Archive for the ‘Shopping’ Category

I’ve already bought this shirt. I had to.

I’m hot ’cause I’m Mario, you ain’t ’cause you not

This is Why I’m Hot T-Shirt @ Snorg Tees

June 27th, 2007 · Tags Clothing, Shopping, Video Games | Comments Off

Open letter to Amazon.com: it’s 2007 - can we have multiple item selections, please?

Did you know: you cannot just submit an email to Amazon using the form on their site unless it’s associated with an item or an order? This is a stupid idea, especially for cases where, I dunno, the problem or suggestion in question is with the website!

Still, that’s not the main thrust of this.

To whom it may concern:

Can we please, please, please, please, please, please, please, PLEASE have the ability to add multiple items from the recommendations list to the Wish List or cart at once? Sometimes I want to add 9 or 10 items that are recommended to me to either the wishlist or cart and instead, I have to

1) add one item
2) navigate back to my recommendations page
3) hope it’s still on the recommendations page where I left it
4) repeat steps 1-3 about 10 times in a row

I’d rather do this:

1) click checkboxes beside items I’m interested in
2) click an ‘Add Checked Items to Cart’ or ‘Add Checked Items to Wishlist’ button

And boom, done in two steps.

PLEASE! Pass this along to whoever it needs to be passed along to in order to consider adding this! It’s an incredibly obvious feature, and in this day and age I’m honestly shocked that Amazon.com doesn’t already have it.

Thanks,
Phil

June 13th, 2007 · Tags Amazon.com, Annoyances, Internet, Shopping, Wishlist | Comments Off

Deal of the century

I can has Faberge egg?

May 31st, 2007 · Tags Internet, Shopping, WTF? | Comments Off

Links galore

  • Mr. Gosling, why did you make URL equals suck?! A useful warning to Java developers - using URL.equals may be considered harmful, because apparently it does a blocking lookup to the IP address of the machine.
  • No Shredder in TMNT? Peter Laird, series creator of our favorite heroes on a halfshell, suggested the change. The villain is now a more generic ‘monsters and space aliens.’ Maybe it’s this guy, even though he didn’t really come from outer space, per se?
  • The world’s most indispensable Firefox tab: Ctrl-Shift-T (or Cmd-Shift-T on the Mac) will re-open the most recently closed tab. Hallelujah!
  • Slain trees haunt loggers. My coworker’s response: “heh, ent ghosts.”
  • Find out your Windows Vista Experience number. Sort of like a compatibility rating between your computer and Vista - is it love at first byte, or is Vista simply too high-maintenance for a down-to-earth machine like yours? (Pardon the pun - I had to.)
  • O’Reilly Media launched Hackszine.com, an online companion to the Hacks series of books gracing bookshelves for quite a while now. This is already in my RSS reader.
  • MAKE Blog: Do it yourself grassroots media sites using NewsCloud. Twenty bucks a month gets you a Debian install and NewsCloud; I think they handle hosting. Or you can just do it yourself, it’s open-source.
  • Dear God, it’s the Woot-Off that won’t die. The offer as I type this: a 37″ Sova widescreen HD-ready LCD monitor for $649.99 plus $5 shipping. I wish I could afford this monster.

That about covers it. I’m sort of like a bargain basement Weekend Update. (Obvious pop-culture references linked for my friend Sandra’s sake, who recently revealed she has no idea what movie features the songs “Danger Zone,” “You’ve Lost that Lovin’ Feeling,” and more. Or, for that matter, has never seen SNL.)

February 1st, 2007 · Tags Computers, Development, Gadgets, Internet, Microsoft, News, Science, Shopping, Software, TV, Technology, WTF?, Windows, lol | Comments Off

For sale: one laptop

I wanted to give you folks a crack at it before I put it on eBay; you’ve got until noon Friday to express interest and/or make an offer.

I’m selling one (1) Toshiba A55-S1063 laptop. The specs on this laptop are:

  • CPU: Intel Celeron M, 1.5GHz
  • RAM: 256 MB DDR 333 RAM, upgradeable to (I think) 1 GB (2×512)
  • Hard drive: 40 GB, upgradeable to whatever laptop hard drive you want to shove into it
  • Optical drive: CD-RW/DVD-ROM; this laptop has NO floppy drive, if that matters to you.
  • Ports: 3 USB, 1 external monitor, 1 (I believe) printer, 1 headphone port, 1 AC adapter port, 1 Type II PC Card slot
  • Screen size: 15″ viewable glossy XVGA
  • Communications: One WinModem, one Intel PRO 10/100 Ethernet connector, one Atheros 802.11 b/g Wifi card

Additionally, I’ve seen elsewhere that this laptop supports PCMCIA. Not sure about that for sure.

This laptop comes with

  1. The laptop
  2. The laptop’s AC adapter
  3. The laptop’s restore disc
  4. 1 battery, still very good (I get approx. 3-5 hours usage out of it)
  5. Your choice of any OS I have a legal license for: that basically comes down to Windows XP Home or some variant of Linux. Ubuntu Linux runs well on this and recognizes nearly everything - hotkeys, peripherals, wireless, everything except the modem. I can verify it will run Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs, Windows XP Professional, and a bunch of other OSes no one would want to use. :)

This laptop’s still in great condition; however, it no longer suits my needs, so I’m offering it to you, my readers, before hawking it on eBay. Ideally I’d like to get around $400-$500 for it, but make me an offer.

January 9th, 2007 · Tags Computers, Hardware, Shopping, Yard Sale | Comments Off

A moment of unfettered materialism

Last year there were a number of things I wanted to purchase; several of those goals were achieved, most notably the Nintendo Wii. Cellphone-wise I owned (and still own) a Blackberry 7100g. I also wanted to get a laptop; I ended up settling for the Toshiba Satellite A55-S1063, and was bitten - hard - by the results of trading performance for low price. (I’m looking to get rid of the damn thing, actually.) This year, however, there are a whopping two things I want to own, and my goal is to have both of them by the end of the year. What are they?

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January 6th, 2007 · Tags Computers, Gadgets, Mac, Shopping, Technology, Wishlist | Comments Off

Annoyance of the day

Why, in this day and age, can Barnes & Noble still only take one gift card per order on an online order? I don’t particularly want to traipse down to a store, have them order a book for me, wait for it to come in (because you know that this book isn’t available around here [and yes, I do know; I looked at the B&N in Florence for it, and Newport's B&N recently suffered a technology book spasm and lost about 3/4 of their section]), then come back down to get it… or pay the extra to get it sent to me. Nein, I say, nein! Why can I not just spend these two (TWO!) gift cards on the Internets?

Isn’t that what the future’s about?

Fuck flying cars, where’s my ability to spend two gift cards at once on the Internet?

January 5th, 2007 · Tags Annoyances, Books, Internet, Shopping, WTF? | Comments Off