Thursday, November 30, 2006

The Top 10 Tips to Getting the Best Bargains on "Black Friday"

1.

Check Out the Ads:
Your local Thanksgiving Day newspaper will be stuffed like your Thanksgiving turkey with ads, coupons, and circulars. This will be your number one source to local Black Friday savings and it will also help you organize your day to maximize savings since many stores offer special discounts that are time specific. Example: Receive an extra 10 percent off if you shop before 11 a.m.

2.

Do Your Research Before Friday:
If you are hoping to scoop up a deal on Friday on a big-ticket item, go ahead and get your research out of the way as soon as possible. A bad product is a bad deal no matter how cheap it costs. Being knowledgeable about the products you want to buy will help you avoid being sucker-punched with loud advertising for poor products. About.com is chocked full of buying advice on a wide variety of products from professionals who have the knowledge to help you make good decisions.

3.

Compare Prices:
Utilize price-comparison Internet shopping sites such as PriceGrabber.com to assist you in comparing product prices. Compare the "options" included with the product. Some retailers will low-ball the advertised price on a stripped down product and then you will be charged extra for the necessary parts, which will make the product perform as expected. A good example of this is often seen with super low-priced computer printers that come without the cable (cord) or printer ink.


4.

Early Bird Shopper Discounts:
The Early Bird Shopper will be the real winner on Black Friday. Stores offering Early Day Shopper Specials usually run the deals between 5 a.m. until 11 a.m. and with no "rain checks" which means once they run out of the products, you are out of luck. Scanning the ads and routing your trip based on your buying priorities will be important with the time-sensitive deals that will be offered.

5.

Night Owl Discounts - Thanksgiving Eve:
Internet shoppers can beat the Early Birds by shopping online in the pre-dawn hours of Black Friday. Many retailers will be posting their Black Friday specials, which can be ordered, online and picked-up at your local store. Special "Web Only" deals will also be available starting as early as Thanksgiving eve. The aggressive stores such as CompUSA will be opening at 11:59 p.m. on Thursday with Early Bird promotions in hopes of capturing your dollars before their competition has opened.

6.

Bring the Ads:
Many stores offer a "lowest-price" guarantee, however you may be required to produce a copy of the exact product being advertised for less. Most local retailers will not meet Internet prices even when the product is advertised on the same company's website, but it cannot hurt to try. Print the website page that details the product and shows the advertised price. It may give you additional bargaining power and push the sales person into waiving other charges such as assembly fees.

8.

Know the Store Policies:
Knowing the store policies on returns can help you determine where to buy. A previous trend of extending "return days" during the holidays is being seen less this year. Many retailers are including restocking fees and shorter return deadlines. Almost all of the major retail chains have clamped down on requiring receipts for returns and exchanges and many keep a database of individuals who tend to abuse return policies. If you get onto an "abuse" list, prepare yourself to be turned down.

9.

Gift Receipts:
Gift receipts generally include a description of the item purchased but do not disclose the price paid. Including gift receipts inside the gift box will make returns or exchanges easier for the gift recipient. Without proof-of-purchase, the recipient may be turned down for returning or exchanging the item or risk receiving an exchange for the current selling price of the item.
Since many retailers begin permanently slashing prices as soon as Black Friday is over, the difference between what you pay for a gift during December and what it sells for in January can be significant. Including a gift-receipt should help insure a hassle-free return experience for gift recipients.

10.

Saying "Charge It" Can Pay Off:
Obviously, there is no bargain in running up high credit card bills and paying big interest rates, however, with proper spending disciplines intact, using the right charge card can be of value to consumers. Many credit card companies entice consumers with free benefits, which include extended free warranties, return protection and sale price protection.
Warranty Coverage - Your credit card company may offer to double or triple a manufacturer's warranty for free on a product you purchase - a good option instead of purchasing a service contract that costs money and has a shorter duration period.
Return Protection - A credit card company may guarantee a refund on a product up to 90 days where as the store may not. This is becoming particularly more important as retailers stiffen the allotted return days.
Sale Price Protection - Some of the credit card companies will offer this protection and refund you the difference if a product you buy is marked down further than the price you paid within a certain time frame (usually 60 days).
An enormous amount of advertising, locally and online, can be confusing and nearly paralyzing to the Black Friday bargain hunter. To maximize the benefits of hitting the stores on a day where there are big crowds and a better deal around every corner, developing a plan and doing preliminary research will help insure that the day is a shopping success.

Create by Donna Montaldo

Wednesday, November 29, 2006

The top 10 on the first registered domain names

1.

www.symbolics.com
15/03/1985

2.

www.bbn.com
24/04/1985

3.

www.think.com
24/05/1985


4.

www.mcc.com
11/06/1985

5.

www.dec.com
30/09/1985

6.

www.northrop.com
07/11/1985

7.

www.xerox.com
09-Jan-1986

8.

www.sri.com
17/01/1986

9.

www.hp.com
03/03/1986

10.

www.bellcore.com
05/03/1986


As u can see -- 1985-86 years are so very old times from internet.
U can read more about this history, it take u more deep understanding -- how ar ancient those 10 domains ;)

Monday, November 27, 2006

The top 10 sites for men by Yahoo

The list covers just about everything of interest to the average man, from cars to bars and all points in-between, and the only criteria we've used is this: if it made us laugh, cry, rub our whiskery chins in thoughtful contemplation, drool or point out stuff to the bloke sitting next to us - without the involvement of naked women (you can find them for themselves) - it had a decent shot at making the list.
1.

Site: Jerry Time
Jerry is a bit overweight, a bit of a loner, a bit of a loser. Watch Jerry’s unremarkable progress down the path of life here, and realise with horror that there’s a little bit of dour, crumpled Jerry in us all.

2.

Site: 80s Nostalgia
Ah, the 80s. Jumpers for goalposts. ZX Spectrums. The Rubik's Cube. A site which proves that just about anything can be cool after 20 years. Even Knight Rider.

3.

Site: Drinking Gadgets
Everything you need to turn your living room into a pub, and thus rid yourself of the last remaining reason to leave the house. Favourite gadget: The Thirst Aid Helmet.

4.

Site: MG Cars
Car porn for all of us who dream of owning a top-spec MG, but can't see how to get a child seat and the weekly Tesco shop in the back.

5.

Site: 50 Greatest Gadgets
A fine site for gadget fans, if only for proof that what seems cool and cutting edge now will soon look clunky and rubbish. Apart from Speak and Spell, of course. That will always be ace.

6.

Site: Tube Tales
Everything you wanted to know about the Tube, including hilarious driver's announcements. Sample: 'Go on then, stuff yourselves in like sardines, see if I care, I'm going home.'

7.

Site: Curry Wonderland
A Mecca for Madras. A bible for bhajis. So many curry-related recipes, restaurants, facts and figures - you can almost taste the chilli.

8.

Site: The Pub Landlord
The home page of Britain's greatest bar room bigot features a duke box that only plays Queen songs and a really bad video game. Like a slow Tuesday afternoon in your dad's local.

9.

Site: Lovely Lovely Sweets
Midget Gems. Sweet Tobacco. Cherry Lips. A celebration of half-remembered sugary snacks that goes a long way to explaining why you had all those fillings as a teenager.

10.

Site: Best Bars
A stylish and exhaustively researched celebration of the world's best bars, from Melbourne to Manchester. Reviews can be harsh: 'Full of losers with sunbed tans.' Ouch.

Original rating from Yahoo

The Top 10 Popular Mobile Data Services

1.

Text messaging (SMS)

2.

Email

3.

MMS

4.

Alerts via SMS/MMS

5.

Instant messaging

6.

Web browsing and searching

7.

Location-based services

8.

Mobile radio

9.

Financial transactions

10.

Downloading content

This research published by GSM Association surveys on consumer appetite for mobile services.

Sunday, November 26, 2006

The Top 10 Funniest Analogies in English

1.

Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides gently compressed by a ThighMaster.

2.

His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free.

3.

He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.

4.

She grew on him like she was a colony of E. Coli, and he was room-temperature Canadian beef.

5.

She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up.

6.

Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.

7.

He was as tall as a six-foot, three-inch tree.

8.

The revelation that his marriage of 30 years had disintegrated because of his wife’s infidelity came as a rude shock, like a surcharge at a formerly surcharge-free ATM machine.

9.

The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn’t.

10.

McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag filled with vegetable soup.

Collected by High School English Teachers.

Wednesday, November 22, 2006

The top 10 most profitable The "official" James Bond films

1.

Dr. No

profitable*: 60
budget: $1 000 000
worldwide gross: $59 600 000

  • James Bond Sean Connery
  • Directed by Terence Young
  • Produced by Harry SaltzmanAlbert R. Broccoli

IMDb profile

2.

Goldfinger

profitable*: 36
budget: $3 500 000
worldwide gross$124 900 000

  • James Bond Sean Connery
  • Directed by Guy Hamilton
  • Produced by Harry Saltzman, Albert R. Broccoli

IMDb profile

3.

From Russia with Love

profitable*: 32
budget: $2 500 000
worldwide gross: $78 900 000

  • James Bond Sean Connery
  • Directed by Terence Young
  • Produced by Harry Saltzman, Albert R. Broccoli

IMDb profile


4.

Live and Let Die

profitable*: 23
budget: $7 000 000
worldwide gross: $161 800 000

  • James Bond Roger Moore
  • Directed by Guy Hamilton
  • Produced by Harry Saltzman, Albert R. Broccoli

IMDb profile


5.

Diamonds Are Forever

profitable*: 16
budget: $7 200 000
worldwide gross: $116 000 000

  • James Bond Sean Connery
  • Directed by Guy Hamilton
  • Produced by Harry Saltzman, Albert R. Broccoli

IMDb profile


6.

The Man with the Golden Gun

profitable*: 14
budget: $7 000 000
worldwide gross: $97 600 000

  • James Bond Roger Moore
  • Directed by Guy Hamilton
  • Produced by Harry Saltzman, Albert R. Broccoli, Charles Orme

IMDb profile


7.

Thunderball

profitable*: 13
budget: $11 000 000
worldwide gross: $141 200 000

  • James Bond Sean Connery
  • Directed by Terence Young
  • Produced by Kevin McClory

IMDb profile

The Spy Who Loved Me

profitable*: 13
budget: $14 000 000
worldwide gross: $185 400 000

  • James Bond Roger Moore
  • Directed by Lewis Gilbert
  • Produced by Albert R. Broccoli, William P. Cartlidge

IMDb profile

8.

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

profitable*: 12
budget: $7 000 000
worldwide gross: $87 400 000

  • James Bond George Lazenby
  • Directed by Peter R. Hunt
  • Produced by Albert R. Broccoli

IMDb profile

You Only Live Twice

profitable*: 12
budget: $9 500 000
worldwide gross: $111 600 000

  • James Bond Sean Connery
  • Directed by Lewis Gilbert
  • Produced by Albert R. Broccoli, Harry Saltzman

IMDb profile


9.

For Your Eyes Only

profitable*: 7
budget: $28 000 000
worldwide gross: $195 300 000

  • James Bond Roger Moore
  • Directed by John Glen
  • Produced by Albert R. Broccoli

IMDb profile

Octopussy

profitable*: 7
budget: $27 500 000
worldwide gross: $187 500 000

  • James Bond Roger Moore
  • Directed by John Glen
  • Produced by Albert R. Broccoli

IMDb profile

10.

Moonraker

profitable*: 6
budget: $34 000 000
worldwide gross: $210 300 000

  • James Bond Roger Moore
  • Directed by Lewis Gilbert
  • Produced by Albert R. Broccoli, William P. Cartlidge, Michael G. Wilson

IMDb profile

GoldenEye

profitable*: 6
budget: $60 000 000
worldwide gross: $353 400 000

  • James Bond Pierce Brosnan
  • Directed by Martin Campbell
  • Produced by Barbara Broccoli, Tom Pevsner, Anthony Waye, Michael G. Wilson

IMDb profile

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* profitable = worldwide gross/ budget

Monday, November 20, 2006

The Top 10 Strangest US Presidential Pets

1. Pygmy hippo: Calvin Coolidge, 30th President

2. Alligator: John Quincy Adams, 6nd President

3. Elephant: James Buchanan, 15th President.

4. Zebra: Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President

5. Antelope: Calvin Coolidge, 30th President

6. Bears: Thomas Jefferson, 3nd President; Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President; Calvin Coolidge, 30th President

7. Coyote: Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President

8. Hyena: Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President

9. Tigers/lions: Martin Van Buren, 8th President; Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President; Calvin Coolidge, 30th President

10. Wallaby: Calvin Coolidge, 30th President

Saturday, November 18, 2006

The world's 10 Spammers

1. Alex Blood / Alexander Mosh / AlekseyB / Alex Polyakov from Ukraine

So many Alex & Alexey spamming! Alex "Blood" tied to Pilot Holding & bbasafehosting.com long ago, then Alex Polyakov posted he owned them. Massive botnet and child-porn spam ring, also pharma, mortgage, and more. May be part of a consortium including Pa

2. Leo Kuvayev / BadCow from Russia

Russian/American spammer. Does "OEM CD" pirated software spam, copy-cat pharmaceuticals, porn spam, porn payment collection, etc. Spams using virus-created botnets and may be involved in virus distribution.

3 Michael Lindsay / iMedia Networks from United States, California
Lindsay's iMedia Networks is a full-fledged spam-hosting operation serving well known ROKSO-listed spammers. They sell "spammer hosting" at high premiums. His "customers" spam via botnet zombies, often with spam payloads hosted on bulletproof offshore hos.


4. Ruslan Ibragimov / send-safe.com from Russia
Stealth spamware creator. One of the larger criminal spamming operations around. Runs a CGI mailer on machines in Russia and uses hijacked open proxies and virus infected PCs to flood the world with spam.

5. Amichai Inbar from Israel
Full scale criminal operation. Spamming porn, illegal drugs and pump-&-dump stock using botnets. Partnered with many of the worst US and Russian ROKSO spammers.

6. Pavka / Artofit from Russia
A Russian gang who have been spamming for years. Started with porn, now into many types of spam, always via hijacked PCs. Part of a large criminal group involving ROKSO spammers Leo Kuvayev & Alex Blood. Also see "Yambo Financials" ROKSO.

7. Vincent Chan / yoric.net from Hong Kong
Vincent Chan and his Chinese partners have been sending spam for years. They mainly do pharmacy, and are able to send out huge amounts daily. The use a vast amount of compromised machines, for sending, hosting and proxyhijacking.

8. Alexey Panov - ckync.com from Russia
Spamming, spammer hosting, spamware peddlers. Author of the DMS spamware that uses hijacked open proxies and virus infected PC to flood the world with spam.

9. Yambo Financials from Ukraine
Huge spamhaus tied into distribution and billing for child, animal, and incest-porn, pirated software, and pharmaceuticals. Run their own merchant services (credit-card "collection" sites) set up as a fake "bank."

10. Jeffrey Peters - JTel / CPU Solutions from United StatesFlorida
Convicted felon, hard-core spammer host, Peters is also behind a fake Russian "ISP" serving many criminal ROKSO spammers. Forged documents seem to be among his specialties.