Dayton Daily News

Holiday cash? Buy fun tech gifts

DIY software creates child’s book; Sinatra CD reflects singer’s talents.

- ByJonathan­Takiff

Want to tickle an entertainm­ent lover’s senses?

We’ve found some high-quality and cool software to give this season, intriguing from a tech and pleasure perspectiv­e.

DIY entertainm­ent

“Make your own bear” is a cute idea.

But even more special, and techy, is a “one-off” printed book that features your small child’s name and/or location. The gasp-worthy “The Little Boy/Girl Who Lost His/Her Name” packs a plot-building twist for every letter in the subject’s name, while “The Incredible Intergalac­tic Journey” ends with a picture of your child’s front door. $29.99 at www.lostmy.name.

Burned-to-order video disc rarities from the Warner Brothers Archive Collection (at wbshop.com) also say “this one’s for you and only you.”

You could snag the star-studded 1957 Sigmund Romberg musical biography “Deep in My Heart” or director Michael Curtiz’s Nazi-fighting follow-up to “Casablanca” called “Passage to Marseille” — a 1944 release that rounded up such usual suspects as Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Peter Lorre and Sidney Greenstree­t.

The disc doctor is in

A book could be written just about the sleuthing and restoratio­n work done for Frank Sinatra’s “A Voice on Air” (1935-1955) (Sony/Legacy), four CDs and book, $58.99 list. Previous CD issues of his radio recordings sounded as dull as dishwater. But for Frank’s centennial, the gang dug up

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