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Shipping and Shopping Deals For Your Last Minute Gifts

GeekSugar — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 07:30:37 -0800

I know how you're feeling right now: stressed, confused, and panicked. Stressed because you know you haven't finished your holiday shopping, confused as to what to get, and panicked because Christmas is a short little week away.

Not to freak you out even further, but if you are ordering gifts online, in most cases, today is the last day to ship your gifts in order to get them wrapped and under the tree by Christmas. But there is some good news to all this worry - a lot of times, you'll find that standard shipping is free!

Where do you find such wonderful deals? I'll tell you about them, and about some other sweet procrastination-friendly savings when you read more.

Shipping

Get free shipping from Amazon when you purchase over $25 dollars of items that are marked with Super Saver Shipping. Last day to ship free and receive by Christmas is today, December 18.
Walmart offers free shipping when you use their Site To Store feature - order your gifts online, and pick up at your nearest Walmart store. While you're there, you can get your wrapping paper.
Target is offering free shipping on select items or when you spend $50 or more. Last day to ship free and receive by Christmas is today, December 18.
Apple is offering free standard shipping on all orders. Last day to ship most items and receive by Christmas is Friday, December 19.
Overstock.com is offering free shipping on select items. Place your order by December 22 and select two day shipping to get your items by Christmas.

Last Minute Deals

Ebates is offering cash back on purchases when you use the available coupons. Sign up for a free Ebates account and get an automatic $5 credit.
MacMall is offering up to 75 percent off of select items, and free shipping when available. Get your shopping on now, cause the sale ends today!
The Blackberry Bold is 50 percent off at Amazon, and with a $100 rebate the price drops to $149 with a two-year service agreement.
Get last minute sale notifications from Sale Habit!
Insane electronics liquidation deals at Overstock.com - up to 50 percent off of some items.

Happy shopping!

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Website of the Day: Free Shipping

GeekSugar — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:00:34 -0800

Hopefully my Bargain Buys are making the beginning of a holiday gift-buying season during a recession a little easier to swallow.

On that same note, you should definitely bookmark Free Shipping, a website that provides you with what looks like every free shipping deal for stores on the Internet.

The site is easily navigable, so just make sure to check it every time you add something to your cart this holiday season! And for more holiday tips, check out HolidaySugar.

Website of the Day: Filler-Item Finder

GeekSugar — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:40:49 -0800

You know how great it is when you find exactly the item you were looking for on Amazon, but then realize you only have to spend a tiny more to get free super-saver shipping? You don't want to overspend, but you also can't think of anything else that you'd want to buy. This has happened to me many times when the amount I have to spend is less than five bucks. For these moments, there's Filler Item Finder.

Filler Item Finder scours Amazon for cheap items and gives you a list of things you can toss in your cart to save some dough on shipping, just by entering the amount you're still in need of.

Have an interesting website you want to share? To learn how to post your favorite websites to our Website of the Day group, read more.

First of all, join the Website of the Day group.
Click "New Post" under the website of the day tab at the top of the page.
Give your story a "Title."
Fill in the "Body" with a link to your favorite website and the reasons why you love it.
Type "Technology and Gadgets" in the Categories box
Add keyword(s) in the tag field with relevant tags (for example mine for this story was "Website of the Day").
Choose whether you want the post to be private or public.
Click "Create Post" to submit content.

Daily Tech: Casio Debuts Some Geeky Cubic Puzzle Watches

GeekSugar — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:04:41 -0700

I'm loving these $90 Cubic Puzzle watches from Casio. Sorry it doesn't offer any gaming functionality - OhGizmo!
Nanako Matsushima, a famous Japanese actress, is now appearing in Wii Fit Plus ads - Kotaku
Check out which movies are coming to Blu-ray this week - Switched
A street in a Palestinian refuge camp gets named after a Twitter account - Wired
You can now scoop up a Nintendo Wii for only $175 from Dell, and that includes free next-day shipping - CrunchGear
It's giveaway and game time on GeekSugar! Be sure to log in and play our Best Video Game Ever bracket! - GeekSugar

Would You Drop Your Cable and Pay For a Hulu Subscription?

GeekSugar — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 13:12:10 -0700

Since most of you use Hulu and it's being rumored that the free streaming video site is soon going to launch a subscription service, I'm wondering if many of you would considering jumping ship and getting rid of your cable service? Not a ton of details have been revealed about the subscription service, but it will most likely offer content without ads, or more access to television shows and movies. If I could access all of my favorite shows that I'm watching now online, I'd be all for it, but that would mean every TV network would have to jump on board, and I don't see that happening anytime soon. What are your thoughts?

Website Alice Shops For All Your Home Essentials For You

GeekSugar — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:30:00 -0700

I won't bore you with tales of how busy I am these days, because come on - aren't we all?

Everyone around me seems to always be swamped, and rarely has time to shop for stuff that's essentials (not shoes, bags, and clothes. Somehow I always make time for that). I mean toilet paper, toothpaste, dish-washing soap - stuff you have to buy but hate schlepping to the store for.

Today's website, Alice, wants to be the girl who makes your life easier. At heart, it's online shopping for those boring home essentials, but it's like a personal assistant for this stuff. Whatever you want, Alice hunts down coupon codes for and reminds you when it's about time to stock up on everything again. There's even free shipping, in addition to the already sweet deal of having your life saved.

To learn how to post your favorite websites to our Website of the Day group, read more.

I know that this long list looks scary, but trust me, once you get the hang of it, it'll be a snap the second time around.

First of all, join the Website of the Day group.
Click the pink "Share" menu on the top left side of the page.
Choose "Blog" and "Regular Post."
Give your story a "Title."
Fill in the "Body" with a link to your favorite website and the reasons why you love it.
Click "Next."
Choose the audience for your story to "Website of the Day" in the dropdown menu.
Add keyword(s) (for example mine for this photo was "Website of the Day").
Change channel to "Technology and Gadgets."
Fill in tag field with relevant tags.
Click "I’m done" to submit content.

So join the Website of the Day group and share information about all your favorite sites! Yours just might end up on the geeksugar homepage!

Flip Video Announces New FlipShare Video Sharing Software

GeekSugar — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:25:44 -0700

The best thing I learned in kindergarten was that sharing is caring, and that's still one of my major tenets. It's one for Flip Video too - the company whose simple, portable video cameras made it easy to capture video is now making it just as easy to share the videos you make with your camera with new FlipShare software, just announced today.

FlipShare allows you to easily upload videos to websites like YouTube and MySpace, email them to friends, and sets you up with your own Flip Channel, where you can watch videos on the go. Speaking of on the go, there's also a new free FlipShare iPhone app.

I was lucky enough to test out the new FlipShare software and give it a hands-on review, so to see how I got going with the new one-click sharing, just read more.

I tried out FlipShare with the help of a Flip UltraHD, and opened up the new software (starting today, all camcorders will be shipped with this new version of software on the camera, and current users can download it from the Flip website). After I installed FlipShare, my videos automatically uploaded into the application. From there, I could edit my videos or send them with one click to my YouTube account or newly-created Flip Channel (note: It looks like you can only use videos in FlipShare that you're uploading directly from the camera, rather than existing videos on your camera).

Everything is pretty intuitive, with sharing options located in the title bar, and though I had to take a minute to link my FlipShare account with my YouTube account and set up my Flip Channel, from then on, everything truly was "one-click." I put up a video on YouTube. I emailed my mother a video. I made a movie into a greeting card. I sent it to my channel. Did I mention I did all these steps within a few minutes?!

Once you have videos in the FlipShare application, pretty much everything is drag and drop. You can also create DVDs from this application, so it kind of functions like iPhoto, but with features specifically tailored to a Flip Video camera. I am positive that I could give the least tech-savvy person in my family a Flip, and they'd be able to navigate this software with ease.

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Daily Tech: The Queen to Receive a Gold-Plated Nintendo Wii

GeekSugar — Fri, 22 May 2009 12:11:40 -0700

Is the Queen of England becoming a gadget girl? First she receives an iPod from President Barack Obama, and now she's getting a gold Wii from BIG Family Games. - Digital Inspiration
By using the Store Locator tool on Sprint's website, you'll be able to find out which stores will have Palm Pre stock. - CrunchGear
A 16-year-old girl ran into oncoming traffic to try to save her iPod from being run over. The girl was hit by a truck and suffered a broken leg. - Switched
Parents seem to be using their cell phones more and more to keep their kids occupied and distracted. From trivia game apps to various noise applications, the iPhone has become the modern day rattle. - USA Today
If you've been hoping to get your hands on a GPS device, but you don't want to spend a small fortune, Dell has the Pharos Drive 200 widescreen on sale for only $58.49, and you even get free shipping. - CNET Crave

Publish Your Own Magazine on the Cheap With MagCloud

GeekSugar — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:02:38 -0700

Now that you've published your novel online for free, why not bring to life that idea for a magazine you've had swirling around in your head? Now you can on the cheap with MagCloud.

Just recently fresh out of beta, MagCloud allows you to create your own magazine, edit, tweak, add photography, and then with just a few clicks, publish your work online and have it printed for your adoring public.

Remember back when music was being made without record labels? It's kinda like that, but now you can unhinge your ideas on your own, without the backing of a megacorporation - just create your mag from your computer! But printing your magazine isn't all that MagCloud will do. Find out about the other services they take care of, and how much all of this costs when you read more.

MagCloud makes it easy to run your own magazine - they take care of printing, shipping, and subscription services, and printing costs only 20 cents a page!

FedEx iPhone App Makes Waiting For a Package Less Painful

GeekSugar — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 09:03:59 -0700

Until you can email packages, we'll have to rely on those transporting them to us.

You can make the exquisite anticipation a little more bearable by being updated by the tracker with Track This, and if you're using FedEx, you can download their free FedEx iPhone App.

This app can track the parcels you shipped or that are being shipped to you, so you're at least aware of the delays, or see what time you should be home to get your package.

You probably can't text them to find out why the %#$%^$ it hasn't been delivered yet, but hey, it's a start.