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I could have saved money if I’d used CouponChief

Earlier this month I bought some computer related accessories. I think I got a good deal on them, but if I’d really been a savvy shopper I would have thought to check for coupons or coupon codes at CouponChief first. You know those old V8 commercials where people are banging their hand to their head saying “I could have had a V8!”? Well I’m doing that right about now, but I’m saying I could have got a better deal!

You see, CouponChief.com has listings for thousands of popular stores. Not just stores that sell computer goods either. They’ve got stores listed that sell everything from clothing to home decor, to business supplies to pet products and so on.

Now that I’ve remembered about CouponChief I decided to play devils advocate to see if I might have found some coupon codes for the external 380 gb drive that I purchased, and for the HP 12 cell lithium battery that I needed to get for my laptop so that I could work on it for longer periods of time while it was unplugged.

You know what? I found Best Buy coupon deals that could have saved me 20% on SimpleTech external and portable hard drives. That’s not the brand I purchased, but had I known I might have taken a good look at that companies portable hard drives.

I also found Circuit City deals that could have saved me money on some of the computer related items I’ve purchased recently too.

I think I’m going to put a sticky note on my computer monitor reminding me to check CouponChief.com first before I buy any more things online.

The CD is 25 years old

by Tricia

Did you realize that the CD turned 25 on August 17th?

I didn’t realize that they’d been around that long, but then again it also feels like they’ve been around forever.

I remember when they first came out. It seemed like an alien idea and I’m sure that many people thought they wouldn’t last. Well they did. I just wonder if they’ll continue to be around now that iPods and other forms of portable multimedia players have become so popular.

The CD gave us higher quality sound. CD’s are smaller than records so they took up less space in our homes.

All we had to do was figure out what to do with our record players. Do you still have a record player? I do.

The New DocuPen Pen Scanner

by Tricia

Pen scanners have been around for a while, but there’s a new one on the market that’s a true technological advancement.

Planon’s latest pen scanner is called the DocuPen. It’s both a scanner and high tech pen at once. It’s battery operated for full portability and it can store up to 100 pages in it’s memory scanning each in four to eight seconds.

Many of the previous pen scanners were slower and did not have the ability to scan graphics. The DocuPen does it all.

The current price of this high tech gadget is $270. The DocuPen has a USB interface, scans at a max of 200 x 200, weighs 2 oz, has an 8 MB flash memory, and works with Windows 98, ME, 2000 and XP.

All you need to do is place the DocuPen on a piece of paper parallel to the text and move the pen downward over the page. When you want to see what you’ve scanned just connect the pen scanner to a computer using the USB interface.

I could see sales people and those who are frequently out of the office at meetings finding this new DocuPen quite handy.

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