"Virtual" Gifts for Christmas, Birthdays, Graduations, and Other Special Occasions
Ranked #5,624 in Holidays & Celebrations, #75,196 overall | Donates to Squidoo Charity Fund
Birthdays and Graduations Coming Up? "Virtual" online shopping makes gift-giving quick and easy.
WANT A COOL GIFT FOR TEENS AND PRE-TEENS THAT COSTS AROUND TEN BUCKS?
The coolest gift idea for teenagers - and pre-teens... costs around $10 a year... and you can order it online: Register your kid's name as an internet domain name.
Even if your kids don't make a blog, Squidoo lens or website for another few years... they can use the free GoDaddy email account in the meantime... it comes with the domain name! Imagine how much fun they'll have sending emails from Me@myname.com (insert your kid's name).
** Instructions on how to set up the FREE GoDaddy email account that comes with your domain are below.
PLUS... VIRTUAL GIFT IDEAS FOR RELATIVES, COLLEAGUES, OUT OF TOWNERS, HARD-TO-BUY-FORS
If you need a last minute gift for an out-of-town relative (but no time to mail one)... or for a "tough-to-buy-for" friend... or for someone who has everything already... or for a colleague who's going into business... or for someone who's retiring from a job but could use some extra (online) income - consider buying "virtual."
What's a virtual gift? Essentially, it's something you buy online and email your recipients. What could be easier? (I've added a few items you can order online and easily drop-ship, too.) Try virtual gift-giving - for Chrismas and holidays, graduations, birthdays, retirements, business launches and more.
Virtual Books
I've Got My $79 Kindle - Are You Ready for Virtual Books?
Amazon recently announced a slew of new Kindle e-reader options and at great price points. Much as I love books, I realized I could format my tutorials for the Kindle and wanted to see how they would look on my own e-reader. I've already downloaded some how-to books and a cookbook, and can see how the Kindle could be a handy reference library that fits in your pocket or handbag.
If you want more bells and whistles, the new Kindle Touch and Kindle Fire are shipping now.
If you want more bells and whistles, the new Kindle Touch and Kindle Fire are shipping now.
NEW! Tutorial Lady's (Virtual) Books for Kindle
(1) Tutorial Lady's Guide to Curing Spelling Amnesia
Handy Kindle reference for catching spelling mistakes before they happen.
(2) Tutorial Lady's Guide to Alt Key Symbols
150 very useful keyboard symbols in 3 formats: Alt Key, Unicode and HTML. Need a heart or smiley face for Facebook? It's here.
(3) Tutorial Lady's Guide to Designing Attractive Flyers with Word 2003, 2007 & 2010
Step-by-step tutorial on how to design good-looking flyers and documents with Microsoft Word... with detailed instructions for Word versions 2003, 2007 and 2010.
Just $.0.99 for detailed reference tutorials you can carry around with you.
Handy Kindle reference for catching spelling mistakes before they happen.
(2) Tutorial Lady's Guide to Alt Key Symbols
150 very useful keyboard symbols in 3 formats: Alt Key, Unicode and HTML. Need a heart or smiley face for Facebook? It's here.
(3) Tutorial Lady's Guide to Designing Attractive Flyers with Word 2003, 2007 & 2010
Step-by-step tutorial on how to design good-looking flyers and documents with Microsoft Word... with detailed instructions for Word versions 2003, 2007 and 2010.
Just $.0.99 for detailed reference tutorials you can carry around with you.
Cool Teen or Pre-Teen Gift: Your Kid's Name As An Internet Domain
www.mykidsname.com - Grab Their Name Before It's Gone!
- Register Your Kid's Name as a URL with GoDaddy
- When my son was still a teenager, I reserved his name as a URL... figuring some day he'd be able to use it, either for business or for fun. I knew if I waited until he wanted it himself, someone else would have grabbed it in the meantime. A couple of years ago, he started pointing his domain name to his blog. ***This is such a cool gift for around ten bucks a year.
SEE BELOW for a quick lesson on (1) how to "POINT" your new domain name to a blog, lens or free website - and (2) how to set up your FREE EMAIL account with GoDaddy. - Add A Blog Your Kid Can Easily Make
- Typepad blogs are easy to work with and very inexpensive. My son and I both have Typepad blogs. My son's old enough to pay for his own blog now... but I still re-register his domain name as a Christmas gift each year... as I've been doing for 7 years now.
- Sign Your Kids Up for Their Own Squidoo Lenses
- Squidoo lenses are free! And you can make as many as you want... free. Just point your kid's domain name to the lens. You can do this easily right in GoDaddy (see below for instructions).
- Site Build It - The Easy Way to Make a Website
- If your kid is interested in a topic in some depth, or wants to generate online income, a Site Build It website could be the answer. Great manual, loads of bells and whistles for the same fee. Site Build It is easy to work with, too.
How to "Point" A Domain Name to Your Blog, Lens or Website
Quick GoDaddy "Pointers"
GoDaddy makes it very easy to "point" a real www.com domain name to your Squidoo lens, blog or freebie website. For around $10 a year to reserve a domain name, it's a bargain... plus you get free email for your domain, too.
Imagine the fun your kid will have using an email address based on his OWN domain name.
First, set up an account and register your kid's www domain with GoDaddy (or your own, for that matter).
Then set up your lens, blog or free website - with its "real" longer name - (it'll usually include http://www. plus blogspot, squidoo, typepad, homestead, etc. plus your specific name) and make sure it's "live" (published to the internet).
To "point" your shorter www name to your longer real name, head back over to DoDaddy. At GoDaddy, log in to your account with your user ID and password, click on "My Account" and then on "Manage Domains."
Check the domain name you wish to point (forward) to your lens, blog or website and then click on "Domain Forwarding."
Check "Enabled" and "Moved Permanently" (you can unforward later, if needed). Then type your entire Squidoo or blog address in the "Forward To" box (including the http://). On Squidoo, it will be http://www.squidoo.com/(insert your lens name). Click "Okay" and you're done!
Imagine the fun your kid will have using an email address based on his OWN domain name.
First, set up an account and register your kid's www domain with GoDaddy (or your own, for that matter).
Then set up your lens, blog or free website - with its "real" longer name - (it'll usually include http://www. plus blogspot, squidoo, typepad, homestead, etc. plus your specific name) and make sure it's "live" (published to the internet).
To "point" your shorter www name to your longer real name, head back over to DoDaddy. At GoDaddy, log in to your account with your user ID and password, click on "My Account" and then on "Manage Domains."
Check the domain name you wish to point (forward) to your lens, blog or website and then click on "Domain Forwarding."
Check "Enabled" and "Moved Permanently" (you can unforward later, if needed). Then type your entire Squidoo or blog address in the "Forward To" box (including the http://). On Squidoo, it will be http://www.squidoo.com/(insert your lens name). Click "Okay" and you're done!
Visualizing Windfalls of Money
How to change virtual reality into physical cash in hand.
If you're wishing to manifest more money, you'll enjoy reading Carole Dore's Financial Forecast newsletter. Carole's an expert on visualization and her newsletter is always uplifting. Plus... it's FREE!To manifest in the physical realm, it helps to visualize it virtually first. Carole knows how it's done and is a terrific teacher. I always read her newsletter and own many of her CD courses.
Click here to visit Carole's website and to subscribe to her free newsletter "Your Financial Forecast."
Setting Up Your Domain's FREE Email Account in GoDaddy
Log in to your GoDaddy account with your user ID and password. Click on "My Account," then on "Email Account."
Where you see "Free Email with Domain," click on "Use Credit."
Highlight (click) the domain name you want to activate for your email address. Click the "Continue" button. It'll now show as a "New Account."
Click on "Manage Account." The Email Control Center opens in a new window. Where you see "Free email addresses for mynewdomain.com, click the "ADD" button.
Enter the prefix you want in the box (could be your name, sales, info, etc. - however you want this email address to read: myname@mynewdomain.com, or info@mynewdomain.com).
Enter your password twice. (Don't forget to write your password where you'll readily find it... or use one that's easily remembered... you'll need it to access your mailbox.)
Keep the defaults for the other questions (i.e., don't enter anything else). Hit the "OK" button.
To access your mailbox, on the Email Control Center page, for the email address you just set up, click on the "Envelope" icon. This launches your webmail box.
Bookmark it to find it easily in the future. When you click on your bookmark, you'll be asked for the email address and password. Enter them both and hit "Login."
Where you see "Free Email with Domain," click on "Use Credit."
Highlight (click) the domain name you want to activate for your email address. Click the "Continue" button. It'll now show as a "New Account."
Click on "Manage Account." The Email Control Center opens in a new window. Where you see "Free email addresses for mynewdomain.com, click the "ADD" button.
Enter the prefix you want in the box (could be your name, sales, info, etc. - however you want this email address to read: myname@mynewdomain.com, or info@mynewdomain.com).
Enter your password twice. (Don't forget to write your password where you'll readily find it... or use one that's easily remembered... you'll need it to access your mailbox.)
Keep the defaults for the other questions (i.e., don't enter anything else). Hit the "OK" button.
To access your mailbox, on the Email Control Center page, for the email address you just set up, click on the "Envelope" icon. This launches your webmail box.
Bookmark it to find it easily in the future. When you click on your bookmark, you'll be asked for the email address and password. Enter them both and hit "Login."
A Unique Take on "Virtual" Gifts
Here are gifts YOU create "virtually" - online. And they are delivered as physical gifts to the recipients of your choice.
powered by Zazzle.com
Prosperity and Self-Improvement e-Gifts
Order online and forward the link to your recipients. Piece of cake.
- The Classic Seed Money in Action
- This e-book sets out simply the Universal Law of Tenfold Return. If you send out anger, you get back anger... multiplied times 10. If you send out kindness, you'll receive kindness from others in abundance. The Classic Seed Money in Action shows you how to attract money using the same principle, by "seeding" for your tenfold return.
- Personal Power Through Self Awareness
- This powerful course guides awareness towards thoughts and emotions so you respond to life's events from your potential, rather than react and allow the ups and downs of life to control you.
Virtual Eating
French Cooking DVDs with Julia Child
You can't taste the food (it's a virtual gift), but you can imagine how it would be. And Julia Child's cookbooks are also available at Amazon - the virtual bookstore.
Cool Virtual Cards to Go With The Gifts
Paper cards? When you can click and send an e-card... with music!
- Hallmark Still Has a Few Free e-Cards
- It's getting a bit harder to find the freebies on Hallmark, but they're there.
- Get Religious and Inspirational Cards at Dayspring
- Dayspring has a pretty extensive collection of Christian-themed cards for all occasions.
- Dreams Alive Has Non-Denominational Inspirational Cards
- For something a little different to send along with your gift (well, maybe in a separate email), you'll have fun browsing here.
- Blue Mountain's Free e-Cards
- Here's the direct page for Blue Mountain's free e-cards.
- Spirit Card Center
- Free animated musical e-cards: flowers, goddesses, love, Rumi, mandalas, Native American, peace, landscapes, animals and more.
Business e-Gifts
For friends and colleagues starting a business, these are great e-publications.
Excellent gifts for yourself, too - if you're a business owner.
- For the New Internet Entrepreneur
- For anyone who wants to earn "passive" income online through affiliate programs, this is the place to start. Rosalind Gardner was a civil servant who quit her job to start an online business. She now grosses over a half million dollars a year, selling other people's stuff.
- A Gift for Your Friends Who Want to Write e-Books
- "Desperate Buyers Only" lays out very clearly what you have to do to write and sell a successful information product. If you have writer friends who know a topic in depth that other people want to know, get them this e-book as a gift.
Email A "Virtual" Concert to Your Gift List
A Useful Gift You Can Email - Just 99 Cents
300 Alt Key Symbols for Copyright, Trademark, Bullets, Hearts and More
A two-page downloadable, printable list of 300 keyboard symbols you can make with the alt key and numeric keypad, including copyright, trademark, currency symbols, French, German and Spanish accents, Greek alphabet, math symbols, plain and fancy bullets, smiley faces, hearts and lots more.Great for business colleagues, teachers, students, office workers, desktop publishers... anyone who creates documents in Word, Publisher, etc.
Email the PDF list to them or print out the two pages, insert back to back in a clear plastic cover and put a bow on it. It's such a useful gift.
Virtual Adventures for Kids and Adults
Some of the Best TV - Anytime You Want
What's on Your Wish List?
Please say hello, thanks!
submit
-
Reply
-
Sylvestermouse
Jan 25, 2012 @ 12:06 pm | delete
- Virtual gifts are great for people who don't need anymore clutter in their home or who already have everything :)
-
-
Reply
-
KingLobster
Oct 29, 2011 @ 9:58 pm | delete
- I wouldn't have thought about giving a virtual gift before this lens, but now I really like the idea. As you mentioned, even a web domain could be something that would be very pleasing to a lot of teenagers and pre-teens. I think that is a very good idea indeed. I know that I am even still amused by having a website, and I am 20 years old! Thanks for another great lens.
-
-
Reply
-
squidoopets
May 25, 2011 @ 8:15 pm | delete
- I really ruff these virtual gifts ideas - bow wow! Through me a bone and I'm good.
-
by BarbaraCasey
BarbaraCasey
I'm an inspirational writer, budding photographer, and "The Tutorial Lady" for spiritual entrepreneurs.
You can reach me at Barbara@newradiance.com.
more »
- 18 featured lenses
- Winner of 11 trophies!
- Top lens » How to Make Keyboard Symbols Using the ALT Key
Feeling creative?
Create a Lens!
Explore related pages
- How to Make Keyboard Symbols Using the ALT Key How to Make Keyboard Symbols Using the ALT Key
- Simple HTML tricks to use with Squidoo Simple HTML tricks to use with Squidoo
- How to Make Your First (or Second) Squidoo Lens How to Make Your First (or Second) Squidoo Lens
- Top 10 Christmas Gifts for Teenage Girls Top 10 Christmas Gifts for Teenage Girls
- Unique Gift Ideas: Fitness & Health Unique Gift Ideas: Fitness & Health
- Fluke Infrared Thermometer Fluke Infrared Thermometer
"What Life Wants" Blog
Dialogues with Myself on Living Day-to-Day from the Perspective of Eternity
Fetching RSS feed... please stand byTutorial Lady How-To Lenses
And a few more gift ideas
