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Look for great deals on home electronics and other random stuff today at woot.com. They feature a random item until it sells out and they post another item. You never know whats going to come next it could be a big screen TV for $1. Look for the Random bag of crap, it only costs $1 and it could be anything.
From wikipedia: Woot is an Internet retailer based in the Dallas suburb of Carrollton, Texas. It was founded by electronics wholesaler, Matt Rutledge and debuted on July 12, 2004.[2] Woot's main website generally offers only one discounted product each day, often a piece of computer hardware or an electronic gadget. www.woot.com |
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If you bought a computer from Dell within the past few years you may be eligible to get some money back. It seems Dell offered no interest financing, service contracts for at home service and rebates but never actually redeemed any of these services. Although the catch is you must live in New York. Forms are due by Dec 15th. You have to confirm you were a new york state resident when you bought the computer. Go to the new york state attorney general's website and confirm that you had 1 of the three problems regarding that computer. Received no financing, received no at home service, or was denied a rebate. |
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   After many years of using Firefox I have finally started using the grease monkey add-on. This is the description directly from the addon page. Allows you to customize the way a webpage displays using small bits of JavaScript.
Hundreds of scripts, for a wide variety of popular sites, are already available at http://userscripts.org.
You can write your own scripts, too. Check out http://wiki.greasespot.net/ to get started. As it states it allows you to write your own java script and apply it to existing web pages. JavaScript although simple can be a powerful tool. If you have your own server space you can even use it as a bridge between server side scripts and client side scripts with the use of ajax. But you can ignore all of this because now the support is large enough that most people have already made scripts for you to use. So weather your a regular user or a super duper user you can get a lot of mileage out of greasemonkey. I would install the add-n called grease fire. This script will alert you when scripts are available for the current web page your on. Even though I've just started my journey into greasemonkey i have quickly found 2 scripts that are fun and useful. The first script is for YouTube which automatically makes all videos high quality and also does not allow to automatically play. The second script is for Google, it makes all the Google logos into a doodle that i selected. Google's clever, mysterious, and completely random logo changes, known as "doodles," usually last for just one day. With this Greasemonkey script, you can make any official Google doodle the logo you always see when searching. Find more about the doodle script here. |
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Not every university has a deal with Microsoft to provide cheap product licenses to students, and high schools are generally out of luck. There is, however, a way for any math, science, or tech-inclined student to score some slick deals.
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This is a speed test at speedmatters.org. I took the test and it was farely accurate. I have verizon FIOS 20mb down and 5mb up. It clocked me going 19.2 down and 4.5 up. It then shows you a comparious vs average american households. Speedmatters.org promotes affordable high-speed Internet for all Americans. Working with partners and allies they advocate for programs and policies that build affordable, universal high-speed broadband investment. Speedmatters.org is a project of the Communications Workers of America. CWA is the union for the Information Age, representing 700,000 workers in communications, media, airlines, manufacturing, and public service. |
Watch Movies from hard drive, not DVDs Watch movies from hard drives, not DVDs Simple, sure, but not always obvious. On many planes and trains, laptops serve as little more than portable DVD players with bigger screens, but forcing your laptop to spin the discs and read from them eats up more power than reading a file off a hard disk—or, perhaps even better, a USB drive. How to get there? There are a few easy programs that can move those movies from the battery hungry dvd player to the sleek hard drive. Including slysoft copydvd and there anydvd encryption software. Handbrake is also another helpful software program as well. Recalibrate a laptop battery to regain life  It's a shame, but laptop batteries can lie to you about how much juice they have, or can really hold. The New York Times explains in a Q & A (look halfway down the page) the most straight-forward means of getting the real truth. Turn off all your interrupting apps, like screensavers and the like, put your computer to sleep, and plug it in until you know it's good and charged. Then turn it back on, make sure your power settings are such that the system won't try to sleep or hibernate, then run your computer all the way down on battery power. Charge it back up one more time, and you'll know whether you really need to start shopping at Laptop Battery Express, Laptops for Less, or check with your manufacturer to get a new lithium stick. Turn C batteries into Ds with quarters  Only a few things ever need D batteries, but who has them handy when you need those things? If you've got some slightly more handy C batteries around, you only need a few quarters to turn them into makeshift Ds. You won't get the same longevity, and you'll have to part with up to $1.50 for a bit, but it works, and it might just turn you into the family hero when you rescue that seemingly useless big-lens flashlight. I grabbed these from a special from lifehacker. I picked these out, as there not the more obvious tips. Check out the originial article here at lifehacker |
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A inventive person created a swine flu google map that tracks news stories about flu cases.
H1N1 Swine Flu - Google Maps
View H1N1 Swine Flu in a larger map
legend:
Purple marker is confirmed or probable
Pink marker is suspect
Yellow marker is negative
Fatal cases have no dot |
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Facebook is now entering every facet of life. You can recieve update across a slew of your favorite websites. Alert your friends that you just ordered wings and a pizza from pizza hut. Now you may have a new message alerting you to your court summons next week. Usually the courts are the last to use new technologies but Facebook may be a new way for lawyers to server you a court summons. In Australia a court allowed a mortgage lender to server legal documents through Facebook after a client defaulted on the loan. In 2006 a Connecticut court used Facebook as a viable means to locate the location of an individual. Also in 2006 meail was used in sending legal documents after having no other way to contact the indivdual. Facebook hasn't been used yet but it very well could be. Also look for the IRS, and tax collection agencies to follow suit. So make sure you keep an I on your facebook profile, your next message may tell you your getting audited, or someone is sueing you. Look for more information after the jump Source jump: Cnet Tech news |
T he E-Disk Altima E3S320 is pushed to 1.6 Terabytes or 1600 gigabytes. They just made a 1Tb hard drive for consumers a few months ago and now they have an even larger SSD. Even though its made don't expect to be affordable. Prices haven't been posted yet but expect to be far out of the average price range. The drive is 3.5 inch form factor and transfers data at 230mb/sec. |
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I just got my first HD television for Christmas and I wanted to go right out and get a HDMI cable to enjoy my stellar HD picture. I was appalled at the prices at circuit city and best buy for HDMI cables. The cheapest one i could find was $40. In the past i have alway paid less when buying online but a $34 price different is horrendous. These stores are simply gouging the ignorant public who don't know any better. I left the store disappointed and went on monprice.com and bought my cable for $6 plus shipping. I feel that I must spread the word to people who think that paying $80 for the same cable is going to get them a better picture, is just wrong. I'm sure these cables provide extra protection but the extra protection is so small it can't even be measured with today's technology. I have found an in depth article from the guys over at gizmodo describing this rip off and tested comparable cables at monoprice. Please read these articles and spread the word for any new HDTV owner. This quote from gizmodo pretty much sums up the article "The only people who should buy Monster cable are people who light cigars with Benjamins. Fortunately for Monster, there are plenty of those people. They're not even suckers, they are just rich as hell, and want the best. This testing did not prove that Monster is not the best. It just proved that the best is, for the most part, unnecessary." The cables that i bought are not the same cables that they tested, i purchased the cheapest cables. From my experience my picture is just as good as the high quality ones given to me from Verizon FIOS technicians. We tested this fact on a 50 Panasonic plasma playing xbox 360 halo 3 and between 3 people we couldn't tell the difference. Find out more at gizmodo.com |
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I recently purchased the thermaltake notebook cooling pad. When searching for a notebook cooler portability was the main deciding factor. I needed something i could throw into my notebook bag and use whenever and where ever. I stumbled onto the the Thermaltake iXoft notebook pad. I have been using this pad for about a month and absolutly love it. Here is a quick run down of the good and the bad.    |
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