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    Hard Drive deals for week of 1/22/06

    The 200GB SATA at Staples can be made a better deal using the coupons that were in many national papers yesterday. Since I was going to buy tax software anyway, I used it to bump me up to the $30 off $150 coupon, so I effectively got the drive for $69.99. Not too bad for a SATA drive...
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    Bestbuy and McDonalds(10/04/05 to 10/31/05)

    One of my friends refuses to eat anything from there because it'll give her the McRumbles...
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    APC Battery BackUP 1500 UPS $149.99 after $50 Instant

    Found this in the APC knowledgebase: Question This document will compare the differences between Back-UPS RS (Models BR1000 and BR1500) with the Back-UPS XS (Models BX1000 and BX1500) Answer There are basically 2 differences between the Back-UPS RS and the Back-UPS XS models...
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    5 Free Gmail Invites, first come, first served

    Thanks- used the third one.
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    Free word processor Abiword!

    How long has your computing life been? I'm 29 and I can definitely remember when WordPerfect was the dominant product... Anyhow, I still use WordPerfect for its ability to reveal codes. Except for a text processing language like TeX, it's hard to get a finer level of control over your...
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    Logitech Contest Winners, Important INFO

    Great tip- I called and found out mine shipped yesterday via UPS ground. They must be shipping from somewhere relatively close to NJ, because it arrived this afternoon. Now to have some fun setting things up!
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    Possible Hot Deal on 12 Gauge Speaker Wire?

    Monster cable speaker wire is no better (sound-wise) than regular speaker wire, as long as you compare the same gauges. Monster just did a great marketing job. In true double-blind listening tests, you can't tell the difference. The key is to make the tests really double-blind. If you don't...
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    Good deal on 12 gauge speaker wire

    OJEDAWC: The thread on avsforum I mentioned has a great discussion about comparing speaker wire and interconnects. Let's see if I can grab a working link to the thread... Speaker wire thread on avsforum I think that'll work. The very first post in the thread has a link to a webpage with a...
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    Good deal on 12 gauge speaker wire

    I discovered at my local Home Depot (Deptford, NJ) that the in-wall 12 gauge speaker wire was on sale for $0.12 per foot (regular price was $0.20 per foot). From what I've read (there's a great discussion on speaker wire at avsforum right now), this stuff is as good as the premium wire. I...
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    NOT HOT! NextCard is Dead!

    After I got my notice yesterday, I started looking around for a replacement card. You might want to try looking at www.cardratings.com for some alternatives. So far, most of the cash back cards I've looked at don't give you nearly as good a deal as the Amazon Nextcard did- only one or two...
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    Amazon Gold Box - Possible Contents

    For those of you still not getting the box, I've noticed that I only get it if I use IE and not Mozilla. I noticed that on the other thread, some folks mentioned getting it with Netscape, so who knows?
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    $14.97 Wireless A/V Sender

    In case it helps anybody who's looking for this item, the model number is 15-1971. The clearance tag that was on it listed the original price as $99.99.
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    $14.97 Wireless A/V Sender

    I was at my local Radio Shack today and found one of those 2.4 GHz wireless audio and video senders on clearance for $14.97. It comes with the sender unit, receiver unit, AC adapters, and a bunch of cables. This is pretty much like the ones that X-10 sells. I don't know if it's local or not...
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    X10 Entertainment Anywhere $59.99 + $20 GC

    I've had this setup running for a few months now, and I pretty much agree with what's been said so far. I've got a Radeon 64 DDR VIVO doing the video output, and the picture is quite sharp. Audio has also been fine, with some experimentation. I have noticed some interference (mostly with...
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    Warm? Serious Sam $9.95 at Best Buy B&M

    << was at Best Buy in Northern Cali but no Sign of the game being 9.95 :( its 19.95 with the Best Buy Sticker on it. Could this be regional? --SCSI >> There was no sign of a price change at my Best Buy (NJ) either, but I got a price check and it came up as $9.95.
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    Phillips Acoustic Edge Sound Card $49.50 after MIR

    I bought this card the other day, and have it hooked up in the way you describe. Everything is working just fine, and the sound is great.
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    Nero 5.5 CD $19.95 - Warm?

    A note of caution- many people got burned (no pun intended) the last couple of times a Nero deal got posted because the version being sold only worked with certain CD-RW drives. In both cases, we didn't find out until someone actually bought it and realized it didn't work.
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    Krispy Kreme buy 1 dozen get dozen glazed for free (Star 98.7 SoCal only)

    << My GF is also helping finish them. >> I didn't know video cards could live off doughnuts (though if they did, Krispy Kremes would be the ones). ;)
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    Odd HD corruption problem

    I've got an old P200 that I keep around for odd jobs. Recently, I hooked it into my home network, and started to transfer some large(ish) files (10-600MB). Some of these were archives, and after transfer a few of them failed CRC checks. Thinking that I might be getting some sort of corruption...