet from Comcast has speeds up to 100 times faster than dial-up, and Comcast Digital Voice gives you a crystal clear connection with unlimited local and long distance.

I’ve always been a big fan of family gifts, something big that everyone in the family will enjoy. I bet your family would be surprised to turn on the TV Christmas morning and discover digital quality and their favorite channels in HD!  Click that link above to go to an authorized dealer site and get your family started with Comcast!

CyberSynchs is  safe, secure backup system for your mobile phone content.  If your phone is lost or stolen, or while you are upgrading your operating system, CyberSynchs stores your data safely so that nothing is lost.

CyberSynchs is currently available for Java Mobile (non AT&T), Blackberry, Symbian, Windows Mobile 5 and 6, and Android. To get started, install the app on your phone, then visit https://www.cybersynchs.com to create your CyberSynchs account. A 7 day trial is free, then subscriptions start at $2.99 a month.

Once you complete both of those steps, Contacts (Address Book), text messages, emails, photos, videos, ring tones, GPS, Calendar, Notes and Voice mails are easily and securely uploaded to your CyberSynchs account. You choose how often to have your data synched to your account.

I tried the 7 day free trial for myself. I have an Android phone on the Sprint Network. The night that I downloaded the app, my signal kept dropping and I had to restart the synch twice. It took almost 3 hours total, which I blame Sprint for, not CyberSynchs. Once it did get working though, I was able to instantly see boxes on my CyberSynchs dashboard containing my content. Here’s a screenshot showing photos taken with my phone:

If your phone has important data on it that would be hard to recreate if your phone was lost or stolen, my personal opinion is that $2.99 a month is a small price to pay for peace of mind. CyberSynchs emailed me asking me to check out the app and tell my readers, but I didn’t receive anything for free or any cash compensation. Check it out for yourself and tell me in a comment what you think!

Bloggers looking to move from Blogspot or other free blog publishing sites often email me and ask me how to choose a hosting company, or do I think this one is good, or is that one better? It’s flattering to be asked, but the truth is, I’ve only had 2 hosting companies, both of which were recommended to me by friends. I didn’t spend time researching which host would best fit my needs, and knowing now what I do, I would recommend that anyone looking to go self-hosted does some comparion “shopping” first.

A site that I’ve written about before is Web Hosting Geeks, a four year old site that posts comparisons of web hosts, does reviews, and even gives out their own awards. They’ve added a new comparison category now for green hosting. “Green” refers to web hosting companies that may use alternative or renewable energy to offset their carbon footprints, plant trees, recycle waste and/or purchase renewable energy certificates to power their datacenters. I had to look that last one up- a renewable energy certificate is a tradeable commodity that represents one megawatt hour of renewable energy generation. I don’t really understand commodities trading either, but I think it means that instead of buying all their electricity from the local power company, they buy some from places that generate power using natural methods like wind or sun. Still not sure how that works, but it seems like a good thing

So anyway, Web Hosting Geeks has a listing of Top Eco-Friendly web hosts, and you should check it out if you are looking to go self-hosted or switch to a more eco-friendly host. Every little bit we can all do to save electricity is a good thing!