TECHIE HOLIDAY GIFT IDEAS from Thomas PR

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November 30, 2010, NY, NY -- Thomas Public Relations announced today cool techie Holiday Gift Guide ideas from Sensosolutions, OWC, Alibre, Kidz Gear, ArtRage, The Great Kat, and Digital Foci for your holiday TV shows, articles and radio shows. Please contact Thomas PR if you’d like review copies of any of these products or need more info.

• FOR TECHIE ARTISTS: ArtRage for iPad

ArtRage for iPad lets you become a digital artist with your iPad. The perfect stocking stuffer for a budding artist at $6.99, it lets you actually paint on the iPad canvas with oil painting effects that smear and blend and watercolor strokes that merge to create soft, wet gradations.

Pricing: $6.99

Website: www.artrage.com

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• FOR TECHIE GOLFERS: SensoGlove

SensoGlove, the world’s first golf glove, has built-in digital sensors that continuously read the user’s grip pressure to ensure a consistently accurate, smooth and powerful golf swing. Made of the highest quality cabretta leather, SensoGlove is the perfect gift for the holidays for golfers of all levels. With SensoGlove, golfers can quickly learn how to hold the club, avoiding bad habits and improving every part of their game, from backswing, downswing, impact, follow-through, to driving, putting, and chipping.

Pricing: $89

Website: www.sensoglove.com

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Release: http://www.thomas-pr.com/sensosolutions/sensosolutionsholidayrelease.html

• FOR DIYERS AND INVENTORS: Alibre Design Personal Edition

The perfect gift for diyers and inventors to create their own gadgets and inventions at home! Award-winning Alibre Design Personal Edition is the first low-cost, easy-to-use 3D design tool that delivers industrial-strength, parametric solid modeling system with integrated 3D solid modeling, part and assembly design, associative 2D drafting, and STL export -- all at a hobby-friendly price. Design it, document it, change it around, perfect it, and then make it!

Pricing: $99

Website: www.alibre.com

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• FOR TECHIE DIYERS : OWC DIY Hard Drive Kit

The OWC Do-It-Yourself (“DIY”) Hard Drive Kit is the easiest and lowest-cost way to upgrade your home, school, or office laptop hard drive to a new faster, larger drive without sending the laptop out for repairs or buying a new laptop. The OWC DIY Hard Drive Kit provides everything you need to increase you hard drive space for your MacBook, MacBook Pro, Mac mini storage, or PC laptop and use your “old” drive as a new external drive.

Pricing: $67.99 & up

Website: www.macsales.com

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OWC DIY Hard Drive Kit: http://www.thomas-pr.com/136/photos/owcstorage.html

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· FOR IPHONE & IPAD FANS: NewerTech Line of NuGuard Cases & Covers – Keep your iPhone Virus-Free and Protected

The NewerTech line of NuGuard™ iPhone 4 and iPad protective cases and NuVue anti-glare covers add protection, style and functionality to the most popular Apple® gadgets sold this year. OWC makes it easy to buy affordable iPhone 4 and iPad accessory stocking stuffer gifts that your techie friends, family and co-workers will love, without breaking the bank. Fashionable Colors in Red, Pink, Purple, Frost, Green, Black, Orange, Blue, & Clear.

Pricing: $12.99 - $24.99

Website: www.macsales.com

Release: http://www.thomaspr.com/pr/owciphoneipadrelease.html

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• FOR TECHIE KIDS: Headphones for Kids

Kidz Gear Wireless Car Headphones for Kids – Wireless IR headphones designed specifically for the largest user market of built-in DVD and video systems – Children. Available immediately, the Kidz Gear Wireless Car Headphones for Kids keep kids quiet watching DVDs and videos on long car trips. With 100% Compatibility Guaranteed and manufactured with the highest quality IR wireless technology components available, the IR68KG02 IR wireless headphones deliver extremely rich sound quality for a variety of video and audio content – DVDs, video players, radio and more. Available at many fine online retailers as well as the Kidz Gear website directly.

Pricing: $34.99

Website: www.gearforkidz.com

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Kidz Gear Wired Headphones for Kids -- finally a headphone that is Designed by Parents and Approved by Kids. Comfort, durability and incredible sound quality makes the Kidz Gear Wired Headphones for Kids (CH68KG01) a must for traveling this season by plane, train or automobile. With a Limited Lifetime Warranty, parents can relax and not worry if anything goes wrong. Kidz Gear will solve the problem. Available at many fine online retailers as well as the Kidz Gear website directly.

Pricing: $19.99

Website: www.gearforkidz.com

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Release: http://www.thomas-pr.com/pr/kidzgearheadphones.html

• MUSIC FOR TECHIES: The Great Kat World’s Fastest Guitarist

The Great Kat “Beethoven’s Guitar Shred” DVD is followed in the tech community as the ultimate music for creativity. The Great Kat, named “Top 10 Fastest Shredders of All Time”-Guitar One Magazine, is the world’s fastest guitarist. A Juilliard graduate violinist, The Great Kat combines metal and classical music for a speed thrill unchallenged in the music industry. She has been featured in the Jimmy Fallon site, NBC-Weekend Today in NY, Rolling Stone Magazine (Italy), Spin Magazine, New York Times, NewsBlaze and much more.

Pricing: $9.95

Website: www.greatkat.com

Photo: http://www.greatkat.com/beethovensguitarshreddvd.jpg

DVD Trailer: http://www.greatkat.com/BeethovensGuitarShredVideosMenuMED.wmv

Release: http://www.thomas-pr.com/pressreleases/beethovensguitarshredrelease.html

• FOR TECHIE NEWLYWEDS, MOMS & GRANDPARENTS:

Digital Foci “Photo Book” in Pearl White - Digital Photo Album for Wedding Albums, Baby Albums, & Parties

The Pearl White Version of Digital Foci’s popular Photo Book is the perfect gift for newlyweds, moms, & grandparents. A portable digital photo album with a large 8-inch 800x600 color digital LCD screen, 4GB of internal memory, and music & slideshow capability, Photo Book in Pearl White has a sleek design encased in a soft leather-like case for an elegant photo album that makes an attractive first impression. Ideal for passing around while sitting on the sofa and at family gatherings.

Pricing: $189

Website: www.digitalfoci.com

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Release: http://www.thomas-pr.com/pr/digitalfociphotobook.html

• FOR SHUTTERBUGS & PRO PHOTOGRAPHERS:

Digital Foci Picture Porter 35 Organizes & Protects Photos on the Road

The perfect gift for anyone that loves photography -- finally there’s a place to organize, save and view all your photos on the road. Picture Porter 35 is a high-capacity 250GB-500GB portable photo manager for professional and amateur photographers to take while traveling, on vacation, or on photo shoots. Picture Porter 35 features a 3.5-inch color LCD, multi-format memory card reader, and pro photography features not found on other storage devices, such as RAW, EXIF data, IPTC and histogram support. Picture Porter 35 instantly and securely lets you store and view digital photos, music and video wherever you go.

Pricing: $399 for 250GB, $499 for 500GB

Website: www.digitalfoci.com

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Manfrotto School of Xcellence Hosts Free Webinar on Shooting the Forest

Manfrotto School of Xcellence Hosts Free Webinar on Shooting the Forest

Award-Winning Photographer Drew Gardner to Address the Challenges of Shooting on Location

Ramsey, N.J. (November 30, 2010)— Manfrotto School of Xcellence, a free resource for anyone who wants to learn more about photography, announces a webinar titled, “Shooting the Forests Series,” which will be held from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. EDT, on Monday, December 6^th. The host, Drew Gardner, a renowned London-based photographer, will take participants behind the scenes of his acclaimed series, “The Forest” which was shot in the United States, Poland and the United Kingdom.

Gardner (http://www.drewgardner.co.uk) is well-known for his epic on-location still photography and “The Forest” series is a prime example of his success in this arena. In this webinar, Gardner will explain the challenges of shooting a large scale production on location and how to deal with a variety of issues a photographer may face.

“Working on location is one of the most rewarding things a photographer can do,” said Gardner. “My aim is to show participants that it is not as difficult as one may think.”

Topics for Discussion Include:

- Managing without power

- Dealing with difficult terrain

- Working with smoke machines

- The best equipment to use

To register for the free Manfrotto School of Xcellence webinar and for additional information, please visit: http://manfrottoschoolofxcellence.com/2010/04/23/shooting-the-forests-series/

For additional information regarding the Manfrotto School of Xcellence, please visit www.manfrottoschoolofxcellence.com. For more information about the entire Manfrotto range visit www.manfrotto.us.

About Manfrotto Distribution

Manfrotto Distribution, Inc. is a leading distributor of key accessories brands for the photographic, video, cine and lighting production markets. Manfrotto Distribution is an international company within the Imaging Division of the Vitec Group, which owns the following leading international brands: Manfrotto, Gitzo, Kata, Avenger, and Litepanels. As the US distributor of National Geographic Bags and Tripods, Metz, Gossen, Elinchrom, Lastolite, Rotatrim, Genus and Datacolor, which are available nationwide through an extensive network of authorized dealers, Manfrotto Distribution offers the most complete range of exceptional camera and lighting accessories in the business. The Manfrotto Distribution international network covers the USA, Germany, France, Italy, UK, Japan and China. www.manfrottodistribution.us.