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If your family is like mine, the holidays aren't just about relaxing with family. You can pretty much count on some crazy stuff to go down. My family still tells stories about the time we started out shovelling the shed roof and ended up sledding off of it. The year we built fireworks from black powder and chocolate eggs. The Great Marshmallow Gun Wars of 2002. So, yeah, my family is Yooper on both sides. But no doubt you do some crazy things...or at least see some crazy things when you get the relatives under one roof.

And now—for the first time in the history of the universe—you can use Coach's Eye to capture and review those moments in glorious slow-motion detail! What better way to relive your Wii Tennis domination...help your neice hone her Black Friday survival skills...critique your cousin's shameful performance in the backyard Turkey Bowl.

This holiday season, we invite you to share your own shenanigan videos, and see some of ours!

Here's how to join in the fun:

1. Get the Coach's Eye app on your iOS 5 device
2. Capture and review key moments during the holidays
3. Post your videos to YouTube or CoachsEye.com
4. Share the link with everyone!
   Tweet it with hashtag #holidayshenanigans, post it on Facebook & tag @coachseye, or WUPHF it at us.
5. Visit the hashtag or Facebook wall to see what others are sharing.

We'll pick the videos that make us laugh the hardest and share them with you here on the blog.

To make it even easier to post your own shenanigan video, Coach's Eye is just $1.99 (60% off!) from November 23 through November 27. Grab it in the App Store. (Sale begins 12:01am ET 11/23 and ends 11:59pm ET 11/27.)

Can't think of anything worth sharing? Here are a dozen ideas to get you started:

1. Uncle Bert slipping into a food coma
2. Tree-decorating do's & don'ts
3. Cheating at the wishbone pull
4. Turkey Bowl highlights
5. Things that only happen on Black Friday
6. Family meets a new girlfriend/boyfriend
7. Grandpa's patented turkey carving technique
8. Uh oh, they're arguing about politics again
9. Mom burns it up on Kinect Dance Central 2
10. Fresh crop of holiday sweaters
11. Armchair quarterback the armchair quarterbacks 
12. Beard gravy

If you lack an iOS device or have more inspiration than opportunity...share ideas you'd like to see on the hashtag or Facebook wall!

And please get permission from family members before posting videos...you don't want to end up on anyone's naughty list.

Enjoy the holidays...and bring on the tomfoolery!

Daniel Foster is the "social media guy" for TechSmith. He enjoys iceboating, ice cream socials, and isosceles triangles. Tweet him up @fosteronomo or put him in a Google+ Circle.

At TechSmith, I can guarantee to you that we're always working on something new. I'm happy to share with you something exciting we've been cooking up. Welcome the newest app to the TechSmith family, Coach's Eye!

What is Coach's Eye? It's a new iOS 5 application for the iPhone and iPod touch. It's an app that provides coaches, athletes and parents a way to capture, analyze and share athletic performance on video using their iPhone or iPod touch. You can provide instant feedback to an athlete!

Rather than me talking about it, check out this video of Coach's Eye in action.

Some key features of Coach's Eye include:

• Digital Flywheel: Coaches can jump directly to precise points of interest by spinning the unique digital flywheel either forward or reverse.
• Slow motion, frame-by-frame review and analysis: Coaches can more precisely explain plays, review form, fine-tune mechanics and more by slowing everything down.
• Drawing on videos: Coaches can complement videos with telestrator shapes and lines, the same way sportscasters break down and analyze plays.
• Output to free hosting on CoachsEye.com: Coaches can keep all of the reviews they've completed, so they can refer back and replay them for others.
• Immediate video compositing: Coaches' narration, drawing and replay are compressed into a single review on the device, eliminating the time delay between video capture and feedback delivery.
• Built to maximize iOS 5 functionality: AirPlay mirroring enables coaches to output content from their device to a television without using cables to utilize the footage in the film room, and device notifications prevent updates from interrupting other device activity.

And, Coach's Eye is useful for more than just sports videos. We've been using the app for making videos about a variety of topics from an office tour to an informative video about how to properly use chopsticks. Check it out our Education Evangelist, Dave McCollom's video below about chopsticks. The possibilities for Coach's Eye are endless. :-)

Useful links for learning more about Coach's Eye:

• Coach's Eye website
• Download Coach's Eye
• Video Overview of Coach's Eye
• Coach's Eye on YouTube
• Coach's Eye on Facebook
• Coach's Eye on Twitter
• Coach's Eye Blog

As always, I can't wait to see what you create and hear your feedback. How will you use it?

At TechSmith we're gearing up for something new. We're kicking off a new app called Coach's Eye. What is Coaches Eye? It is a way to record an athlete, point out problems, and review as needed.

And, have you ever thought to yourself... "Gee, I could really use a t-shirt cannon!"? If you're like me, the thought crosses your mind often. There's a least a situation once a week where I could use a t-shirt canon. I mean, who doesn't want, no, need a t-shirt cannon?! It's your lucky day! Want a chance to be entered to win a custom t-shirt cannon and be notified with the news about Coaches Eye upcoming release? It's easy - all you have to do is sign up now. And if you want additional entries, you can head over to the Facebook page to get your very own referral link.

Sign up here!

Oh, and if you do win the t-shirt cannon, I just might have to deliver it to you in person. I mean, you'd let me try it out, wouldn't you?

There are a lot of prizes up for grabs. You could win:

• Grand Prize- Micro-Mini™ T-shirt Cannon and 100 t-shirts customized with your logo
• 1st- Callaway Diablo set of irons and driver
• 2nd- $500 Gift Card for Dick's Sporting Goods
• 3rd- 32 GB Apple iPod Touch

If you're the lucky soul that refers our Grand Prize winner, don't worry, you won't go home empty handed. Our Tell A Friend Prize will win you a 32 GB Apple iPod touch for your efforts.

Good luck! For more info about the contest and to sign up go here and check out the official rules.

Still reading? Here's a little easter egg for you... If you can't see the video, click here.