Calum Henderson

I love countdown videos.

3 reasons why countdowns are awsome

1. Build suspense for your session
2. Let people know that there is a definite starting time
3. Get your audience involved and participating before the session starts (Everyone counts down from 10! Everyone!)

And there is a website at which you can download free countdown movies!

freecountdowns.net is an amazing website at which you can download free countdowns. Some are amazing, and some are not so amazing. But the best part about them all is that they’re free!

There are a whole range of countdowns, some in HD, some that are 30 seconds, some that are 3 minutes.

So for your next youth group session or camp, download one of these movies (MPEG-1 or MPEG-4 format) and use it to build suspense for a session.

Here are a few examples of the countdowns.

Free stuff is awesome, so here is another list of free things that I have found around the web. Hope you enjoy this list as much as the first one. (All of these links are completely legal)

Videos

• Free video countdowns (These are awesome!)
• Satellite countdown (From Midnight Oil Productions – have to login to download)
• Background loops (From Midnight Oil Productions – have to login to download)
• Moving background (From New Worship Media)

PDF books

• 279 days to overnight success (From Chris Guillebeau)
• A brief guide to world domination (From Chris Guillebeau)
• John Piper books (From desiringGod)

Album

• Rain City Hymnal (From Resound – need to share with people to download)

Fonts

• Some cool fonts (From Misprinted Type)

Programs for Mac’s

• 60 free Mac programs (From AppStorm)
• Tweetie (From Atebits)
• X-Moto (From Apple Downloads)

Hope you enjoy some of them (If you did, check out the first list of free stuff), and if you have any suggestions to add to the next one, let me know. (Please continue reading to see additions from the last set of comments)

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RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a great way to see the news and information that you want to see from the web.

Instead of going and finding new content from your favourite websites, RSS allows that information to come to you! Awesome.

To subscribe to an RSS feed, there is usually a button on a webpage that looks like this 

If you click on this button, it will usually take you to a page that gives you options on how to subscribe. An easy way to view subscriptions is to use google reader. Which will let you use your google account to view RSS feeds.

You can then simply click on the button to subscribe to the feed, and if there is no button, you can copy the URL and paste it into the “add a subscription” box.

This is a really simple process, and it will allow all of your favourite news and information to come to you!

Why not subscribe to this blog now…

davemiers.com also has a great explaination of RSS.

If all of this is too confusing, maybe you’ll find these videos below to be a good explanation of RSS and google reader.

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There is a lot of cool free stuff on the web these days, so I thought I’d make a small list of stuff that I have found. Enjoy!

Free Albums

• Coldplay – Left Right Left Right Left (Live)
• Nine Inch Nails – The Slip
• Nine Inch Nails – Ghosts I

Free Pictures (these all have little to no copyright and can be reproduced as long as you don’t make money from them, but check out each one’s terms of use)

• Stock.XCHNG
• 450 small icons
• More Icons
• Icons and Twitter Icons
• More Twitter Icons
• Even more Twitter Icons (They’re everywhere!)
• RSS Icons

Free fonts

• A bunch of fonts

Everyone likes free stuff! Do you know of any other free things on the web?

UPDATE: If you liked this then read Free Stuff #2