Newer news than last time.

Now I've done it. I've ordered my first Woot. They're selling Logitech Bluetooth Headphones for $29.99 today. I checked Pricegrabber and Pricerunner and mostly they're selling for over $100. On eBay they've sold for upwards of $80 total price. I'd love these to work with my w600i cell phone, hope they do! If you don't know about woot, you can read my previous blogs or just go visit them. Get rid of cords! Hooray! ...uh, 'cept wide wale 'cuz they still rock. (anybody get that?)

I've also gone and (finally!) bought some new rubber... as in tires for my car (sheesh! what were you thinking?!). I ended up researching more tires on Tire Rack and Discount Tire and decided on the Kumho ECSTA ASX 225/50 WR16, the largest plus size tire that fits my stock 16" rims on my 2002 Acura RSX. If you need to learn more about tire sizing, tirerack is the place. To find optional sizes available for my ride, tirerack's system doesn't work on my 'puter, so I had to check on discounttire's site. These are nearly half the price of the Goodyear Eagle F1 GS-D3 tires I had planned on getting. The reviews were great for the Kumho's, and TireRack seems like the ONLY place to buy tires from. Should have them on my car by the end of the week.

I found a couple great deals I'd like to share. First, I mentioned discountmags a couple posts ago... But I just found another site called NetMagazines (they are oh-so-creative, these names!), and they have a 5-for-$30 subscription deal. I'll save about $20 MORE by ordering from netmagazines over discountmags. Now, DiscountMags has better subscription prices (much, much better usually) for individual subscriptions- but this deal is flat out better. And a slightly better selection, too.

I guess the last couple weeks have been okay to me, and my bills are getting paid... So, I also upgraded my flickr account to Pro. For one year, it cost $24.95 and gives me 2 GB in uploads per month. I figure this will give me piece of mind that I can back up my pics off-site for next-to-nothing, considering I get the value from having the gallery space alone for 2 bucks a month.

Okay, Lucky Jeans is halving a half off sale (oh, these puns are just killing me!). Pretty much everything is 1/2 price on their site. It's a great deal for some great quality threads.

In case you don't know where to go to print all your digital snaps, Costco is where a lot of pro's go. Heck, 4 x 6's are $0.19, 5 x 7's are $0.39, and 8 x 10's are a ridiculous (as in cheap!) $2.39. Their print quality is very, very good. Just the white borders (if you like 'em like I do) sometimes aren't even on the prints. Costco also does poster sizes, but ONLY online and in conjunction with Snapfish. Figure the price is about 1/3 of what you'd pay elsewhere for a nice quality poster print.

Here's another good-news thing. Well, kind of... I originally had been using Zone Alarm Pro Internet Security Suite with my PC. I had ALL kinds of annoyances and problems with it. It would constantly require permissions to open a file or allow an extension to run. I'm NOT an I.T. person. How am I supposed to know if this is a common file/extension? Isn't that what the program is supposed to sort out? Well, I switched to Trend Micro's PC-cillin and it has been much, much simpler. And I think it is working at least as securely... maybe better. And at a price under $18 can you afford to not have good computer security? Oh, but then, I prolly shouldn't tell people which security suite I use, huh? Isn't that at least a little counter-productive of me? Oh well. Cheers.