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Shop smarter – Grab Coupons for Online Gift Shopping

I’m going to let you know previously untold secret: I’m a shop addict. I’ve became one ever since I learn how to do online transaction from a friend. Since then, I never missed an opportunities to grab whatever stuff that I want to be through the Internet, provided that it is well priced.

If you’re smart enough, you can even get lower prices when you’re shopping online. Some online stores has a feature called ‘Online Coupon codes‘ which when entered, will give you special discount for the things you buy online. These coupon codes are given away by retailers as a way to promote their products on the internet.

Where can I find These Coupons?
One such place that you can find coupon codes is from Ncnatural Coupon Resources, a daily updated directory of coupon codes. The website is organized in such way that users will be able to locate coupons quickly without much hassle.

For a geek like me, I find coupons from Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble are most interesting as I like to read a lot of books.

With Christmas just around the corner there will be a lot of shopping going on and I’m sure that you’ll save a lot on online shopping with these coupons :)

[tags]shop,e-commerce, online shopping, coupon, coupon codes,tips,amazon[/tags]

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Sun has Open Source Java under GNU/GPL

After a long wait, Sun has finally released its key Java implementations – Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE – OpenJDK), Java Platform, Micro Edition (Java ME – phoneME) and Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE – Glassfish) under the GNU General Public License version 2.0.

Maybe this news is insignificant for some, but finally i can run a completely free (as in free speech) Java platform in my operating system. I use a lot of Java in my hobby of developing mobile phone apps, and yes, I’d like to see the open sourced phoneME feature MR1 (JavaME implementation) running on my Ubuntu.

Hopefully by the end of next year, I’ll be able to install Sun OpenJDK on my GNU/Linux workstation from my distro’s software repositories.

p/s: Additionally, James Gosling – Father of Java has announced in his blog that they have made Duke the Java mascot images free under the revised BSD License. You can get Duke’s images at https://duke.dev.java.net/.

[tags]java,open source, openjdk, javame, j2me,gnu/gpl[/tags]

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New theme!

Once again, I’ve change the look and feel of my blog to a new theme. I figured out that you all must be bored and tired with the previous theme, so I decided that an overhaul to blog’s look and feel would be appropriate.

I chose the new theme because I felt that it emphasis on readability for my loyal blog readers, with easy to navigate links and straight forward interface, hope you like it as well as I am. Please give a feedback on the new blog look, so I might have an idea of what you’re expecting from my blog

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Open Graphic Card – An Alternative to Nvidia, ATI

I guess GNU/Linux users may have already familiar with the problem related to to 3d graphic cards available nowadays. While they work fine on your Linux operating system, their 3D hardware acceleration heavily depends on closed source binary-only driver.

This means that the driver bloats the system, taints the kernel, and even threat the stability of the operating system. Closed source driver means that we’ve to depend on the vendor for new releases of graphic card driver and bugfixes.

open graphic card

The open graphic card solves those problem by making all specification of the graphic card available under the terms of GNU General Public License. The open graphic card is 3D accelerated video card which is fully documented, free-licensed, and available as open source driver.

Though the open graphic card is not as powerful as the current latest ATI and NVIDIA graphic card, the project itself seems promising, with the prospect of supported free operating system such as GNU/Linux and BSD variant operating system.

According to its website, the PCI and AGP version of the graphic card is given priority first than PCI-express interface. Due to low production output, the estimated card will cost about USD 200, but it will support 3D hardware acceleration nevertheless.

Visit Open Graphics Card website for more information

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ThinkAll free software CDs, becareful with them

Think All Publishing LL is one of many companies that make profits from distributing free CDs around the world.

If you ever gone to ThinkAll website or clicked on one of their advertisement, chances that you will get to order Free CD (4 to be exact) offer from them with minimal shipping cost (USD 2.95 or so).

Be warned, think twice before you request any Free CDs from them, because there’s a sleazy clause in their Terms of Use gave them permission to charge your credit card with USD21.95 each for 2 CD (the other two is given free).

Another thing that may suprised you is that you’re automatically ‘subscribed’ to their monthly 4 CD offer which you will be charged USD41.90 per month. So becarefull when dealing with Think All.

Should you’ve already ordered the “free” CD from Think All, the best you can do is to cancel your subscription by going to http://www.thinkall.com/freeCD.htm (which is randomly changed according to some) to avoid being billed further by the company.

You could also call their (carefully hidden) customer support line at +1800 4628 144 or +1902 462 6085 to cancel your free cds. Remember, think twice before ordering CDs from Thinkall.com

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