Month: January 2011

For its newsletter subscribers only, newegg.com offers the Western Digital My Book Essential 3TB USB 3.0 External Hard Drive, model no. WDBACW0030HBK-NESN, for $169.99. Coupon code “EMCYTZT279″ drops it to $164.99. With free shipping, that’s $0.05/GB, $5 under last week’s mention, and the least expensive 3TB USB 3.0 hard drive we’ve ever seen. (It’s also…

With little fuss, you can shave dollars off your phone bill by turning to this free messaging app for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Read the original post by Glenn Fleishman

Buy.com offers the Kingston 4GB PC3-8500 DDR3-1066 204-pin SO-DIMM Apple Notebook Memory, model no. KTA-MB1066/4GETR, for $39.95 with free shipping. That’s the lowest total price we could find by $11 and the least expensive 4GB RAM module we’ve ever seen for a Mac. This RAM is compatible with select MacBook and iMac models. Read the…

Buy.com offers the Fantom G-Force 2TB eSATA / USB 2.0 External Hard Drive, model no. GF2000EU32, for $99.99. This $20 mail-in rebate drops it to $79.99. With free shipping, that’s $0.04/GB, $10 under our December mention, and the lowest total price we could find by $42. It’s also the lowest we’ve ever seen for any…

San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge is already famous but there might be some changes pretty soon as a $2.9 million plan to replace the bridge’s 30 full-time toll workers with a fully electronic system has been approved . Read the original post by Ubergizmo

Just because we’re used to getting emails doesn’t mean that we don’t get snail mail anymore, though it’s a lot more troublesome to have to check our mailbox on a regular basis. Read the original post by Ubergizmo

Who says that money cannot buy life? OK, so we’re dealing with digital life here in terms of data, but that surely counts as something, right? DriveSavers recently announced at 2011 Macworld Expo their data recovery service which targets Apple iPads. Read the original post by Ubergizmo

(AHN) – British power supplier National Grid plans to cut 1,200 jobs from its operations in the United States as part of a global restructuring. Read the original post by Whizkid

(AHN) – The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) on Monday warned Midwest residents to brace for a major winter storm that is forecast to bring heavy snow and ice to the Midwest and as far south as Oklahoma, Arkansas and Texas. Read the original post by Whizkid

(AHN) – A dangerous and potentially life-threatening ice storm is forecast to strike northern Illinois and northwest Indiana Tuesday afternoon through Wednesday. The blizzard with up to 35 mph winds is expected to dump at least a foot of snow, according to the National Weather Service. Read the original post by Whizkid

Although it has the latest features, the Dell Inspiron 15R-1847MRB would be a better desktop replacement laptop if it came with a bigger battery and a better graphics chip. Read the original post by james_melzer@sra.com

Although it has the latest features, the Dell Inspiron 15R-1847MRB would be a better desktop replacement laptop if it came with a bigger battery and a better graphics chip. Read the original post by james_melzer@sra.com

What would you do if you saw a magic 8-ball lying around the room? Chances are that you’d take it and check it out . Read the original post by Ubergizmo