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3 Full 1080p HD 24” Viewsonic LCD Monitors for $500

3 Full 1080p HD 24” Viewsonic LCD Monitors for $500

Dell Small Business website has another awesome deal on 24” Viewsonic VX2433wm LCD Monitors. They have a buy 2 get 1 free offer. Just add 3 in the cart to see this price. Viewsonic 24” Full HD 1080p Monitors Specs High-gloss piano black enclosure Build-in SRS stereo speakers Max Resolution – 1920×1080 Max Sync Rate […]

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Jinni Gives Intelligent Movie Recommendations

Jinni Gives Intelligent Movie Recommendations

Do you scour through sites like IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes, etc to find a good movie to watch tonight? What if you could tell someone what kind of “movie mood” you are in and you got recommendations? Jinni is a new web service that does just that. Here’s a short brief about what Jinni is Jinni […]

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Flickroom – Awesome Adobe Air Desktop App for Flickr

Flickroom – Awesome Adobe Air Desktop App for Flickr

I love Adobe Air apps that bring web applications right to your desktop in slick and easy to use interfaces. Flickroom is also an Adobe Air application (beta) that beings the most popular photo-sharing site in the Internet, Flickr, to your desktop. Flickroom is shiny, dark and very intuitive to use. If you are a […]

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Pre-Order Windows 7 Home Premium for $30

Pre-Order Windows 7 Home Premium for $30

If you have a valid US college email address, read on. Or if you know someone who has one and would help you out, keep reading. Microsoft has a promotion going at Win741.com where they are offering U.S. students Windows 7 Home Premium edition for just $30! Windows 7 Home Premium is going to retail […]

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Friday Tech Deal: 1TB IOmega External USB Hard Drive $75 Shipped

Friday Tech Deal: 1TB IOmega External USB Hard Drive $75 Shipped

We have owned the 500GB Western Digital Passport for a while. We love it for its size (about the size of an iPhone) and portability. But, we are quickly filling it up and have been looking around for a 1TB external hard drive which we would just keep at home for backups. Small form factor […]

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MagicJack Gets Laptop Friendly Setting

MagicJack Gets Laptop Friendly Setting

MagicJack is the VOIP phone service that costs $20/year for long distance phone calls. I have written a MagicJack review a while back and have been using it for almost over 18 months happily. In a recent MagicJack software update, I noticed something that will make the road warriors very happy! One great thing about […]

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Watch Movies Online for Free, Legally

Watch Movies Online for Free, Legally

Subconsciously I have started to write about entertainment related stuff on Fridays. Especially about watching movies online. If you feel squaemish about watching movies online in questionable sites, this post is for you. You can watch movies online for free, legally. Speedcine is a site that indexes thousands of movies in their database with links […]

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Quick Tip: How to Take Gorgeous Infant Photographs?

Quick Tip: How to Take Gorgeous Infant Photographs?

In my friends circle, it’s babies galore this year! More than half a dozen of my friends have had the wonderful moments in their lives welcoming a newborn into their family. Congratulations Kannan, Prasanna, Ravi, Suren, Vinod, Murali, Karthik & Ravi! I thought of you guys when I came across this article on 5 Tips […]

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Don’t Have a Google Voice Number? Try 3Jam

Google Voice is still in private beta and you can only get a number if you have been invited or you already have a number from when it was GrandCentral like I did. We just recently talked about how to change your Google Voice number. But for those feeling left out but enthralled by the […]

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HD-Trailers: Download HD Movie Trailers

HD-Trailers: Download HD Movie Trailers

My wife and I are avid movie watchers and we try to keep on the up and up of recent movies. We sometimes download HD trailers from the PS3 network and watch it on our Sony Bravia. Now, that I have set up TVersity to stream movies to my PS3 from my desktop, I can […]

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MagicJack VOIP – Recommended even by Mint.com

MagicJack VOIP – Recommended even by Mint.com

I am a huge fan of Magicjack and have used it for over 2 years now replacing my traditional AT&T landline. We have saved hundreds of dollars a year in phone bills as Magicjack costs just $40 in the first year and then $20/year from then onwards. In fact, with the purchase of Magicjack, you […]

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A Good Proxy to Get around Blocked Sites

We have previously looked at some good proxies to get around blocked websites. Some readers in the comments have said some of the php based proxies don’t work anymore. It is a reality that most of the social networking sites are blocked in most work and school places. I am not here to argue the […]

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Turn Your Computer Into A Web Server with Opera Unite

Turn Your Computer Into A Web Server with Opera Unite

I try to dedicate Fridays to entertainment/media related posts in the spirit of the upcoming weekend. Today, I have something for you that is pretty exciting and takes web browsers into the next league. I use TVersity media server to stream music, movies and pictures in my computer to my Sony Bravia via Playstation 3. […]

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Yarp – Yet Another Evite Alternative

Yarp – Yet Another Evite Alternative

Evite is a great tool but it’s one of the most bloated web apps too. I was trying to get my weekly volleyball invites that I sent via evites switched over to Facebook events. I even created a Facebook page for our volleyball club to get my peeps over there. But, it turns out that […]

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Circuit City is Back Online

Circuit City was one of the popular stores for electronics and they went out of business offline and online around 5 months back. Circuit City brand, trademark and website have been acquired by a leading multi-channel retailer of computers, electronics and industrial products. On May 19, 2009, Systemax Inc. purchased the Circuit City brand and […]

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