Two years ago, Luke Knowles started an interesting holiday shopping tradition: Encouraging retailers to offer free shipping on December 17th with the guarantee that gifts would arrive in time for Christmas Eve. This year, the tradition continues, and there are more than 450 merchants offering free shipping on December 17th, which is named Free Shipping Day.
This move has steadily gained in popularity amongst retailers and consumers alike, and the day is expected to provide a needed boost to holiday shopping that slows down considerably after December 10th. Retailers like the extra shot in the arm as the holiday shopping season …read more

If you listened to all of the media hype you’d be led to believe that people who identify themselves as “gamers” care only about their systems, their games, Mountain Dew and how to get their moms to stop interrupting their LAN parties.
While there may be some truth to that stereotype, from what I’ve seen, the gaming community is filled with charitable types who are more than willing to put down their controllers to help out when help is needed.
The Child’s Play charity is a perfect example of how gamers help out.
Child’s Play has been around since 2003 and they’re still …read more

Even though it is good to be grateful all year, I think that it is a good thing that we have a day devoted to giving thanks and reflecting on our blessings. Probably most of us don’t really spend a lot of time thinking about what we’re thankful for, but most people seem to take at least a few minutes to express their thanks.
There are many things I am thankful for. Here are a few things that I feel glad of this year:

Family
Friends
A job I can do from home
Home
Food
Social media ;)
Faith

It’s worth noting, of course, that many of these items …read more

That Damn PC wishes you all a merry christmas, a happy hanukkah, and any other holiday you are celebrating.
In case you are taking a vacation, have a safe one and forget all your worries including those about the PC. When you come back, I will be here waiting to help you in any way I can.
Cheers,
Sravan

Computer World has a holiday gift guide containing 18 economical, expensive, and just plain weird tech gifts for your friends and family. But these are hard times and so you may find this comprehensive list of best Black Friday deals more interesting. My interest of late has been about Netbooks (mini-notebooks). I’m surprised that Dell Inspiron Mini 9 is at 5 and HP Mini 1000 didn’t make the Top 5 in this list by PC World.
Before you jump on to the buying binge, Lance Ulanoff, the Editor-in-Chief of PCMag Digital Network, warns of what not to buy, what to buy, and things …read more