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The Links for November 18, 2006

Black Friday Sale Ads - Dan in Vancouver, Washington

Dan in Vancouver, Washington found this Black Friday site.

Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving - the biggest shopping day of the year.

Unless you get there VERY early, the best deals are sold out.

This site has scans of the Black Friday ads - letting you figure out which stores to hit, well in advance, to make your holiday shopping as efficient as possible.

Check it out. Thanks, Dan!

10 best extensions for Firefox 2 - Santa Rosa Steve

Santa Rosa Steve found this page listing the 10 best Firefox extensions:

Foxy Tunes
Tab Mix Plus
MR Tech Local Install (extension manager)
Download Statusbar
ForecastFox (weather monitoring)
All-in-One Sidebar
IE Tab
Firefox Showcase
StumbleUpon
Ook? Video Ook!

I use StumbleUpon often - some of the others look very cool.

Check them out - thanks, Steve!

The Old Computer - Charles in San Francisco

Charles in San Francisco found The Old Computer web site.

From the site: " You have found The Old Computer Dot Com, this site is dedicated to all aspects of retro computing, collecting and gaming. In here you will find a large collection of emulators for many weird and defunked formats, Rom's for all the major retro consoles and computers as well as library's full of material like commercials, magazines and manuals. Please make sure you read the Website Disclaimer before downloading any material."

"The old computer.com is a privately owned site that is dedicated to all aspects of retro computing, gaming, collecting .. in all areas."

Old computers both business and home, consoles from Atari to Vectrex, handhelds like Grandstand and Mattell, 'game and watch' by Nintendo and all other old hardware and associated peripherals.
As well as hardware I enjoy the old games from consoles and computer like the commodore 64 and spectrum as well as Atari and Colecovision.
Magazines from the era (1979 - 1992) are also collected with a view to scaning them for the public to download.

This is a very cool site. I'm into retro computing, and this is one of the better sites. Check it out.

Thanks, Charles!

Digital Photography Goodies in Vista, Part 1 - Santa Rosa Steve

This is a cool Santa Rosa Steve find.

Windows Vista will have some pretty nice digital phtography support:

Getting Photos Onto Your Computer
Finding Your Photos

Digital Photography Goodies in Vista, Part 2 - Santa Rosa Steve

This is the second half of the Vista Digital Photo Goodies article found by Santa Rosa Steve. It covers:

Edit Your Photos
Good-Bye to "My"
Enjoy Your Photos

Free For All!

"Free For All" picks are hot, FREE items or services. It can be software, online services, you name it - but it's got to be free, with no strings attached.

Zamzar: Free Online File Conversion - Santa Rosa Steve

Santa Rosa Steve found this killer online app.

You select the files you want to convert, pick the format you want them converted to, give your email address and hit go. After your upload and conversion, you get a link to where to download the converted file.

This will convert between 5 image formats, 14 doc formats, 11 music formats, and 9 video formats.

I have a rather large video file uploading right now.

Thanks, Steve!