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TAG Tech Deal of the Week – Viewsonic gTablet

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For the Android user who has been looking for a tablet, this weeks’ Deal-of-The-Week is for you! From TigerDirect.com, we bring you the Viewsonic gTablet for $299.99. The gTablet is a 10.1” Android Tablet, sporting Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, a 1 GHz ARM Cortex A-9 Processor, and Android 2.2, which is also known as FroYo (Google’s shortened name for the Android version called “Frozen Yoghurt”).  An iPad alternative at a great price!

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i-Robot, Rainmeter, Youtu.be, MentionMap, Angry Birds Browser Edition, and Skype is now a Microsoft Company – HT025

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Jim, Andrew and Christian are joined by Bill Paulmenn for this weeks installment of the Home Tech Podcast. For anyone who has been off the grid for the past week, the guys start off discussing what is possibly the most interesting acquisition of the year, being the recent Microsoft purchase of Skype for $8.5 billion… Click for more / Podcast Player>

TAG Tech Deal of the Week – Turtle Beach Ear Force Wireless Headset

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This weeks’s Deal-of-the-Week is the Turtle Beach Ear Force PX5 Programmable Wireless Headset from NewEgg.com for $212.99. Not the cheapest Deal we’ve bought you, however for those of you into your PS3 and XBOX 360 gaming, the PX5 has been described as the “most technologically-advanced headset ever designed for PS3 and XBOX 360 gaming”, providing “unmatched audio quality, sonic control and a competitive advantage”. The headset can be paired to your Bluetooth mobile phone and supports audio streaming, so you can be gaming, streaming audio, and take a phone call without removing the headset.  Check it out at NewEgg.com

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Store Your Music in the Cloud? Installing the Amazon Cloud Player Uploader and get 5GB Free with 20GB after purchase.

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Weeks ago, Amazon announced that it would begin to provide 5GB of cloud storage for Documents, Music, Pictures and Videos.  In its most practical application with the online storage of music, Amazon has now released a Windows Uploader that will allow you to easily upload multiple music files and folders to the cloud.  It does require an Amazon account, which is free.  You can sign up for an account here. Even better is the offer to up your storage to 20GB per year with the purchase of one mp3 album.  Now your music, both that which you have purchased (in

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Cyber-attacks, Online Security, Wuala goes Mobile, Top Ten Tablets, Facebook Events, 7stacks, Password Management and DNS Benchmarking – HT024

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Jim, Andrew and Christian are joined by Gordon Schmidt for this weeks installment of the Home Tech Podcast. The guys kick off with Christian giving a quick insight regarding the change in his development methodologies for his Windows Home Server add-in, Magic Wake-On LAN given the change in technology between original Windows Home Server and… Click for more / Podcast Player>