Because the sites so new (only 5 days old), I didn’t give any gifts for the holidays, but I am giving away a $100 iTunes gift certificate to a Random Commenter and another $100 Gift Certificate to a random site who links to this giveaway.

How to participate

Random Commenter -
Comment about any topic on 50 Leaves.com

1. Must not be spam
2. Must be appropriate
3. Excludes my comments (of course)

Random Linker-
For this to work properly, email me that you have your link up and give me the url of the link. My email address is on my contact page.

1. Must have at least a brief description of the giveaway.
2. Must be your site, no spam links
3. Link must stay up until at least Jan 16th 7:30pm EST
4. Must be seen by others.

How this works

On Jan 16th 7:00, I’ll be using random generator program called Randomness version 1.5.2 to determine the random number.

For Comments- I’ll look a the total comments on the site from now to Jan 16th 7:00 and plug it into the generator and the number comes up will be the winner, by using wordpress comment id tag.

For Webmasters - I’ll take my emails sorted from oldest to newest and count how many I have and plug it into Randomness.
So example the first email will be #1 (oldest).

The random numbers will be drawn On Jan 16th 7:00pm EST for commenters and 7:30 for websites.

P.S. all prizes will be delivered by Email or Mail, you chose.

Good Luck and Happy Holidays!

50 Leaves wishes everyone a Happy Holidays!

With only 5 days of being open, I don’t have any gifts to give away, but I am giving out a $100 iTunes gift certificate to a random commenter between now and jan 16th (The day after my 2nd Xmas - Macworld) to the site. More details coming soon!

I love my iPhone more than anything, but my biggest gripe about the phone was all the finger smudges.
I made a pretty cool discovery, I haven’t cleaned my iphone in over 2 weeks and my iPhone still has no smudges.

How did I do it, well by mistake actually. I bought a product called the “Power Support Anti-Glare Film Set for the iPhone” at the apple store, because my job has a crazy amount of overhead lighting which caused glare sometimes. At first I was a little pissed paying $15.00 (Overpriced) for a set of film but I never had anymore glare nor did I know how godly this film is.

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Not all great applications require you to pay for them. Below I list my Top 10 favorite Freeware applications of 2007. Some of them are no brainers and some you might find useful or new to you. Enjoy.

Firefox - The best web browser for OSX, Linux and Windows hands down. There are also a TON of free plugins, themes and many other addons to make it even more powerful and custom to your liking.

AppFresh- An excellent program that helps keep all of your widgets and applications up to date. This program grabs all its information from iusethis.com and also updates your user profile with what applications you use.

HandBreak - DVD Ripper to MPEG-4 / H.264 converter. Copy Backup any DVD you want. An excellent utility for Mac, Linux and windows.

iTunes - The ultimate online store and organizer for TV, Movies and Music and so much more for Mac and Windows. You can also enjoy free things such as Internet Radio, Podcast and iTunes U.

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