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By PENNY L. CARNATHAN

The Tampa Tribune

Published: June 18, 2008

If you're shopping for a digital picture frame, HP df800 is a great choice, Consumer Reports says.

The magazine tested 10 frames measuring 7 to 8 inches diagonally and rated the HP tops with very good picture quality and excellent ease of use. It has a resolution of 800 by 600, accommodates a wide range of memory cards and has 128 MB internal memory (to store photos) and a USB port. It can even put your slide show to music.

It costs $170.

The item appears in the magazine's July issue.

Seal Your Next Vacation

Thompson's Water Seal will send a foursome to Yellowstone or Glacier national park or Niagara Falls State Park for four nights, with a thousand bucks and a rental car.

All you have to do is play a little game and answer some questions. Go to www.thompsonswaterseal.com/whats_new by Sept. 30 and have some fun creating a virtual deck. Then answer some trivia about the three parks and Thompson's Water Seal products (you don't even have to get them right to win) while you clean and protect your deck with Thompson products.

You won't even break a sweat.

Flip Out

Bravo's "Flipping Out," featuring manic, obsessive-compulsive entrepreneur Jeff Lewis, launches its second season at 10 p.m. Tuesday.

If you missed the first season of back-to-back house flips and Lewis flip-outs, you'll want to check out this show — if only to feel better about yourself and your place in society.

Lewis is a highly volatile boss whose small band of employees must carry out his visionary visions while dodging his chainsaw temper. He's a genius at seeing the potential in ragged-out houses, quickly mapping out and executing their makeover.

It makes for fun real estate television.

Mailbox Cleanup

Junk mail's fun when you're a kid but it's like getting braces — once you've had 'em a month, they're not so cool. But at least the braces good for you. All those unsolicited mailings waste energy, trees and pretty much everything we're trying to conserve.

There's no one-stop Do Not Mail number to call to get yourself off marketers' lists, so a number of companies are offering to do it for you. For $20, GreenDimes at www.greendimes.com promises to get rid of 90 percent of your junk mail for five years. Save the fee by going to the site and opting for the free DIY option.

At www.donotmail.org/form.php?id=50, plug in your name and address and you'll be e-mailed letters to print out and mail to the junk mailers.

A whole list of suggestions is posted at www.obviously.com/junkmail. Start with first-class mailings: Cross out the address and bar code, circle the first-class postage, and write "refused: return to sender." Drop in any mailbox.

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