Free Nature Sounds Collection from Amazon!

A free soundtrack to add to your collection.

Amazon is currently offering a FREE MP3 album on their official website, titled Nature Sounds Collection: Sea Waves, Vol. 1 (Ocean Coast).

It is by Ashaneen and holds a rating of four-and-a-half stars, which is pretty good. The album itself is just one hour-long track of oceanic ambiance. Well one hour and 42 seconds, specifically. It sounds like something perfect to play while falling asleep or lying in a hammock. Or both.

Its audio CD counterpart (also on Amazon) costs $9.98, so by getting the free MP3 version, you’ll be saving yourself almost a good 10 bucks. And who doesn’t like saving money?

You can find this deal by following the link above. Keep in mind that you will need an account on Amazon to access this deal, obviously. If you don’t have one,  suggest signing up for one now.

Free Offers by Redbox Play Pass

Some special Redbox deals for movie night.

If you use Redbox (even if you don’t), then you’ll enjoy this set of freebies. By signing up for the Redbox Play Pass, you’ll be treated to multiple deals, such as:

  • A free one-night disc rental for every ten disc rentals
  • A free one-night disc rental on your birthday
  • A free one-night disc rental on the anniversary of you registering for Redbox Play Pass
  • “Surprise rewards and exclusives”

The first reward listed works like this: Each disc you rent earns you 10 points on your Play Pass. With 100 points, you can rent one free disc as well as recieve “more exclusives”.

To get your Redbox Play Pass, just follow the link here to their official website and click the “Get My Pass” button. Keep in mind that you must have an account on Redbox.com in order to sign up for these offers.

The website also notes that “* Credit expires 60 days after issuance. Payment card required to use the credit.” With that in mind, enjoy your FREE movies!

Kids Eat Free at IHOP During Summer 2016

A tasty family offer by IHOP

Do you have kids? If you answered yes, then you’re going to like this deal IHOP is serving up. From August 1 until September 25, 2016, kids eat FREE at IHOP! This deal includes kids 12 and under, and can only be used when an accompanying adult orders an entree. The deal will be up every day for the specified days, from 4 a.m. to 10 p.m. at any participating restaurants. They advertise the offer as helping parents to “stretch those back-to-school dollars”.

The website states, “’We know that families are looking to soak up the final days of summer together and what better way to do that than over dinner together? IHOP and our franchisees invite guests to enjoy quality time together as a family while relishing the made-to-order breakfast foods, beverages and more that they crave and can only find at IHOP – now at an even better value with our Kids Eat Free offer,’ said Kirk Thompson, Senior Vice President, Marketing for IHOP.”

The meals that you can choose from must be taken from the “Made for Fun Kids Menu”. The website states that it includes the”Silver 5, five of IHOP’s silver dollar-sized world-famous Buttermilk Pancakes served with a scrambled egg and hickory-smoked bacon” and the ” Jr. Chicken and Waffles, with two all-white meat chicken strips paired with two Belgian waffle quarters and served with whipped butter and choice of dipping sauce”. All that sounds delicious, right? Plus the fact that you’re getting it for free? It’s too good to pass up.

The website also says that “Drinks [are] not included unless otherwise specified” and that this deal is not valid with any other discount or coupon. The deal is dine-in only too, so no free take-outs.

You can also read about this tasty offer at IHOP’s official website.

Samples from Rachael Ray Nutrish Pet Food

Currently, there are multiple offers available for deals on pet food off the Rachael Ray Nutrish Pet Food website. You can choose from a variety of food for both cats and dogs. All you have to do is go to their official website and select one of the many coupon choices. After doing so, complete the form at the bottom of the website and proceed to download your selected coupon. All that’s left to do is go to a store that sells Rachael Ray Nutrish Dog Food and get your free sample!

The choices for cats consist of $2.00 and $4.00 off “Zero Grain Dry Food” and “Super Premium Dry Food”, respectively. There is also a buy-two-get-one-free deal for “Super Premium Wet Food for Cats” and a FREE sample of “Zero Grain Dry Food For Cats”.

In the dog section, you can get $2.00 off “Super Premium Dry Food for Dogs”. You could also get $4.00 off “DISH Dry Food for Dogs” or “Zero Grain or Just 6 Dry Food for Dogs”, individually. Also available is a coupon for $1.50 off a pack of any Nutrish brand dog treats and a buy-two-get-one-free deal for wet dog food.

That’s a hefty selection of coupons, isn’t it? Keep in mind that you can only choose one coupon, though. So decide carefully. And you might also want to hurry, since the offer is only up while supplies last.

The website also notes that this offer is available only to residents of the continental United States.

Free order of fries from Wingstop

Are you in the mood for some free fries to go along with your meal? Then you’re in luck. Just take advantage of this offer from Wingstop:

When you join Wingstop’s e-club (The Club), they will send you a coupon good for one free order of fries. Additionally, you will get a “free gift” on your birthday. What is this mysterious “free gift”? You’ll have to sign up and see!

You can join “The Club” at Wingstop’s official website. The website says that by doing so, you will also get “the latest on all things Wingstop delivered straight to your inbox”. All you have to do is follow the link, fill out the form below, and hit SUBMIT. It’s that simple.

Free Sub at Jersey Mike’s

Want some free lunch? Jersey Mike’s is giving away a free regular sub to anyone who decides to sign up for Shore Points™, their e-club. All you have to do is go to their official website and go through the step provided, and BAM! You’ve got yourself a free meal.

You have to start by logging in or creating an Online/Ordering account. If you don’t then you can’t apply for Shore Points™. The site states that only number/ person per Shore Points™ account can get a free regular sub. If you have friend that wants a sub, then they have to sign up themselves on a separate account. The site also states, “ID may be required at pickup.” So be sure to carry your ID. But that’s common sense, right?

Buy-One-Get-One-Free Deal at Cold Stone Creamery

Now may be the best time to get some ice cream for you and a friend (or just for yourself if you eat a lot of ice cream). Cold Stone Creamery is currently offering to give you a buy-one-get-one-free coupon for joining their e-club. This coupon is apparently valid for any two orders, as the website reads: “Join our eClub and get TWO CREATIONS™ FOR THE PRICE OF ONE!”

To join the e-club, all you have to do is go to their official website and sign up. You can start by entering your zip code and choosing a Cold Stone Creamery location near you. After that, just fill out the digital form and enjoy your free ice cream! The offer also states that along with the “TWO CREATIONS™ FOR THE PRICE OF ONE”, you will also get “much, much more!”

Who doesn’t enjoy free ice cream and much, much more?

National Iced Tea Day deals from Starbucks and Teavana

Get ready for some free Tea on Friday, June 10, because Starbucks will be giving out a special offer for National Iced Tea Day. On this day, you can drink some Iced Tea with a friend at the Buy One, Share One Teavana Shaken Iced Tea Event at any participating Starbucks stores. All you have to do is walk in on June 10, 2016 and ask for your two free Iced Tea’s. No coupon required.

This same day will be the starting date of Teavana’s National Iced Tea Day event. Three consecutive weekends starting on June 10, you can go to any participating Teavana location to enter for a chance to win free tea for a whole year. What a prize!

Naoko Tsunoda, director, Global Tea Quality and Development states, “Free tea for a year at Teavana is the perfect way to experience some  of our pure loose leaf teas and herbal infusions and try your hand at creating a custom blend as well. It’s a great way to build your tea expertise and take a stab at being a mixologist.”

To win, you must recieve a “Tea Good to Be True Instant Win Game Pieces” from an employee of any participating Teavana store. It must be recieved during the weekends of June 10-12, June 17-19 and June 24-26. Ten Game Pieces will be supplied at the start of each weekend, so if you didn’t get it the first time, you still have two more chances to win. This will result in 30 total Grand Prize winners. The website also states, “Every customer who receives an Instant Win game piece will benefit from a percentage off select Teavana teas and merchandise or a chance to win one 20 ounce iced tea (not including Breville items or Teavana gift cards),” and that, “Free Tea for a Year means a 12-month subscription to Teavana® Tea of the Month Club (ARV $480).”

On top of that, Teavana will also be providing samples of certain flavors of iced tea on June 10 only, including Raspberry Limeade Tea Blend, Pineapple Berry Blue Tea Blend, and Golden Monkey Strawberry Lemonade Tea.

Not only that, but between June 9 and June 12, Teavana will also be offering customers 25$ off of any 60$ purchase, with FREE shipping. All you have to do is go to their official website and use the promo code BIGDEAL.

“We encourage customers to try different iced tea blends in our stores. You can explore different flavors, some you may not have considered on your own. This is the best way to uncover a new favorite tea. When you visit a Teavana store, spend time with one of our partners to learn about the range of tea flavors like berry, citrus, minty, dessert or spice profiles that appeal to your tastes,” says Tsunoda.

Remember, a purchase is NOT required to enter the The Tea Good to Be True Instant Win Game, and making one will not NOT increase your chances of winning. You can read all the details about Buy One, Share One Teavana Shaken Iced Tea Event, as well as Starbucks’ offers here, on Starbucks’ official website.

Do you like these deals? What are your plans for National Iced Tea Day? Tell us in the comments!

Windows Live Movie Maker Review

To make a good video, you need good editing software. Though sometimes that software may cost you a pretty penny, so there are times where you will want to opt for some free versions. Windows Live Movie Maker happens to be one of those free versions of video editing software. Is it worth downloading?

Keep in mind that Windows Live Movie Maker is an editing software ONLY. It cannot record footage off of your computer. First, use different software to record the footage, then either send it directly to Movie Maker or save the file and open it up in Movie Maker. You can also load in static images, and you can change the time in which the image stays up.

Once you’ve loaded in any necessary videos or images, editing them is pretty simple. And I mean simple. Tools-wise, you get the bare minimum needed to adjust the length of your video, add music, and add credits. You won’t be doing any fancy editing with this program.
Here is a screenshot of me editing an episode of my Youtube channel, Antio Plays.

 

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As you can see from this screenshot, Windows Live Movie Maker supplies you with five tabs: Home, Animations, Visual Effects, Project, and View.

 

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The Home tab is where the meat of the editing will be done. I lets you cut/copy/paste parts of the video, and you can add music and images from your documents folder from here, too. They work as expected, except my only gripe with adding pictures is where they’re added. Say I’ve got a long video, and I want to add an image to the beginning. When I open up an image to add it, the image gets dropped right smack at the end of the video, and it won’t let me cut/paste it to the top. I have to manually click and drag that sucker to the very top of my video as the screen scrolls up very, very slowly. It’s hard to explain, but to put it simply, it’s a pain putting images in the front of your video. I found that a way around this is to cut a sliver from your video, click on that section, and add the image there. Then you can easily click and drag the image over to the top, no hassle. Yes, it isn’t the end of the world that I have to do this, but it is pretty annoying.

The last thing on the Home tab is Theme, which to be honest I didn’t really mess around with that much. They let you put an opening title or credit to the beginning of your video in a fancy way. I didn’t feel a need to use them because of the next tab – Animations.

If you’re making a video with multiple segments, then you’ll want to put some transitions in them. This is what Animations is for. You can choose a wipe, fade, or open, among others. To place it, all you have to do is click on the segment you want, and choose the desired transition. Pretty simple. You can also change the duration of the animation if you wish.

The next tab is a bit similar, Visual Effects. Unlike Animations, this tab lets you choose a filter to last throughout the entire segment. You can make your video black and white, fuzzy, fade out, etc. It works the same as with Animations. Click on the segment and choose the filter. The filters provided are really simple, but it isn’t too bad for free software.

The next two tabs are Project and View. Project lets you line up the music with the video, of fit the screen to your liking. View is pretty self-explanatory. It lets you zoom in or out of your video.

The last part of the toolbar is the Edit tab. There are separate Edit tabs for music, video, and text (captions), depending on which one is selected at the moment. Fundamentally, they are all the same. It lets you choose the speed of which the media fades in or out, or lets you decide the volume of the video/music. You can change the duration of the selected media and at what part of the video it starts. For video and music, this is where the trim/split tool is located for simple edits. Caption edit allows you to also choose how the text enters the screen. You can also change the font, color, and duration of the text, as expected. All of these features are simple and easy to use, and they are very accessible to someone who is inexperienced with video editing software. My only complaint is that you can’t stack captions, such as putting on a caption, and keeping that one up while adding another one on the screen. Mover Maker only allows you to put up one caption at a time, which I found disappointing.

Once you have finished editing your video, you can head over to the File tab to save it, post it directly to social media, or render it for high-definition display. Rendering the video will vary in time, depending on the length of it. I’ve found that 20-30 minute videos will take between half an hour to a full hour to render.

In summary, Windows Live Movie Maker is a very simplistic, yet useful free video editing software. It is best used as an introductory to video editing. The tools given are the bare minimum needed to make a video, but as a result aren’t too hard to grasp. Using it over time, you will learn what certain edits do and can develop your own editing style to use in more advanced software. I don’t use Windows Live Movie Maker anymore, but I can say that when I did, it showed me what the fundamentals to making a video are so I could learn more complicated techniques down the line. If you’re itching to make flashy videos, Windows Live Movie Maker will disappoint you. If you just want a free way to edit videos on the fly, then you’ll find that Movie Maker does the job.

Windows Live Movie Maker is part of Windows Essentials 2012, which includes Windows Live Mail, Movie Maker, Photo Gallery, Messenger, Writer, and OneDrive.

WhiteCastle’s National Slider Day offer!

In cele353px-White_Castle_logo.svgbration of National Slider Day, WhiteCastle is giving out a coupon for TWO free sliders of your choice. It is valid at any participating WhiteCastle locations only on 5/15/2016. The coupon can be printed off of their official website.

The coupon states that it is valid for any single slider on a bun. It excludes double sliders, waffles, and toast sandwiches. I’m guessing that it means you can choose two single sliders. Remember, the coupon can only be used once per customer. No double dipping.

National Slider Day is 5/15/2016, and the coupon can be used on this day and this day only.

Do you like sliders? What do you think of this freebie? Tell us in the comments below!