Holiday Gift Ideas 2008: Best Buy’s Gift Center
Here’s another great selection of gift ideas, this time hosted by Best Buy.
Time to stop procrastinating and get shopping!
Software
Holiday Gift Ideas: Dell’s tech ideas sorted by price ranges
In case you didn’t know, Dell sells way more than just their computers, primarily electronics, gadgets, and computer accessories, but as you well know, that’s a ton of stuff! Anyway, they’ve done a nice job of putting together a nice collection of gadgets sorted by price.
There are 3 price ranges: under $100, under $200, under $300 and everything else above that which they are cheekily calling “Ultimate gifts”. Products include everything from USB Flash drives, cameras, monitors, printers, MP3 players, laptops, GPS all the way to high-end big screen TVs.
Some Cyber Monday Deals & Discounts
Bored at work? Still haven’t found that great deal despite 3 days of mega-discounts? Here’s a chance to check out still more discounts & deals, this time with Cyber-Monday offers:
Best Buy
Cyber Monday 2-Day Sale: Sunday and Monday, Online Only! Valid 11/30-12/1
Buy.com
Cyber Monday deals
Dell
Take advantage of Cyber Monday deals from Dell Home!
Hammacher Schlemmer
Find great deals on quality items at the Hammacher Schlemmer Special Values Sale.
Newegg
Cyber Monday-Mega Monday Madness 2008 at Newegg.com, expires 12/1
Sony
Cyber Monday Special: Save $200 on Sony VAIO® CS series Notebooks w/code: CYBERMONDAYVAIOCS. Starting at $664.99. Ends Dec.1.
MacMall
3 Day Apple Black Friday Sale Apple prices SLASHED! Up to $1094 in Savings! from 11/29 to 12/01 only
Geeks.com
Get the daily deals you want at the price you want at Geeks.com.
Thanksgiving/Black Friday sales & deals
Get a headstart on Black Friday online without leaving your home or dealing with ridiculous crowds.
Amazon
Thousands of items on sale
Dell Thanksgiving Sales
15% off Electronics & Accessories. Coupon Code: CTV2$2HX963145
Xbox 360 Arcade with free Rock Band 2
Inspiron 1525 laptop: only $559
Inspiron Mini 9: only $289
$80 off Inspiron 530
XPS 420 desktop: only $649
Sharp 46SB TV! Only $899
$800 off the Sony bravia 52″ 120HZ 1080p LCD HDTV! Only $1,999
Best Buy 3 Day Thanksgiving Weekend Sale
5% – 25% off select digital cameras, plus free shipping
5% – 25% off select digital camcorders, plus free shipping
$130 off Magellan RoadMate 1212 GPS receiver, plus free shipping
$100 off Garmin nüvi 255W GPS receiver bundle, plus free shipping
2 select PlayStation 3 Greatest Hits titles for $40
Thanksgiving Day Only: 10% – 15% off select major appliances
Alienware
Receive up to $200 off select high performance computers at Alienware. Sale valid 11/26 – 12/2 only.
Free Shipping on all Alienware Computers now through 12/31/08
MacMall 3 Day sale
$898.99 (was $994) 13″ MacBook 2.1GHz 1GB/120/SD
$2319.99 (was $2494) MacBook Air 1.8GHz 2GB/128GB SSD
$1449.99 (was $2494) MacBook Pro 15″ Glossy /2.5GHZ/ 2GB/
$123.99 (was $194) iPod nano 8GB black
Geeks.com
$1.99 Shipping and Free Gift w/ code SAVEMONEY at Geeks.com!
Overstock
Black Friday Sales
Cyber Monday Sales
Palm
Save $100 instantly off purchases over $300! & Free Shipping on orders over $49.
TheNerds.net
Coupon Code: BLKFRIDAY – Save $10 off any order & FREE Shipping Friday through Sunday!
Gmail 2.0 for mobile is here
Gmail 2.0 for mobile phones, particularly Blackberry and phones with Java (J2ME), is here.
What’s new? Better performance, multiple account support, keyboard shortcuts and best of all, offline support. Good intro video. Download from m.google.com/mail in your mobile browser.
New Palm OS on its way
Sweet. Here’s the new Linux-based Palm OS from Access (they swallowed up Palm Source). It supports Linux apps (cool) and yes, it also supports classic Palm apps too (excellent).
Screenshot makes it look nice and bright compared to the current version, but I’ll bet that looks different on a Treo/Palm.
All kinds of PDFs on framework, security and development on the Access website.
Firefox 3.1 Beta is out
New features include even better Web standards improvements, location awareness, a new tab-switching preview that some folks are raving about.
Read more about it and/or download it now.
Windows XP downgrade rights extended to Jul 31 2009
What a difference 6 months make. Back in March, we posted about Windows XP nearing its death, but Microsoft has just bent some more to the pressure and announced that manufacturers can continue selling Vista with ‘downgrade’ rights, which amounts to yes, they can sell WinXP until Jul 31.
This is welcome news for those IT shops that have been putting off the inevitable. Thanks Microsoft.
Picasa 3 is out with lots of new features
Picasa was already a pretty damn good application for managing photos and even videos. Version 3 of Picasa has even more cool features. Here’s a taste:
- Retouch your pics with a little airbrushing without needing to know Photoshop
- movie editing and creating using your photos, movies and music
- Upload your pics to Picasa Web (sync too)
- Add text to your photos.
There’s more… but just download it and find out first hand, or read to your heart’s content over at Google.
Google enters Web browser market with Chrome
Google sure knows how to light up the news sites and blogosphere – release a brand new Web browser! Called Chrome, it’s Google’s foray into a once-crowded market that is now dominated by just 2 players (at least on Windows) – Microsoft and Mozilla.
Everyone else has reported on and given their opinion, so why not another?! I did download and test out Chrome. I would have been disappointed if I was not impressed by at least one feature of a brand new Google product and the big G did not let me down.
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