Movies, games, music and web chat come to life with incredible graphics, 3D capabilities, HD video chat and sound that can fill a room. This is a description on Dell XPS laptop with average customer rating of 4.1 out of 5.

Today’s laptops have enough power and functionality to be full entertainment centres, and the screen and sound quality has improved dramatically to provide an immersive entertainment experience at a mainstream price. Today’s multimedia laptops can handle much more than office productivity applications and e-mail.
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Tinchy Stryder and his crew descend on The Carphone Warehouse for a live session.

Non-profit organisation Actionaid is launching a video campaign against SABMiller – owner of Grolsch’s beer – who is dodging its taxes around the world, by siphoning profits into tax havens.

“They’re the world’s second biggest brewer, making profits of £2 billion, with headquarters just off Park Lane. The taxes they dodge in Africa could put an extra 250,000 children in school there. When big companies dodge their taxes, ordinary people end up paying more. That’s why ActionAid committing itself to schtop tax dodging”. Actioaid

ShowMe.TV is not a regular social community, it has a unique concept based on a video contest community that challenges and rewards its members to compete in regular video-based contests across four categories. In a unique twist, ShowMe.tv also enables members to bet on their favourite contest entry, and rewards the traditionally unremunerated voter with cash prizes if they bet on the winning video.

ShowMe encourages individuals to compete in contests across four key categories; – Sports, Beauty Island – Beauty, Donkey Circus – Pranks and Jam Planet – Music, by uploading short video clips where they can express themselves, sharing their passions and interests with the community. Every month ShowMe.tv launches contests across each category. Contests last for eight weeks and are won by the video entry that receives the most votes.

Have you recently purchased anything with PayPal? If you have, you are in a bid to win £40000 – a one years’ salary. PayPal have launched this initiative to promote its services in UK and will pay 40 grand to a lucky winner. In fact, 3 winners per month, as far as I know.  Find out more about the promotion and read the terms here.

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Sony is promoting their new camera through an original contest on Facebook. People are offered to upload their Facebook pictures and let others vote for the best one. The best picture is selected in a number of mini-competitions, such as shots of people on the go, nigh shots and portrait pictures, to name a few. The winner gets one of the 5 Sony cameras awarded every week. At the end of the contest, the grand winner will be selected for a trip to Rome.

To participate, contestants must upload their picture to the competition page and invite their friends to support the picture by voting for it. Great work Sony, it’s a good non-intrusive way to build awareness about your new DSLR camera. Let’s see if I can win the NEX-5 cam.

Check the rules of the game below and enter the contest here.

You may have noticed I sometimes make sponsored posts on this blog, particularly with videos. They come from ebuzzing.co.uk, a company that pays you to dispay videos and publish articles about brands that you like, when you want. The service is completely free for bloggers. It is free to register a website, select available sponsored material and post it on your blog, whilst earnings. In fact, they are looking for bloggers right now.

Ebuzzing prides themselves with their strict code of ethics which ensures all posts are clearly marked as sponsored and written in the blogger’s own words. On another note about the content, it is usually quite interesting and it’s matches your blog topics. It surely is never bland or boring. The material comes with clear writing instructions, links and images to include in the post.

I have posted a bunch of campaigns with them, such as the post for 56 Street game by Barclays. The brand which spent money to build something nice – an interactive game – for their users. The post even got re-tweets from my readers, who also like this brand. Which leads me to my next point – the sponsored material often adds content value to your blog, not only blogging revenue.

Since 2007, Ebuzzing have worked with big brands in the UK and worldwide, such as Lloyds TSB, PayPal, Levis, FHM and the Mirror, to name a few. The service is currently gaining momentum and getting more popular with brands and bloggers, so now is the time to register and start earning. You will not be disappointed by the fees.

Sponsored Post | Find out more on ebuzzing.co.uk

Microsoft has released a new piece of technology called Kinect. Through this technology and the help of people, a wall of a medieval building came to life in Munich. The event took place on Karlsplatz square, where a number of people were dancing, jumping and waving to control the lights projected on the wall. The event was quite engaging and turned out to be a smart move from Microsoft. They use this technology in the Xbox gaming console. There were special events held in 23 countries that night, with consumers lining up to be the first in Europe to take home Kinect for Xbox 360. More information on Kinect is available at http://www.xbox.com/en-US/kinect

Wallace and Gromit’s World of Invention, a popular BBC show, is inviting young inventors to buddy up for building the next Wallace and Gromit invention!

We want your most inventing invention – maybe something to wake up Wallace? BBC

The winner will get the chance to have their contraption re-created into clay and appear in an animated production from the creators of Wallace & Gromit. It’s a great opportunity to discover new talent and for the entrants to just have fun! Please let as many people know about it as possible so they can feel inspired and join in.

On the 3rd of November, the shows looks at flying penguins in Germany, and self-cooling houses in Malawi. Don’t miss it. Also chek out their DIY kits, which show you how to make your own cool gadgets.

A daydream to remind me of the joy of the New York skyline. ‘Manhattan 4.33pm’ was made with three of my photographic stills which I then brought to life. A film by Lizzie Oxby.