BlackSmithGames is having a sort of 25 days till Christmas special.
Every day they are giving away a free app game for the iPod Touch or iPhone.
Don’t miss out on all the free apps! Check it out here! http://appventcalendar.com/
More posts soon to come! I am going to try and post a little more often if time allows.
Black Friday has come to an end; I hope that everyone out there got some pretty good deals. I didn’t do so bad myself.
Like most Black Friday Shoppers, I have a list of items that I hope don’t run out before I get to the store. Here my list below:
Target-
iPod Touch 32GB $295 + $30 Gift Card
Radio Shack-
Skull Candy Inked Earphones $9.99
Staples-
Microsoft LifeCam VX-3000 $9.99
From that list I managed to get everything but the webcam which I’ll discuss in a paragraph or two.
Starting with Target at 5:00 am, I’d estimate that there were about 1500 people at my local Target, the line snaked all the way around the building. After the doors opened and all the nuts who were there since midnight ran in, it took about 5 minutes for the line to end. I ended up waiting in line for about one hour to get the iPod Touch, there were only about 200 people in the line, I was about number 20ish. I still can’t comprehend why 20 people can’t go through a line quickly and be on their way, but that’s not important.
Since I already knew that Target would be pretty packed, I sent a friend of mine to Radio Shack which is conveniently about a block away. Traditionally (at least in my area) no one ever goes to the Radio Shack on Black Friday, one or two stragglers here and there but never a big crowd. This year I was wrong, a decent amount of people (I’d say maybe 250, but that’s a very rough estimate) showed up. My friend still managed to get the Earphones at their discounted price.
Finally Staples, I really must say that I was disappointed with Staples this year, I was maybe 5 minutes late and the store was packed, but there was nothing on the shelves, and also nothing in anyone’s hands. This either meant that Staples had a busy Thanksgiving sale the previous day, or they just didn’t have anything in stock. So in regards to the webcam, I drove back to Radio Shack and bought one of the Gigaware webcams for about the same price.
And just a little tidbit, the iPod Touch is awesome, and though Gigawares stuff is usually pretty cheap in nature, the video quality of the webcam is very fair.
Here is a photo of the “loot”.
Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving and Black Friday!
Black Friday is coming right up and one of the most important aspects of Black Friday is the deals of course. It is the one day every year that you can buy an iPod with some sort of a discount, and of course many many other electronics.
Now one of the best resources for Black Friday deals is of course BFads.net. Everyone at BFads is working long hours to make sure they provide the best and most complete collection of Black Friday ads.
Earlier this week I had a chance to ask Michael from BFads (who has been covering Black Friday deals since early 2003) about this year’s Black Friday electronic deals.
So here goes…
The best electronics deals really depend on what someone is looking for and of course their budget.
Just a topical overview of some of the hotter deals I’ve stumbled upon:
Computers and Computer Components:
* Acer 20″ Widescreen LCD Monitor for $79.99 at Best Buy
http://bfads.net/Acer-20-Widescreen-FlatPanel-LCD-Monitor-Black-X203H-at-Best-Buy* Acer Aspire One Netbook for $150 at OfficeMax
* Western Digital 1.5TB External HDD for $119.99 at Best Buy
http://bfads.net/Western-Digital-15TB-External-USB-20-FireWire-and-eSATA-Hard-Drive-Black-WDH1CS15000N-at-Best-Buy
As most of the world knows, Google Wave is a brand new sort of communication that is widely different from what’s currently available. Thanks to my good friend Dave, I am now a “Waver”. My first impressions of the service are that it is something quite different than what most people are used to.
Unlike most instant messengers, a Wave is more like an email, but displayed in a chat form with fun features like the ability to insert videos and much more. Think of it as leaving an offline message for someone and having them get it when they log in at a later time. The same principle applies to a Wave; it is either a live communication process, or one that can be done with the recipients getting the message later.
At the moment Google Wave is pretty empty in the aspect of amount of users. Hopefully that will change in the coming months with Google Wave now offering current users to invite their friends after they themselves are members for a few weeks. One of the things that I really enjoy about Google Wave is the document collaboration. This would come in handy for professionals or even students who may be in different parts of the world (or in a certain school) to successfully and easily work on projects together. Another interesting feature of Google Wave is that it incorporates something called a Ping. Now most IT guys know that a ping is just tool used to see if a particular host is accessible across an IP network, but on Google Wave it’s pretty much the equivalent to an instant messenger with that same offline message capability and an option to add more “Wavers” to the chat.
When Google Wave goes public, I do believe that it will be quite popular among business professionals and regular users alike.
To sign up for a Wave invite, you can visit this link and if you want to learn more about waving and what exactly is a wave you can visit the About Google Wave page here. In the next few weeks when I may(or may not) receive a few friend invites, I will most likely offer one up for grabs in a contest of sorts.
Happy Waving!
Sorry for the lack of posts lately, school has been taking up most of my free time. Earlier today i stumbled upon a neat little online software utility called Ninite. Ninite is basically a hassle free utility that installs different applications which can be chosen from their site. Ninite is especially useful if you have a new computer and wish to install the basics on it (firefox,java,adobe reader etc….). All you do is choose which programs you want and download the installer which downloads and installs all the programs of your choosing without all the free toolbar offers and other garbage that some programs sometime include. The best part about Ninite is that as soon as the installer starts, you can walk away without having to worry about choosing if you want a desktop shortcut or not.
I’m hoping that Ninite will eventually offer an application that allows the user to create customized installers themselves, this would make moving to a new computer or fixing an old one even simpler. Visit them here
Ninite runs on Windows Xp/Vista and the all new Windows 7, look out for a review of 7 sometime this week.
Wikipedia has just announced a new device called the WikiReader. The Wikireader is a neat little touch screen device that is basically an offline Wikipedia reader. It has a nifty little touch screen and a nice pebble shape. You can pick one up from Amazon.com for $99 and whenever you’re in a tough pinch at work or school just whip this little device out and impress your friends with over 3 million (and counting) facts and information. One great feature about the WikiReader is that it only runs off a few AAA batteries, according to the WikiReader site those two batteries should last you for about a year of use.
So I implore everyone to go out and purchase one of these for a teacher or co worker, the holiday season is just around the corner! And remember, knowledge is power and the WikiReader contains a fair amount of both!
Check it out here
