Archive for November, 2009

Posted on November 30, 2009 - by admin

Cyber Monday is Here

Cyber Monday is here. Tons of deals. Make sure to check out the previous post for a guide to some places to check things out.

Amazon continues to have their lightning deals - go to Amazon and click the link on the top right corner of the pages.

Today’s deals include:

Various music slections, video games (we’ll highlight some we like below).
As of now about 120 or so items.

Video games -
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 (all formats)
Club Penguin - DS
Spidey Game (all)

Electronics

26 inch LCD TV (Sharp)
Acer Netbook
Dell Inspiron 11 inch
Tripod
Cool Pix
Crayola Glow Dome
Samsung Camera
Samsung Netbook
Dell Netbook
Laser Printer

Toys

EyeClops
Pixos
Loaded Questions
GloDoodle
Tech Deck Goodies
My Toon TV
Trio King’s Castle
BMX Bike
Star Wars Lego Set
Razor Scooter

Jewelry

Silver Earrings
18 k bracelet with Garnets
Diamond heart pendant
Diamond cupcake pendant
Silver Heart Pendant
Emerald Earrings
Pearls

Various Music selections
A tent
Tripod flashlight
Jessica Simpson Tote
Binoculars
Coffee Press

Posted on November 28, 2009 - by admin

Cyber Monday Deals - Black Friday isn’t over

Good morning. Hopefully you had a wonderful Thanksgiving with your family and friends.

Black Friday isn’t exactly over yet. Wal-mart still has some deals going on (and other retailers as well).

Amazon continues with your hourly deals and have about 50 or so deals. We’ll highlight some later in this post.

Cyber Monday is coming up and here are some sites that can help you track those deals.

Cyber Monday -

Site: http://www.cybermonday.com/
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/shopcybermonday

Deal News -

Site: http://dealnews.com/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/dealnews

Gotta Deal

Site: http://gottadeal.com/
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/gottadeal

Amazon’s deals for the day -

Tricycle
Silver Wishbone Pendant
Sleeping bag
Misc. Music
Outdoor speakers
Women’s watch
Remote control car
Nikon Coolpix
Golf GPS
Board Games
Diamond Infinity Earrings
Stuff for your pets
Handbags
Remotes
Leapfrog stuff
Air Hockey Table
Label maker
Flip camcorder
Toy stroller
Heart rate monitor
Scooter
Rangefinder
and more.

Have a wonderful weekend.

Posted on November 27, 2009 - by admin

Blackfriday Amazon Update

Here are the Amazon deals for today - for other black friday deals you can check out the link from the previous post.

Again today - numerous games, videos, music. More than 140 offers today.

Cookware
An Air Compressor
A weather tracker
Theater pop corn popper
Elliptical trainer
Mixer
Blender
Solar Charging Kit

Electronics -

Cameras
HDTV (unknown brand)
LCD TV
Ipod speakers
DVD player
Sony Camcorder
MP3 players
Nav devices / GPS
Blue Ray Disk Player
Dell Inspiron Mini 10
Digital Picture payment
Laser Printer

Jewelry
Watch
Silver Bracelet
Diamond Pendant x2
Pearl Earrings
Other earrings
Topaz Earrings
Diamond Heart Pendant

And much more. Enjoy your day and have fun!

Posted on November 27, 2009 - by admin

Quick update

Just a quick update this morning - some things online are selling pretty fast. A complete list of the Amazon deals will be coming up shortly.

Quick access to all the specials can be found here -

http://bfads.net/

I still need to finish my shopping………

Posted on November 26, 2009 - by admin

More deals on Pre-Black Friday sales

Happy Thanksgiving !!

Lots of Black Friday sales starting early. The best organized place I’ve found to check things out is Black Friday Ads.

http://bfads.net/

Amazon has about 120 Lightning deals today - works the same except note the times. I also heard someone mention that sometimes things won’t be shipped before Christmas. I haven’t personally encounterd that but please make sure when you order.

Some of today’s deals.

Electronics -

MP3 player
Many GPS systems - different brands
A guess here - something from Slingbox
Internet radio
HP laptop 15 inch
An Apple Macbook pro
Video recorder
Digitial picture frame
Sony laptop
Laser printer
HDTV
Apple I-mac

Jewelry -

Dragonfly Pendant
Hearts necklace
Diamond Earrings x 2
Amethyst earrings and necklace
Pearls
Cufflinks
Diamond pendant
Heart pendant

Other items -

Scooter
Food processor
Child’s bike seat
Bow flex dumbbells
Kitchen aid mixer
Fishing kit
A folding electric bike

Again numerous videos / games / music.

Dig into those and have fun.

Enjoy your turkey and football !!

Posted on November 25, 2009 - by admin

More Shopping Madness

Good Morning.

Amazon deals for the day include:

Many DVD’s and Bluerays.
Ab Circle Pro (ends in an hour and not a huge discount 20%)
Music including Daughtry and Bon Jovi’s newest.
Hot air pop corn popper.
ASUS laptop.
Pentax digital camera.
A few Wii and PS3 games - most just hints for the titles. I bet guitar hero for the Wii will be one of them.
Some Bakugan deals.
I-robot Vacuum.
HP 17 inch laptop.
A gaming on the go - yesterday again was Nintendo… will today be the PSP?
Camcorder
Dell 15″ laptop
Brother laser printer
Fondue maker
Mats for your car.
A volley ball.

Jewelry - jewelry sells out extremely fast (within minutes of the deal going live).

Heart Pendant
Diamond butterfly pendant.
Silver Bracelet

And more - 80 deals or so (more than yesterday).

Again happy shopping.

Posted on November 24, 2009 - by admin

Some Deals for today

Amazon is continuing to run their deals for today. Highlights include -

Westinghouse PT-16H610S 15.6-Inch Handheld Dual-Hinged LCD HDTV
Numerous DVDs and Blue-Rays - these can run as low as 2 bucks.
Topaz Stud Earrings
Panasonic Digital Camera
A Hand mixer
A Table Tennis Table
Several Video Games
From the hints - it says gaming on the go… so my guess is the PSP, of course I could be wrong but they had the DS yesterday.
Wave Street surfing boards, A flip cam corder, breadmaking machine, a tent, lots of “Smallville” videos and yes even more.

Remember you need to go to the page with the deals which is here - Click Me

You then need to note the time that the deal starts (they run all day long).

If you want an item you need to get it fast. Yesterday most ran for the whole hours, but a few were over in 10 minutes and one only lasted about 5 minutes.

Posted on November 23, 2009 - by admin

Amazon’s Black Friday Week - No Phising

Amazon has unveiled details on their black friday week. Although we’re a little late today (Mondays are always busy) - we’ll work on putting up some details every morning.  The page can be found here.

I’ve already gotten some good deals today.

If you need a laptop Black Friday ads details on how you can pick a very nice one from HP for less than a grand.

http://bfads.net/

Don’t know if I’ve mentioned this but always when shopping online make sure to take shipping into the equation.

Phishing -

You know you’ve gotten an email that says it is from a bank… really it is someone, usually from a foreign country that is trying to take your account information… here are a few tips on how to combat it.

1. Go to the banking / credit card sites that you normally use (make sure to type in the url). Bookmark those pages. Now if you get a suspicious email - don’t click on the site from the email but use your bookmark instead.

2. Use Firefox as a browser - they have built in phising protection.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/phishing-protection/

3. Never click on a link from your email (never ever).

4. Don’t believe any claims that are too good to be true - I’m sure your mother’s uncle’s cousin’s nephew did not leave you a bajillion dollars… no matter how much you wish they had.

Have a wonderful day!

Posted on November 21, 2009 - by admin

Are you ready for Black Friday?

Out of Gas Newsletter - Issue 62 November 21, 2009

Fall Savings for you.

++ News -

We would like to take a moment to wish you and your family a safe, fun filled Thanksgiving with your friends and family.

We got sidetracked a bit yesterday - the article about protecting your computer / keeping you safe we’ll work on getting online Monday. From now thru Christmas we’ll work on having frequent / brief posts when we find deals online that you may not have found. So make sure you check out the site often thru Dec. 23. We’ll then take off till the first full week in Jan.

Links you can Use

If you’re in a deep hole financially and don’t think there is a way out, here is a place you can turn for advice.

http://www.debtadvice.org/

Black Friday Reviews

Are you ready for black friday. This will be a review for most of you but we may have some new folks in the crowd. Here are the steps to get the most bang for you buck.

1. Organize your list of what you want to buy…. if you have only a general idea for a gift then make a note of that. The best way to do that is by creating a spread sheet.

2. Check out the Black Friday ads - my favorite is -

http://bfads.net/

If you find one of the items in your list make a note of it. Also most stores will accept their competitors ad (there are some restrictions with this so make sure you call the store first to make sure - one restriction some have is they will accept the ad only during the time period the ad is for).

Make notes as to when each store opens and when the ad is available.

Now is the time to decide if you’re going to be shopping online or at the store. Generally deals start online at the same time as deals do in the store.

3. Plan your route, if you’re going to shop at the stores.

4. IMPORTANT - early (an hour or so before you have to leave to shop) - make sure to check out Amazon. Last year I was planning on a trip to Wal-Mart, but found everything I needed (cheaper) than Wal-Mart and much less hassle.

Have a wonderful weekend.

Posted on November 17, 2009 - by admin

Keeping computer viruses away part 2

There are a couple of different programs that you should have on your computer. One is a virus checker and the other is a malware protection program. I haven’t experienced (yet) a program that can do both well.

Virus Checkers -

Probably the most popular ‘free’ virus checker is AVG - you can find details for that here.

http://free.avg.com/us-en/homepage

We use the paid version. I have used all the major programs and I tend to like AVG the most because it doesn’t hog your system resources.

I looked for a non biased comparison of the various programs, but I didn’t have much luck.

For Malware and Spyware we use Spybot Search and destroy which you can find here -

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/mirrors/index.html

One IMPORTANT note - when downloading either of those free programs you will be taken to a download page. Those pages have advertising. Be careful ‘not’ to click on an ad, but click on the actual download.

No matter what you choose for your software, it will do no good unless you keep it updated and schedule a scan for infections.

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Other News -

Found some good coupons if you use Target online.

http://chris.pirillo.com/target-com-coupons/

Have a wonderful day!