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Halloween is an excellent time for family fun. The Internet is a great resource for fun ideas for your family from creating invitations for your Halloween party to decorating your desktop with Halloween images.

Did you know? Halloween started in the U.S. as a harvest festival. Our Irish emigrants brought us the Jack o’ Lantern—originally oversized rutabagas, turnips and potatoes were hollowed out, carved into faces and illuminated with candles. In the old country on Halloween, Irish peasants would beg the rich for food. For those that refused, they would play a practical joke. In an effort to avoid being tricked, the rich would hand out cookies, candy, and fruit – a practice that morphed into trick-or-treating today.

Halloween is now the sweetest holiday of the year with over 25% of candy sold in the two months prior to Halloween in the U.S. Chocolate is the favorite sweet; Snickers tops the list of most wanted candy bars. But it is not all about “empty” calories, pumpkins originated in Mexico over 9,000 years ago; they are one of America’s oldest known vegetables and a great source of vitamin A, beta-carotene and potassium. And your family can roast the seeds for protein and iron.

How to Roast Pumpkin Seeds

1. Rinse pumpkin seeds under cold water and pick out the pulp and strings. (This is easiest just after you’ve removed the seeds from the pumpkin, before the pulp has dried.)
2. Place the pumpkin seeds in a single layer on an oiled baking sheet, stirring to coat. If you prefer, omit the oil and coat with non-stick cooking spray.
3. Sprinkle with salt and bake at 325 degrees F until toasted, about 25 minutes, checking and stirring after 10 minutes.
4. Let cool and store in an air-tight container.

Halloween’s not just for children any more over 60% of adults get into the Halloween spirit (and admit to sneaking into their children’s candy every now and then). Consumers spend $1.5 billion on Halloween costumes each year, $2.5 on Halloween decorations and crafts and over $50 million on Halloween greeting cards.

Now you can get your family in the Halloween spirit with these free, spooktacular ideas:

• Print FREE Halloween party Invitations to get the party started. Free borders, text, images and more included.
• Add Halloween clip art for a ghastly touch to all your craft projects.
• Decorate your screen with a superior 3D Halloween Screensaver.
• Turn your wallpaper into a haunted cave—complete with 3D witch, ghouls and more.
• Download FREE Halloween sound effects to get in the creepy spirit!
• Play Halloween games until the haunting begins.
• Create a greeting card with your favorite goblin’s picture. Totally adorable.

All these Halloween products are available FREE at Freeze.com.

Create lasting Halloween memories for you and your family. Quality time doesn’t have to be expensive.

Comments and/or ideas? Contact support@teamfreeze.com

Tags: halloween, halloween ringtones, screensavers, family fun, clipart, wallpapers, invitations, freeze.com, games, sound effects

Everything you want for Halloween–a haunted graveyard and house, 3D spooks, thunderstorm and some realistic “scare factors” (that Yahoo! would not allow in our banner ads). 3D Halloween, developed exclusively by Freeze.com, is the best 3D Halloween screensaver on the Internet. Over 76 thousand users downloaded our 3D Halloween screensaver last Halloween.

Also available for Halloween:

Screensavers
3D Halloween

Classic Haunted House

Pumpkin Patch

Trick Or Treat

3D Falling Leaves

Animated Wallpapers
3D Halloween

3D Falling Leaves

Jack O’ Lanterns

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

Haunted House #1

Haunted House #2

Haunted House #3

Haunted House #4

Haunted House #5

Other Halloween Ideas
Halloween Invitations
Halloween Game Pack
Halloween Clip Art
Halloween Sound Effects
Halloween Smileys

Tags: screensavers, halloween, wallpapers, animated wallpaper

Yeah, I’m a huge fan of smilies.
I have tons of IM programs… I have a myspace profile… I’m on virb.com. I also have my own blog and my own website to go along with it. I love to plaster smilies all over the place: ) and =} and so on.
…but i like it lots better when they render into cute little smilies like this .

Anyway – I’m *really* tired of the same ol’ little yellow smiling faces. I want wacky, ridiculous, off-the-wall stuff. I’d personally love to see some hot pink ones done up in a sweet vista-graphic style. Something that says *RockSTaR*.

How ’bout you?

Tags: smilies, smileys

Aaah, this reminds me of home.

Okay, just kidding.  I’m not *really* from Mars, contrary to popular belief.
But this is pretty sweet, nonetheless.

The new Amazing Universe ScreenSaver has 3D meteors, stars, asteroids, space debris, unearthly music and 7 scenes from the Milky Way.  Pretty much the whole nine yards. You’ll feel like you’ve travelled the Universe.

…or travelled back home. 

Tags: planets, freeze, screensavers, universe

It snowed here today.
ALL day long.
Again. Ugh.

I’m ready to be able to go to bed at night, leaving the windows wide open after spending hours goofin’ around outside, and listen to the rain fall outside while I fall asleep. LOVE that. Unfortunately, the snow doesn’t make any sweet sounds as it falls, and it’s a tad bit too cold up here in Minnesota to leave the windows open at night.

I live in a very old, old house. My back bedroom has no heat. So, occasionally I just curl up on the couch with a big ol’ blanket and sleep the night away.

SO…My latest brilliant plan?

I dug around and found the 3D Lightning Storm Screensaver in our ScreenSaver Collection. I let it run all night long on my pc right next to the couch. The sounds of rain, wind and thunder are just like the real thing. It’s perfect. And the best part? The different scenes that flash across my screen make it look like lightning is coming right in through the window. And, since I’m all snuggled up on the couch in my nice toasty warm living room, I’m roasty toasty enough to feel like it’s already summer.

Oh, and I keep the blinds pulled shut too. Just in case I wake up in the middle of the night and would happen to peek outside and see the white stuff still out there.

Tags: screensavers, Freeze

So…
I was watching Hogan Knows Best the other night.  The family went on vacation someplace where they got to swim with dolphins.  I always get jealous of stuff like that. 

Not only am I not married to a crazy, psychotic (but cooler than cool) ol’ professional wrestler, but I can’t say that I have ever been able to swim with dolphins either.

After I looked outside a few days ago to see the remains of huge snowpiles reduced to mucky, muddy leaf-filled piles of ice, I mosied on over to freeze.com where I found my own personal dolphins in the Living 3D Dolphins Screensaver. BEAUTIFUL. Dolphins make me giddy.

Now, of course I didn’t get to climb into the water and hitch a ride on one, but really… how would one go about such a thing in February. In Minnesota. The screensaver was perfect for me.  I didn’t have to dig out my bikini and put it on, only to be painfully reminded that I’ve been hybernating all winter long. I think the thing packed up and moved out a few months ago anyway.

Tags: screensavers, Freeze

If you’ve been naughty and procrastinated on Valentine’s Day card shopping, don’t worry. This sweet little EZ Card application can have you on your merry way, card in hand, in just a few minutes.  Download it, and within 15 minutes you can have a perfectly customized valentine card.  Create it using your own pictures or the clip art that’s included with the download.

Have fun, and Happy Valentine’s Day!

We’re excited!
We’re finally blogging!

Yep – we have entered the blogosphere. And I’m excited. I love talking about stuff that’s fun, cool, hip, and totally free… stuff like new products, upgrades to existing products, or just products that I think are totally sweet. There are tons of fun little “downloadables” I discover every day working here, and I am good at sharing.

So look for blurbs about all sorts of fun downloadables coming your way in the near future!

Tags: Freeze

I posted on a sweet little personal desktop management application, YourScreen™, a while ago. They just released a new version of it – with a whole new games section. Yes, a GAMES section.

…OoOoOoh…

To this point, I’ve used the application to create custom screensavers (made up of my own personal photos that i change up all the time), rotate my wallpapers, seasonally change out my screensavers, etc. Now I’m going to be using it for something even MORE fun – GAMES!!

Oh yeah.

If you already have the YourScreen™ application installed, you can run a quick upgrade by clicking “Help” and then click “About”. There’s a button there that says “Update Check”. Click it and you’re golden. If you don’t yet have it – click here to go get it! You’re missing out.

OH… and Happy Gaming!

Tags: games, screensavers, wallpapers, desktop manager