Deal of the Day - 11/4/13

Hello All,

First off, Happy Birthday to my mom.

Ok, now on to the deal.  Amazon is selling many of their Kindles for 15% off today to celebrate the new FAA regulations.  You can get this deal today only.  Here are the prices

• Kindle Fire HDX 7" - $195
• Kindle Fire HD 7" - $118
• Kindle (E Reader, non paperwhite) - $59

I would recommend either the HDX or the basic Kindle, depending on your needs.  If you want to spend about $120 on a tablet you should look at the Hisense Sero 7 Pro not only can you add additional storage to it, it has a lot of bang for the buck.  If you are a high powered user you should buy the Nexus 7 over the Kindle Fire HDX, but you already know that if you are a power user.

Use code ThnksFAA at check out to get the best prices.

Later,

John

Deal of the Day #2 - 10/29/13

Hello Again,

RedBox is partnering with Verizon to try to bite into the Netflix monster, and competition makes for good deals for customers.  Right now they are offering a month free trial of the service, and at only $8 a month after it seems like a solid deal.  For that $8 you get four one day rentals from physical Redbox kiosks and unlimited streaming to their apps or your roku or computer.

We have netflix streaming only account, and amazon prime streaming so we have a lot of movies and shows on demand as it is, but I will sign up for the free month and give it a try.  They do not currently have any tv shows available to stream, but they have several thousand movies.  The great part of this is the free physical rentals though.  By themselves they would cost $5.16, so you are only paying $2.84 for the unlimited streaming part of this deal.  A movie a week, or two on the weekends seems easy enough to use up, where the netflix rentals would sit on the counter for months until we got around to watching them.

Find this deal here.

Later,

John

Deal of the Day - 10/29/13

Hello All,

Is has been a while, but here are two quick deals.

First up, a canon camera with a case and memory card for under $50.  Canon is selling factory refurbished A2200 cameras for $45.49 with free shipping.  It includes a 4GB memory card and a case.  This would be a great basic camera for anyone.  I bought one of these for my mother last Christmas and she loves it.  You can read more about the camera here, here, and here.  You can purchase it here.

If you want something with a bit more speed or zoom, Canon is selling many more models here.  With the stock currently available I would buy the ELPH 500 for my own use.

Later,

John

Deal of the Day - 7/11/13

Hi All,

Apple is giving away a lot of free apps and games this week as part of their 5 year anniversary celebration.  The free stuff runs through the end of the week.  To get a good list, and overview, read this.

Later,

John

Deal of the Day - 6/7/13

Hello All,

Today and tomorrow, Best Buy is selling a Nook Simple Touch ereader for $49.99 shipped to your door.  This is a great price for the top rated ereader currently on the market.  This ereader has the newest EInk technology and a responsive touchscreen.  It also has a SDHC slot that you can add up to an additional 32Gb of more space for additional books or magazines.  The only real negative is it is not a kindle, and the kindle whispersync service and kindle shopping experience are far superior to the nooks experience.  On the plus side though, there are no adds, and you can check out books from the library for your nook.

Additionally you can hack it to turn it into a generic android tablet, then run kindle or anything on it.  I was not able to make it work, but I have not tired very hard either.  You can find directions for that here.

You can find reviews of the Nook here, here, and here.


Lastly, I want to recommend Calibre for managing your ebooks.  It is like iTunes for your ereader, but better and easier to use.  You can buy from any store and use Calibre to convert the books to your devices format, and best of all it is free.







You can find this deal here.

Later,

John

Deal of the day - 1/10/13

Hello All,

Happy new year!  Best Buy is selling the extended edition of the Lord of the Rings trilogy for $49.99.  This is the 15 disc set with everything you ever wanted from the movies, and more.  The msrp is $119.99 and even Amazon is not selling it this cheap.  You can find this deal here.

Later,

John