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Find Where Kids Eat Free Tonight

My family has become keenly aware of the best places to eat out with our family and save the most money. Tonight we were hungry for a little something out of our normal game plan and wasn’t sure what other restaurants may have some specials available where kids eat free.

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Tonight I found out about a new website called KidsMealDeals.com where you can enter your zip code, a mileage radius and what day of the week you’re looking for and will return a list of restaurants with deals for kids.

The options for us tonight consisted of Golden Corral, which is not my wife’s favorite place to go by any means. If we were going out tomorrow night and looking for a deal, I’d know we could go to Denny’s and get two free kids meals with each adult entree purchase.

The KidsMealDeals.com website helps you find the best places to make your dollar go further when you just don’t feel like cooking something at home.

Soon the KidsMealDeals.com website will also allow you to pick the type of cuisine you’re interested in eating. Not sure about you, but I’m still trying to get my kids to try more Thai, Indian and Greek food. Right now I just need to make sure wherever we go has chicken tenders.

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Elfyourself IS BACK!

One of our most active posts ever was one where we introduced a website developed by OfficeMax called ElfYourself.com. Millions of people have visited the site and brought plenty of holiday cheer to the Internet.

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Now the ElfYourself website is back and it’s powered by that folks at JibJab.com who know a thing or two about making funny, custom videos for sharing around the web.

The ElfYourself website and JibJab allow you to upload your own photos to their servers and mash them up against canned video sequences where they replace the face on the characters with your face and the faces of your friends.

They’ve also improved the editing capabilities after you upload your photos so you can really tweak and tune your image and adjust it as necessary. One of the more challenging tasks was getting the mouth movement right, and JibJab has improved how you can control that animation as it appears on your video card.

The ElfYourself website has also proven you’re really not paying attention these days if you’re not integrated into Facebook somehow. Now you can login via Facebook, grab photos from your Facebook albums and of course post your videos straight to your Facebook wall too.

When you make your own ElfYourself video, be sure and post a link to it in our comments section so we can all enjoy your handiwork.

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Floating on the Google Wave

I’ve had a Google Wave account for a little while now and have tried to use it more and more. The challenge has been that I haven’t had a lot of other people I know and work with on things regularly that also has a Google Wave account.

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The broadest usage I’ve enjoyed has been as a friend and I have been collaborating on a website we’re both working on together. It’s really helped us as we’ve shared information and ideas with each other. Sure that could be done via other methods, but having everything there with history of what we’ve said to each other in a conversational string is nice.

I’ve now finally been given the ability to invite other people to begin using Google Wave for themselves.

I just used some of those invites to send to a group of friends of mine that work together with each other in a church ministry setting. With everything that goes on in a church related to communication, planning, organization and sharing of resources; I thought the use of Google Wave would be a definite plus for the team.

As I continue to use it more and more myself I still can’t believe I can’t share files in the system already. Am I missing something? It seems there should be many more plug-ins and functionality available already.

What’s been your experience using Google Wave so far? Let me know.