Tag: christmas
Top 100 Christmas Presents 2008: 85 to 81
Already in the top 100, we’ve had dinosaurs and iPod docks, tshirts and toasters, pizza ovens and fish football. Today? Today we’ve got energy meters and X-Files box sets, among other things, as well as a badass backpack to stash it all in. Click through to the main post to begin.
Top 100 Christmas Presents 2008: 90 to 86
The countdown to Christmas continues as the UK gets a load of snow dumped on it over the weekend. I say ‘dumped’, but I only saw snow very briefly when I woke up at 8am on Saturday and peeked out the window. By the time I actually got up at 11, there wasn’t any sign of snow at all. Just grim rain.
Still, rain’s not all that bad. Especially if you’ve got a weatherproof iPod dock lying around. Or a ridable Triceratops. Both are in today’s list, but let’s start with the dock. Click through to the main post to begin.
Top 100 Christmas Presents 2008: 95 to 91
It’s day two of our Christmas countdown to help massage that festive stress out of your shoulders and uncover this year’s top 100 Christmas presents…
Top 100 Christmas Presents 2008: 100 to 96
Welcome to the Tech Digest Christmas Gift Guide 2008! Not a top ten, not a top twenty, not even a top fifty – this is our top ONE HUNDRED gadgets that we recommend as presents this christmas. They range from the sublime to the slightly ridiculous, but with a few tiny exceptions, they’re all very affordable. We’re hearing some rumours that there’s some financial turmoil on the way. You heard it here first.
We’ll be doing five of the list every day for the next four weeks. If you want to keep track of all of them, you can do that here. For the first five in the list, click through to the full post
Do your Christmas shopping on a budget with Local Bargain Finder
Ignore the rather utilitarian design on localbargainfinder.co.uk – what’s behind the site is surprisingly powerful. It’s a set of custom eBay searches that allow you to find auctions near your geographical location, as well as check for negative feedback on bidders and check commonly misspelled variants of your search items.
The service is designed mainly for big bulky stuff, like fridges, etc, that are a pain to ship across the country, but there’s plenty of money-saving application here for Christmas, too. I can tell you right now that someone I know might be getting a Retro TV stand (pictured) or a Silver Ford Focus bonnet in their stocking this year. It’s amazing how much stuff is listed as ‘Pickup only’. If you find any bargains, don’t hesitate to let us know in the comments.
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Floppy Disk Gift Tags – for the special geek in your life
Remember the amazing sticky labels you could put on 3.5″ floppies? Especially when you overwrote the same disc twenty times and ended up with a slightly wider floppy than would actually fit into the drive, because there were so many labels on it…?
Microsoft pushing Live Search through bribery: win prizes at John Lewis
Live Search must really be suffering at the moment, as Microsoft is teaming up with John Lewis to give away thousands of pounds worth of prizes over Christmas just for using the search engine.
BigSnapSearch.com launched today, and Microsoft will be hoping that this marketing push will be as successful as the first one it ran, that allegedly saw search queries increase by a third during the eight-week promotion. No stats on how many people defected back to Google afterwards, though.
Each time someone searches for something, two virtual cards are turned over. If they match, it’s “Snap!”, and a prize is won. Bearing in mind that there are only 24 prizes each day, don’t expect to win a flurry of prizes…
USB Negative Scanner – reliving the past on your PC
There’s a fair few negative scanners around on the market, but Firebox reckons its new model is the mutt’s nuts, saying it’s “smaller, faster, better”. I bought one for my Dad a year or so ago, and although it was good, it was a little temperamental, and didn’t come equipped with drivers for older PCs.
Nine out of ten kids want videogames for Christmas
If there was ever doubt that gaming had become well and truly mainstream, it must now be officially extinguished. Nine out of ten kids aged between eight and eleven want something game-related for Christmas – a game, console, or peripheral of some sort…
UPDATED: Nintendo DS to relaunch with a camera and MP3 player
The Nikkei Business Daily reported on Sunday that Nintendo are planning to launch a version of the DS that can take pictures and play music, and here’s the best bit – it’ll apparently be out before the end of the year…
