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    Cheap pocket MP3 players from walmart starting at $39!

    Anything even at about --alt-preset-standard (200 or so kbps) is impossible for most people to distinguish from the original source CD on anything but high-end stereo equipment in a closed environment... no one in their right mind really needs anything over 160 kbps for the gym (ambient noise...
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    Princeton 19" LCD Flat Panel Display DVI $399 at ecost

    http://reviews.cnet.com/Prince...5-3174_7-30794424.html The good: Inexpensive; embedded speakers; analog and DVI inputs (both cables included). The bad: Extremely poor contrast; poor overall image quality; limited adjustability. The bottom line: The Princeton LCD19D is inexpensive for a...
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    Sylvania 17" LCD Monitor + Speakers $299.99 shipped free via amazon

    what's the response time? also, there are no reviews out there for this... but it's made by Proview... any ideas what it's equivalent proview model number is?
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    The **OFFICIAL** GMAIL Thread

    i have one invite left. post to the thread (so i don't get swamped with PMs) then PM me for a code; first poster gets it.
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    **SUPER HOT** Gateway DC-T50 5.25MP Digital Camera, 3x Optical/4x Digital Zoom » only $204.99 Shipped

    i've just checked a few reviews on the camera. seems to be a pretty mediocre performer (and it's a rebranded Toshiba PDR-5300, if you're curious). Of course you won't do much better for $100... it'll probably make a fine starter camera or one for the kids to mess around with, but as this would...
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    **SUPER HOT** Gateway DC-T50 5.25MP Digital Camera, 3x Optical/4x Digital Zoom » only $204.99 Shipped

    hm... all the links to the camera on the website seem not to be working right now... that's a shame. If anyone can get a working link to that, please post it.
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    Little Known "X-Fares", Cheap Airfare for students age 18 and 22

    last i checked Delta Shuttle stopped offering student fares at least a year ago. At least, that's what I was told when I tried to buy a new book of student tickets last year. Better deal NY to Boston - chinatown bus, $10, hourly departures most of the day. takes not much longer than getting to...
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    free jazz Handbook

    looks pretty nifty. nothing terribly advanced, but as a guitarist the piano voicings part may be interesting.
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    Hot? 512MB (spectec) Crucial PC2700 for $49

    i've heard that there are often problems with specTek RAM, and that the return rate was so high newegg stopped carrying it. That said, i've been running 2 sticks of 256MB specTek PC2700 at speed, dual channel in a computer that's on 24/7 for a week now with no problems, so who knows. It...
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    Wireless Networking Thread (DEAD)

    it looks like the Uniden Access Point for $2.99 at outpost.com is dead - no longer listed at their site anywhere. But there is still a $19.99 AR deal on the uniden wifi router/PCMCIA card package.
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    DEAD Uniden Wireless B Networking Kit (Router and PC Card): $19.99 AR (NOW $29.99 AR)

    yeah, the card is for notebooks, or desktops with PCMCIA slots (few and far between, but for example some SFF VIA PCs have them rather than PCI slots). normally, i'm not one to ebay around... but i want the router, so i suppose i'll just sell the PCMCIA card. it'll probably cover most of the...
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    Free A/R - USB Wireless LAN Adapter!!!

    i'ver heard syntax is ok... and these are using the latest Intersil Prism 3.0 chipsets, which is surprising. now all i need are a free AR wireless AP and i will have reduced my HTPC's cable clutter for free :) - well, except that handling fee, i suppose.
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    Shuttle MN31N $77 Shipped from Newegg

    um... sorry if this is stupid, but what can you do with the TV-Out header? i'm not seeing any cables on newegg or on biostar's site that actually connect to the tvout header (although it is mentioned as optional on biostar's site, no link or product appears). Where can you get a cable for that...
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    Neat program to keep track of your rebates

    nifty. Looks like it hasn't been updated in a while (default postage: 32 cents :)), but hey, it works.
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    Rio Nitrus 1.5GB MP3 Player @buy.com for $124.99 shipped (after $50/$20 MIR and $15 coupon)

    All i've heard are people saying they take it with to the gym and such without any problems. No complaints that i've heard. Oh and austonia, the rebate for $50: went through my history folder, apparently the pdf's still online where it was, here. they just took the link to it down.
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    Rio Nitrus 1.5GB MP3 Player @buy.com for $124.99 shipped (after $50/$20 MIR and $15 coupon)

    heheh thank god for buy.com not working on Eastern time zone... got mine before the deals went bad... i think i'm gonna put my pocketPC's 1 gb memory card on ebay now, seeing as to i just use it for mp3s, and the card sells for more than the nitrus does :).
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    HOT!!! Buy.com: Yamaha YST MS50 - 80 Watt Speaker(s) - $23.99 AR + Free Shipping

    damn.. i paid a lot more for these speakers like a year ago. they're really, really nice for a 2.1 setup; they're a deal at 2x the price. Not really audiophile material, as they don't crank out quite enough clean watts, but the sound really nice at quiet to moderate sound levels, with smooth...
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    Delkin Devices EFilm Picturevision $20 AR @ buy.com

    price chop at buy.com... now $61.69-50 MIR = $11.69... think i'm gonna get me one just to play mp3s off my pocket PC's memory card while i sit in the living room; can't really go wrong for $12. I've read other (more nice) reviews of it; assuming you don't have the Lexar MS issue, and aren't...
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    *DEAD* - New HP iPaq 2210 (2215) for $267-$293 for K-12 and college students / teachers! (YMMV by institution)

    Now it's cheaper to just buy from amazon since you can get the free $50 GC when you spend over $250. Deal is now officially dead, i suppose. Nice while it lasted.
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    NEW Creative 3.0MP Camera + Webcam $122.99 Shipped (PC-CAM 880)

    So it's a 2.1 MP camera. Interpolated resolution doesn't count; interpolation does nothing Photoshop could not. Theoretically then, my 2 MP camera is 14 Megapixel Interpolated Resolution with photoshop's help. Doesn't make the photos look much better though :). So it's $130 for a 2 MP non-zoom...
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    *DEAD* - New HP iPaq 2210 (2215) for $267-$293 for K-12 and college students / teachers! (YMMV by institution)

    Where? I'm not seeing anyone online showing a price under $350, and they all charge tax and/or shipping over the unit price... anyways, if i can't get the price i want here i can always sell it to my neighbor at cost; he's looking for a new PPC anyways.
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    Viking 512MB CompactFlash Card For $90 AR

    woah - garsh, thanks for the link - think i'll be getting myself a 1GB card for my iPaq 2210 now :)
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    *DEAD* - New HP iPaq 2210 (2215) for $267-$293 for K-12 and college students / teachers! (YMMV by institution)

    did anyone else have HP screw up and send them TWO 2210s by accident? They did that to me (and yes, they billed me for both...). Really weird. Wish they'd get their act together. Guess i'll put it up in the For Sale forum, rather than deal with HPs "customer support" (if you can call it that)...
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    HOT! Verizon cell phone - free Express Network high-speed internet (144Kbps)

    Do you mean a wireless card or a wired LAN card? Wireless PCMCIA cards can be found for dirt cheap; even Compact Flash ones can be as low as $30-$40 these days (mobileplanet has a d-link CF 802.11b card for $40 AMIR). A wired LAN card for a PDA is probably not worth it... when you can get a wifi...
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    D-Link CF Wireless 802.11 card - $39.95 AR

    It's a decent price (despite their $7 shipping and so-so ratings among customers). Not as good as the $30 SMC CF card last week AR from CompUSA, but I missed that one. This is actually the best price out there right now, i believe, for a CF wi-fi card confirmed to work with the new batch of...
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    *DEAD* - New HP iPaq 2210 (2215) for $267-$293 for K-12 and college students / teachers! (YMMV by institution)

    From what I understand, the connector itself is the same, so all cables and such should work. However, the bottom of the unit is flat. not rounded like the 3900, so many peripherals such as keyboards and cradles that line up with the contours of the 3900 won't fit the 2210 (although many things...
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    *DEAD* - New HP iPaq 2210 (2215) for $267-$293 for K-12 and college students / teachers! (YMMV by institution)

    Nah that's just someone talking outta their arsehole, laddie. The reason people thought that is that it doesn't list the cradle under the 2210s specs on hp's site so they assumed it wasn't there (i don't know if it's listed with the 2215 either). They really are the same unit, with the exact...
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    *DEAD* - New HP iPaq 2210 (2215) for $267-$293 for K-12 and college students / teachers! (YMMV by institution)

    actually, i didn't get charged tax and I live in NY which has HUGE sales tax. I think if you use a higher ed contract you qualify as tax-exempt as a nonprofit, maybe? I could be wrong though.
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    *DEAD* - New HP iPaq 2210 (2215) for $267-$293 for K-12 and college students / teachers! (YMMV by institution)

    Hey- they billed me twice too, the second time for some reason even after my first one had shipped already. They oughta get their act together. I think i'll sell this second one to my brother when it arrives - he wants one bad now that he's seen mine :). Or i could fleabay it for a good $100...
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    64MB SmartMedia card FREE AR @ Ecost.com

    The 64 MB from ecost are $10 before the rebate. So 32 MB for $10 = not much of a deal, really.
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    64MB SmartMedia card FREE AR @ Ecost.com

    just a note that this is a dup - i posted this 3 days ago in this thread. :)
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    Viking 64MB SmartMedia Card Free After Rebate ($10-$10 rebate) FAR ecost

    Not to mention the 128 MB limit on SmartMedia cards, and that they're bigger than SD cards -> bigger reader. You can get the SanDisk Cruzer SD thumb-type drive if you need that kind of swappable storage - otherwise the Lexar JumpDrives are probably better for your money (i have a 128 MB one...
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    SanDisk wireless CF card 802.11b $49.99 shipped

    Anyone know if this one works with Windows Mobile 2003 (the new Pocket PC OS)?
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    Viking 64MB SmartMedia Card Free After Rebate ($10-$10 rebate) FAR ecost

    link to ecost Cheap shipping if you get an order over $50, (they still charge a few bucks handling - no big deal). Personally I added the Sandisk 256MB SD card which is $49.99 AR - good price, but it is known to mess up in Dell Axims and Toshiba pocketPCs, so avoid the sandisk SD card if you...
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    HP iPaq H2215 for $338 AC at OD (no rebate! - YMMV)

    That's not a bad deal, if you don't qualify for the educational discount. I would almost have considered jumping on the deal myself, even though >300 on a PPC is out of my price range. Luckily I have a 2210 (which is the same unit as the 2215) supposedly shipping tomorrow for $267 total, so I...
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    *DEAD* - New HP iPaq 2210 (2215) for $267-$293 for K-12 and college students / teachers! (YMMV by institution)

    the MHEC just lets you purchase for that specific contract - even if your school is in the MHEC, you still qualify minimum for the national educational discount, and possibly for other contracts as well. Although the MHEC price was the lower price. However, most of the time you'll save more...
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    Free Guiness flying disc(us only

    heh - and i don't even drink anymore... bad experience with a (now ex) girlfriend puking in my bed :disgust:
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    *DEAD* - New HP iPaq 2210 (2215) for $267-$293 for K-12 and college students / teachers! (YMMV by institution)

    heheh man, fleabay it... no one in their right mind would shell out for the 1910 when it's not upgradeable to PPC 2003 and the 1940's about to be released. Of course there's always a sucker on eBay who's not in their right mind ;-)
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    *DEAD* - New HP iPaq 2210 (2215) for $267-$293 for K-12 and college students / teachers! (YMMV by institution)

    like i said in my original post, you'll have to search around to figure out if your school qualifies for a given contract. For example, i searched for "Massachusetts Higher Education Consortium members" and quickly found a list of member schools. Of course, i ordered last night and they still...
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    Free Google Popup Blocker

    I've been using Mozilla's Firebird for a while now - it blocks popups automatically, and has easy plugins you can add to block banner ads, which works reasonably well when you tell it what to block (except for when they hide the image inside some php - blah). I think it's great for people still...