Closing Stores...

Wow. Lots of major stores are closing. Good guys recently closed. ToysRUS is closing. The cashier lady told me the closest one will be in Santa Rosa. I just heard Radio Shack is closing. And Mervyns be closing some stores too.

Geez, Target and BestBuy must be killing off all the competition.

But really... when was the last time you bought something at Radio Shack or Good Guys? I think the last thing I bought at Radio shack was batteries.

SBC Yahoo! DSL $12.99

Price drop! SBC Yahoo! DSL Express regular prices are now $12.99/month for new ONLINE subscribers at 384Kbps-1.5Mbps/128Kbps with 12 month term. Free activation. Pro $17.99

Whoa! Now there really is no excuse to get off dial up and go to dsl.

Mac vs. Windows

I bought an imac G5 last year mainly to do videos. But I just sold it last week. I gave Mac a chance, but it just didnt cut it for me. Dont get me wrong though. The machine itself is nice. Putting an entire desktop into an LCD screen is pretty amazing. So when it comes to hardware, I think Mac wins. They must spend lots of R&D. But when it comes to software and operating system, windows wins. So now Im set up to do videos on my PC after getting a firewire card. Im going to post more videos of caden, but now I need to find a good video hosting site. Still researching that. Ill let you know.

Gmail contact groups

Gmail finally has group contacts. Now I dont have to copy and paste email addresses anymore. Hallelujah. Took them long enough.

It's Official!

Adobe completes aquisition of Macromedia. See Press Release.

Im now an Adobian :)

Spy Sweeper

I just bought Webroot Spy Sweeper 4.5 for free after rebate (FAR) last week. It's an anti-spyware removal and protection software. I purchased it because it has excellent reviews, won many awards, and cleaned out over 90% of spyware (and did I mention that it was FAR?). Compared to like 60% with other programs like adaware and spybot. A lot of times I have to use multiple programs to remove spyware. Anyways, my take on it the internet these days is that its not safe anymore, unless you are SUPER careful. I've been SUPER careful and Spy Sweeper still found some spyware on my computer. And trust my I've cleaned out many machines already to prove it. I know its not me to suggest buying something that's not free, but Im going to do it anyways. Buy this program, you wont regret it.

Black Friday Ads

Click here for a listing of black friday deals.
Click here for actual ad scans.

Happy Shopping!

Best Black Friday Deal Ever - $200 laptop

Black Friday is the nickname for the Friday sales and deals after Thanksgiving.
This is the best deal I've ever seen for a laptop.

$200 for:
Toshiba laptop
Intel Celeron M processor 370
DVD/CD-RW
512MB
15' screen
60GB hard drive
Internal Wireless G
Instant $600 discount - no rebates

PLUS
Free Wireless G router
Free All-in-one printer

**UPDATE - I zoomed into the ad scan and it looks like its only that price with signing up with AOL for a year (which will cost like $180). WEAK! AOL stinks.

$1.50/0.99 DVD rentals

I just rented Jet Li's "Unleashed" movie DVD at the Safeway at the 16th and Portrero Center using a DVDPlay kiosk. I just selected the movie I wanted and swiped my credit card and the movie came out of the machine. Pretty slick. The rental fee is $1.50 and you have to return it the next day otherwise, its another 99 cents. On Monday's the rental fee is only 99 cents. They had all the new releases and they come out with new releases every Tuesday. Also, the first rental is free :)
Not too many locations in SF, but check out there website for more info.

Aloha!

Just got back from Hawaii. We really had a good time. I wouldnt say it was easy with Caden, but with enough teamwork, we managed. I miss Hawaii already so I had to create a slideshow for the memories.

Aloha!