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Two good deals at the same time. If you are looking for some quality Graphics card for your PC, this is one of the best deals you will ever find. This post includes two different deals on two different Graphics Card which should be perfect for any kind of budget. Here is the first and the cheapest one on offer.

Diamond Viper Radeon HD 2600XT at Buy.com can be purchases at just $30 after rebates. New Google Checkout users can get an additional $10 discount which drops the price down to $20. If you have received a $25 coupon for Google Checkout, you can get Diamond Viper Radeon 256MB Graphics Card for just $5. I have published a post a deal on Diamond Viper ATI Radeon X1650 PRO Graphics Card before but this a lot better deal that that one. Here are some of the specifications for Diamond Viper Radeon Graphics Card. (BTW shipping is free)

• Radeon 2600 XT GPU, 800 MHZ Clock Frequency
• 256MB of Video Ram which has 128-bit GDDR3 memory interface
• Native PCI Express x16 bus interface
• Supports Microsoft DirectX 10 & Shader Model 4.0, OpenGL 2.0

This deal includes two products, a XFX GeForce 8800GT 512MB PCI Express Graphics Card as well as Company of Heroes Game for $150. This deal is offered by Newegg. Buy a XFX GeForce 8800GT 512MB PCI Express Graphics Card and get a Company of Heroes game for free (while supplies last). The price is dropped to $150 for XFX GeForce 8800GT 512MB PCI Express Video Card after a $30 mail-in-rebate. Here are some of the specifications for XFX GeForce 8800GT Graphics Card.

• Nvidia GeForce 8800GT GPU, 600MHz Clock Frequency
• 512MB Video Ram which has 256-bit GDDR3 memory interface
• Supports Microsoft DirectX 10, OpenGL 2.0
• Maximum Resolution of 2560 x 1600
• 2 DVI port and 1 HDTV Out port
• PCI Express 2.0 x16 interface

I wish I had a PCI Express slot. I would have surely bought the XFX GeForce 8800GT Graphics Card for my PC. It is quite hard playing games on my Laptop which has a lot better Graphics Card than my desktop and can’t run most games on it because of that.

I am into programming and know something about it. Not a lot on scripting languages though. I learned C programming for 4 years and I think I know something about C programming. I haven’t done any C programming for some year thought but I know what kind of logic goes into programming. Programming is mainly about using logic. Syntax can be found on the web or on books but logic is the key to any programming. There are a lot of online sites that can help you learn programming but I think it is best to learn offline with a professional person who knows it all as it takes a lot less time to learn that way.

Well, if you know the logic behind programming and are just looking for some tips, you could get help online easily as there are lots of sites that offer help for free. Scripting language can be quite useful when creating a website of you own. When creating a site, you also need to look at the designing aspects of it. There are a lot of design blog that will help you to design websites. Learning designing doesn’t take that much time as programming does (from my experience).

Stylish Weblog is kind of a general blog but it has lot of useful information on designing, programming, technology news and also has interesting articles on finance. This blog can be useful to a lot of people as it includes quite a broad range of subjects. Stylish Weblog is a fairly new blog but still it has a lot of very informative and useful posts on it. You might want to check out Stylish Weblog’s user accounts as it offers valuable information on staying safe from Malwares and spywares. Spyware is a huge risk when you are online. I myself have had a problem. Lot about $50 because of it. Atleast, I think it was because of Malwares on my PC. I had a virtual credit card which I got to purchase items on the web. Before I could purchase anything, the balance just magically disappears. I had never used that card on the web before or anywhere else for that matter. The credit card information was stored in a notepad file. The balance just magically disappeared. I think it was because of Malwares (Don’t know for sure though). You should take a look at this spyware community on Stylish Weblog for more information.

Here is another online contest courtesy of BlogOhBlog. BlogOhBlog is a blog that provides valuable information on SEO and also provide free and premium Wordpress themes. One of the best places to be if you are looking for some wordpress templates or some help for newbie webmasters. BlogOhBlog are holding a contest which will be drawn on 21st of May 2008 and a lucky winner will get a PlayStation 3 and a Game of Your Choice. It is very easy to enter in this contest, the only requirement is you need to have a blog. Just write a post (at least 200 words) including a link to their contest post, subscribe to their RSS feed and leave a comment including the link to your contest post on theirs.

PlayStation 3 is a state of the art console game anyone can buy on the market. There are three different specification available for a PlayStation 3 and the specification for PlayStation 3 (PlayStation 3 40GB System) from the contest is:

• Internal 2.5″ SATA 40GB Hard Disk Drive
• Built-in Blu-ray/DVD/CD player
• Cell Broadband Engine advanced microprocessor
• SIXAXIS wireless controller
• Screen sizes supported : 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i, 1080p
• HDMI out - (x1 / HDMI), Analog: AV MULTI OUT x 1, Digital audio: DIGITAL OUT (OPTICAL) x 1
• Memory : 256MB XDR Main RAM, 256MB GDDR3 VRAM
• Two USB 2.0 Ports

A PlayStation 3 with the above features costs $400 at Amazon.com . This is actually the lowest specification PlayStation 3 console available. There are other two PlayStation 3 consoles available (PlayStation 3 60GB System and PlayStation 3 80GB System). Sony has been a leader in console gaming but with the release of Xbox Console, it has declined a bit and PlayStation 3 is the answer to Xbox. PlayStation is a big expensive than an Xbox or Nintendo Wii but the hardware on it superior than both of them. Sony was on top with their first PlayStation and then again with PlayStation 2. They were the sole superpower in console gaming. PlayStation 3 is designed to last so don’t expect a newer version (PlayStation 4??) at least for the next five years.

Today, we are facing more and more power cuts because the demand for electricity has skyrocketed in the past decade or so. To meet the demand companies are burning more coal and other carbon emitting products which disintegrates our planet, climate. The city where I live in has around eight hours of power cuts per day six days a week which makes life so much more difficult as we depend more and more of electronics. Well, one good thing about it is, we don’t generate electricity with by burning coal, it is all hydroelectric power but the demand is so high that it is hard to meet. And the demand will only go up. Because of the power cuts, I had to buy a laptop. I could have bought UPS or a battery but the price almost came out to be the same because I had to buy inverter and batteries. Well Diesel generators could have done the job too as it is a lot cheaper but the price of diesel made be think twice.

I do a lot of my work on my computer and make a decent living from it. Without electricity, it is impossible. I had a 30 minute UPS but that was only useful for preventing loss of vital data if the power went out. There are other high end UPS that will be able to hold lot longer but it is expensive. You could actually custom design your own UPS, kinda. Just get and inverter and a huge truck battery. That should do the job pretty well. If you need even longer duration, you might want to look at this Uninterruptible power supplies store. They provide all kinds of UPS, from 1kVA to 800kVA. If you need more power, it can be arranged. Upto 2 megawatt UPS can be made using parallel systems. This can be very useful for big companies.

Powercontinuity.co.uk is a UK based company that can handle power needs for any kind of company. They will do all the installation work and even maintain it in tip condition. Besides, UPS they also provide generators if that is what is needed. This kind of power supply is a bit bad for the environment though as it uses fossil fuel to generate electricity. UPS is the best way to go or even better, solar or wind power if you can to generate electricity.

Another deal on offer here. Not the best of deals but a Compaq Presario F762NR Notebook PC for just $400 is a good deal in my book. Staples has a Compaq Presario F762NR Notebook PC on sale for $400 after $147 instant rebate. This Compaq Presario F762NR Notebook is not the top of the line laptop by any means but for a web surfer and for people who doesn’t need much processing power or don’t want to play new games on it, this is a good choice. Compaq Presario F762NR Notebook is not the lightest of laptops as it weighs 5.68lbs but for $400 who cares. The regular price of Compaq Presario F762NR Notebook at staples is $546.98 but after a $147 instant rebate, the price comes down to $400. For those who want to know, here are the specifications for this Compaq Presario F762NR Notebook:

• AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core TK-57 (1.90GHz) processor
• 1GB of pre-installed RAM (Expandable to upto 3GB if needed)
• 120GB (5400RPM) SATA Hard Drive
• Super Multi 8X DVD-R/RW with Double Layer Support
• 15.4″ WXGA High-Definition BrightView Widescreen display
• NVIDIA GeForce 7000M with up to 287MB
• 802.11b/g WLAN

This Compaq Presario F762NR Notebook comes with Windows Vista OS pre-installed so I don’t think 1GB of RAM will cut it. If it were me, I would remove Windows Vista and install Windows XP. Compaq Presario F762NR Notebook has a battery that will last up to 2.5 hours depending on what you are doing. Compaq Presario F762NR Notebook comes with a 1 year warranty. The design of this Compaq Presario F762NR Notebook looks slick (better than a Vostro 1500 looking at the picture). If it were me, I would buy this laptop in an instant. I already have one (Dell Vostro 1500) so I don’t need another, otherwise I would have bought Compaq Presario F762NR Notebook. Good value for the money.

There are not a lot of places where you can get web space for hosting sites for free. There are a few but most of them don’t allow users to use their own domain or they restrict some file types. Some even provide free web hosting with cpanel. Some free web hosting providers allow use of only particular extensions with lots of restrictions and those kind of hosting is almost of no use ( particularly for me). I have used free hosting from many sites and at last decided it was better to pay a small fee than to get web hosting for free. I used free hosting from awardspace (which only allowed use of subdomain eg: test.awardspace.com) . I found one that allowed free hosting of sites which included a cpanel. I used it for quite a while but after some time, they collapsed. It was not the best hosting but was pretty good if you consider the price, FREE.

After that, I decided to purchase a hosting plan but that failed horrendously two times. Now, I found the perfect hosting for my sites. It is pretty cheap and has a damn good server with no downtime till now. Well, if you can’t afford to pay for hosting or you want to just try it out, you can find few good free web hosting providers. I think Hostbot.com might fall into one of them. They don’t have Cpanel but you can have access and manage your site’s file using a pretty good control panel. They also allow free php web hosting, not a lot of sites allow php files on their server ( for free service ). Hostbot also doesn’t want anything in return for the free hosting space and bandwidth. Some of the free web hosting providers force the users with links and ads that are placed automatically at the footer (usually). With Hostbot, there is no forced ads. Their free hosting plan includes:

• 20GB Disk Space
• 10GB Bandwidth
• Full FTP access
• Supports Php5 and SQL (You could host sites that require a database like wordpress)
• They also offer quite a few useful pre-installed scripts which you could use to make a site
• Get access to traffic data with the help of Awstats which is also available for free

Awstats is a very useful tool for analytic traffic and visitor data. I use it all the time and it is the best analytic software available. Awstats even shows when search engine spiders (bots) have accessed your sites. Well if you want more disk space and bandwidth than currently provided by hostbot, you can upgrade your account by paying a small monthly fee. I would have loved to see Cpanel on it. What do you expect, the service is provided for free with no forced ads and also allows SQL database, PHP etc. You can try it, its free and if you don’t like it you don’t loose anything. If you want to operate a business website or anything important, you might want to go for a paid one that offers Cpanel.

A digital camera is a must have electronic gadget in todays digital world we live in. Digital camera’s has gotten a lot cheaper than when it was first introduced in the market, i would say a huge amount cheaper with a lot better technologies in it. I purchased a Canon 2 Mega Pixel digital camera couple of years ago for about $300 which I thought was a cheap price when compared to similar digital cameras on the market at that time. The price would have been even lower if I had known about digital camera discount codes. Using a discount code really cuts down on the actual price. When buying anything on the world wide web, you might want to look around and search for coupons, discount codes, rebate offers etc whatever is available.

I have written a post a week back on Nikon D40 6.1MP Digital SLR Camera that came with a free Nikon 55-200mm VR Zoom Lens. It didn’t need any discount codes or coupons, Amazon were just selling this Digital camera for a discount price. Maybe it was a clearance sale. This deal is still live and kicking, even better, the price dropped by $4. You might want to take a look at it if you want a professional grade digital camera. If you don’t find any good deals on a digital camera you want, you should look for a digital camera discount codes on the internet, I bet you will find a lot of sites that provide discount coupons free of charge. The best time to buy any electronic items is just before the holiday season as the companies provide huge discount on items and you will find a lot more discount codes floating around. You will have a lot of discount codes for different kinds of digital cameras to choose from.