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Southwest Airlines: Get double credit each time you travel within the state of California

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 7:29pm MST

Southwest Airlines: Get double credit each time you travel within the state of California
Staples: Bush Somerset Bookcase $130 shipped

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 7:21pm MST

Staples: Bush Somerset Bookcase $130 shipped
REI-Outlet: PUMA Complete Magnetist III Road-Running Shoes $52

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 7:20pm MST

REI-Outlet: PUMA Complete Magnetist III Road-Running Shoes $52
Hollister: $50 Gift card w/ any $150 purchase

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 7:17pm MST

Hollister: $50 Gift card w/ any $150 purchase
Amazon: Scooby-Doo [Blu-ray] (2002) $8

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 7:12pm MST

Amazon: Scooby-Doo [Blu-ray] (2002) $8
American Eagle Outfitters: T-shirts and Tanks only $10 each

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 7:10pm MST

American Eagle Outfitters: T-shirts and Tanks only $10 each
Dell Business: WESTERN DIGITAL 500GB Elements Portable USB 2.0 External Hard Drive $72 shipped

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 6:59pm MST

Dell Business: WESTERN DIGITAL 500GB Elements Portable USB 2.0 External Hard Drive $72 shipped

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Pa. jury awards $95M in case of killer nurse

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 6:56pm MST

A jury on Thursday awarded $95 million in damages to the families of eight people who claimed their loved ones were among dozens of patients murdered by a nurse considered to be one of the most prolific killers the U.S. health care industry has ever seen.

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NewEgg: ASUS RT-N13U Wireless Router with All-in-One Printer Server $33 shipped AR

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 6:55pm MST

NewEgg: ASUS RT-N13U Wireless Router with All-in-One Printer Server $33 shipped AR
Abes Of Maine: Sony HDR-CX520V 12MP 64GB Hard Drive HD Camcorder $932 shipped

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 6:55pm MST

Abes Of Maine: Sony HDR-CX520V 12MP 64GB Hard Drive HD Camcorder $932 shipped
Travelocity: new travel offers

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 6:54pm MST

Travelocity: new travel offers
Dell Business: Vostro 220 Mini Tower Desktop E7500 2GB 250GB + 18.5in LCD $429

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 6:45pm MST

Dell Business: Vostro 220 Mini Tower Desktop E7500 2GB 250GB + 18.5in LCD $429
6ave.com: new offers

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 6:43pm MST

6ave.com: new offers
JandR: Refurb Polaroid DRA01601A DVD Player Recorder With 160 GB Hard Drive $139 shipped

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 6:42pm MST

JandR: Refurb Polaroid DRA01601A DVD Player Recorder With 160 GB Hard Drive $139 shipped

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NBC: 3 U.S. officers reprimanded over battle

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 6:37pm MST

Three Army commanders linked to a battle that killed nine Americans in Afghanistan in 2008 been given letters of reprimand for reportedly failing to adequately protect their forces.

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NewEgg: Seagate FreeAgent Go 500GB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive $90 shipped

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 6:35pm MST

NewEgg: Seagate FreeAgent Go 500GB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive $90 shipped

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Diablotek PHD350 350W ATX Power Supply $9.99AR Free Shipping at ZipZoomfly

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 6:20pm MST

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Brutal Legend Game (PS3, Xbox 360) TWO FOR $19.98 at Toys R Us

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 6:15pm MST

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Deal reached on ground zero health claims

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 6:12pm MST

New York City has agreed to pay up to $657 million to settle more than 10,000 lawsuits filed by ground zero responders who say they were sickened by World Trade Center dust.

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Dell Outlet: 20% off Mini 10 Netbooks, 15% off Inspiron Desktops or Laptops & 10% off Latitude E6400 Laptops

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 6:09pm MST

Dell Outlet: 20% off Mini 10 Netbooks, 15% off Inspiron Desktops or Laptops & 10% off Latitude E6400 Laptops

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Two Copies of Brutal Legend for Xbox or PS3 for $20 + $6 s&h

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 6:02pm MST

Toys "R" Us offers Brutal Legend for Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 for $19.99 plus $5.97 for shipping. Plus, add a second copy to your cart and receive the second copy for free. At $13 per copy, that's $7 under our mention from earlier this month and the lowest total price we've seen. Sales tax is added where applicable.

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God of War 3 Game Preorder (PS3) w/ $10 Gift Card $56.99 Free Shipping at Walmart

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 6:00pm MST

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Two Travel Jewelry Cases for $10 + free shipping

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 5:56pm MST

GraveyardMall.com offers this Travel Jewelry Case for $4.99 plus $5.99 for shipping. Better yet, add two to your cart for $9.98 and bag free shipping. That's by far the lowest total price we could find for the pair and even a buck cheaper than buying just one. Each features four separate compartments, faux leather exterior, and folded dimensions of 5-3/4" x 4-1/2" x 3-1/2".

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Canon PowerShot SX200 IS 12MP 12x Digital Camera (Optical Image Stabilization, 720p) $275.99 at Newegg

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 5:50pm MST

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Samsung 40" 120Hz 1080p Widescreen LCD HDTV for $770 + free shipping

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 5:50pm MST

Amazon.com offers the Samsung 40" 120Hz 1080p Widescreen LCD HD Television, model no. LN40C630, for $769.99 with free shipping. (Add it to your cart to see this price.) That's the lowest total price we could find by $29. It features a native resolution of 1920x1080 (1080p), 120Hz frame rate, 80,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio, 4ms response time, four HDMI inputs, and VGA, component, and other video inputs.
American Eagle Outfitters: Men's and women's T-shirts for $10

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 5:49pm MST
American Eagle Outfitters offers a selection of T-shirts for men and women for $10 each as part of its latest sale. Shipping adds a flat-rate $7, but orders over $100 bag free shipping. Sales tax is added where applicable. Notables, each $10:
- American Eagle Women's AE Striped U-Neck T-Shirt (pictured)
- American Eagle Men's AE Dorm V-Neck T-Shirt
- American Eagle Men's AE Dorm Crew T-Shirt
- American Eagle Women's AE U-Neck T-Shirt
- see more discounted t-shirts at American Eagle Outfitters
Walmart Video Game Bundles: Two Wii games for $25 + $5 s&h, more

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 5:42pm MST

Walmart offers two Nintendo Wii Games for $25. With $4.94 for shipping, that's the lowest total price we've seen for such a bundle in a month. Sales tax is added where applicable. Choose from 17 titles, including Academy of Champions Soccer, G.I. JOE The Rise of Cobra, Movie Games, Onechanbara: Bikine Zombie, and more.
Of note, you can also purchase two Nintendo Wii Games from a better selection of titles for $30 with $2.73 for shipping. Choose from 32 games, including DeBlob, Shaun White Snowboarding, Up, and more.

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Gamestop Coupon Codes for March ($5 off Wii Game $29.99, 10% off + Free Shipping on Games $39+) at Gamestop

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 5:40pm MST

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Panasonic VIERA 42" 600Hz 1080p Plasma HDTV for $722 + free shipping

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 5:40pm MST

6th Avenue Electronics offers the Panasonic VIERA 42" 1080p THX-Certified Widescreen Plasma HD Television, model no. TC-P42G10, for $768. (Add it to your cart to see this price.) Coupon code "BONUSBUY" cuts it to $721.92. With free shipping, that's the lowest total price we could find by $54. Features include a 1920x1080 (1080p) native resolution, 600Hz sub-field drive, 2,000,000:1 contrast ratio, three HDMI inputs, and VGA, component, and other video inputs.

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New Lids.com Coupon Code Free Shipping Storewide, Hats from $5 at Lids.com

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 5:35pm MST

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Mikasa Parchment Red 40-Piece Dinnerware Set for $77 + free shipping

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 5:25pm MST

Overstock.com offers the Mikasa Parchment Red 40-Piece Dinnerware Set for $76.99. Activate this link to score free shipping. That's $13 under our mention from last week and the lowest total price we could find. This service for eight set includes eight dinner plates, salad plates, soup plates, teacups, and saucers.
Dell Small Business coupon: 35% off select Vostro laptops of $999 or more

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 5:10pm MST

Dell Small Business takes 35% off Dell Vostro 1320 or Vostro 1220 notebooks of $999 or more via coupon code "BP9XZG1W43QP4X". Combined with free shipping on orders of $699 or more, it's among the best discounts we've seen for these systems from Dell so far this year. (We saw a similar coupon earlier month, which was valid on the Vostro 1520, not the Vostro 1320.) Sales tax is added where applicable. Coupon ends March 17.
Schwinn Free Wheeler AL Single Swivel Jogging Stroller for $134 + free shipping

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 5:10pm MST

Toys "R" Us offers the Schwinn Free Wheeler AL Single Swivel Jogging Stroller in Red/Black (pictured), model no. 13SC506A, or Blue/Green, model no. 13SC509, for $157.49. Add it to your cart to drop the price to $133.87. With free shipping, that's tied with our mention from last week as the lowest total price we could find, this time by $46. Sales tax is added where applicable. This stroller features a 12" swiveling front wheel, lightweight aluminum frame, rear suspension system, parent tray, child tray, underseat basket, 5-point harness, and a canopy.
Miss Congeniality/Miss Congeniality 2 on Blu-ray for $9 + $3 s&h

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 5:01pm MST

Amazon.com offers the Comedy Double Feature: Miss Congeniality and Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous on Blu-ray for $8.99. Shipping adds $2.98, or pad your order over $25 for free shipping. Even with shipping, that's the lowest total price we could find by $6.
The White Stripes "Elephant" MP3 album download for $3

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 4:56pm MST

The Amazon MP3 Store offers downloads of The White Stripes' Elephant for $2.99. That's the best deal we could find for this 14-track, DRM-free album, realeased in 2003. (iTunes charges $9.99; lala.com charges $7.49.) Amazon MP3 downloader is required.

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oss Contoured Comfort Drafting Chair $69.99 + $3 Shipping at Overstock

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 4:49pm MST

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ViewSonic 24" 1080p Widescreen LCD HDTV from $250 + free shipping

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 4:42pm MST

Buy.com offers the ViewSonic 24" 1080p Widescreen LCD HD Television, model no. VT2430, for $249.99. With free shipping, that's the lowest total price we could find by $5, although it was $16 less in December (since expired). Features include a 1920x1080 (1080p) resolution, 1,000:1 contrast ratio, 5ms response time, 300 cd/m² brightness, built-in speakers, one HDMI input, and VGA, component, and other video inputs.
Disney Kids' PJ Pals Pajamas from $4 + $3 s&h

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 4:28pm MST

DisneyStore.com offers select discounts on its styles of the Disney Kids' PJ Pals Pajamas, with prices starting at $4.99. Coupon code "OUTLET20" chops it to $3.99. With $2.95 for shipping, that's up to $13 off and the lowest total price we could find for these styles. Sales tax is added where applicable. Choose from styles featuring Tinkerbell (pictured), Power Rangers, Buzz Light Year, and more.

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In a more complicated gaming world, OpenGL 4.0 gets simpler, smarter

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 4:13pm MST by Scott M. Fulton, III

By Scott M. Fulton, III, Betanews

Despite the fact that game console manufacturers still drive studios toward exclusivity for individual titles, so that a popular Xbox 360 game isn't available for PlayStation 3 and vice versa, developers within those studios are insisting more and more upon cross-platform flexibility and portability. While they may be restricted to one console, they don't want those borders to extend to computers or to handsets.
For this reason, the Khronos Group has become more and more important to developers, and OpenGL is no longer being perceived as some kind of fallback standard, as in the phrase, "Your graphics use only OpenGL. Today, OpenGL is developers' ticket to portability between PCs, consoles, and handsets, and it's the only technology shining a ray of hope for cross-console portability should it ever become politically feasible.
Today at the annual Game Developers' Conference, Khronos (whose principal members include AMD, Nvidia, and Sony) unveiled on schedule the 4.0 version of its OpenGL cross-platform rendering language for 3D virtual environments. To understand the significance of this event, you have to understand a bit more about the challenges that game developers are facing. Specifically, as screen sizes become larger on average, screen resolutions grow finer, and screens by number increase beyond one per system, the types of simplifications that made 3D scenes look "good enough" for older PCs actually look bad on modern systems. More finely-detailed systems make typical "fuzzifications" (my word for it, not Khronos') look more obvious.
It's still too arithmetically costly to expect 3D games and artistic applications to be ray tracers -- they can't assume the shading values for a huge number of traveling photons in space in real-time. We've talked before about how some graphics cards, including the first DirectX 10.1 cards from ATI in late 2007, can track a few photons, and fudge the remaining shader values for the rest.
But applying that type of calculation to OpenGL -- so it can be used with ATI and Nvidia (Intel? Maybe someday) -- requires the application to calculate how much...or more accurately, how little detail it can get away with, for certain points in space. Typically in OpenGL, developers have used lookup functions to determine the level of detail required to map any given area. As screen dynamics change, the number of functions required for a given space may increase, and their efficiency may decrease. As a result, it could take exponentially more time to make a scene look realistic -- to fuzz the focus of areas that are on the sidelines or out of range, or to blur regions that we're supposed to be flying by.
Khronos' engineers tackled this problem by extending the research begun earlier in the last decade (PDF available here) by SGI, the company that originally got the ball rolling for OpenGL. Technically, the whole technique is called "level of detail," but another way to refer to it is shader simplification. Used judiciously, it's a way to make certain elements of a scene seem clearer by selecting which others appear not so clear.
Screenshot of an early build of the Icarus Scene Engine, an OpenGL-based 3D scene editor that is itself rendered in 3D, using the OpenTK toolkit.
As scenes are processed, OpenGL effectively determines the active level of detail for any given shader (the equivalent of what Direct3D calls a "pixel," which isn't always a "pixel" per se). OpenGL 4.0 expedites this process by realizing that levels of detail should be remembered, so that when a function looks it up from the outside, it doesn't have to be recalculated. Thus, top of the list on version 4.0's list of changes is the new textureLOD function set, which will not impact how developers use the API -- it's like a retroactive fix. The new functions recall levels of detail rather than recalculate them.
These new functions are actually necessary for OpenGL to work (properly) on ATI Radeon HD 5xxx series graphics cards, which began shipping last year. Now developers are looking forward to ATI upgrading its 5xxx drivers to enable 4.0, now that 4.0 has enabled them.
The result may be an avoidance of the exponential lags that developers had been seeing as resolution and screen complexity increased. Double-precision floating-point vectors will be supported for the first time, also signifying the new dynamics of 3D rendering. And now, cube map textures can be layered, potentially for more iridescent effects that will substitute for bump mapping. As one contributor to Khronos' OpenGL forum noted this morning, "I just had a look on the extension, it's so much more than whatever I could have expected! I think there is a lot of developer little dreams that just happened here."
The first rollout demonstrations of OpenGL 4.0, along with its WebGL counterpart, were scheduled for late this afternoon, West Coast time. That's probably where we'll see our first screen shots of the final specification at work.
We'll also learn more about just how viable the new edition is for cross-platform development. This afternoon, another forum contributor from Montreal noted the remaining political roadblocks to true cross-platform development: "As a cross-platform developer I would like to use OpenGL exclusively but it's commercially unviable to use it on Windows, due to the fact that OpenGL just doesn't work on most machines by default, which forces me to target my game to both DirectX and OpenGL. The OpenGL shortcomings on Windows aren't a big deal for hardcore games where the users are gonna have good drivers (although they are a cause of too many support calls which makes it inviable anyway) but it's a show-stopper for casual games...Until OpenGL isn't expected to just work in any Windows box, it is dead in the Windows platform. Do something about this please."
Copyright Betanews, Inc. 2010

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CodeIgniter from Scratch: File Operations

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 3:47pm MST by Burak Guzel

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In today’s episode, we are going to be working with several helper functions, related to files, directories, and downloads. We are going to learn how to read, write, download files, and retrieve information about both files and directories. Also at the end we will build a small file browser that utilizes jQuery as well.

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Day 11: File Operations
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Android vs. iPhone vs. BlackBerry vs. OS X vs. Windows, brought to you by Namco

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 2:37pm MST by Tim Conneally

By Tim Conneally, Betanews

Namco, one of video gaming's most iconic brands, today announced a new cross-platform game engine called UniteSDK, which will let gamers play with one another irrespective of the platform they're playing their games on.
A user playing a UniteSDK-based game on their iPhone, for example, will be able to play against a PC user, who will be able to play against a Mac user, and so forth.
"Allowing gamers with the option to play anywhere, anytime and on multiple platforms will be a true milestone for Namco Networks -- wanting to play a friend that has an iPhone when someone only has a PC will no longer be a prohibiting factor," Kirby Fong, executive producer of web development and online gaming at Namco Networks said today. "UniteSDK allows Namco and in the near future, external developers, to create games that provide cross platform and cross game social community."
Namco's first title built on UniteSDK is called Pool Pro Online 3 and will launch on PC, iPad, Mac, Android, Java, BREW, RIM and Windows Mobile. All of these platforms will be able to engage one another.
In addition to allowing interoperability, UniteSDK also gives games the ability to support achievements, records, leaderboards, gamer profiles, in-game chat, buddy lists, one-on-one challenges, and tournaments.
It's another move by a game company toward unifying the disparate platforms under a single interoperable umbrella. A similar move was made by Valve Corporation this week when it announced it will sell copies of its games for both Mac and Windows for a single price, and that all its future releases will launch simultaneously on PC, Xbox 360, and Mac.
Namco's strategy however, has much more potential for revolution in that it makes community building considerably easier. When the platform is no longer a factor that separates players from one another, a community of gamers can get together, socialize, and play much more quickly.
Copyright Betanews, Inc. 2010

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Yemen holds N.J. man after al-Qaida shootout

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 2:25pm MST

An American accused in Yemen of being a member of al-Qaida worked at nuclear power plants in the U.S., a spokesman for a group of plants in New Jersey says.

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FCC releases iPhone app to learn more about network conditions

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 12:49pm MST by Tim Conneally

By Tim Conneally, Betanews

With just six days to go before the National Broadband Plan is due before Congress, the Federal Communications Commission today launched a pair of consumer tools -- an app for iPhone/Android, and a Web-based reporting tool -- to help inform both consumers and the Commission itself about broadband conditions across the US.
The mobile application bundles the Ookla Speed Test (a.k.a., Speedtest.net) and Network Diagnostic Tool together into a single package simply branded "FCC Test." Users can check their downlink/uplink speeds and network latency against different US-based servers, and can then export the results as a .CSV file. The FCC says it may use the data collected from the Mobile Broadband Quality Test to analyze coverage and quality on a geographic basis across the US, but it does not endorse one particular testing application over another, so there may be more tests rolled into the app in the future.
The Commission's Broadband Dead Zone Report is much less a tool than a simple complaint dropbox. On the page, the user confirms that they do or do not have broadband available in their home, answers one related question and then provides their address. This is intended to help the FCC determine where the demand for broadband is high despite low coverage.
"Transparency empowers consumers, promotes innovation and investment, and encourages competition," said FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski in a statement today. "The FCC's new digital tools will arm users with real-time information about their broadband connection and the agency with useful data about service across the country. By informing consumers about their broadband service quality, these tools help eliminate confusion and make the market work more effectively."
Copyright Betanews, Inc. 2010
Early praise for Google Maps' bike routes

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 12:44pm MST by Scott M. Fulton, III

By Scott M. Fulton, III, Betanews

The nice thing about the Internet, or so I've been told, is that it has all this information. Perhaps you've noticed this lately, but the big problem has been that there's no one way to get at this information with any kind of consistency.
Supposedly Google is the "portal" for most of the world's information, which may be why so many people find Betanews by typing "Betanews" in Google. In one respect, you might expect Google to have an interest in creating that consistent methodology for getting at information. On the other hand, given that so many folks depend on Google Search just as it is now, you could see how Google might very easily come to the conclusion that there's no new benefits to be gained through improving its software, just to keep the user base it already has.
My friend and colleague Carmi Levy touched on that point this morning in Wide Angle Zoom, where he turned a reluctant thumb down on the Google Buzz social network experiment. You can call it "beta" or, as Google strangely decided this time around, not call it beta, but after using it for a while, it's difficult not to come away with the opinion that this is indeed an experiment...and you're the subject. But as Carmi also noted, different Google services are so inconsistent with one another that they may as well have been developed on different planets -- which suggests that Google may have been copying the Microsoft development model after all. Perhaps the best case-in-point example comes from Google Maps. Yesterday, to the delight of many, it added bicycle routes to its plotting options.
If you're a biker, you know that there are peculiar distinctions between the routes you plan as a pedestrian, and those you use on a bicycle. In cities whose planning commissions have added lanes to boulevards by destroying sidewalks, you know that unless you enjoy motocross and frequent encounters with beat cops, you can't plant bicycle tires on the same places you can plant your feet. I grew up decades ago in Oklahoma, at a time where for most areas of the state, "downtown" was denoted by the presence of the stoplight. Before I could drive a car, I biked four miles back and forth from my first high school, and (sometimes) the ten miles back and forth from my second, at a time when that was considered a normal way for a kid to get around town. Even then, I distinctly remember there were spans of a few hundred feet or so every so often where, if the paved road ended and the granite rock paths began, I'd pick up my bike and tread on foot between people's houses. It helped to get acquainted with them first (see: "beat cops").
The brilliance of the Google Maps experiment is that it accumulates the data that Google has gathered, not just through map scanning and satellite imagery and those strange cars you see cruising every little granite path, but through its advertising service as well. As a result, from day one, the bicycle route part of its service is capable of guiding cyclists using the tools that matter to cyclists: the landmarks they see along the way -- the gas station, the church with the tall steeple, the Italian restaurant. No service established exclusively for the purpose of mapping the world, for motorists or cyclists, would have ever assimilated information at this level of granularity; only through co-opting the advertising and location database with the mapping database could this ever be feasible from a business standpoint.
When I tested Google Maps last year as a pedestrian/public transit dependent in Los Angeles, I discovered it was using a form of "reverse tunnel logic" to compile its suggested routes. Quite literally, it would have me traveling by foot one mile south to catch a bus that would take me 1.1 miles north; and it also would have had me scaling viaducts where there were drainage ditches below and barbed wire above. I pointed out to Google at the time that Maps appeared to fail to consider time and effort consumed as factors in assimilating its routes. The response I got at the time from Google was, thank you for your input but, well, you can't know everything about everything. As I've learned from experience, yes, you can. Living in Indianapolis, for example, I know there is a kind of "superhighway" exclusively for non-motorists, formed from the brilliant idea of paving over a disused railroad track. Named for the railroad that used to own it, it's called the Monon Trail -- a 16.7-mile stretch of track that's well kept, fairly well patrolled, and is the most foot-friendly stretch of asphalt I've ever traveled.
Since it bisects most of the city north-to-south, there are a multitude of ways someone could get to the Monon Trail. Indianapolis is notable for having plenty of bike trails in certain areas of the city, and no way in hell a bike could get through in others. For my initial test of Google Maps for cyclists, I wanted to see whether it would make the same decisions I would, having lived here now for 18 years.
With pedestrian maps, Google's suggested route is plotted in blue, with the relatively foot-friendly paths outlined in solid green, or dotted green for "better than most." If I wanted to walk from my house all the way to, say, Conseco Fieldhouse downtown where the Pacers play, Google Maps would try to plot the most direct foot route it could. Even though I know for a fact that walking the Monon Trail is much, much faster than down the side of a boulevard, the fact that the Trail is a half-mile out of my way means that Google's walking map won't suggest it.
It is a very different story for cyclists, and here it's clear that someone at Google listened to my advice. It takes a little more effort to pedal west a half-mile to get to the Trail, but once you're there, the effort pays off with a four-and-a-half mile stretch of paved roads, overpasses, and relatively safe crosswalks ("zebra crossings"). Tunnel logic evidently was not used to compile this route, but rather an assessment of the time and even luxury benefits to be gained from going out of one's way -- the type of assessments Google Maps did not make last year in L.A.
Here's what I mean: This screenshot shows the suggested route from one of my favorite neighborhood pizza joints to Conseco downtown. Now, Google knows that Allisonville Road recently added a bike lane (not a good one, it's in dotted green), that it leads to a nicely protected sidewalk down Fall Creek Parkway, and that would be the most direct route downtown. Indeed, if I were a pedestrian, that's the route it would suggest. But as a cyclist, I know that's not the route I want -- crossing onto Fall Creek over Binford Blvd. means running across ten lanes of traffic without a crosswalk, where motorists are speeding through on a shortcut to I-69.
So Google Maps takes my bicycle (a vintage Takara racer, if you're interested) a mile out of my way, through a residential area, just to get me to the Monon Trail. And that's exactly right -- there's no question it's a lovelier, easier, and in good weather, faster route.
Next: Seeing where you're going, and where you shouldn't go...
Seeing where you're going, and where you shouldn't go
Perhaps the most wonderful feature of this service, which pedestrians already discovered, is the opportunity to blend Street View with maps to let you walk the route ahead of time. This way you see in advance all the landmarks you'll encounter along the way -- the waypoints that let you remember in your head what to look for and where to turn. Here is where I encountered a little bug in the program, and you can actually see it if you look closely here. Street View should show you a blue line, coordinating with the blue line in the overhead map, to let you follow the suggested route. The overhead map, shown below, appears correct -- travel west on 54th St., and turn left at the Trail. The landmark at that turn is one of my favorite Italian restaurants in all the world, Mama Carolla's. In the photograph, notice the trail runs right alongside it.
Notice also that the map's blue line has you making a left turn at Mama's onto the Trail (correct), but that Street View has you making a right turn. What happened here? A check of the turn-by-turn directions reveals that, for some strange reason, Maps wants you to travel down 54th St. for 72 extra feet, then make a U-turn, head back the other direction, and make a right turn. It's probably a little database problem, where the point of contact with the Monon Trail meets up with the street is off by a few feet. Nevertheless, if you printed off these directions so you could follow them from your bike, you'd be confused at this point.
Here's also where you discover a problem that Google can't solve, at least not right away: You can't take a Street View walk down pedestrian trails. There's an obvious reason for this: Towns don't want Google going down walking trails snapping shots of people anonymously.
The next best thing is to try to reposition yourself (the little orange man on the overhead map, who I've noticed isn't on a bike) on actual street intersections along the way. Here's where the software starts to fail: I should be able to just click on the blue path at an intersection where there's a photo. Instead, I have to drag the little man up in the air (he actually "flies" while this is happening, like a repositioned character in Peter Molyneux's game "The Movies") and deposit him in the vicinity of the blue line. Where it ends up dropping him, despite what the pointer says, could be up to three blocks out of the way.
The problem here appears to be with the front end of the program, not with the fundamental design. If you'll recall earlier my statement that you can know everything, the way you do so is by listening and learning. Google Maps is, to its great credit, capable of doing this: In cases where I know full well a certain route is safer or better than another, I can drag the blue line where I believe it should go. Not only is that an easy way for me to plan my own route, but for Google, it's a source of new information: If Google is smart about this (and there's no reason for me to believe it isn't), it will learn from my changes and those of others, and may suggest safer routes for other Maps users in the future.
But it can only do this if it gets its front end right first. The slightly incorrect portion of its suggested route for my trip downtown was a 72-foot diversion that actually does show up when you zoom in the map. But partly because the granularity of the line-dragging routine does not appear to be as fine as the map's own zoom capability, and partly because the U-turn is a three-step process which Google Maps presumes must lead from point to point to point in every circumstance, my attempt to simply shave off the U-turn in the directions was mistaken as a way for me to take a lap around the strip mall parking lot, shown here.
Because Google is leveraging its massive platform in multiple areas to provide an exclusive service that wouldn't have been feasible on its own, little adjustments can have big consequences. Someplace within the Google database right now, there's probably the recording that some Indy cyclist weirdo suggested that instead of a simple 72-foot loop around the middle of 54th St., one should take a big two-block oval around the strip mall. As long as that little route-adjustment bug is in there, the validity of information Google is gleaning from changes that sensible people are making to suggestions everywhere, may end up not being very sensible. And as a result, over time, someone will probably be advised to walk one mile north in order to get on the route that leads her 1.1 miles south.
Despite that little discovery, I can easily see where Google Maps will become an invaluable tool for bicyclists who want to explore not only their home town, but areas of the world they've never been. I can imagine a depression in car rentals across the country. I'm also imagining folks with their Android GPS-enabled phones in their pockets maybe someday getting spoken directions. "Turn left onto Monon Trail...No, silly, your other left."
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Opera Mini 5 solves some of Android's native browser problems

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 11:56am MST by Tim Conneally

By Tim Conneally, Betanews

Following up on last week's beta release of Opera Mini 5 for Windows Mobile 5 and 6, Opera software today launched Opera Mini 5 for the Android platform.
With Mini 5, Opera Software has managed to make a cross-platform browser that provides an almost uniform experience across all the operating systems it runs on. Today's release on Android feels almost identical to the version I tested last week.
However, with Android, we're taking a different look at Opera and its comparisons to other browsers. It's easy to say, "Oh, Opera is faster than IE Mobile, but not as comprehensive as Skyfire," when comparing browsers on Windows Phones. Everybody does that.
Because there are four different versions of Google's mobile operating system in circulation right now, there are at least three different native Android browsers to compare Opera Mini 5 to. Android versions 1.5 and 1.6 have an older version (v. 4.0) of the Android browser, while Android 2.0 and up have a browser with a new UI and new features. Android 2.1 has the same browser as 2.0, but it is endowed with multitouch gestures.
We tested Opera Mini 5 against the two main Android browsers.
Opera Mini 5 on Android 1.5 & 1.6
For devices that run upon the "Cupcake" and "Donut" builds of Android, Opera Mini 5 provides a number of different experiences from the stock browser. First, Opera provides an actionable address bar which can just be clicked upon to enter URLs. In Android Browser 4, the user has to tap Menu > Go to bring up the address bar. Secondly, Zooming in and out with the Android browser is done with the preview tool and magnifying glass buttons, but Mini 5's is mostly pre-ordained. If you set it to "mobile view," pages are formatted to fit your screen so you don't have to do too much resizing. However, Mini 5 defaults with mobile view off and full screen mode off, so your pages are first going to load very quickly, but will require zooming (done by double-tapping the screen, a gesture that Android Browser version 4 actually lacks).
When considering Mini 5's interface alone, it's not a significant improvement over the stock browser. However there's much more to love about Opera than its UI, so we'll talk more about that later.
Next: Opera Mini 5 on Android 2.0+...
Opera Mini 5 on Android 2.0+
Devices running Android 2.0 and beyond are generally equipped with stronger processors, so browsing with the stock Android browser is a tough experience to compete with. Fortunately for Opera Mini 5, the experience it provides on these devices actually holds up quite well thanks to some of the features it adds that Android lacks across the board.
Principal among these is tabbed browsing. In all Android browsers, your browser tabs are a whole sub-screen which pulls you out of your current window and into a new one. In Opera Mini, browser tabs appear as an overlay in your main window with a rack of thumbnails that can be chosen from. This adds a lot to the feeling of continuity within Opera, and is an area where the Android browser suffers.
Another major complaint about the Android browser is that it does not sync your mobile bookmarks with anything. They're currently something of a dead end. This has been a big argument in favor of the Dolphin browser, which offers that feature. Even better, however, is Opera Mini 5, which actually can sync to your desktop version of Opera with Opera Link. So if you're a desktop Opera user, not only will your Speed Dial screen be automatically populated, but it also gives you instant access to your bookmark folders and RSS feeds.
The final issue to mention when talking about any of Opera's products is the addition of server-side rendering. Pages in Opera Mini 5 are digested on an Opera server before they hit your device's screen, so browsing is sped up considerably. Though browsing on a 3G connection is enjoyable on all Android devices, Opera Mini 5 can knock out pages appreciably faster.
So what's the bottom line on this beta?
It's a "Must Have" if:
You're a desktop Opera user using Android 1.5 or 1.6.
It's a "Must Try" if:
You're in an area with poor 3G coverage using Android 1.5 or 1.6.
For everyone else, it will be worthwhile to play around with it and see if you like what Opera does. After all, it is the most popular mobile browser in the world.
Opera Mini 5 beta can be downloaded today in the Android Market.
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Officials: Bacterial meningitis kills Oklahoma student

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 11:36am MST

An Oklahoma elementary school student has died of bacterial meningitis, officials said Thursday, and two other students are hospitalized with the illness.

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Module Bootstraps in Zend Framework: Do's and Don'ts

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 9:55am MST by Matthew Weier O'Phinney

I see a number of questions regularly about module bootstraps in Zend Framework, and decided it was time to write a post about them finally.

In Zend Framework 1.8.0, we added Zend_Application, which is intended to (a) formalize the bootstrapping process, and (b) make it re-usable. One aspect of it was to allow bootstrapping of individual application modules -- which are discrete collections of controllers, views, and models.

The most common question I get regarding module bootstraps is:

Why are all module bootstraps run on every request, and not just the one for the requested module?

To answer that question, first I need to provide some background.

Continue reading "Module Bootstraps in Zend Framework: Do's and Don'ts"
Webinar - New in Zend Framework 1.10!

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 9:27am MST by Zend Developer Zone

Zend Framework 1.10 sports a ton of new features, as well as completely revamped online documentation. In this webinar, Matthew Weier O’Phinney, Framework Project Lead, and Ralph Schindler, Zend Framework Software Engineer, will present a synopsis of the new features, discuss the new online documentation system and how it’s built, and answer your questions about the new release….

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Stocks in early selloff

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 8:02am MST

Stocks gained Thursday, erasing earlier losses to lift the Nasdaq and S&P 500 to 18-month highs as investors eyed the day's jobs and trade news and the direction of the U.S. dollar.

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ConFoo PHP 5.3 == Awesome! Slides

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 7:06am MST by Ilia Alshanetsky

Finally managed to upload my slides from my ConFoo PHP 5.3 == Awesome! talk.
Slides

Thanks for all the attendees, especially those who asked questions
ConFoo PHP 5.3 == Awesome! Slides

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 7:06am MST by Ilia Alshanetsky

Finally managed to upload my slides from my ConFoo PHP 5.3 == Awesome! talk.
Slides

Thanks for all the attendees, especially those who asked questions

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Styling Code blocks with CSS: Using pre HTML Tags

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 7:00am MST

In this first part of a series you will learn how to improve the look and readability of code snippets in web pages thanks to the use of something as simple as a pair of lt pre gt tags and some CSS styles. This approach does a decent job of styling online code blocks....
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Posted: March 11th, 2010, 12:39am MST by Jeffrey Way
Tumblr’s popularity over the last year has increased exponentially. The reason why is quite simple: Tumblr is flexible, powerful, and, most importantly, a pleasure to work with. Unfortunately, there aren’t many training resources available for the platform yet. In this video series, we’ll go through the process of taking a Tumblr theme, designed in Photoshop, and converting it into a fully working theme – in just a few hours.

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The Full Series
- Chapter 1: Intro
- Chapter 2: Slicing the Design
- Chapter 3: Creating the Markup and Adding the Tumblr Template Tags
- Chapter 4: Adding the CSS
- Chapter 5: Configuration Options
- Chapter 6: @Font-Face and Custom Fonts
- Chapter 7: Slide-out Panel – HTML and CSS
- Chapter 8: Slide-out Panel – jQuery
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Thanks to Kate Payton for submitting the design for this tutorial.
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Inspiration: Awesome Book-Related Website Designs

Posted: March 10th, 2010, 10:20pm MST by Callum Chapman

If you’re a book lover, you may have noticed that the vast majority of book-related websites out there leave a bit to be desired when it comes to design and information architecture. In fact, some author and publisher websites make me feel like my eyes might bleed!

But there are some gems out there, and we’ve collected some of the best. If you know of any other fantastic book-related websites, whether they’re for authors, individual books, publishing companies, or blogs, let us know in the comments.

Authors & Individual Book Sites
Author websites are some of the more challenging sites to design. If an author has a large backlist, it can be difficult to figure out how to showcase all of their work effectively. And if the author has only published one or two books, it can be hard to have an effective site that doesn’t feel empty.

And in reality, there are a lot of things an author’s site needs to accomplish. It needs to provide readers and potential readers with information about the books and why they might be interested in reading them. It needs to give booksellers information about the books, and why they should stock them. And it needs to act as a constant promotional tool that will help the author sell more books and gain more fans.

Dear Author has a great post on what many author websites are lacking. The list includes things like a printable book list, a link on the home page to contact the author, and a highly visible “coming soon” section. Check out the full list for more points to keep in mind if you’re designing an author’s website.

Here are a few great author and book websites you should be sure to check out for inspiration and ideas.
No One Belongs Here More Than You
This is one of the most creative books websites I’ve ever seen. While it’s not the most user-friendly of sites, it suits its purpose and does well to hold reader interest.
Justine Larbalestier
An excellent, clean-looking design that still has plenty of character. Her books are prominently displayed on the home page, along with links to her blog, about information, and other important parts. She also includes information about events, interviews, and specific book info on the home page, a big plus for readers and book sellers.
Stephen King
Stephen King’s presents its own challenges to a designer, mainly the sheer volume of information it needs to contain. King has written well over sixty books, has had a number of his books adapted for the screen, and has written numerous short stories. But his site manages to include all the pertinent information a visitor might be looking for while also showcasing his best and most recent works, all while maintaining a very streamlined and professional design.
Cherry Adair
Cherry Adair’s website fits well with the types of books she writes. The only downside to the site is that it’s entirely Flash-based, though the interface itself is slick and very responsive. She includes all of the information one would expect on an author site, including a printable, PDF booklist.
Jim Collins
Jim Collins’ site takes a much more minimalist design approach than many of the others on this list. The color scheme is limited and sophisticated, there’s plenty of white space, and only necessary content is included.
Jean Chatzky
Jean Chatzky’s website is well-suited to the types of books she writes and the brand she’s built for herself (you may recognize her from her regular appearances on the Today Show). It’s professional but unintimidating and has a friendly feel to it. It also provides all the necessary information you’d expect and is easy to navigate.
Hank Phillippi Ryan
Hank Phillippi Ryan’s website is bright and colorful, which matches the covers and style of her books. The layout is reminiscent of a grid layout and makes good use of negative space.
Caroline Tiger
Caroline Tiger’s site has some of the best use of color of any author site I’ve seen. Navigation is simple and straightforward, the emphasis is placed squarely on her books, and the overall impression is professional but relaxed.
Nicholas Sparks
Nicholas Sparks’ website makes great use of large background images and transparency. It’s easy to find the information you might be looking for, with prominent links to his books and movies, as well as appearances and biography information.
Publishers
Publisher websites have to be many things to many people; not always an easy task to do well. They have to showcase their books to potential readers. They have to appeal to booksellers and convince them to stock more of their books. They have to give information to prospective authors, either in the form of submission guidelines or guidelines that tell them they don’t accept unagented submissions. They have to provide information to the media and book reviewers. And sometimes, in the case of the larger publishing conglomerates, they also have to present a united front across multipe imprints.

The best publisher sites showcase recent books as well as best sellers. They make it easy for readers and booksellers to make decisions regarding book purchases. And they provide all the necessary information about the company, the books, and the authors for anyone looking.

Here are some of the best book publisher websites out there. They run the gamut from small publishers with only a handful of books to large publishing houses that publish hundreds of titles each year. What they all have in common is good information architecture, a clean style, and excellent user experience.
Dragon International Independent Arts
The DIIArts site packs a lot of information into a small space while maintaining an uncluttered and clean-looking layout. Their main nav includes nine tabs while still leaving some breathing room. The use of icons throughout the site helps to unify everything, as does the light color scheme.
Arcadia Publishing
Arcadia Publishing’s site fits its business perfectly. It has a vintage feel to it, which fits them since they’re publishers of historical nonfiction. The site is easy to navigate and effectively showcases important information (like the fact that they offer free shipping).
Melville House Publishing
The Melville House Publishing website has a simple blue and white theme throughout. It has a minimalist, grid-based layout nad a lot of white space. Information is easy to find and their books are displayed prominently.
Princeton Architectural Press
Princeton Architectural Press’s website is great because it’s design is a bit unexpected. The bright yellow background and grid-based layout are visually striking, which is entirely appropriate for a publishign company that focuses so heavily on design, but also a bit unexpected for a site in such a conservative industry.
Penguin Group USA
Among all of the big-name publishers out there, Penguin has one of the most attractive websites. Their layout is well-ordered, the color palette is refined, and they place emphasis where appropriate. There’s a ton of information on the site, and yet it feels uncluttered.
Timber Press
The Timber Press website makes great use of color and has a fantastic layout. The design is eye-catching and easy to navigate, with a well-implemented slideshow showcasing some of their books on the home page.
Llewellyn
Llewellyn’s website uses a muted color palette and three column layout that creates a sophisticated and professional feel to their site. They make it easy to browse their books, as well as to find other information about the company and their authors.
Storey Publishing
Storey Publishing is another company that opted for a muted color palette and simple layout. The green accents on the site fit well with the country-living and outdoor-themed books they publish, as do the graphics throughout the site.
Gibbs Smith
Gibbs Smith makes great use of Flash to showcase books on their home page, but otherwise keeps their layout fairly simple. They emphasize their best-sellers but make it easy to browse their entire catalog or find information about their authors. The red, burgundy and gray color scheme is sophisticated and feels very neutral.
Other Sites
Publisher and author websites aren’t the only sites out there that target book lovers. There are communities for readers (and writers), blogs and book review sites, and service sites for readers and writers alike.

The sites below target many different demographics, but each focuses on great user experience and simple architecture. Each has its own distinct style that adds to the user’s overall impression of the site and the company or people behind it. And each one has a clear purpose and mission that they accomplish well.
IndieBound
IndieBound is a community for independent bookstores and their customers. Their site is well-laid-out, has a great color scheme, and a unique design. They have a lot of information on the site, but it remains easy to navigate and find the information you need. They even manage to make the wide variety of graphics used on the site appear cohesive.
The Fiction Project
The Fiction Project at Art House Co-Op has a really awesome site design. The overall look represents the artistic sensibility of the project, but all information about the project is easily found and legible.
Lulu
Self-publishing company Lulu has a well-designed website that focuses on user experience. They keep graphics simple and use them specifically to highlight their services. The color scheme is consistent (white, blue and orange), and there’s plenty of negative space in the design. What sets Lulu’s site apart from many other self-publishing sites is that they’ve made it just as easy for book buyers to use the site as they have for authors.
Readerville
Readerville uses a simple two-column design with brownish-orange, burgundy, and muted blue accent colors. Readability is given the utmost importance in this design, with usability a very close second. While the site is no longer updated, it is still a great example of a book-related site design.
DailyLit
DailyLit, a service that delivers daily reading to your email inbox, has a fantastic website that uses a muted, cool color palette and grid-based layout. The site is easily navigated and showcases their services and the books available.
Blurb
Blurb is another self-publishing service that puts more emphasis on style than many other self-publishing sites. They offer good user experience for both authors and book buyers, and showcase “staff picks” on the home page (something many self-publishing companies don’t bother with).
The Millions
The Millions is a book review and culture site that uses a grid layout and mostly-black and white color scheme with bright orange accents. The layout of the site is fantastic, and the entire thing feels very modern and refreshing.
Guys Read
Guys Read is a literacy site for boys that places a heavy emphasis on typography. The site uses a red-white-and-blue color scheme and plenty of white space. It uses a mostly two-column layout and has a very masculine feel to it without feeling stuffy or staid.

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Slides from my Confoo.ca talk now online

Posted: March 10th, 2010, 4:28pm MST by John Mertic

I’ve just uploaded the slides from my confoo.ca talk “Making software management tools work for you”. You can download the slides from here.

Thanks again to everyone who attended! Please give me feedback on joind.in.
Performance tuning a server in less than three minutes while being slashdotted

Posted: March 10th, 2010, 2:33pm MST by Mark Dennehy

Tuning a webserver in three minutes while it's being slashdotted.
ConFoo - PHP in the Enterprise

Posted: March 10th, 2010, 2:24pm MST by Paul Reinheimer

I just finished my PHP in the Enterprise talk at ConFoo, Slides are available here: PHP in the Enterprise - ConFoo March 2010

In jQuery 1.3, the team introduced the live() method, which allows us to bind event handlers to elements on the page, as well as any that might be created in the future dynamically. Though not perfect, it definitely proved to be helpful. Most notably, live() bubbles all the way up, and attaches the handler to the document. It also ceases to work well when chaining method calls, unfortunately. Delegate() was introduced in version 1.4, which almost does the same thing, but more efficiently.

We’ll examine the specific differences between the two methods in today’s video quick tip. Thanks to the FireQuery Firebug extension, we’ll have the tools to more easily understand how each method functions.

<ul id="items">
	<li> Click Me </li>
</ul>

// Bind attaches an event handler only to the elements
// that match a particular selector. This, expectedly,
// excludes any dynamically generated elements.
$("#items li").click(function() {
	$(this).parent().append("<li>New Element</li>");
});

// Live(), introduced in 1.3, allows for the binding
// of event handlers to all elements that match a
// selector, including those created in the future.
// It does this by attaching the handler to the document.
// Unfortunately, it does not work well with chaining.
// Don't expect to chain live() after calls like
// children().next()...etc.
$("li").live("click", function() {
	$(this).parent().append("<li>New Element</li>");
});	

// Delegate, new to version 1.4, perhaps should have been a complete
// replacement for Live(). However, that obviously
// would have broken a lot of code! Nonetheless,
// delegate remedies many of the short-comings
// found in live(). It attaches the event handler
// directly to the context, rather than the document.
// It also doesn't suffer from the chaining issues
// that live does. There are many performance benefits
// to using this method over live().
$('#items').delegate('li', 'click', function() {
	$(this).parent().append('<li>New Element</li>');
});	

// By passing a DOM element as the context of our selector, we can make
// Live() behave (almost) the same way that delegate()
// does. It attaches the handler to the context, not
// the document - which is the default context.
// The code below is equivalent to the delegate() version
// shown above.
$("li", $("#items")[0]).live("click", function() {
	$(this).parent().append("<li>New Element</li>");
});

Conclusion

This can definitely be a confusing topic. Please feel free to ask questions, or discuss within the comments. Thanks so much to Elijah Manor for clarifying a few things for me on this topic!

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PHP command line progress bar

Posted: March 10th, 2010, 10:33am MST by Brian Moon

Was just looking through some code and came across this function I wrote some time ago. If you do a lot of your processing scripts in PHP like we do, you probably need to know what is going on sometimes. So, I made a progress bar for use on the cli. I thought I would share it. Here is a video of it in action. And the code can be found here.
Introducing phpfarm

Posted: March 10th, 2010, 8:58am MST by Christian Weiske
PEAR consists of literally hundreds of packages (libraries) that help you to build your PHP applications faster, less error-prone and more secure. Millions of web applications use and rely on the proper functioning of PEAR packages.

To ensure constant quality, many packages utilize phpt or PHPUnit tests that are run during development and before each release. They help us making sure new features or bug fixes do not break existing functionality.

One of hard to solve challenges is ensuring that a package's unit tests do not only run on the specific PHP version the developers have installed on their machines (which often is the latest and greatest, maybe not even released version from SVN), but to cover the whole range of supported PHP versions. This goal can be achieved in several ways:
1. Test on different machines with another PHP version on each
2. Test on different PHP versions on one machine
Solution number 1 requires either much hardware or at least quite some setup time for virtual machines. Besides that, running tests regularly on many different machines needs automated deployment tools - you won't ssh into the 15th machine manually, let alone setting up database servers and other software that might be required.

There is no single Linux distribution I know of that supports installing multiple versions of PHP beside each other - making solution number 2 similar daunting to setup and running as #1. The benefits above #1 are obvious: All software on one machine means easier deployment because the software to test needs to be setup only once. Software dependencies need to be installed only once. Executing the tests is easier if all versions of PHP are on this single machine, which means that the cross-version tests can be automated really easily.

A tool to solve all problems with the multiple-php-versions-on-one-machine solution is phpfarm. The best way to demonstrate its easiness is probably a shellshot:
```
$ svn co [svn.php.net] phpfarm
$ cd phpfarm/src
$ ./compile 5.3.2
... fetching sources from php.net
... configuring
... compiling
... installing
... fetching and setting up pyrus
$ php-5.3.2 --version
PHP 5.3.2 (cli) (built: Mar 10 2010 18:08:27) (DEBUG)
Copyright (c) 1997-2010 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2010 Zend Technologies
$ pyrus-5.3.2 --version
Pyrus version 2.0.0a1 SHA-1: 2FDFB5E00A6D707437DBC047AAF9D115C6484D90
Using PEAR installation found at /home/cweiske/Dev/cvs/pear/phpfarm/inst/php-5.3.2/pear
php pyrus.phar version 2.0.0a1.
```
That's it. With one single command, you can install each version of PHP you like, and you get pyrus, the next-generation PEAR installer for free! Let's try it:
```
$ pyrus-5.3.2 channel-discover pear.phpunit.de
Discovery of channel pear.phpunit.de successful
$ pyrus-5.3.2 install phpunit/phpunit
...
Installed pear.phpunit.de/PHPUnit-3.4.11
$ pyrus-5.3.2 list-packages
Listing installed packages [/home/cweiske/Dev/cvs/pear/phpfarm/inst/php-5.3.2/pear]:
[channel pear.phpunit.de]:
 PHPUnit
```
phpfarm automatically sets up your php.ini with the values you desire. It sets your include_path. It lets you specify custom configuration options, per patch, minor or major PHP version - just have a look at the README.

Now everything is ready for you (and us PEAR developers!) to let the unit tests run on all the little PHP versions we want to. Did I tell you that phpfarm also installs php-cgi versions? My next blog entry will show you how to run dozens of php versions simultaneously in apache.

If you have questions or suggestions about phpfarm, don't hesitate to ask on the pear-general mailing list (subscription info) or on the #pear IRC channel.

Happy testing!
An intriguing use of lambda functions

Posted: March 10th, 2010, 7:47am MST by Eli White
I’ve been working hard on Goodsie.com lately trying to bring it to launch. It’s been great being in on a new PHP project from (near) the beginning, as it frees up a number of things.

One of those, is the fact that I can be using PHP 5.3 and all the new features that come with PHP 5.3. While I’ve used my fair share of the short-cut ternary already (?:), the bigger win for me, are the Lambda functions with scoping (anonymous functions).

I found a very specific use out of the blue of Lambda functions that I have now used and I see as a great use-case. Which is specifically passing functions/logic from your Controller to your View.

In the case of Goodsie, I’m using PHP for my templating language and as usual I’m trying to remove as much logic from my View as possible, while still allowing the view to be malleable.

The specific case I had, was a subview that was generating some pagination code for me. You know, the standard ‘previous, page 1, page 1, next’ section of links. The basic html template I had, looked looked similar to:
```
<div class="pagination">
    <a href="<?= $baseurl . '/page:' . ($page - 1) ?>">← Previous</a>
    Page <?= $page ?> of <?= $total ?>
    <a href="<?= $baseurl . '/page:' . ($page + 1) ?>">Next →</a>
</div>
```
Rather straight forward, but I quickly ran into a problem. The way it worked, as you see, is that you passed in a base URL, and the page number you are currently on, and it generated appropriate forward/back links. (Ok, there was also some other logic where it determined if you needed the prev/next links at all, but I’ve removed that for clarity)

But I then had a case, where I wanted to reuse this subview in an ajax situation. Where instead of straight URL’s being passed in, I might want to pass in a javascript function, and have that function be called with the page number as a parameter. That would be nice as I could use it in both situations. What pagination looked like, could completely change, and still work on both cases. Perhaps we’d want to give a full list of all possible pages. Or show a couple forward/back, etc. The view could handle all of that without a change to the controller.

But therein lied the problem. When using a URL based pagination, I wanted to concat the page number onto the end of the URL. But when using javascript, it wasn’t pure concatenation, it instead needed to wrap the page number with the function call. Oh the pain a simple ) could cause me.

I started writing code, where I ended up with tons of switch statements and logic inside of the view. I’d have to pass in two different possible values, a URL or a javascript function. The view at every point where it would output a link, would need to see which version was being used, and from that decide what type of output to create. In short, it was a mess.

But then the solution dawned upon me. A lambda function would work admirably here. So what I did, is inside of my controller I created a function on the fly, that would generate the appropriate type of link that I was wanting. It looks something like:
```
if ($jsfunc) {
    $url = function ($p) use ($jsfunc) { return "javascript:{$jsfunc}({$p})"; };
} elseif ($baseurl) {
    $url = function ($p) use ($baseurl) { return "{$baseurl}/page:{$p}"; };
}
```
Now I could simply rewrite my original template, to use this lambda function $url to generate it’s URLs.
```
<div class="pagination">
    <a href="<?= $url($page - 1) ?>">← Previous</a>
    Page <?= $page ?> of <?= $total ?>
    <a href="<?= $url($page - 1) ?>">Next →</a>
</div>
```
Now not only would this work for my specific situation, but ANY controller could reuse this pagination subview and define exactly how it wanted it’s URLs to be formed. Now, the view could completely change around how the pagination section is displayed, show as many, or as few pages as it wants to, and all that without ever touching the controller.

This is one simple example, but I’ve become enamored of this approach. Using lambda functions in this way, you are able to have complicated logic represented inside of your view, but encapsulated/created by the controller. Also of note is the fact that the view is managing to use the $jsfunc and $baseurl values, but without actually having to be granted access to them. This allows for another level of encapsulation, as I exposed one function,
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In this first part of a series I provide you with a friendly introduction to building rounded corners with CSS3. In this initial stage I show you how to create this popular decorative effect on web pages using four different background images which were assigned to the same HTML container. This technique is impossible with current CSS methods....
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Accelerando

Posted: March 10th, 2010, 3:12am MST by Tobias Schlitt

This is a very unusual blog post for the open source area of my website, since it contains a recommendation for a science fiction book. The reason I've put it here instead of the private section is on the one hand, that it will definitely reach more geek - and therefor probably scifi interested - people here. On the other hand, the book I'm writing about can be found online for free in English language, but the private section is mostly kept in German.I love scifi literature and movies, as most geeks do. But the quality of works in this area varies quite a lot. Beside the style of writing, there is one crucial point, which can make the best novel be a total disaster: Authenticity.
First year of Qaiku, and a travel writing challenge

Posted: March 9th, 2010, 2:00pm MST by Henri Bergius

Qaiku, the conversational microblogging service that launched a year ago had a refresh that launched today. While it hasn't yet convinced the twittering masses, it has already proven itself as a lot more thoughtful platform for the Finnish online community, and as a valuable workstreaming tool.

The new version looks quite nice and fresh. Notice the privacy information on the right-hand side, which is relevant as Qaiku allows channels and profiles that are private or invitation-only:

Technically the new version is also remarkable as it is the first major website to run fully on top of the legacy-free Midgard2 platform. So yes, every entry you see there is a GObject. And D-Bus signals fly when you post.
On to the challenge, then
To highlight Qaiku's threading, conversational nature I started a new "On my travels, I have" thread for sharing your most extraordinary travel experiences. This is not on Twitter or Buzz as with Qaiku it is so easy to keep the conversation together and accessible for the future as well.

To contribute, sign up on Qaiku, go to the thread and add your experiences as a comment. If you have a link or picture to include, you can also do so. My first entry was:

seen ice descend from the heavens and provide us with cold beer on a hot day in Lesotho

Will be interesting to see what comes out of this :-)
Getting started with the Midgard content repository

Posted: March 9th, 2010, 8:50am MST by Henri Bergius
I'm doing a talk today in the Bossa Conference about using Midgard as a content repository for mobile applications. As part of my presentation I wrote some simple example code for using the Midgard APIs in Python, and thought they would be good to share to those not attending the event as well.

The idea of a content repository is that instead of coming up with new, isolated file formats or database setups for your application you can just work with objects and signals, and let Midgard handle the rest. This is something that lots of people are doing with CouchDB as well, but we feel Midgard, with its light footprint and native APIs for languages like Python, C, Vala and PHP fits better in the mobile applications context.
Installing Midgard
Midgard packages are available for many different Linux distributions through the OpenSuse Build Service. To find the right repository for your setup, go to the OBS project page. For example, on my Ubuntu Karmic netbook the URL to add to apt sources.list is deb [download.opensuse.org] ./. Then I just:
```
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python-midgard2
```
Midgard is also available in Maemo extras and for OS X on MacPorts.
Defining a schema
The first thing when developing a Midgard application is to define your storage objects. This is done using the MgdSchema XML format. In this case we're doing a simple "attendee" object that amends Midgard's built-in person record with information related to the conference:
```
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Schema xmlns="http://www.midgard-project.org/repligard/1.4">
    <type name="openbossa_attendee" table="openbossa_attendee">
        <property name="id" type="unsigned integer" primaryfield="id">
            <description>Local non-replication-safe database identifier</description>
        </property>
        <property name="person" type="unsigned integer" link="midgard_person:id">
            <description>Person attending the event</description>
        </property>
        <property name="registration" type="datetime">
            <description>Registration date of the attendee</description>
        </property>
        <property name="likesbeer" type="boolean">
            <description>Whether the attendee likes beer</description>
        </property>
    </type>
</Schema>
```
Then we just save this XML file into /usr/share/midgard2/schema/ so that Midgard will find it.
Initiating the repository connection
Once the MgdSchema is in place it is time to import antigravity and start hacking in Python. The code works pretty much in the same way in other languages Midgard is available for, but Python is used here for the sake of simplicity. First we load the Midgard extension:
```
import _midgard as midgard
```
Then we setup the repository connection. With these settings we will store our content into an SQLite database located in ~/.midgard2/data/midgardexample.db:
```
configuration = midgard.config()
configuration.dbtype = 'SQLite'
configuration.database = 'midgardexample'

# Open a Midgard repository connection with our config
connection = midgard.connection()
connection.open_config(configuration)
```
As this is the first time we're interacting with the repository we need to tell Midgard to prepare the storage for itself and also for our new openbossa_attendee class:
```
midgard.storage.create_base_storage()
midgard.storage.create_class_storage('midgard_person')
midgard.storage.create_class_storage('midgard_parameter')
midgard.storage.create_class_s
```
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Save Time and Money by Systematizing your Photoshop Workflow

Posted: March 9th, 2010, 8:29am MST by Ben Gribbin
Repetitive tasks can quickly become tedious. As a designer, you probably often find yourself designing the same elements over and over from scratch. STOP!

Wasting time is so old-fashioned. It also means you’re wasting money! So, let’s review some ways that you can automate and systematize your Photoshop workflow. And be sure to download the project base for all of your new designs!

File Tree & Re-usable Project Base
The first step in systematizing your workflow is to organize your files. Identify all common elements you use within your designs.

You may come to a list such as the following:
- Home Page template
- About Page
- Contact Page
- Services Page
- Fonts
- Assets
The Project Base
Consider how your final deliverables are used. If they are shipped to a coding business, be as organized and thorough as possible, including notes and fonts where applicable.

You can ensure that you have perfectly organized themes by creating a package that allows you to “fill in the blanks”, so to speak. Simply copy this folder, assign it to the project by renaming it to the project and get working. This is a very simple and efficient way to work, and means that websites you built four years ago can easily be edited, because everything is packed into its very own place.

Download the Project Base

In the zip file, you’ll find a simple re-useable template starting point. This file contains elements such as dividers, buttons and a pre-gridded template to speed up your design workflow.

See how simple starting a new project is now? It may take a couple of minutes to set-up, but the time saved later is more time for you to be doing what you love best – designing!

Now that we have a solid base to build upon, we can starting filling out our ‘boiler-plater’ with specific files and concepts.
Web Template

The sample template will allow you to create a page of your most used elements, ready for quick inclusion in your latest project.

If you’re a web designer in particular, you’ll find that a lot of your projects, even those different in every possible way – use and re-use common elements.

Begin by building a few re-usable templates. Don’t worry about which elements you wish to include just yet, because you can always go back and look at your previous projects and analyze more popular features – then re-create them here.

Personally, I use just one template. I have a home page (this contains elements such as news bulletins, blog post stylings, menus, logos and call to actions). I can modify this template to suit blog pages, buy it now forms and more.

The page also has a 960.gs pre-applied. This has been included for download at the end of the article, in the template boilerplate.

Once you’re set-up with this concept, you can build designs very quickly. However, you should definitely consider developing your own, and tailor it to your clients and team. You could go further by adding icons, search elements and online store related items – anything to suit your client base.
Grouping & Organizing

The above image demonstrates the tangible difference between an organized layer palette, and a messy one!

When you’re in a real creative flow, it can be difficult to stop and start naming and grouping layers. Photoshop doesn’t really help in this area by default either!

So, take the time as you go to name and group layers. This will help you later when coding the design, or if you ship if off for coding elsewhere.

Name each layer, and try to use a descriptive and short word – such as ‘menu’ for the navigation. Group specific areas, such as the header or a contact form.

This has a two-fold benefit.
1. You can toggle whole areas (or the whole design) on or off in order to work on the background or other elements.
2. You can move sections of a design without the need for moving each element. This can save hours per project!
So, take the time to stop every five minutes or so, and name and group each element. You’ll be glad you did!

Make good use of the select tool! You can toggle the select mode between layers and groups. This facilitates mass updating and re-aligning designs, so don’t forget it!
Actions
If you don’t use actions in your work-flow, then you should begin using them immediately.

Photoshop actions are entirely configurable lists of actions Photoshop should carry out automatically. You can create your own, or choose from the bounty available online. If you work on Photographs for example, and have 400 pictures to edit and resize, this would take a long time. Instead, you can create an action that adjusts the contrast, alters the size and then saves the file in .jpg format, blasting through 400 files in seconds! You must use actions!

If you do not have the knowledge, or experience to create your own actions, GraphicRiver has a large selection of actions available for purchase from $1!

The actions on sale range from simple photo effects to this action which can add various pre-formatted text sections such as contact details or blog posts in seconds.

Start using Actions and you will notice a significant increase in your productivity and reduce the amount of times you need to repeat monotonous tasks over and over.
Creating and Using an Action
Making your own action is easy. As an example, we’ll create a simple action to re-size several images at once, then save them.

First off, you need to hit the new action button, on the actions palette.

You shouldn’t need to change any settings as standard, bar changing the name for better organization. Photoshop is now recording your actions. So, all you need to do is re-size the image. Go to image size, and alter the dimensions. The action will change any image to these dimensions. Then hit save.

Finally, press stop on the action palette.

Now, when you press play on the action you’ve created, Photoshop will follow the list of defined actions on your image. Although very simple, an action such as this one could save you hours of monotonous resizing photos and images. This is only a very simple look at actions. They can do so much more, so take your time to get to know them and really use them. The beauty of them is in how you can record basically any action in Photoshop – selecting, changing styles, transforming, re-sizing and saving.
iPhone & UI Design
Do you work with user interfaces? If so, you really need to download a GUI element pack for Photoshop.

There are many available for most popular operating systems and mobile platforms.

For example, if you work with the iPhone, you can download the iPhone GUI pack that contains all elements available in the iPhone interface library, and then simply start designing your app. Simple, quick and much easier than attempting to create these from scratch.
Android GUI Kit
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Teehan Lax Kits

The agency, Teehan Lax have several high quality, life-like UI kits. These are great for building an iphone app sales site, or designing the actual UI of an app. Kits are available for the iPhone, Palm Pre and Browsers.
Palm Pre
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iPhone
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Browser Elements
[www.teehanlax.com]
Conclusion
I hope we’ve given you some tips that you can use to improve your productivity and efficiency. Photoshop is a wonderful tool, but, if we’re not careful, we can find ourselves repeating the sames tasks over and over. So be sure to implement the above tips and start saving time, money and your sanity!
Download the Project Base
Do you have any Photoshop time-saving tips? Have any ideas on other tasks that could be automated to save time and repetition? Feel free to share them with the community via the comments.

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Finishing a Casual Navigation Bar with CSS Sprites

Posted: March 9th, 2010, 7:00am MST

If you re interested in learning how to use CSS sprites to create engaging standard-compliant navigational mechanisms that can be used on different web sites with minor modifications you ve come to the right place. Welcome to the final installment of a seven-part series that shows you how to build CSS sprite-based navigation bars. This series walks you through the progressive development of a couple of appealing links bars which use a single background image to define the visual presentation of their sections....
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Neural Networks in PHP

Posted: March 8th, 2010, 11:26pm MST by PHP Classes

Neural Networks in PHP By Louis Stowasser Neural networks allow emulating the behavior of a brain in software applications. Neural Networks have always had a too steep learning curve to venture towards, especially in a Web environment.

Neural Mesh is an open source, pure PHP code based Neural Network manager and framework that makes it easier to work with Neural Networks.

This article explains how to easily implement Neural Mesh to develop Neural Network applications in PHP.
CMS Watch on their Midgard usage

Posted: March 8th, 2010, 11:24am MST by Henri Bergius

Which CMS does The Real Story Group Use? (Tony Byrne / CMS Watch):

The answer is, we use an open-source platform called "Midgard." We picked it nearly ten years ago, and it has held up fairly well.
...

One of the things we like about Midgard actually makes it rather unsuitable for many simpler publishing scenarios: it is highly object-oriented. This allows us to run multiple sites off largely a single codebase -- at the cost of quite user-unfriendly administrative and authoring facilities.

Also, Midgard is very much a development platform, and we have had to create a fair amount of custom code, especially to handle structured content. In that regard, our CMS experience probably resemble yours. As an industry we remain very far from plug-and-play content management technology for all but the simplest of websites.

While the post contains many negative points about older Midgard (the UIs are a bit better now than they used to be, quite a lot of development has since been happening especially in the LTS branch), it is remarkable that CMS Watch has been able to run their services through the same CMS setup for ten years. This really shows the durability and commitment to long-term stability we have in the Midgard community. We've been doing this for more than ten years, and will likely keep going for quite a bit longer.

As for usability and popularity of Midgard, there is quite little we can do about it in the Midgard1 area, as that is now in long-term support phase that won't allow major changes. But Midgard2 is a new world with new opportunities. Midgard's content repository is pretty much there already, as is the MVC layer, and this spring we should be able to unveil the new, quite revolutionary CMS concept as well. Watch this blog for updates!

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Quick Tip: My Favorite New IDE: Web Storm

Posted: March 8th, 2010, 10:28am MST by Jeffrey Way
Over the weekend, Elijah Manor tweeted about a new IDE, called WebStorm, that is currently being offered as a public preview, from JetBrains. After spending a few hours with it, I’m extremely impressed! In this video quick tip, I thought I’d show you some of my favorite features that you, frankly, just don’t see much in other code editors.

Watch on your iPhone Notable Features
- Not as bloated as other IDEs, like Aptana
- Git integration
- Fast intellisense
- Vertical Selecting (Option + select)
- CSS lookup on markup (Shift + Command + I)
- Definition lookup (Control J)
- Immediately finds formatting errors in your code
- Advanced debugging
- Plenty of skins
- Zen coding implementation! (Such as, ul#nav>li*4>a)
- Quickly and easily export inline CSS and JS to external files.
What Do You Think?
So, if you’re curious, take some time to look over WebStorm and let me know what you think! I’m still learning it too, so let me know if you found any cool features that I didn’t mention.
Uncovering jQuery’s Hidden Features

Posted: March 8th, 2010, 9:15am MST by James Padolsey
jQuery is not always as it appears. There's a lot of cool stuff going on under the surface, and there are many methods just waiting to be discovered, and many potential usages of jQuery's API that you may not have considered before. In this article I'll be taking you through a few of the not-so-obvious things I've discovered about jQuery.

1. Understand jQuery!
When you call 'jQuery' what happens?

The jQuery function itself is very simple:
```
jQuery = function (selector, context) {
    // The jQuery object is actually just the init constructor 'enhanced'
    return new jQuery.fn.init(selector, context);
};
```
Under its skin, the jQuery function (commonly referred to as the "wrapper" function) simply returns an instantiated jQuery object — i.e. an instance of the 'jQuery.fn.init' constructor.

This is useful to know; with this information we know that each time we call 'jQuery' we're actually creating a totally unique object with a set of properties. jQuery is clever in that it gives you an object that can be treated as an array. Each of your elements (all together, commonly known as the "collection") is referenced within the object under a numerical index, just like within an array. And jQuery also gives this object a 'length' property, just as you would expect from an array. This opens up a world of possibilities. For one, it means that we can borrow some functionality from 'Array.prototype'. jQuery's 'slice' method is a good example of this — modified from the source:
```
/* ... jQuery.fn.extend({ ... */
slice: function() {
    return this.pushStack(
        Array.prototype.slice.apply( this, arguments ),
        "slice",
        Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments).join(",")
    );
},
/* ... */
```
The native 'slice' method doesn't care that 'this' is not a real array– it'll be fine with anything that's got a 'length' property and [0], [1], [2] etc.

There are some other interesting properties within this jQuery object — '.selector' and '.context' will, most of the time, reflect the arguments that you pass into 'jQuery(…)'.
```
var jqObject = jQuery('a');
jqObject.selector; // => "a"
```
One thing that's important to note is that jQuery will sometimes give you new jQuery objects to work with. If you run a method that changes the collection in some way, such as '.parents()', then jQuery won't modify the current object; it'll simply pass you a brand new one:
```
var originalObject = jQuery('a');
var anotherObject = originalObject.parents();

originalObject === anotherObject; // => false
```
All methods that appear to mutate the collection in some way return a brand new jQuery object — you can still access the old object though, via '.end()', or more verbosely, via '.prevObject'.
2. Bread-and-butter Element Creation
Central to jQuery's DOM capabilities, is its element creation syntax. 1.4 brought with it an entirely new way to create your elements quickly and succinctly. E.g.
```
var myDiv = jQuery('<div/>', {
    id: 'my-new-element',
    class: 'foo',
    css: {
        color: 'red',
        backgrondColor: '#FFF',
        border: '1px solid #CCC'
    },
    click: function() {
        alert('Clicked!');
    },
    html: jQuery('<a/>', {
        href: '#',
        click: function() {
            // do something
            return false;
        }
    })
});
```
As of 1.4 you can pass a second argument to the jQuery function when you're creating an element — the object you pass will, for the most part, act as if you were passing it to '.attr(…)'. However, jQuery will map some of the properties to its own methods, for example, the 'click' property maps to jQuery's 'click' method (which binds an event handler for the 'click' event) and 'css' maps to jQuery's 'css' method etc.

To check out what properties map to jQuery's methods, open your console and type 'jQuery.attrFn'.
3. Serialize your Inputs
jQuery provides a method that you can use to serialize all of the inputs within one or more forms. This is useful when submitting data via XHR ("Ajax"). It's been in jQuery for a long time but it's not often talked about and so many developers don't realise it's there. Submitting an entire form via Ajax, using jQuery, couldn't be simpler:
```
var myForm = $('#my-form');
jQuery.post('submit.php', myForm.serialize(), function(){
    alert('Data has been sent!');
});
```
jQuery also provides the 'serializeArray' method, which is designed to be used with multiple forms, and the 'param' helper function (under the jQuery namespace) which takes a regular object and returns a query string, e.g.
```
var data = {
    name: 'Joe',
    age: 44,
    profession: 'Web Developer'
};

jQuery.param(data); // => "name=Joe&age=44&profession=Web+Developer"
```
4. Animate Anything
jQuery's 'animate' method is probably the most flexible of jQuery's methods. It can be used to animate pretty much anything, not just CSS properties, and not just DOM elements. This is how you would normally use 'animate':
```
jQuery('#box').animate({
    left: 300,
    top: 300
});
```
When you specify a property to animate (e.g. 'top') jQuery checks to see if you're animating something with a style property ('element.style'), and it checks if the specified property ('top') is defined under 'style' — if it's not then jQuery simply updates 'top' on the element itself. Here's an example:
```
jQuery('#box').animate({
    top: 123,
    foo: 456
});
```
'top' is a valid CSS property, so jQuery will update 'element.style.top', but 'foo' is not a valid CSS property, so jQuery will simply update 'element.foo'.

We can use this to our advantage. Let's say, for example, that you want to animate a square on a canvas. First let's define a simple constructor and a 'draw' method that'll be called on every step of the animation:
```
function Square(cnvs, width, height, color) {

    this.x = 0;
    this.y = 0;
    this.width = width;
    this.height = height;
    this.color = color;

    this.cHeight = cnvs.height;
    this.cWidth = cnvs.width;
    this.cntxt = cnvs.getContext('2d');

}

Square.prototype.draw = function() {

    this.cntxt.clearRect(0, 0, this.cWidth, this.cHeight);
    this.cntxt.fillStyle = this.color;
    this.cntxt.fillRect(this.x, this.y, this.width, this.height);

};
```
We've created our 'Square' constructor, and one of its methods. Creating a canvas and then animating it couldn't be simpler:
```
// Create a <canvas/> element
var canvas = $('<canvas/>').appendTo('body')[0];
canvas.height = 400;
canvas.width = 600;

// Instantiate Square
var square = new Square(canvas, 70, 70, 'rgb(255,0,0)');

jQuery(square).animate({
    x: 300,
    y: 200
}, {
    // 'draw' should be called on every step
    // of the animation:
    step: jQuery.proxy(square, 'draw'),
    duration: 1000
});
```
This is a very simple effect, but it does clearly demonstrate the possibilities. You can see it in action here: [jsbin.com] (this will only work in browsers that support the HTML5 canvas)
5. jQuery.ajax Returns the XHR Object
jQuery's Ajax utility functions ('jQuery.ajax', 'jQuery.get', 'jQuery.post') all return an 'XM [HttpRequest'] object which you can use to perform subsequent operations on any request. For example:
```
var curRequest;

jQuery('button.makeRequest').click(function(){
    curRequest = jQuery.get('foo.php', function(response){
        alert('Data: ' + response.responseText);
    });
});

jQuery('button.cancelRequest').click(function(){
    if (curRequest) {
        curRequest.abort(); // abort() is a method of XM [HttpRequest]     }
});
```
Here we're making a request whenever the 'makeRequest' button is clicked — and we're cancelling the active request if the user clicks the 'cancelRequest' button.

Another potential usage is for synchronous requests:
```
var myRequest = jQuery.ajax({
    url: 'foo.txt',
    async: false
});

console.log(myRequest.responseText);
```
Read more about the 'XMLHttpRequest'">[HttpRequest">'XMLHttpRequest'] object and also be sure to check out jQuery's Ajax utilities.
6. Custom Queues
jQuery has a built-in queuing mechanism that's used by all of its animation methods (all of which use 'animate()' really). This queuing can be illustrated easily with a simple animation:
```
jQuery('a').hover(function(){
    jQuery(this).animate({paddingLeft:'+=15px'});
}, function(){
    jQuery(this).animate({paddingLeft:'-=15px'});
});
```
Quickly hovering over a bunch of anchors and then hovering over them again will cause the animations to queue up and occur one at a time — I'm sure many of you have witnessed this queuing effect before. If not, check it out here: [jsbin.com]

The 'queue' method is similar to the well-known 'each' method in how it's called. You pass a function, which will eventually be called for each of the elements in the collection:
```
jQuery('a').queue(function(){
    jQuery(this).addClass('all-done').dequeue();
});
```
Passing just a function to 'queue' will cause that function to be added to the default 'fx' queue, i.e. the queue used by all animations done by jQuery. Therefore, this function will not be called until all current animations occurring on each element in the collection (in this case, all anchors) have completed.

Notice that we're adding a class of 'all-done' in the function above. As outlined, this class will only be added when all current animations are complete. We're also calling the 'dequeue' method. This is very important, as it will allow jQuery to continue with the queue (i.e. it lets jQuery know that you're finished with whatever you're doing). jQuery 1.4 provides another way of continuing the queue; instead of calling 'dequeue', simply call the first argument passed to your function:
```
jQuery('a').queue(function(nextItemInQueue){
    // Continue queue:
    nextItemInQueue();
});
```
This does exactly the same, although it's slightly more useful in that it can be called anywhere within your function, even within a mess of closures (that typically destroy the 'this' keyword). Of course, pre-jQuery-1.4 you could just save a reference to 'this', but that would get a bit tiresome.

To add a function to a custom queue, simply pass your custom queue's name as the first argument and the function as the second:
```
jQuery('a').queue('customQueueName', function(){
    // Do stuff
    jQuery(this).dequeue('customQueueName');
});
```
Notice that, since we're not using the default 'fx' queue, we also have to pass our queue's name to the 'dequeue' method, in order to allow jQuery to continue with our custom queue.

Read more about 'queue', 'dequeue' and 'jQuery.queue'.
7. Event Namespacing
jQuery provides a way for you to namespace events, which can be very useful when authoring plugins and third-party components. If needed, the user of your plugin can effectively disable your plugin by unbinding all event handlers that it's registered.

To add a namespace when registering an event handler, simply suffix the event name with a period and then your unique namespace (e.g. '.fooPlugin'):
```
jQuery.fn.foo = function() {

    this.bind('click.fooPlugin', function() {
        // do stuff
    });

    this.bind('mouseover.fooPlugin', function() {
        // do stuff
    });

    return this;
};

// Use the plugin:
jQuery('a').foo();

// Destroy its event handlers:
jQuery('a').unbind('.fooPlugin');
```
Passing just the namespace to 'unbind' will unbind all event handlers with that namespace.
Conclusion
So which ones did I miss? Any helpful features that you feel jQuery doesn’t document well enough? Let’s discuss in the comments!

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Defining a Navigation Bar`s Hover State with CSS Sprites

Posted: March 8th, 2010, 7:00am MST

In this penultimate part of the series I show how to use the previous CSS sprite background image to define the look of a casual artistic blog navigation bar in its hover state. The simple styling process shouldn t give you any major problems when you use this approach to build a navigation bar for your own websites....
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Styling a Blog`s Links Bar with CSS Sprites

Posted: March 5th, 2010, 7:00am MST

In this fifth article of a seven-part series I demonstrate how to use a set of CSS sprites to define the visual style corresponding to the normal state of a navigation bar of a fictional blog site. The most complex facet of this process was to create the background image containing the corresponding sprites the rest of the procedure merely involves manipulating the image s X and Y coordinates via CSS....
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Posted: March 11th, 2010, 6:24pm MST

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's wife and daughter were hospitalized Thursday after they were involved in a car accident, according to Reid's office.

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February video game sales drop 15 percent

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U.S. retail sales of video games declined 15 percent in February, hurt in part by an ongoing decline in sales of music games and lower sales of the Wii system.

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Scientists find new way to generate electricity

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 5:30pm MST

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California murder suspect broke parole

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A convicted sex offender charged with murdering one California teenager and under investigation for another killing violated his parole by moving too close to a school.

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Federal court says Nevada can limit brothel ads

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 4:48pm MST

A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld a Nevada law that bars legal brothels that operate in some of the state's rural areas from advertising by newspaper, leaflets and billboards in Las Vegas, Reno and other places where prostitution is illegal.

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Mummy of monotheist pharaoh heading home

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 4:29pm MST

The DNA tests that revealed how the famed boy-king Tutankhamun most likely died solved another of ancient Egypt's enduring mysteries — the fate of controversial Pharaoh Akhenaten's mummy. The discovery could help fill out the picture of a fascinating era more than 3,300 years ago when Akhenaten embarked on history's first attempt at monotheism.

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Teacher found dead; wolves to blame?

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 4:26pm MST

Villagers in a remote Alaska region are blaming the death of a 32-year-old schoolteacher on wolves after her body was found along on isolated road.

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SEC head urges Congress to act on derivatives

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 4:08pm MST

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Internet nominated for 2010 Nobel Peace Prize

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If some people have their way, you could be the winner of this year's Nobel Peace Prize. "You" in this case being used broadly to mean the billions of people who log online daily.

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Obama gives Nobel money to charity

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 3:28pm MST

President Barack Obama is donating the $1.4 million from his Nobel Peace Prize to helping students, veterans' families and survivors of Haiti's earthquake, among others.
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Posted: March 11th, 2010, 3:19pm MST

Online only at Abercrombie & Fitch, spend $200 or more and get a $50 gift card. That's the best gift card promotion we've seen from Abercrombie since November. Plus, it's cumulative; for example, spend $400 for a $100 gift card. Shipping starts at $10 and sales tax is added where applicable. A code for the gift card will be emailed within two weeks of purchase and must be redeemed by April 30.
Of note, Hollister (Abercrombie's sister store) offers $50 gift cards for every $150 you spend online, as we listed earlier today. Shipping starts at $8.95 and sales tax is added where applicable. The gift card will arrive in the mail and must be redeemed by April 30 as well.

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Saved GM dealer: 'I don't know what to expect'

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 3:17pm MST

The 661 axed auto dealers General Motors is offering to reinstate aren't ready to pop the champagne just yet. They're still waiting to find out about the terms they'll have to meet to regain their franchises.

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Piracy Increases In France Despite 'Three Strikes' Law - Users shift to other sources, while ISPs, entertainment industry lose customers

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 3:16pm MST

France of course was one of the first countries to impose laws that require ISPs terminate the service of users who repeatedly engage in copyright infringement. Surprising, well, nobody, Torrent Freak points out since France's new antipiracy law was passed last September, piracy has continued to rise. A new study published by the University of Rennes indicates that piracy has risen in France 3%, with users having to only slightly vary their online habits:This increase in piracy shows that the French are not changing their downloading habits much, despite the tougher legislation. There is, however, an interesting shift in the sources people use to download copyrighted movies and music. At an increasing rate the French are using streaming services along with file-hosting cyberlockers such as Rapidshare and Megaupload.The law of course doesn't cover direct download sites, and so the use of BitTorrent dropped 7.1% to 14.6% as users migrated to direct downloads and Usenet. Again, French critics continue to charge that instead of playing this game of perpetual whack a mole, the industry should be focusing on offering cheap, compelling, DRM-free alternatives.

In line with other studies, the French study also found that half of all P2P users who download copyrighted content also buy digital content online -- meaning that by kicking them off of the Internet -- both ISPs and the entertainment industry are losing customers.
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Posted: March 11th, 2010, 3:06pm MST

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Exxon banks on pricey oil projects

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 3:01pm MST

Exxon Mobil outlined plans Thursday that rely heavily on oil from tough to reach places, extracting it from the depths of the ocean, the frozen Arctic and the tar sands in Canada's frozen tundra.

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The 25 richest counties in the United States

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 3:00pm MST

The country may have started its long haul back to economic recovery — if recent news that consumer spending increased slightly in January is any indication.

United States - Recreation - Business - Carlos Slim - Bill Gates

Techbargains.com

TomTom ONE 140 Portable GPS (3.5in Touchscreen, Text to Speech) $79.99 Free Shipping at Newegg

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 3:00pm MST

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CNNMoney.com - Economy News

Exxon's growing reliance on expensive oil

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 2:57pm MST

Exxon Mobil outlined plans Thursday that rely heavily on oil from tough to reach places, extracting it from the depths of the ocean, the frozen Arctic and the tar sands in Canada's frozen tundra.

MSNBC.com: U.S. News

Police departments seeking more bilingual cops

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 2:57pm MST

Police departments across the country are stepping up efforts to recruit officers who can speak more than one language, in some cases offering raises or even sending cops abroad.

dealnews - 20 most recent deals.

Overstock.com Rug Sale: Extra 25% off

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 2:56pm MST
Overstock.com cuts an extra 25% off a selection of wool area rugs during its latest sale. That's the best percent-off deal we've seen on these items from this merchant. (We saw a 15% off discount in January.) Shipping adds $2.95. Some best bets:
- Hand-Woven 2 x 3-Foot Wool Rug in Pesto Green for $22.12
- Hand-Knotted Peru Hand-Spun 5 x 8-Foot Hemp Rug (pictured) for $158.24
- Hand-Tufted Bareily 5-1/2 x 8-1/2-Foot Wool Rug for $168.74
- Hand-Knotted Norwegian 6 x 9-Foot Wool Rug for $307.49
- browse all wool area rugs on sale at Overstock.com

Techbargains.com

Nokia 7705 Twist Cell Phone Free w/ contract at Verizon Wireless

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 2:55pm MST

Verizon Wireless Coupon Codes
Lexmark X264DN Multifunction Networked Laser Printer/Fax/Scanner w/ Duplex $228.88 Free Shipping at Buy.com

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 2:50pm MST

Buy.com Coupon Codes

MSNBC.com: Technology & Science

Humans off the hook for musk ox extinction

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 2:49pm MST

Humans have played a role in the extinction of many animals over the years, but when it comes to the musk ox — an Arctic mammal that started to decline around 12,000 years ago — we might be off the hook, at least for the downturns that took place long ago, a new study says.

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Aer Lingus Summer Sale: 1-way fares to Europe from $269

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 2:42pm MST

AerLingus.com offers select flights to Europe from $269 each way. That's among the best sales we've seen for European flights during the summer travel season. Taxes and fees are not included, and may be substantial. Flights leave from New York, Boston, or Chicago, and trips to the UK and Ireland are generally the least expensive. Book by March 12 for travel from June 1 through 22 or July 1 through August 31.

Techbargains.com

SteelSeries 5H V2 3.5mm Circumaural Professional Gaming Headset $64.99 Free Shipping at Newegg

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 2:40pm MST

Newegg Coupon Codes

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Craftsman 260-Piece Mechanics Tool Set for $175 + free shipping

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 2:38pm MST

Sears offers the Craftsman 260-Piece Mechanics Tool Set, model no. 34260, for $199.99. Add it to your cart to cut it to $179.99. Then apply coupon code "SEARS5OFF50" to cut the price to $174.99. With free shipping, that's $11 under our mention from September and the lowest total price we could find for such a set. Sales tax is added where applicable. It includes 149 sockets, three quick release ratchets and four extensions, standard and metric wrenches, a three-drawer flip top blow mold chest, screwdriver and nutdriver bit sets, and more.

MSNBC.com: U.S. News

School cuts a no-win lesson for all

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 2:37pm MST

Msnbc.com readers share stories about how large spending cuts are leading to drastic measures in their school districts.

Techbargains.com

Logitech Comfort Wave 450 USB Wired Ergonomic Keyboard $19.99 Free Shipping at Newegg

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 2:35pm MST

Newegg Coupon Codes
TODAY ONLY Lowe Alpine Atlantis Men's Jacket $59.95 at Sierra Trading Post

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 2:30pm MST

Sierra Trading Post Coupon Codes

MSNBC.com: U.S. News

Court OKs ‘under God’ in Pledge of Allegiance

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 2:28pm MST

A federal appeals court in San Francisco has ruled that the phrase "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance is constitutional.
Yemen holds N.J. man after al-Qaida shootout

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 2:25pm MST

Yemen counterterrorism authorities captured a U.S. citizen of Somali origin after he shot his way out of a hospital in the Middle Eastern country, officials say.

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Crock Pot 6-Quart Slow Cooker w/ Warmer, Cookbook from $38 + free shipping

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 2:20pm MST

Costco offers its members the Crock Pot Stainless Steel 6-Quart Slow Cooker bundled with the Little Dipper Warmer and a Cookbook for $37.99 with free shipping. (Non-members pay $1.90 more.) That's the lowest total price we could find for this bundle by $31. Sales tax is added where applicable. This slow cooker features a programmable cooking time from 30 minutes up to 20 hours. The Little Dipper holds 16-oz. of dips and sauces. Deal ends April 3.

Techbargains.com

eForCity Deals: (USB 2.0 to IDE/SATA Converter Cables $12.99, Apple iPod Charger Pack $9.49) at Eforcity

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 2:20pm MST

Eforcity Coupon Codes
Garmin nuvi 265T GPS (3.5in, Bluetooth, Lifetime Traffic Updates) $99.99 $1.99 Shipping at Newegg

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 2:15pm MST

Newegg Coupon Codes

CNN.com - U.S.

School sued for canceling prom over lesbian student

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 2:15pm MST

A Mississippi high school faces a lawsuit over its decision to cancel its prom rather than allow a lesbian high school student to attend with her girlfriend.

MSNBC.com: Technology & Science

Water in moon rocks likely came from comets

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 2:15pm MST

Genuine moon water has been found for the first time in rocks that were brought back to Earth during NASA's historic Apollo missions 40 years ago.

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JVC Everio 8GB Flash Memory Digital Camcorder for $228 + free shipping

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 2:14pm MST

6th Avenue Electronics offers the JVC Everio GZ-MS230 8GB Flash Memory Digital Camcorder in Red (pictured), Black, or Blue, for $242.95. Coupon code "BONUSBUY" cuts it to $228.38. With free shipping, that's the lowest total price we could find by $12. This digital camcorder features up to 640x480 video recording, 2.7" widescreen LCD, 8GB of internal memory, SDHC card slot, and USB 2.0 connectivity.
Accutire Digital Programmable Tire Gauge for $8 + $3 s&h

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 2:12pm MST

Today only, Tanga.com offers the Accutire Digital Programmable Tire Gauge, model no. MS-4357B, for $6.99. With shipping at $2.99, it's the lowest total price we could find by $13. It features a white LED flashlight, blue backlit display, and beep verification. It can measure 5 to 99 PSI.
Bush Somerset Bookcase for $130 + free shipping

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 2:11pm MST

Staples offers the Bush Somerset Bookcase in Maple Cross for $129.99. With free shipping, that's $20 off and the lowest total price we could find. Sales tax is added where applicable. This bookcase features five shelves (three adjustable) and tapered legs. Deal ends March 13.

Techbargains.com

Energy RC-Micro 5.1 Home Theater Speaker System $399.99 Free Shipping at Crutchfield

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 2:10pm MST

Crutchfield Coupon Codes

MSNBC.com: U.S. News

Ohio State shooter left note, tells woman ‘sorry’

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 2:09pm MST

An Ohio State University janitor was armed with more 50 rounds of ammunition when he walked into a campus maintenance shop and shot two supervisors before killing himself, police say.

Techbargains.com

HP Pavilion Elite e9290f Intel Core i7-920 2.66GHz Desktop (REFURB, 9GB/1TB/Geforce GTX260 1.8GB) $799.99 at JR.com

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 2:05pm MST

JR.com Coupon Codes

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Men's Titanium Bracelet for $15 + $4 s&h

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 2:04pm MST

Today only, Tanga.com offers this Men's Titanium Bracelet for $14.99. With $3.99 for shipping, that's a $1 drop from our December mention and tied for the lowest total price we've seen for this bracelet. It's made of lightweight, hypoallergenic titanium that won't tarnish.

Techbargains.com

20-Pack Philips Alkaline AAA Batteries $4.99 Free Shipping at Meritline

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 2:00pm MST

Meritline Coupon Codes
EXPIRING Argosy HV372T TV HD Media Player (1080i Upscaling, HDMI) w/ 3.5in HDD Bay $54.99 at SuperBiiz.com (eWiz.com)

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 1:55pm MST

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Puma Men's Complete Magnetist III Road Running Shoes for $52 + $9 s&h, more

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 1:54pm MST

Today only, REI offers the Puma Men's Complete Magnetist III Road Running Shoes in Silver/Red/Black (pictured) for $63.93. Add it to your cart and these shoes fall to $51.93. Shipping adds $8.99, or choose free site-to-store shipping. Even with shipping, that's the lowest total price we could find by $11. Sales tax is added where applicable. These shoes are available in sizes 6.5 through 13.
Also available are the Puma Women's Complete Magnetist III Road Running Shoes in Azealea Pink/Silver/Black for $51.93 after an in-cart discount plus $8.99 for shipping, another price low. They're available in sizes 6 to 11.
Hollister: Spend $150, get a $50 gift card, more

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 1:52pm MST

Online only at Hollister, spend $150 or more and get a $50 gift card. It's the best discount we've seen from this merchant, which sells men's and women's apparel. Plus, it's cumulative; for example, spend $300 for a $100 gift card. Shipping starts at $8.95 and sales tax is added where applicable. The gift card will arrive in the mail and must be redeemed by April 30.

Techbargains.com

eMachines ET1331G-03w AMD Athlon X2 235e 2.7GHz Dual-Core Computer (6GB/750/Win7) $299Free Shipping at PC Connection

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 1:50pm MST

PC Connection Coupon Codes

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Dog Breed Cell Phone Charm for $6 + $4 shipping, more

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 1:44pm MST

The Animal Rescue Site offers these Dog Breed Cell Phone Charms in eight styles (Shih Tzu pictured) for $5.80 plus $3.95 for shipping. That's the lowest total price we could find by a buck. These charms affix to your phone with a looped cord. Additionally, The Animal Rescue Site will fund 14 bowls of food for animals living in sanctuaries and shelters with each charm purchased.

MSNBC.com: U.S. News

Mass. club pleads no contest in boy’s Uzi death

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 1:41pm MST

A Massachusetts sporting club is donating $10,000 to children's charities as part of a deal settling criminal charges in the death of an 8-year-old boy who accidentally shot himself.

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Refurb HP Pavilion Elite Core i7 Quad Core 2.66GHz PC for $799 + free shipping

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 1:40pm MST

JR.com offers the factory-refurbished HP Pavilion Elite E9290F Intel Core i7 2.66GHz Desktop PC (no monitor), model no. AU850AA#ABA, for $799 with free shipping. That's $26 under last week's mention and $351 less than the lowest total price we could find for a new, factory-sealed system. Features include an Intel Core i7-920 2.66GHz quad-core processor, 9GB RAM, 1TB 7200 rpm hard drive, DVD burner with LightScribe, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 1.8GB video card, memory card reader, 802.11a/n wireless, Gigabit Ethernet, and Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit. A 90-day HP warranty applies.

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HP Pavilion dv7-2273cl Intel Core 2 Duo T6600 2.2Ghz 17in Laptop (REFURB/ATI HD 4650/Blu-Ray) $674.99 Free Shipping at Buy.com

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 1:40pm MST

Buy.com Coupon Codes

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Canon Compatible Ink Cartridge 18-Pack with CD Wallet for $25 + free shipping

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 1:38pm MST

DEAL800.com offers the Canon Compatible BCI3e/BCI6 Inkjet Cartridge 18-Pack for $24.99. Plus, receive a free 8-Disc CD / DVD Wallet with your order via coupon code "GIFT10DVD8". (Applying the coupon adds the item to your cart.) With free shipping, that's $1.38 per cartridge and the lowest total price we've seen for this type of ink in this quantity. It includes six Black, four Cyan, four Magenta, and four Yellow cartridges.

CNN.com - U.S.

Coroner: Post-Katrina hospital death not homicide

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 1:36pm MST

After reviewing the case of a woman who died at New Orleans, Louisiana's Memorial Hospital in the days after Hurricane Katrina, coroner Frank Minyard said Thursday that he cannot classify her death as a homicide.

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EXPIRING Seasonic X Series 650W ATX Power Supply (80PLUS GOLD!) $138.99 Free Shipping at SuperBiiz.com (eWiz.com)

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 1:35pm MST

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Set of 4 Pfaltzgraff Emerald Pedestal Mugs for $10 + $7 s&h

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 1:35pm MST

Today only, Pfaltzgraff offers this Set of Four Pfaltzgraff Emerald Pedestal Mugs for $9.99 plus $6.95 for shipping. That's the lowest total price we could find for this set by $18. It includes four 11-oz. mugs.
Hoover Platinum Upright Vacuum Cleaner w/ Canister Vac for $180 + $19 s&h

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 1:34pm MST

Macy's offers the Hoover Platinum Upright Vacuum Cleaner, model no. UH30010COM, bundled with the Hoover Portable Canister Vacuum for $200. Apply coupon code "WEEKEND" to drop it to $180. With $18.95 for shipping, that's $46 under our October mention and the lowest total price we could find by $75. Sales tax is added where applicable. It features a dusting brush, crevice tool, bare floor brush, HEPA bag support, and more.
Southwest Airlines Rapid Rewards: 1 bonus credit for free w/ CA flights

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 1:33pm MST

Southwest Airlines offers its Rapid Rewards members one extra Rapid Rewards credit for free when you travel between any two cities in California. (It's per 1-way flight; round-trip flights receive two extra credits.) That's the best deal we've seen for this program this year. (Normally, these routes earn a single credit in each direction.) Before booking, you must register for the promotion by signing into your Rapid Rewards account. Book by April 6 for travel through May 26.

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Bulgari Diagono Men's Automatic Watch $1479 Free Shipping at The Watchery

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 1:30pm MST

The Watchery Coupon Codes

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Cables Unlimited Automatic USB 2.0 PC Lock for $9 + free shipping

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 1:27pm MST

eCOST.com via eBay Daily Deal offers the Cables Unlimited Automatic USB 2.0 PC Lock, model no. USB2200, for $8.99. With free shipping, that's the lowest total price we could find by $3, although we saw it for $3 less in September. This security device automatically locks a PC when the user is more than six feet away from the computer. A wireless transmitter is also included. Deal ends March 14 at 6:49 pm ET.

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Plantronics GameCom X20 Xbox 360 Wired Headset $9.99 Free Shipping at Buy.com

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 1:25pm MST

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CNNMoney.com

Trying to flunk banks out of college

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 1:24pm MST

President Obama has been waging a war with banks over who gets to dole out cheap student loans backed by the federal government.

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Refurbished HP Pavilion p6240f Core 2 Quad 2.5GHz PC for $529 + free shipping

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 1:22pm MST

JR.com offers the factory-refurbished HP Pavilion p6240f Intel Core 2 Quad 2.5GHz Desktop PC (no monitor), model no. NY550AA#ABA, for $529 with free shipping. That's $21 under our October mention of a new, factory-sealed unit, and the lowest total price we could find by $29. Features include an Intel Core 2 Quad Q8300 2.5GHz quad-core processor, 8GB RAM, 750GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s hard drive, dual layer DVD burner with LightScribe, Gigabit Ethernet, 802.11a/n wireless, memory card reader, and Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit. A 90-day HP warranty applies.

Techbargains.com

Canon CanoScan 8800F Flatbed Color Film/Negative/Photo Scanner $159.99 at Newegg

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 1:20pm MST

Newegg Coupon Codes

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HP 20" Laptop Roller Case for $65 + free shipping

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 1:19pm MST

The HP Home & Home Office Store offers the HP 20" Notebook Roller Case, model no. KD853PA, for $79.99. Coupon code "SVBT557332" chops it to $64.99. With free shipping, that's $15 under our February mention and the lowest total price we could find by by $30. Sales tax is added where applicable. This laptop case accommodates laptops with screens of up to 20" and includes a telescoping handle, pneumatic wheels, two front pockets, and more. Coupon ends April 30.
Remanufactured HP-Compatible Inkjet Cartridge 6-Pack for $53 + $5 s&h

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 1:18pm MST

InkGrabber.com offers its remanufactured HP C6656AN / C6657AN Compatible Inkjet Cartridge 6-Pack (4 black, 2 color) for $69.99. Add coupon code "MAC56A" to your cart to chop it to $52.95. With $4.95 for shipping, it's tied with our August mention as the lowest total price we've seen for this bundle. It's compatible with a whole host of HP DeskJet, OfficeJet, and Photosmart printers.

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HP 8GB USB Flash Drive $16.99 Free Shipping at Newegg

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 1:15pm MST

Newegg Coupon Codes

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Philips PowerLife AAA Alkaline Battery 20-Pack for $5 + free shipping

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 1:13pm MST

Meritline.com offers the Philips PowerLife AAA Alkaline Battery 20-Pack for $7.95. (The middle option.) Apply coupon code "MLCK171232031137TL1" to drop it to $4.95 with free shipping. That's 25 cents per battery and the lowest total price we could find. Coupon expires after 500 redemptions.

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Toshiba REGZA 40XV645U 40 inch LCD HDTV (1080p, 120Hz) $599.99 at Newegg

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 1:10pm MST

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HP Pavilion s5370t Core i3 Dual Core 2.93GHz PC for $530 + free shipping

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 1:09pm MST
HP Home & Home Office Store offers its HP Pavilion Slimline s5370t Intel Core i3 2.93GHz Desktop PC, model no. AZ214AV#ABA, for $529.99 with free shipping via the directions below. While that's $18 over our mention from 10 days ago, since expired, at $220 off, it's the lowest total price we could find for this configuration. Sales tax is added where applicable. It features an Intel Core i3-530 2.93GHz dual-core processor, 4GB RAM, 640GB 7200 rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s hard drive, dual layer DVD burner with LightScribe, Gigabit Ethernet, media card reader, and Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit. To get this deal:
1. Click here to get started and select the top "Customize & Buy" button at $549.99
2. select "FREE UPGRADE! 640GB 7200 rpm SATA 3Gb/s hard drive from 500GB (+$0)"
3. add coupon code "DTAL89741" to cut the price to $529.99 with free shipping

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Intel Entry Storage System SS4200-E NAS Server (4-Bays) $149.99 Free Shipping at Newegg

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 1:05pm MST

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HP 16" Bronze Laptop Sleeve for $12 + free shipping

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 1:01pm MST

eCOST.com via eBay Daily Deal offers the HP Bronze 16" Notebook Sleeve, model no. NN162AA, for $11.99 with free shipping. That ties our February mention of this laptop sleeve in Titainium and the lowest total price we could find by $3. It features an exterior pocket and fits laptops up to 16". Deal ends March 14 at 7:06 pm ET.

MSNBC.com: U.S. News

Italy convict blames Knox, ex-boyfriend

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 1:01pm MST

A man convicted in the 2007 slaying of a British student has written a letter implicating his co-defendants and denying he had ever said they had nothing to do with the murder.

Techbargains.com

Dell Vostro 1015 Intel Core 2 Duo T6570 2.1GHz 15.6in Laptop w/ Windows 7 $499 at Dell Small Business

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 1:00pm MST

Dell Small Business Coupon Codes

The Simple Dollar

Convenience Foods: What They Really Cost

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 1:00pm MST by Trent

Every time I visit the grocery store, I’m amazed to see how much of the fresh produce aisle is taken up with prepackaged fresh foods. You know what I’m talking about – bags of prewashed lettuce, pre-cut apples, pre-cut celery, pre-cut pineapple, and so on.

I understand why such items are for sale – they’re convenient. It’s easier to just grab a bag of prewashed romaine lettuce than it is to grab a head of romaine and deal with it when you get home.

Yet, when you look at the prices, you’re actually paying a significant markup. Two bags of Dole romaine lettuce at my local grocer costs about the same as a single head of romaine. The bags cost about $4.50 together, while the head costs about $1.60 (with some variance, of course, due to weight, sales, and so on). By buying the head, you save $2.90 – or, from a different perspective, you’re paying $2.90 for the convenience of someone else washing your lettuce.

Is that really worth it? I bought a head of romaine lettuce myself, put it in one of those handy bags that they provide, and took it home with me. Upon arriving home, I set a stopwatch for myself, then chopped the leaves off of the head of lettuce, rinsed them thoroughly, rinsed the bag a bit (leaving some moisture inside), then put the leaves back in the bag, tying it. I then tossed the knife in the dishwasher and stopped the stopwatch.

Total time? Three minutes. Actually, it was just a bit shy of that.

Let’s say over the course of the next year, I repeat the same action twenty times. I buy a head of romaine, put it in one of those bags from the store, take it home, chop it myself, and store it in that bag. Each time, I’m saving myself $2.90. Over the course of a year, I spend an hour chopping up the lettuce and save myself a total of $58.

The same holds true for all of those convenience foods.

Apple slices? I found apples I like at the store for $1.29 a pound, whereas pre-sliced apples added up to $4.76 a pound (I found four four-ounce bags of them for $1.19 each). I have a nice little apple slicer, so I’m able to slice up a few apples at dinnertime and completely clean up from it in about thirty seconds. My estimate on this is that buying un-cut apples saves me about $80 for every hour of apple-slicing I’m willing to do.

Celery sticks? I can buy a bag of celery for $1.49 or I can buy about three containers of pre-sliced sticks for $1.99 each. I spend about four minutes cutting the sticks and it saves me $3.47 – or about $52 over the course of a full hour.

I can go on and on with these items, but in each case the central idea is true: the convenience has a really, really high cost, much more than it might seem at first glance.

To me, this type of convenience food is a perfect example of how the little things really add up when it comes to personal finance. There are so many little conveniences that we pay for in life, whether it’s pre-sliced apples or take-out food or a lawn care service. When you actually step back and calculate the hourly rate that these things are costing you, it’s truly astounding. Yet people fill their lives with these conveniences and question those who skip out on them, then they wonder why it’s challenging to make ends meet.

Take a stand today. Slice your own vegetables. Then put that saved money aside for something for yourself.

broadbandreports.com

Frontier Suggests You Ignore Judge Critical Of Verizon Deal - Because said Judge 'ignores the numerous public interest benefits.'

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 12:57pm MST

Earlier this week we noted how a Judge in Illinois had issued a 47-page report claiming that Verizon's sale of their DSL and landline networks in the state would be both bad for consumers, and bad for Frontier. According to Judge Lisa Tapial, the $8.5 billion deal (which would immediately infuse Frontier with nearly 6 million new voice and broadband connections) "will diminish Frontier s ability to perform its duties to provide adequate, reliable, efficient, safe and least-cost public utility service." Frontier has issued a press release that unsurprisingly argues that the Judge doesn't know what she's talking about:Today s proposed order by an ALJ in Illinois ignores the numerous public interest benefits outlined in the complete record developed in the Frontier/Verizon transaction. . . Frontier has been a leading provider of telecommunications services to Illinois customers for a decade, and during this time we have demonstrated our ability to meet our commitment to providing quality service. Without any regulatory mandates we have deployed broadband availability to more than 90 percent of our footprint in Illinois. "We hope to deliver these same broadband benefits to even more consumers in Illinois as soon as possible."It's not clear what "numerous public benefits" Frontier's referring to, given Judge Tapial's point was that the Verizon deal infuses Frontier with so much debt -- they may not be able to provide any. Meanwhile, it's not exactly as if Frontier is lighting it up in the territories they serve now. Our Frontier user reviews are thoroughly average, the carrier isn't offering next-generation speeds (most users are served with 3 Mbps or less), and just a few years ago the carrier was considering applying a 5GB cap on all DSL tiers.

Which "numerous public benefits" are we talking about, exactly?
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LuggageGuy.com: Up to 74% off select luggage + extra 20% off, free shipping

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 12:56pm MST
LuggageGuy.com cuts up to 74% off select luggage and accessories. Plus, take an extra 20% off via coupon code "SPRING20". That's tied with a February offer as the best percent-off coupon we've seen from LuggageGuy.com this year. Plus, all orders qualify for free shipping. Coupon expires March 15. Notable deals:
- Diane von Furstenberg Color on the Go Laptop Tote for $39.96
- Nautica Starboard 24" Wheeled Duffle for $47.96
- Nautica Starboard 4-Piece Luggage Set (pictured) for $199.96
- Tommy Bahama Luggage Aruba 3-Piece Luggage Set for $263.96
- Columbia Luggage Rebel Pro 3-Piece Luggage Set for $279.96
- browse LuggageGuy.com for more buying ideas

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Sushi chef charged with serving illegal whale

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 12:55pm MST

Federal prosecutors file charges against a sushi chef and a Santa Monica restaurant on allegations that they served illegal and endangered whale meat.

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Lenovo N30B Wireless Optical Mouse w/ Nano-Sized USB Adapter $15.29 Free Shipping at lenovo

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 12:55pm MST

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6pm Last Chance Clearance: 10% to 90% off, deals from $6 + $7 s&h

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 12:54pm MST
6pm.com takes 10% to 90% off more than 1,000 items as part of its Last Chance Clearance sale. With $6.95 for shipping, it's among the largest sales we've ever from 6pm.com this year, as it puts many items at or near lowest-we've-seen prices. Sizes and stock may be limited. Some best bets:
- A-Line Kids' Atanado Clogs for $6.30
- Reebok Men's Team NFL Thorpe Cleats for $8.58
- Trotters Women's Jess Shoes for $9.10
- KORS Michael Kors Women's Pollux Shoes (pictured) for $25.35
- Stuart Weitzman Women's GloAmbiance Pumps for $25.60
- browse the entire Last Chance Clearance sale at 6pm.com

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New Thrifty Car Rental Coupon Codes at Thrifty Car Rental

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 12:52pm MST

Thrifty Car Rental Coupon Codes
New Shoes.com Coupon Cod Extra 25% Off Sale + Free Shipping at Shoes.com

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 12:51pm MST

Shoes.com Coupon Codes

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Overstock: 10% off entertainment centers + free shipping

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 12:50pm MST
Overstock.com takes an extra 10% off select entertainment centers. Plus, orders of $50 or more qualify for free shipping via this link. Otherwise, shipping adds $2.95. Combined, that's the best sale we've seen on these items from Overstock.com since January. Some best bets:
- Contemporary 41" Media Storage Tower for $67.04
- Audio Rack on Heavy-Duty Casters for $113.39
- Rolling 35" TV Cart for $116.99
- Swivel-Base TV Stand in Dark Grey for $134.09
- Castillo 44" TV Console in Brown Wood (pictured) for $160.19
- browse all entertainment centers on sale at Overstock.com

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Dell ST2210 22in Widescreen LCD Monitor (1920x1080) $139 Free Shipping at Dell Home

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 12:50pm MST

Dell Home Coupon Codes

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Samsung Mythic a897 3G Smartphone Bundle for AT&T for free + free shipping

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 12:50pm MST

With activation of a new voice and data plan, Wirefly.com offers the Samsung Mythic a897 3G Smartphone for AT&T with a Micro Bluetooth Headset, 4GB microSD Card, and $40 bill credit for free. With free shipping and free activation, that's tied with last week's mention as about $100 less than the best total price we could find for a comparable deal elsehwere. The phone features a 3.3" touchscreen with accelerometer and haptic feedback, 3.2-megapixel camera / camcorder, virtual QWERTY keyboard, Bluetooth, up to three hours of talk time, and more.

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Disney Store Coupon Code Extra 20% Off Outlet at Disney Store

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 12:47pm MST

Disney Store Coupon Codes
AT&T Pantech Impact 3G Cell Phone Full QWERTY Keyboard FREE w/ Contract at AT&T

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 12:45pm MST

AT&T Coupon Codes

MSNBC.com: U.S. News

Civil liberties group sues prison company

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 12:45pm MST

The American Civil Liberties Union is suing state prison officials and a private company, claiming violence is rampant at the Idaho Correctional Center.

MSNBC.com: Technology & Science

Report finds online censorship more sophisticated

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 12:44pm MST

Repressive regimes have stepped up efforts to censor the Internet and jail dissidents. That's what Reporters Without Borders says in a study released Thursday.

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Male DVI-I to Female HDMI Adapter for $1 + free shipping

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 12:43pm MST

Meritline.com offers this Male DVI-I to Female HDMI Adapter for $3.99. Add coupon code "MLCK253464031163AL1" to your cart to cut it to $1.49. With free shipping, it's a 50 cent drop from our January mention and tied for the lowest total price we've seen for this type of adapter. Deal ends March 11.
Timberland sale: Up to 60% off + extra 20% off

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 12:37pm MST
Timberland cuts up to 60% off select items during its latest sale. Plus, take an extra 20% off your order via coupon code "HIKE2010". Together, it's tied with our mention from last week as the best discount we've seen from Timberland in recent months. Shipping starts at $4.95 or get free shipping on orders of $100 or more via the coupon code above. Sales tax is added where applicable. Coupon expires March 14. Some best bets, with prices after discount:
- Timberland Men's Acrylic Radar Cap for $7.99
- Timberland Men's Universal Green T-Shirt for $11.99
- Timberland Women's Carmona Link Moccasins for $39.99
- Timberland Men's Onuma Plain Toe Oxfords (pictured) for $63.99
- Timberland Women's New Rain Shoulder Bag for $147.99
- browse for more sale items at Timberland (click "Sale" at the top of the page)
HP Pavilion p6370t Core i3 Dual Core 2.93GHz PC for $530 + free shipping

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 12:36pm MST
HP Home & Home Office Store offers its HP Pavilion p6370t Intel Core i3 2.93GHz Desktop PC, model no. AZ210AV#ABA, for $529.99 with free shipping via the directions below. That's $220 off and ties our February mention as the lowest total price we could find for this configuration. Sales tax is added where applicable. It features an Intel Core i3-530 2.93GHz dual-core processor, 4GB RAM, 640GB 7200 rpm hard drive, dual layer DVD burner with LightScribe, Gigabit Ethernet, media card reader, and Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit. To get this deal:
1. Click here to begin and select the top "Customize & Buy" button at $549.99
2. select "FREE UPGRADE! 640GB 7200 rpm SATA 3Gb/s hard drive from 500GB (+$0)"
3. select "Review & buy" and add to your cart for $549.99
4. add coupon code "DTAL89741" to cut the price to $529.99 with free shipping

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Logitech Comfort Wave 450 USB Wired Ergonomic Keyboard $19.99AR Free Shipping at Newegg

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 12:35pm MST

Newegg Coupon Codes

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Refurbished Logitech Pure-Fi Anytime iPod Speaker System for $44 + $8 s&h

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 12:33pm MST

Once again, UncleVic.com offers the refurbished Logitech Pure-Fi Anytime iPod Speaker System, model no. 980-000192, for $43.99 plus $8.07 for shipping. That's a $4 drop from our February mention and the lowest total price we could find by $8. Features include motion-activated, backlit controls, a dual alarm with motion-sensing snooze, digital AM/FM radio, remote control, and more.

Note: A 90-day warranty applies, although it's unclear who supports it.

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Seagate Barracuda LP (Low-Power) 1.5TB Internal SATA Hard Drive $99.99 Free Shipping at Newegg

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 12:30pm MST

Newegg Coupon Codes

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March Madness gets new life on the Web

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 12:29pm MST

The NCAA is testing whether college hoops fans will want to watch old highlights online.

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Panasonic VIERA G10 46" 1080p Plasma HDTV for $959 + free shipping

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 12:27pm MST

Beach Camera via eBay Daily Deal offers the Panasonic VIERA 46" 1080p THX-Certified Widescreen Plasma HD Television, model no. TC-P46G10, for $959 with free shipping. That's $40 below our February mention and the lowest total price we've seen, this time by $11. The Lucasfilm THX Certified Display Program ensures the TC-P42G10 recreates the same range of colors (or color gamut) used by studios in the post-production process. Other features include a 1920x1080 (1080p) native resolution, 600Hz sub-field drive, 40,000:1 contrast ratio, SD card slot, three HDMI inputs, and VGA, component, and other video inputs. Deal ends April 2 at 6:34 pm ET.

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Pfaltzgraff Coupon Code Extra 40% off at Pfaltzgraff

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 12:25pm MST

Pfaltzgraff Coupon Codes

CNN.com - U.S.

Report: 12-year-olds abusing inhalants

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 12:20pm MST

When their kids turn 12, parents are concerned about peers pressuring them to smoke cigarettes, drink and use drugs, but it turns out 12-year-olds are doing something else: getting high on inhalants.

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Acer P201Wd 20in Widescreen LCD Monitor $99.95 Free Shipping at PC Connection

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 12:20pm MST

PC Connection Coupon Codes

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Citi's Pandit aims for $20 billion in profits

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 12:19pm MST

Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit offered a bold outlook for his troubled firm Thursday, saying he hoped his company would soon be able to deliver profits of approximately $20 billion.

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Sceptre X226W-1920 22in Widescreen LCD Monitor $139.99 Free Shipping at Newegg

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 12:15pm MST

Newegg Coupon Codes

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Ex-New Orleans cop pleads in shooting scheme

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 12:13pm MST

A second former New Orleans police officer pleads guilty to covering up the deadly shooting of residents after Hurricane Katrina, with a judge calling the plot a "despicable" scheme.

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Lids coupon: Free shipping sitewide

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 12:12pm MST

Lids offers free shipping sitewide with no minimum required via coupon code "LIDSFREEGROUND". That's among the few free shipping coupons we've seen from this merchant. (The last time one was offered was in December.) Sales tax is added where applicable. Coupon expires March 14.

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Gap Coupon Code 20% Off Sale Items at Gap

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 12:10pm MST

Gap Coupon Codes
Iomega Prestige 1TB USB 2.0 Desktop External Hard Drive $80.99 Free Shipping at Dell Small Business

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 12:05pm MST

Dell Small Business Coupon Codes

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Books-A-Million Bargain Books: Up to 80% off select items + coupons

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 12:03pm MST

Books-A-Million takes up to 80% off select titles in its Bargain Books section. Plus, take $10 off orders of $50 or more via coupon code "BKCLUB3", or $20 off orders of $100 or more via coupon code "MRCHTWEN". Shipping starts at $2.99, or get free shipping on orders of $25 or more. Together, that's one of the best discounts we've seen from Books-A-Million and yields some very low prices on books. Sales tax is added where applicable.

MSNBC.com: Technology & Science

Video: Sony makes a ‘Move’ on motion-control

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 12:02pm MST

Motion-control took center stage for the Playstation 3 and the Xbox 360. Cnbc's Jim Goldman reports. (CNBC)

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New Nordstrom Coupon Code Free Shipping on Shoes, Shoe Clearance up to 60% Off at Nordstrom

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 12:01pm MST

Nordstrom Coupon Codes

MSNBC.com: U.S. News

Woman rescued after car plows off Calif. bridge

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 12:00pm MST

A woman whose car plunged off a bridge into the murky Los Angeles River was fighting for her life after being submerged for nearly a half-hour, officials says.

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4-Pack 6 Foot HDMI Cable (1440p) $7.99 Free Shipping at Supermediastore

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 12:00pm MST

Supermediastore Coupon Codes

CNNMoney.com

Nurses paid more than family doctors

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 11:57am MST

Despite the growing shortage of family doctors in the United States, medical centers last year offered higher salaries and incentives to specialist nurses than to primary care doctors, according to an annual survey of physicians' salaries.

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Nurses paid more than family doctors

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 11:57am MST

Despite the growing shortage of family doctors in the United States, medical centers last year offered higher salaries and incentives to specialist nurses than to primary care doctors, according to an annual survey of physicians' salaries.

CNNMoney.com

GMAC: The scariest zombie

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 11:56am MST

Now that Citigroup and AIG are rolling in the bucks, GMAC is looking like the most egregious zombie bank of them all.

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Refurb Pavilion Core 2 Duo 2.2GHz 17" Laptop w/Blu-ray for $675 + free shipping

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 11:56am MST

Ending today, XMD via Buy.com offers the refurbished 7.74-lb HP Pavilion dv7-2273cl Intel Core 2 Duo 2.2GHz 17.3" Widescreen Notebook for $674.99 with free shipping. That's $25 under the lowest total price we could find for a new, factory-sealed unit. It features an Intel Core 2 Duo T4400 2.2GHz dual-core processor, 17.3" 1600x900 LED-backlit widescreen LCD, 4GB RAM, 500GB hard drive, Blu-ray ROM / dual-layer DVD burner with LightScribe, ATI Radeon HD 4650 1GB video card w/HDMI, webcam, 802.11a/n wireless, Gigabit Ethernet, 8-cell battery, and Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit.
Note that no warranty information is provided.

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Bush Furniture Bush Somerset Collection Bookcase $129.99 Free Shipping at Staples

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 11:55am MST

Staples Coupon Codes

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Mobile Laptop Computer Cart w/ Storage for $58 + free shipping

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 11:52am MST

Target offers this Mobile Notebook Computer Cart with Storage for $63.99 with free shipping. Coupon code "WH2TEBMD" cuts it to $57.59. That's $21 off and the lowest total price we could find. Sales tax is added where applicable. It measures 22" x 16" x 44" and features an adjustable top and lower storage shelf.

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Jamba Juice Printable Coupon: $1 off All Fruit Smoothies at Jamba Juice

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 11:51am MST

Jamba Juice Coupon Codes
Lenovo G550 Intel Core 2 Duo T6600 2.2GHz 15.6in Laptop (3GB/250GB/Win7) $499 at lenovo

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 11:50am MST

lenovo Coupon Codes

CNN.com - U.S.

Ex-NOPD cop admits role in cover-up of LA bridge shooting

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 11:48am MST

A second former New Orleans police officer pleaded guilty Thursday in connection with police shootings of civilians on a Louisiana bridge in the days following Hurricane Katrina, authorities said.

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American Tourister Children's 2-Piece Luggage Set for $27 + free shipping

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 11:48am MST

Buy.com offers the American Tourister Children's Atties 2-Piece Luggage Set, in Penquin, model no. 41222-1345, for $26.99 with free shipping. That ties last week's mention for one in Lady Bug (since expired), and is the lowest total price we could find by $4. The set contains a mini backpack with shoulder straps and a 17" upright bag with zippered opening to the large storage compartment.

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NYC woman beaten after rejecting advances

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 11:47am MST

New York City police say a stranger followed a woman into a bar restroom after she rejected his advances and savagely beat her in a toilet stall.

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Refurbished Sony Webbie HD Memory Stick Camcorder for $100 + free shipping

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 11:45am MST

Sony Style offers the factory-refurbished Sony Webbie HD Memory Stick Digital Camcorder in Orange, model no. MHSCM1/D, for $99.99. With free shipping, that's $10 under our February mention for one in Silver and is $60 under the lowest total price we could find for a new, factory-sealed unit today. Sales tax is added where applicable. This 7-oz. camcorder lets you shoot video in high definition MP4 (H.264) format at 1440x1080 resolution and take 5-megapixel still images on Memory Stick PRO Duo media. It features a 2.5" LCD, 5x optical zoom lens, integrated LED video light, and more. A 90-day Sony warranty applies.

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Lenovo S10-3t (Touchscreen) Intel Atom N450 PineTrail 10.1in Netbook (1GB/160GB/Win7) $466.65 at lenovo

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 11:45am MST

lenovo Coupon Codes

MSNBC.com: Technology & Science

Why the Chile earthquake aftershock was so big

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 11:41am MST

The whopping 7.2-magnitude aftershock that rattled Chile again today is nothing unusual following such a large original earthquake, scientists say.

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Lenovo L215P 22" 1080p LCD Display with webcam for $162 + free shipping

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 11:41am MST

Lenovo offers the Lenovo L215P 21.5" 1080p Widescreen LCD Monitor, model no. 6521HC1, for $179.99. Add it to your cart and apply coupon code "USPRETHINK" to cut the price to $161.99. With free shipping, that ties our February mention and is the lowest total price we could find by $28. Sales tax is added where applicable. Features include a 1920x1080 (1080p) native resolution, 1,000:1 contrast ratio, 5ms response time, 300 cd/m² brightness, built-in webcam, microphone, 3-port USB 2.0 hub, and both HDMI and VGA inputs.

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Lenovo S10-3 Intel Atom N450 Pinetrail 10.1in Netbook (Energy Efficient, 1GB/160GB/6-Cell/Win7) $313.65 at lenovo

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 11:40am MST

lenovo Coupon Codes
ShopEcko Select Black Rhino Hoodies only $19.99 at ShopEcko

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 11:37am MST

ShopEcko Coupon Codes
Gateway SX2800-07 Intel Core 2 Quad Q8300 2.5GHz Desktop Computer (4GB/640GB/Windows 7) $489.99 Free Ship at Newegg

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 11:35am MST

Newegg Coupon Codes

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Man accused of raping, beating 5 daughters

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 11:31am MST

A New Jersey man with apocalyptic visions is accused of years of terrorizing his family, raping his five daughters and impregnating three and beating his children with boards.

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Garmin nuvi 755T 4.3" Portable GPS with Lifetime Traffic for $165 + free shipping

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 11:31am MST

SuperBiiz.com offers the Garmin nüvi 755T 4.3" Widescreen Portable GPS Navigation System with Lifetime Traffic, model no. 010-00715-30, for $179.99. Coupon code "SHAMROCK10" cuts it to $164.99. With free shipping, that's $15 under our mention from earlier this month and the lowest total price we could find by $13. Features include a 4.3" widescreen touchscreen LCD, traffic receiver with free lifetime traffic updates, text-to-speech, FM transmitter, SD card slot, preloaded 2D/3D maps of North America, 3D building view, and more. Deal ends March 14.

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Uncharted 2: Drake's Fortune Game $44.99 Free Shipping at Dell Home

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 11:30am MST

Dell Home Coupon Codes

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Samsung 23" 1080p LCD w/ Logitech Wireless Desktop for $150 + free shipping

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 11:30am MST

Dell Small Business offers the Samsung 23" 1080p Widescreen LCD Monitor, model no. 2333SW, bundled with the Logitech MK300 Wireless Desktop, model no. 920-000920, for $239.99. Apply coupon "DFLJPV23RVJHT2" to drop it to $149.99. With free shipping, it's $30 under yesterday's mention and the lowest total price we've ever seen for this bundle. (Most places charge $200 or more for the display itself.) Sales tax is added where applicable. The monitor features a 1920x1080 (1080p) native resolution, 5ms response time, 1,000:1 contrast ratio, 300 cd/m² brightness, and DVI and VGA inputs. The wireless desktop includes a keyboard with 1-touch access controls and programmable F-keys, and a 1,200 dpi optical mouse. Deal ends March 13.
JBL 4-Way Floorstanding Loudspeaker for $395 + free shipping

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 11:27am MST

Amazon.com offers the JBL 4-Way Floorstanding Loudspeaker in Black, model no. L880, for $395 with free shipping. That's the lowest total price we could find by $61. It features a frequency response of 30kHz to 40kHz, 1" titanium dome tweeter, 6" woofers, aluminum waveguides, and more.

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Invicta 0008-IS466 Times Square Collection Stainless Steel Genuine Ostrich Strap Mens Watch $41 at InvictaShark

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 11:25am MST

InvictaShark Coupon Codes

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Jamba Juice printable coupon: $1 off Fruit Smoothies

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 11:24am MST

At select Jamba Juice locations, get $1 off any all Fruit Smoothies via this printable coupon. That's the best discount we've seen so far this year on smoothies at Jamba Juice. To find a location near you, click here. Deal ends April 10.
Case Logic 15" Lightweight Laptop Messenger Bag for $20 + free shipping

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 11:24am MST

BuyDig.com offers this Case Logic 15" Lightweight Notebook Messenger Bag, model no. LNM-15-GY, for $19.95 with free shipping. That's the lowest total price we could find by $5. It features a padded compartment that holds up to 15.4" laptops, padded shoulder strap, three zippered compartments, and more.
Dell Vostro 220s Core 2 Duo 2.93GHz Desktop PC w/ 19" LCD for $399 + $35 s&h

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 11:23am MST

Dell Small Business offers its Dell Vostro 220s Intel Core 2 Duo 2.93GHz Slim Tower Desktop PC with a Dell E Series E1910H 18.5" Widescreen LCD Monitor for $399 plus $35 for shipping. That's $352 off and the least expensive Core 2 Duo-equipped Vostro 220s PC we've seen bundled with a monitor since last June. (We saw a similar system for $10 less last month, although that model had a slower CPU and less memory.) Sales tax is added where applicable. This PC features an Intel Core 2 Duo E7500 2.93GHz processor, 2GB RAM, 320GB 7200 rpm hard drive, DVD burner, Gigabit Ethernet, and Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit. Deal ends March 17.
Lenovo ThinkPad Core 2 Duo 1.86GHz 12" Laptop for $1,210 + free shipping

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 11:21am MST
The Lenovo Shareholder Purchase Program offers the Lenovo ThinkPad X200 Intel Core 2 Duo 1.86GHz 12.1" Tablet Notebook, model no. 7448CTO, for $1,210.44 with free shipping via the directions below. (Anyone can order from this site; it's not just for shareholders.) That's $242 off and the least expensive ThinkPad X-series tablet laptop we could find. Sales tax is added where applicable. Features include an Intel Core 2 Duo SL9400 1.86GHz dual-core processor, 12.1" LED-backlit touchscreen LCD, 3GB RAM, 320GB 5400 rpm hard drive, media card reader fingerprint reader, webcam, 802.11n wireless, 8-cell battery, and Genuine Windows 7 Professional 32-bit. Coupon ends March 17. To get this deal:
1. Click here and create an account (or login to an existing account)
2. click on the Products tab at the top of the page, then choose "X Series Tablet" under Laptops & netbooks
3. click "View models" under ThinkPad X200 Tablet
4. select "New! Deal of the Week: ThinkPad X200 Tablet with Multi-Touch Screen"
5. scroll down and un-check "Mobile Media Base"
6. at checkout, apply coupon code "USPSTPATRICKSDAY" to cut it to $1,210.44
Note: if the links above do not work, copy "http://www.lenovo.com/spp" and paste it into your web browser.

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Microsoft Xbox 360 Arcade Gaming Console $159.99 Free Shipping at Dell Home

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 11:20am MST

Dell Home Coupon Codes
Western Digital My Book Mirror Edition Dual Drive 2TB External Hard Drve $143.99 Free Ship at Dell Small Business

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 11:15am MST

Dell Small Business Coupon Codes

MSNBC.com: Technology & Science

Warning: Ancient sex on show in Paris

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 11:14am MST

The latest show at Paris' Quai Branly museum comes with a warning for visitors: "This exhibition of Moche ceramics shows sexual acts of an explicit nature."

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New LuggageGuy.com Coupon Code 20% Off + Free Shipping at LuggageGuy.com

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 11:10am MST

LuggageGuy.com Coupon Codes

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Up to 32% off USB 2.0 hard drives: Deals from $54 + free shipping

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 11:10am MST
Dell Small Business offers takes $20 to $30 off select USB 2.0 hard drives via specific coupons, as listed below. Plus, each stacks with coupon code "KSTLP8VVB99PDK" for an extra 10% off. With free shipping, each is at the lowest total price we could find. Deal ends March 12. The hard drives, with prices after both discounts:
- Western Digital 320GB Portable USB 2.0 HDD (pictured) for $53.99 via code "65H1RM8KNT5J22"
- Western Digital 500GB Portable USB 2.0 HDD for $71.99 via code "C4XJD5$6L2S8M2"
- Iomega 1TB USB 2.0 External HDD for $80.99 via code "R3W?Q0C8?CX$1S"

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HP Officejet 6000 Color Inkjet Printer w/ Networking $59.99 Free Shipping at Newegg

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 11:05am MST

Newegg Coupon Codes

MSNBC.com: Technology & Science

Mummy of monotheist pharaoh heading home

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 11:03am MST

The DNA tests that revealed how the famed boy-king Tutankhamun most likely died solved another of ancient Egypt's enduring mysteries — the fate of controversial Pharaoh Akhenaten's mummy. The discovery could help fill out the picture of a fascinating era more than 3,300 years ago when Akhenaten embarked on history's first attempt at monotheism.

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Plextor SATA Blu-ray Reader / DVD Burner for $120 + free shipping

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 11:02am MST

TigerDirect.com offers the Plextor Serial ATA Combo Blu-ray Disc Reader / DVD Burner, model no. PX-B320SA, for $119.99 with free shipping. That's $25 under our July mention and the lowest total price we could find by $10. It features LightScribe support and reads Blu-ray discs at 8x, writes DVDs at 16x, and CDs at 48x.

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HP Home: HP Pavilion dv7t 17.3in Laptop Core i7-720QM 4GB 500GB 1GB video webcam $900 shipped

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 11:02am MST

HP Home: HP Pavilion dv7t 17.3in Laptop Core i7-720QM 4GB 500GB 1GB video webcam $900 shipped
HP Home: HP tm2t 12.1in Touchscreen Laptop Core SU7300 4GB 320GB Blu-Ray 11n webcam $905 shipped

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 11:02am MST

HP Home: HP tm2t 12.1in Touchscreen Laptop Core SU7300 4GB 320GB Blu-Ray 11n webcam $905 shipped
NewEgg: Western Digital 640GB SATA Notebook Hard Drive $85 shipped

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 11:01am MST

NewEgg: Western Digital 640GB SATA Notebook Hard Drive $85 shipped

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Verizon HTC Droid ERIS Cell Phone - FREE w/ Contract at Wirefly

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 11:00am MST

Wirefly Coupon Codes

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Dell Home: Price drop! Inspiron laptops w/ Core i3-330M from $549

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 11:00am MST

Dell Home: Price drop! Inspiron laptops w/ Core i3-330M from $549

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Creative ZEN MX 16GB MP3 Player for $80 + free shipping

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 10:57am MST

Creative offers its Creative ZEN MX 16GB MP3 Player in Black, model no. 70PF248100111, for $79.99 with free shipping. That ties our February mention and is the lowest total price we could find by $50. Sales tax is added where applicable. This 2.3-oz. player features a 2.5" 320x240 LCD display, built-in FM tuner with 32 preset stations, voice recorder, video and photo playback, SD card slot, USB connectivity, and more.

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Dell Home: Zline Elevations TV Stand for LCD/Plasma TV of Up to 42-inch $100 shipped

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 10:57am MST

Dell Home: Zline Elevations TV Stand for LCD/Plasma TV of Up to 42-inch $100 shipped

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Households recovering from economic freefall

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 10:56am MST

The net worth of American households increased slightly during the final three months of 2009, the Federal Reserve said Thursday.

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Staples Cushing Luxura Manager's Chair $99.99 Free Shipping at Staples

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 10:55am MST

Staples Coupon Codes

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Amazon: Acer AS5534-1121 15.6-Inch Laptop X2 L310 4GB 320GB 11n $500 shipped

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 10:52am MST

Amazon: Acer AS5534-1121 15.6-Inch Laptop X2 L310 4GB 320GB 11n $500 shipped

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Acer Aspire One Intel Atom 1.6GHz 10" Netbook for $280 + free shipping

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 10:52am MST

For "M" Club members only, mwave offers the 2.9-lb. Acer Aspire One AOD250-1958 Intel Atom 1.6GHz 10.1" Widescreen Netbook Laptop in Blue, model no. LU.S680B.492,for $279.99. ("M" Club membership is free; click here to sign up.) With free shipping, that's the lowest total price we could find by $26. It features an Intel Atom N270 1.6GHz processor, 10.1" 1024x600 widescreen LCD, 1GB RAM, 160GB hard drive, webcam, 802.11n wireless, memory card reader, 6-cell battery, and Windows XP Home.

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Walmart: Sharp LC19SB27UT 19in Class 720p 60Hz LCD HDTV $169

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 10:50am MST

Walmart: Sharp LC19SB27UT 19in Class 720p 60Hz LCD HDTV $169

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Rosewill Wind Knight Gaming ATX Mid Tower Computer Case w/ 2x 120mm Fans $49.99 Free Ship at Newegg

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 10:50am MST

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Amazon: Sleigh Glider Evergreen Striper Velvet $94 shipped

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 10:49am MST

Amazon: Sleigh Glider Evergreen Striper Velvet $94 shipped

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Universal Battery Charger for $4 + free shipping

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 10:47am MST

CellularFactory.com offers this Universal Battery Charger for $5.79. Coupon code "cf31253" cuts it to $3.79. With free shipping, that's a buck under last week's mention of a similar item and the lowest total price we've seen for such a charger. It charges multiple types of cell phone, PDA, and digital camera batteries regardless of size, capacity, and shape. Deal ends March 16.
Universal Screen Protector 3-Pack for $3 + free shipping

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 10:46am MST

CellularFactory.com offers this Universal Screen Protector 3-Pack for $5.13 with free shipping. Coupon code "scf38615" cuts it to $2.99. That's 50 cents under our January mention and the lowest total price we could find for these 3.18" x 2.36" screen protectors. Deal ends March 16.

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Dell Studio XPS 8000 Intel Core i5-750 Quad-Core 2.66GHz Desktop w/ Star Trek Movie & Game $599 at Dell Home

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 10:45am MST

Dell Home Coupon Codes

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Dell Small Business: new offers

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 10:43am MST

Dell Small Business: new offers

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Dell Outlet Coupon Codes 20% off Mini 10 Designer Netbook, 15% off Inspiron Laptops/Desktops at Dell Outlet

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 10:40am MST

Dell Outlet Coupon Codes

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Drs. Foster and Smith coupon: $5 off $5 or more

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 10:39am MST
Drs. Foster and Smith take $5 off a purchase of $5 or more via coupon code "34304001". That ties last week's mention as the best coupon we've seen from this merchant this year. Shipping starts at $5.99. Some best bets, with prices after coupon:
- Drs. Foster and Smith ComfortZone Feliway Wipes 5-Pack for $2.99
- Drs. Foster and Smith Car Safety Harness for Dogs for $9.99
- Drs. Foster and Smith Ba-Da-Beam Cat Toy for $10.99
- Drs. Foster and Smith Classic Dog Piddle Pads 30-Count (pictured) for $12.99
- Drs. Foster and Smith Cozy Cave Dog Bed from $59.99
- see more buying options at Drs. Foster and Smith

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It's a small (cap) world after all - The Buzz

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 10:38am MST

Want to know if all this talk of an economic recovery is for real? Don't think big. Think small.

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Opinion: Why Assassin's Creed 2 is no fun

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 10:37am MST

Let's imagine this terrifying scenario for a moment. You come home from a long day of work and sit in front of your computer to try out your newly purchased copy of the video game Assassin's Creed 2, and then ... nothing happens. You face an immobile title screen. You check to make sure everything's plugged in -- yup, sure is -- and simply cannot figure out what's going on. "Why doesn't this game work? It cost me $60!"

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ThinkGeek The Amazing T-Shirt Grab Bag $5.99 at ThinkGeek

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 10:35am MST

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Western Digital Elements 320GB Portable External Hard Drive $53.99, 500GB $71.99 at Dell Small Business

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 10:30am MST

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Households recovering from economic freefall

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 10:26am MST

The net worth of American households increased slightly during the final three months of 2009, the Federal Reserve said Thursday.

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Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Game of the Year Edition for Xbox 360 for $18 + $5 s&h

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 10:25am MST

Amazon.com offers Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion - Game of the Year Edition for Xbox 360 for $17.99. Shipping adds $4.98, or pad your order over $25 to qualify for free shipping. That's $5 under our February mention and the lowest total price we could find by $5. This edition of the game includes both the Knights of the Nine downloadable content, as well as the Shivering Isles expansion pack.

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AT&T Wireless: FREE Pantech Impact 2 Day Sale

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 10:25am MST

AT&T Wireless: FREE Pantech Impact 2 Day Sale

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