I’ve been talking about Comic Con for the past two days. There has been a real presence of video games at the huge comic book convention held in San Diego. This photo gallery proves that points as attendees get?a chance to play the newest video games.

One promising games looks to be Justice League Heroes where players get to control their favorite DC Comic characters. Justice League Heroes will be an RPG-like game and feature co-op play. Having loved X-Men Legends and II, I’ll have to check out JL Heroes.

Yes, it’s true. The government has countless numbers of grants available. As a poor casual gamer, anytime somebody wants to give me money I would gladly take it. I think I’ve paid plenty to the government that is now time to find out what they can do for me. Sifting through grants can be time consuming. No wonder some places hire full time grant writers.

There is a nice website FreeGrantSearch.com that does the searching for you. It’s easy to sign up. They send emails of grants of interest to you. I signed up a few days ago and am amazed at the money you can get from the government. There’s one grant that gives you over $3,000 to put towards the purchase of an economy car. I ‘ve always heard about government grants, and now I’m finding out more about them without having to do any research.

On tap for today at Comic Con is an interesting seminar called “PSP University” by John Koller, PlayStation Senior Product Manager. John will be telling folks how to get the most out of their PSP. He’ll show people how to get online with their PSP, use RSS feeds, watch TV programs using location free player among other things.

Also attendees will get a first look at some new games for the PSP.

Spotlight on Phil Foglio also takes plays today. Foglio is a very talented artist who is the creator of one of our favorites Girl Genius.

I have to stop with the updates now because I’m getting seriously bummed that I’m not there. More to come later.

As an avid casual gamer, I love to download video game demos, play until the time expiration is up, and then delete the games. Because of this and other ways that computers are used, errors can occur in the system registry and file structure. When you delete a game or other program not all references of it may be deleted from the registry. System Cleaner has a product called System Cleaner 5 that is several utilities in one. Among the features of System Cleaner 5 are a disk cleaner and a registry cleaner.

The registry cleaner is a snap to run and works like a charm. I ran it and found hundred of regsitry errors. With one click the registry cleaner fixed all the errors. The disk cleaner removes junk files and can recover disk space that is being used the files like temporary files or broken shortcuts.

Best of all about System Cleaner 5 is the fully functional downloadable demo. Nothing is worse than a demo that works half way. Full fledged working demos really show you what the software does and how to use it.

Comic Con is set for July 20-23 in San Diego. Tomorrow’s schedule features the seminar “Writing for the Computer Gaming Industry.” I really enjoy writing and have never really thought about where the writing for games comes from. The video game scripts have to have an author. It would be interesting to learn more but alas I’m not in San Diego.

Also on tap for tomorrow: Lionsgate Presents Crank, Skinwalkers, and Saw III. Actor Jason Stratham(Transporter) will be there. Stratham stars in Crank, which follows the adventures of a hitman who has been poisoned and will die if his heartrate drops below a certain beat. It almost sounds like another incarnation of Speed. Throw in a few changes, and Hollywood thinks they have something orginal on their hands. It could be pretty good. My husband and I talk about Lionsgate movies are usually a hit or a miss. We’ll see where Crank falls once it’s released.

More Comic Con news coming as the show gets underway.

Since becoming a parent, I think differently about a lot of things. My child is still a baby, but I can’t help but to think of the future. Then the neurosis kicks in full gear. How do I protect her from everything? There is the logical side of me that says she will have bumps and bruises that I will not be able to stop from happening. She might get teased at school, and I will have very little I can do for her except give her comfort.

Since we are huge gamers, I’m not too worried about the impact of video games or role playing games on her. I feel since we are seasoned players that we make good choices of games for her. Hopefully this will lead to her making the right decisions one day.

Another area that worries me is the Internet. We have already talked about she will not have a computer in her room, but we won’t be able to monitor the computer 24 hours a day. I hope my child makes good choices about the Internet especially when it comes to talking to people online.

I want to respect her privacy when she is older, but I don’t want to be foolish. That’s why SpectorSoft’s keystroke logger is so intriguing to me. Keystroke logger software logs every keystroke made on a keyboard. While the benefit to companies is good–they can keep track of the productivity of their employees, for personal use keylogging software might come across as not trusting other members of the household. I don’t think it’s about the trust I have in my daughter but the intentions of the billions of people who are online. It can be so easy to be duped by someone. It’s scary to watch the stings that catch people going to a house of a minor for lustful purposes–to put it mildly. You can never be too careful when it comes to your children and to their safety.

Before I am ready, our daughter will be out on her own but as long as she is in my care I will do everything to protect her.

Today I got my first up close look at the new Nintendo DS Lite. I must say I’m fairly impressed. It is much smaller in size than the DS. The screens are bigger–even the stylist has been retooled. The DS Lite is sleek, stylish, and really cool.

My biggest disappointment with the DS was it was so bulky and archaic looking. The DS Lite is definitely sharper and is more compact. Gameplay looks really nice too. I may have written off the DS too soon.

We’ve all seen the countless ads for free Ipods. Well, iPodSweepstakes.com is the real deal. They give away an Ipod Shuffle every day. You can also earn points to get a free Ipod or a free Ipod Nano by signing up for various offers like surveys, more information or coupons. Sign up for your chance to get a free Ipod with no strings attached. So far they have given away over a thousand Ipods.

Here is another great site for charities. Charity-ware.org is the marriage of software and charity. Here you’ll find games, applications, and other computer software where either all or part of the cost is given to charity. Sometimes it’s a specific charity while others can be buyers choice. Nice website that supports a bunch of worthwhile causes.

Here is a company that has a great idea for non-profits to raise money, and it doesn’t involve candy bars. PRODEGE offers the service of building .org’s their own search engine and downloadable toolbar powered by Yahoo! at no cost. PRODEGE will split the revenue 50/50 made from the search engine. If you have been on the Interent then chances are you have conducted a search through a search engine before. The click thru ads generated through millions of searches each day equates to billions of dollars in revenue each year. PRODEGE gives charities a chance to divert some of that money for their worthy cause. Learn more about this great opportunity at www.prodege.com/organization.