Category: Smart Tech Shopping

HP MediaSmart LX195 Home Server w/ 640GB Hard Drive $199.99 Free Shipping

Thanks to a tip from my good friend and co-host partner Chris Lux over at the Home Server Show, you can now get the HP MediaSmart LX195 for the bargain basement price of $199.  The deal is most likely a short one so you will need to act fast! As we have discussed on the podcast before, the LX195 is a bit underpowered with the 1.6 Ghz Atom processor and only 1 GB of RAM.  It does come with a 640 GB hard drive and 4 USB ports that limit your total storage to only the physical size of each

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Another Awesome $1.99 Music Deal at Amazon

My daughter and I were surfing Amazon (I think we were looking for the latest Hannah Montana CD, she is 10 after all!) and we came across another $1.99 Album deal.  I had never heard of this group before, but we listened to the demos and it sounded great.  Above the Golden State is a Christian band from Oregon.  Click here or on the picture and it will take you to Amazon to purchase it.  They will not hold this price forever, so act quickly! If you have never purchased music from Amazon, it’s not as easy as iTunes, but

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How To Shop Tech Smart in a Declining Economy – Never Buy Cables at a Big Box Store!

It always kills me when I shop at Best Buy, Office Max or any other big box store and see the ridiculous prices they change for basic cables.  Don’t be fooled again! A great example are video cables.  Let’s say you’ve just bought that sweet new 26 inch monitor (like me) and you want to take advantage of that awesome DVI (Digital Visual Interface) port on your video card that to this point has only collected dust.  So you buy the monitor (which you should have bought online!), only to find that it shipped with only a VGA (Video Graphics

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80’s Rocker Bryan Adams, Reckless for 99 cents!

If you loved the 80’s like I did, you will love this!  Amazon is selling the entire Brian Adams, Reckless Album for 99 cents!  That’s right, the entire album for the price of one song.  Not sure how long it will be out there, so be quick.  It’s not like they will run out of inventory!  Here is the link. Remember, I search so you don’t have to!

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