{"id":2447,"date":"2010-11-26T00:01:17","date_gmt":"2010-11-26T08:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=2447"},"modified":"2010-11-25T10:35:15","modified_gmt":"2010-11-25T18:35:15","slug":"black-friday-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=2447","title":{"rendered":"Black Friday 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Black Friday in the U.S., the last Friday of the month, the Friday right after our Thanksgiving. Traditionally, it&#8217;s the launch of the Christmas holiday shopping season.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s called &#8220;black Friday&#8221; because it&#8217;s the first day of the entire year that retailers actually turn a profit. Christmas isn&#8217;t really a religious holiday, it&#8217;s a celebration of our ability to spend money and buy stuff. It&#8217;s emotional. It&#8217;s guilt-driven. But it&#8217;s good for the economy, so most folks generally forget about why Christmas is celebrated, and shop, shop, shop!<\/p>\n<p>Caving into the shopping tradition, I&#8217;m going to cough up some Wambooli Shopping Ideas for your high tech holiday season. These are all things that I&#8217;ve bought myself. Not one thing is a wanna-have or something that a manufacturer has given me in return for an endorsement. I&#8217;ve paid for all this stuff.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gamecom Headset<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&#038;bc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;t=dangookin&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;md=10FE9736YVPPT7A0FBG2&#038;asins=B001E45XT4\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p>\nThis is the gaming headset I use. It&#8217;s comfy because it has big cans. (No &#8220;big cans&#8221; jokes here.) It also has a nice, long cord so I&#8217;m not always up so close to the monitor.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Logitech G35 Gaming Headset<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&#038;bc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;t=dangookin&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;md=10FE9736YVPPT7A0FBG2&#038;asins=B001O5CCQK\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p>\nI bought this gaming headset for my son Jeremiah. He is an ace at games, I mean he really plays well. (He&#8217;s often accused of being a hacker. He&#8217;s that good.) Unlike my gaming headset, this one features 7.1 surround sound. It pulls off that feat by having three (yes, <em>three<\/em>), speakers in each can. The effect is very realistic.<\/p>\n<p>The microphone also has voice distortion and other effects, which means you can sound like a robot, an elf, or even Satan when you&#8217;re gaming. Quick-set buttons on the left can help you adjust the headset&#8217;s features. It&#8217;s really solid, but if you&#8217;re serious about gaming it&#8217;s worth the high price.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Logitech G500 Programmable Gaming Mouse<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&#038;bc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;t=dangookin&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;md=10FE9736YVPPT7A0FBG2&#038;asins=B002J9GDXI\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p>\nLike the Logitech headset, I bought this gaming mouse for Jeremiah. It&#8217;s programmable, comes with little weighs so that you can balance the mouse, plus it has lots of handy buttons. Jeremiah uses the controls in-game often as he switches between different configurations. He&#8217;s very pleased and, once again, he&#8217;s really good at gaming so he would know.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>HP 1TB External USB Backup Drive<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&#038;bc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;t=dangookin&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;md=10FE9736YVPPT7A0FBG2&#038;asins=B002AKAPD0\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p>\nThis is my new, favorite external hard drive. I&#8217;ve purchased one for each of my computers. I prefer the HP model over the Western Digital because HP doesn&#8217;t junk up the hard drive firmware with non-removeable software. Sure, HP does add it&#8217;s own junk to the drive, but you don&#8217;t have to install it and it&#8217;s easily erased.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>IO Gear Bluetooth USB Adapter<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&#038;bc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;t=dangookin&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;md=10FE9736YVPPT7A0FBG2&#038;asins=B0018O9JIG\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p>\nIt suddenly dawned on me that I had too many external, wireless gizmos for my laptop. Each had its own adapter, and I was running out of USB ports. The solution was to throw all of them out and go Bluetooth.<\/p>\n<p>I was amazed that this Bluetooth adapter cost about $12. It opens up a whole universe of peripheral devices: keypads, mice, printers, and other gizmos, none of which now need any extra adapters on my limited (only 3 USB ports) laptop.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Microsoft Bluetooth Notebook Mouse 5000<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&#038;bc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;t=dangookin&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;md=10FE9736YVPPT7A0FBG2&#038;asins=B000TG4BA0\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p>\nMy first Bluetooth purchase for my laptop was this Microsoft Bluetooth mouse. Where they get the number &#8220;5000&#8221; is beyond me. What is it with the computer industry and numbers anyway? Why not call the mouse &#8220;Little Blue&#8221; or something sexy? Anyway.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe nice thing about this mouse is that it has two tiny buttons on its bottom. One turns the thing on. The other button activates the &#8220;find me&#8221; feature in Bluetooth. That feature is really important for connecting Bluetooth peripherals.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe only drawback to the Microsoft Mouse 5000 Whatever is that it has a sleep mode. That&#8217;s good for saving battery life, but it also means that after a period of inactivity the mouse is useless. So you have to click the mouse button to wake it up and use it again. That costs a mere two seconds, but such delays do seem like an eternity in the computer world.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Beyond these gizmos, I could recommend a slew of phones! But those tend to be more expensive than even the most-price item here. Again, I&#8217;m not out to be an online computer store; I&#8217;m just sharing those techy things I&#8217;ve purchased in the last year that I&#8217;ve really enjoyed and don&#8217;t mind recommending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Black Friday in the U.S., the last Friday of the month, the Friday right after our Thanksgiving. 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