Call all your friends! No, really! Until the end of the year, all calls from Skype to landlines and mobile phones in the U.S. and Canada are free. (Usually there's a small fee to call a non-Skyper.)  Skype to Skype calls have always been free, but this is a nice bonus, especially with the holidays coming up.

Don't know what the hell Skype is? Get out from under that rock, and check out our Skype review.

Please forgive Blogging Molly if she's late to this party, just wanted to spread the news!

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Voice Key Makes Skype Calls Easier

Belkin's Wi-Fi Phone for Skype

Mobile Skype Really Sucks

I Hate Mobile Skype

Thanks to Natali T. Del Conte, west coast reporter extraordinaire and fitness expert, for this review.

I put myself through college and graduate school as fitness instructor and over the years, I've seen a lot of weirdness. I've seen a woman ride a stationary bicycle with a towel over her naked torso, a man try to take aqua aerobics in his underwear, a woman take classes in her 18-hour bra, thinking it was a sports bra. I've seen pepperoni flavored energy bars and the Macarena workout. I thought I had seen it all until I downloaded the PumpedForLife digital trainer for the iPod. (From PumpOne) Now I have seen it all.

PumpedForLife is software that uploads workout JPEG images onto an iPod. It is meant to guide a beginner, intermediate, or advanced fitness program with schedules and images of the assigned exercises. It's weird.

Users choose either the male or female version and are assigned a workout program. There is no accounting for age or weight or ability level. It's a one-size-fits-all program, as if there ever really can be such a thing.

Instructions are minimal, although the models are well photographed in the instructional pictures. But the user gets very little instruction about form or practice. The yoga program is particularly appalling. As someone who is certified by Yoga Alliance, I wonder if the designer of this program ever actually practiced yoga. The alignment of the poses make me wonder if they have enough insurance for what might happen if someone throws their cervical vertebrae out.

See more PumpedForLife screenshots.

Work those legs!!!

Busy this week?

You mean I have to work out for more than one week?

In my world, a product with a $750 pricetag is not exactly cheap, but early adopters may be tempted by Amazon's new pricing on the Samsung BD-P1000 Blu-ray player. Released this summer, the BD-P1000 is an impressive player, which our expert Robert Heron calls "a solid Blu-ray disc player that takes full advantage of the format's abilities. It usually goes for upwards of $800. Today Amazon offers $150 in instant savings plus free shipping. (Thanks Dealhack!) In addition, all those Blu-ray discs you'll have to buy will be 10 percent off for the next year. Not bad!

Before you buy, read our thorough BD-P1000 review and check out our Blu-ray v HD DVD guide.

Remember those days when you had to trudge down to the barber shop on Main Street and wait for good ol’ Tony to finish his latest lawnmower cut? Wait no more. With the Flowbee Precision Haircutting System, you can trim, clip and shave your way to the perfect haircut. The Flowbee Precision Haircutting System does it all. What a wonderful world!

The system comes chock-full of goodies for all of your haircutting needs: a hose to connect the included hair spacers, and blades that can cut your hair down to half an inch.  As if that weren’t enough, the Flowbee also includes a trimmer, an instruction video, and a 110-volt power supply to keep that baby whirring all night.

All right, enough about the specs: How exactly does this stay-at-home barber work? The Flowbee attaches to your vacuum, sucks your hair up, and chops it off at the desired length. And where does all that itchy hair go? Straight into your vacuum. Ingenious.

I could go on and on about this breakthrough product (it'll run you only $59.95 plus shipping and handling), but I just don’t have the time (or material).  So, let’s just have Flowbee finish this post off for us: “…the system is so simple and precise, you can give yourself a perfect cut…even with your eyes closed!”

Post by Don Reisinger