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Alright everyone, I know you could not resist the luring temptation of all those advertised and surprise Black Friday specials. So tell me, did you brave the weather and stand in line at a brick and mortar store or did you nearly wear out your mouse refreshing the page for the one “gotta have it” item on your favorite website?

Well, I must confess, I did not purchase anything on any Black Friday site though I almost pulled the trigger several times on different sites on GPS units. My problem is that while they were all great units, they just did not have all the options I wanted. Yeah, I kind of want the Cadillac of GPS units but at the Chevy price (does that mean anything any more?). There were several units right at the magic $100 price point, but they all lacked one or more options that just made me think twice. I can better justify paying more for an item that has all the options I want versus a lower priced item that does not have everything I want and then to just go buy the more expensive one later.

Then there was the “WOW, what a great price for the (insert name of item) that I was not looking for!” Yeah, I saw a few items that had a killer price for something that I was not in the market for but know the deal was too good to ignore. But, a check for reviews, or a lack there of, and a realization that I could better spend, or better yet, SAVE my money over whelmed me. I guess I’m getting better at curbing my impulse buying. Two years ago I would have had a virtual shopping cart filled to the point of tipping over, if that is even possible.

Now I did do some Christmas shopping over night and I did get a good price for what I was looking for. While watching QVC, and trying to digest a great Thanksgiving Day dinner, my wife and I saw a pair of boots that she liked at an awesome price. She had tried a couple of stores in the area and could not find anything in the style she liked in her size. Our sister-in-law and my wife’s scrapbooking partner each have the style of boots my wife wanted and it bummed her out.

Well, QVC did not carry the size she needed either and so she just rolled over to go to sleep. I, being the tenacious hunter, and hopped up on Mt. Dew Code Red (yeah I found a new supplier, but that is another post), looked up the maker of the boots and what to my wondering eyes should appear? A website with BOOTS that nearly made me cheer. So I checked and found that they did have her size in stock and the price was even less than at QVC when you figure in the shipping and tax! Wow, serendipity baby!

So while I’ writing this, sitting in my easy chair and surfing the Black Friday on-line deals (hoping for a super secret special), my wife is out beating the crowds with a friend looking for something interesting and just enjoying the experience.

I should text her to bring back a Starbucks Mocha and to stop at a Bed, Bath, & Beyond to pick up some more K-Cups for the Kuerig. Hold on while I do that ….. OK, coffee crisis averted. Now to get back to surfing. I’m sure to find something to buy if I look hard enough, right?

Here is the latest email to me from Blackfriday.info:

We just wanted to send over a quick update on what to expect tonight going into Black Friday. First, Best Buy has announced that they are putting their Black Friday items for sale online tonight starting around 1:00am EST – 2:00am EST (Thanksgiving morning). Some retailers will be putting their Black Friday items online even earlier. The sale times include:

* Newegg.com sale starting at 6:00pm EST (Wednesday)
* Sam’s Club sale starting at 11:00pm EST (Wednesday)
* Sears sale starting at 9:00pm EST (Wednesday)
* Walmart Thanksgiving Day Specials starting at 3:00am EST (Thanksgiving)
* Walmart Black Friday sale starting at 3:00am EST (Black Friday)
* Toys R Us Black Friday sale starting at 12:01am EST (Thanksgiving)
* OfficeMax Black Friday sale starting at 8:00am EST (Thanksgiving)
* Target, Kohls, JC Penney, and other Black Friday sales will begin on Thanksgiving morning.

Some of the Black Friday sales have even started already! The biggest sales going on right now are from Amazon.com, Dell, and MacMall. As we mentioned before, Amazon.com is releasing new deals every day this week and today’s featured deal is a LG BD270 Blu-ray Disc Player for $99.99.

To view the LG BD270 Blu-ray Disc Player for $99.99, go to:

http://www.blackfriday.info/item/35113

To see the Amazon.com Black Friday sale, go to:

http://www.blackfriday.info/store/amazon.com

To see the Dell Small Business Black Friday sale, go to:

http://www.blackfriday.info/item/34432

To see the MacMall Apple Black Friday sale, go to:

http://www.blackfriday.info/item/35111

To help make your Black Friday shopping even easier, we just put together a “Shop by Circular” section on the Available Online page on BlackFriday.info. In this section, you can browse through the black friday advertisements and shop directly off of the circular. All you need to do is click the item you are interested in and it will immediately bring you to the item on the retailer’s website. Keep in mind that most of the sales do not start till late Wednesday night or early Thanksgiving morning. Once the retailer’s sale begins online, we will post a note on the circular to let you know that the Black Friday prices are now live.

To shop directly off the Best Buy circular, go to:

http://www.blackfriday.info/online/bestbuy/

To shop directly off the Target circular, go to:

http://www.blackfriday.info/online/target/

Also, to help give you an edge this Black Friday, we brought back our product tracking tracking system which will watch for when the Black Friday items are available to purchase online and update our Available Online page with direct links to the products. Your personalized shopping list will also be updated to show you which products are available to purchase online right now. Black Friday items sell out very quickly, so we suggest that you bookmark our Available Online page (linked below) and check it often from midnight tonight right through Black Friday for an up to date list of what is available to purchase online.

To see the latest Black Friday deals that are available online, go to:

http://www.blackfriday.info/online/

If you go to the stores on Black Friday and find that an item you were looking for is sold out, there might still be a chance to get it. Throughout Black Friday and right through the weekend, many Black Friday items that are sold out in the stores will still be available to purchase online. Also, starting on Cyber Monday, we’ll be posting a ton of deals from online merchants like Overstock.com, BestBuy.com, and Walmart.com.

Thanks for subscribing and please be sure to share this email or website with friends and family so they can enjoy this exciting week.

BlackFriday.info

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• Dora Links Doll – $50 @ Wal*Mart - The Mattel Dora Links Doll is an exciting innovation in computer-connected play, appealing to technologically savvy kids. Girls can customize their doll online and watch as she magically transforms right before their eyes, simultaneously on the doll and in the online world. The Dora Links Doll allows girls to directly influence her adventures as they help her solve online mysteries.
• By plugging the Dora Links Doll into the computer via USB, girls will have access to her online world
• Girls can help Dora and her friends solve the mysteries through engaging game play that affects change in Dora's world
• The Dora Links Doll offers groundbreaking interactivity that allows girls to customize the doll and watch as she transforms before their eyes
• By changing her hair length online, the Dora Links Doll's hair magically changes as well
• As girls explore and solve online mysteries (which include Dora assuming a variety of disguises), her speech, eye color and jewelry color can change to correspond with their play
• The Dora Links doll also has a magical alert system; she knows when new mysteries are being added to DoraLinks.com

• Bakaugan Video Game – $29 – $47 @ Amazon.com - Based on the wildly popular card game and television show, Bakugan: Battle Brawlers, is a video game experience requiring skill, strategy and imagination. Featuring a fierce assortment monsters, uncanny powers and amazing environments in an alternate dimension called Vestroia, the game lets you and your own unique Bakugan join forces with Dan and his fellow Brawlers as they battle to save Vestroia and ultimately, Earth from destruction.Story
  The story of Bakugan: Battle Brawlers revolves around a set of metallic cards that mysteriously fall from space. On finding them, kids from around the planet discover that the cards also provide access to a variety of monsters that can be pitted against each other and so develop a game based on the cards and monsters and set up tournaments. One group of these kids, who name themselves the "Bakugan Battle Brawlers" and who are led by Dan, find that the cards also serve as a link to a parallel dimension known as Vestroia. Here they discover that the game and its monsters that they are dedicated to mastering is tied to an imbalance of positive and negative energy in Vestroia. This imbalance must be corrected to avoid unspeakable consequences for Vestroia, and since a link has been made to the Earth, eventually the kids' home as well.

• EyeClops Night  Vision Binoculars $40 @ Target - The Night Vision V2 is powered by real infra-red technology. With invisible infra-red illumination you can see them but they cannot see you. Modes include Military or Spy diplay modes, Long range mode for recon missions or stealth mode for close proximity. The V2 has a form fitting performance visor, action detailing, focal adjustment and new dual eye display. See up to 50' in complete and total darkness Use both eyes with the handheld binocular design.

• EA Sports Voice Control Pitching Machine – $40 @ Target - EA SPORTS Voice Command Pitching Machine uses a wireless wristband to call the action and get ready to hit away! The game has 3 pitches-fastball, change up and sinker and the game can be set to randomly throw pitches to try and recognize and hit the ball. Plus the EA SPORTS Voice Command Pitching Machine has 3 fielding plays so you can practice your fielding for high pop up, line drive and ground ball. The game includes a bat with 6 baseballs. 

• EA Sports Voice Command Quarterback -$40 @ Target  - The Voice Command Quarterback unit features an inflatable target on a stand and two foam footballs. When assembled, the unit looks like a large, flat panel TV. When the stand is filled with sand or water, it's very stable. And that's a good thing because to play, kids call "hike" and then have to hit one of the targets with a pass. The three game modes and three levels increase in speed and difficulty as players get more adept, and the built-in sensors keep track of speed, accuracy, and timing.
  
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• ACER Aspire 1 Netbook – $200 @ Target
  
  
  • Computer Features: Standard Keyboard
  • Processor Type: Intel Atom N270
  • Processor Speed: Up to 1.6 Ghz
  • Hard Drive Capacity: 160GB Hard Drive Capacity
  • Hard Drive Speed: 5400 RPM
  • Hard Drive Interface: SATA
  • System Bus Speed: 533 Mhz
  • System RAM: 1 GB
  • Memory RAM Type: DDR2
  • RAM Configuration: 1×1GB
  • RAM Maximum Expandable To: 2 GB
  • Cache Memory Installed Capacity: 512KB L2 Cache
  • Operating System: Windows XP Home
  • Electronic Display Features: WSVGA, Crystal Brite
  • Maximum Resolution: 1024 x 600
  • Input Type: Headphone Jack, Microphone
  • DVI-D Inputs: 0
  • DVI-D with HDCP Inputs: 0
  • IEEE 1394 (Firewire) Ports: 0
  • USB 2.0 Ports: 3
  • VGA Inputs: 1
  • Built-In Card Reader Type: 5-in-1 Card Reader
  • Built-In Webcam Features: Built-In Webcam
  • Wired Standard: 10/100 Ethernet LAN
  • Wireless Technology: Wi-Fi Enabled
  • Wireless Standard: 802.11b/g
  • Audio Features: Built-In Speakers
  • Software Included: Acer Video Conference Manager 4.0, Windows Live Essentials, McAfee Internet Security Suite (60 Day Trial), Adobe Acrobat Reader, Microsoft Works 8.5, Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0, Acer Recovery Management

• Black Friday Advertisement Sites
  • BFADS.net 
  • BlackFriday.info 
  • BlackFriday.fm 

• Don't forget Cyber Monday

  
  

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Looking to suprise your family with a new Blu-Ray player, well you are gonna need some Blu-Ray discs for that. So head on over to Amazon wherre they are having a super Cool Blue Ray Movie sale! Get your favorite one today. Or two… or three… or…

Check out the link below for great savings of up to 56% or more!!

Cool Blue Savings

Don't have a player, well I have a link for that:

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Totally Cool Tech Podcast #424 – Deals, Deals, Deals!

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I'm hosting the Techpodcasts.com Weekly Podcast #31 – Totally Cool Tech for Christmas

On this episode of Totally Cool Tech:

• All Occasion Outdoor Display Projector – Hammacher Schlemmer – $50 Comes with a 16 interchangeable slides (project images like witches, bats, ghosts, deer, balloons, stars, etc)

• Christmas Inflatables – InflatableSeasons.com – $35 to $300 But man they have some really cool stuff.

• Christmas Inflatables – YardInflatables.com – $24 to $350 Classics and unique inflatable Christmas decorations.

• Black Friday Specials!!

  • BFADS.net – Buying guides and Hot Deals.
  • BlackFriday.info – Door Buster notifications and links for the same items being sold on EBAY.
  • BlackFriday.fm – They even have a Black Friday How it all works video.

• PC World's 10 Fascinating Facts about Black Friday.

  • The BlackFriday App for iPhone/iPod Touch

• Don't forget Cyber Monday – Traditionally the ONLINE version of Black Friday, maybe not so any more. Check out Newegg.com, Amazon.com, TigerDirect.com and a whole lot more.

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Totally Cool Tech Podcast #423 – Deskology

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Today's Totally Cool Tech:

• 200 Mbps Powerline Network Adapter – $105 @ Amazon

  
  

• iTunes App Overload? Try Chorus, a fun and free way to
  discover hot new iPhone apps from the people you trust
  most – your friends. (via DVICE)

  
  

• Electronic Itch Stopper – $60 @ Amazon

  
  

• GyroBike – $100

  
  

• Bluetooth Cassette Adapter – $29 @ Brando.com

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All setup for recording #423 when issues with my 10 year-old cropped up. We’ll see you Tuesday morning. Thanks for understanding.

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Totally Cool Tech Weekly Podcast #422 – Let’s Get Sharp!

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We have completed our 2nd full year podcasting as the Totally Cool Tech podcast and starting our third! Wow, how time flies. I actually forgot it was the anniversary week.

This Week’s Totally Cool Tech:

• Entertainment Projector – $100 @ Bed, Bath, & Beyond
• Internet Weather Station – $60 @ Bed, Bath & Beyond
  
• InTouch™ Wireless Photo Frame – $191 @ Amazon.com
• MP3 Wireless Speaker Shower Mirror – $60 @ Bed, Bath, & Beyond
• Indoor / Outdoor Wireless Speaker – $60 @ Bed, Bath, & Beyond
  
• Wireless Lights and Sounds – $128 @ Lowe’s
  
• Portable Multimedia Speaker – $20 @ Bed, Bath, & Beyond
• Digital Video Converter – $100 @ Bed, Bath, & Beyond

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