Archive for May, 2006

Avoid the Mail-in Rebate Nightmare

Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006

After purchasing my last piece of computer hardware, which offered a rebate, I firmly decided to never go through that hassle again. The entire point of the rebate is to save the manufacturer money, not you. Rather than lowering the price, which guarantees everyone wins, they offer a rebate fully realizing that a […]

Hard drive Best Buys - Price Per Gig

Monday, May 15th, 2006

This May we’ve conducted some price comparisons to determine the best price per gig for IDE and SATA hard drives, by the major manufacturers, available from online vendors. Before you shop at Best Buy, or another retail store, you should consider purchasing from an online vendor such as newegg.com or mwave.com. More importantly, […]

Avoid the WGA Notification by Disabling Auto Update

Thursday, May 4th, 2006

Here is another installment of our “Coping with WGA” series of articles. It is advised that you avoid the WGA Virus, or Windows Genuine Advantage Notification, as it is officially called, by preventing its installation. The Automatic Updates feature of Microsoft Windows XP is being used as one way of delivering the WGA […]