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Budget Conscious Must Have Tech Toys and Gadgets

December 09, 2009 By: smmellott Category: shopping, tech toys, technology No Comments →

This is my Tech Edition of gift ideas for the holidays. These are all the things that I really find neat and useful. And fun!

And let me say, if you haven’t realized it already, that I am very budget-conscious. I don’t recommend or want the highest end things, I recommend the things that are the best bang for a regular person on a budget. Continue reading

More Unusual Gift Ideas – Cute and Collectible Edition

December 06, 2009 By: smmellott Category: funny, humor, shopping No Comments →

Presents for people who are enamored of all things cute and collectible. And some generally amusing stuff to keep it interesting. Continue reading

Geek out with Unique and Fun Holiday Gift Ideas!

December 03, 2009 By: smmellott Category: funny, humor, librarians, shopping No Comments →

Here comes another Christmas and we all wonder what to get the hard-to-please among our family and friends. Well, good old Archie McPhee still isn’t letting us down! Despite the fact that they no longer carry the Illustrated Librarian line of temporary tattoos (perfect for the librarian on your list), they do have a nice “Read or Die” shopping bag which is new. For other librarian(and zombie) related items you can check out my post Librarians and Zombies: Novel Presents You will Love (and some librarian trivia) Continue reading

Librarians and Zombies: Novel Presents You will Love (and some librarian trivia)

December 05, 2007 By: smmellott Category: librarians, shopping 1 Comment →

“Novel”, “Novel”ties, get it? That is my lame book humor. But these all would make excellent stocking stuffers for the people with an “oblique” sense of humor (to quote Elvis) on your list.

I wrote a post about online shopping sites you may not be familiar with and one of them was a favorite site/catalog of mine called Archie McPhee’s. They carry all sorts of unique, quirky… Continue reading | 1 Comment

The Gift of Memory – How to Tell What Kind You Need

December 03, 2007 By: smmellott Category: shopping, technology No Comments →

It is coming on the holiday season and one gift that everyone would love is more memory for their computer. Nothing will revive an older computer better than adding memory and nothing will speed up a good computer better than more memory.

If you are like me, you have at least one computer that seems slow now, although when you bought it you thought you had gotten ample CPU… Continue reading

Shopping 2.0 – Online Shopping Sites You Might Not Know

December 02, 2007 By: smmellott Category: shopping 2 Comments →

There are many online shopping sites. Most people know about the big ones like Amazon, Overstock, Dell, Buy.com, Half.com and the online version of actual stores like Best Buy, Circuit City, Walmart and Sears. Most all of the stores you might visit in person have an online presence. And the store catalogs you get in the mail have online sites… Continue reading | 2 Comments

Holiday Gift Ideas: Can’t find your Keys? Get the KeyRinger!

November 29, 2007 By: smmellott Category: shopping, tech toys 3 Comments →

I’ve been thinking about how to locate various things, specifically, my luggage when I travel, especially when cruising. If you’ve ever taken a cruise, you know that they give you a tag color such as red and then you have to go to the ‘red’ section and hunt through hundreds of bags to find yours. I wanted something that I could attach to my bags that would make a loud… Continue reading | 3 Comments

Black Friday and Cyber Monday

November 19, 2007 By: smmellott Category: shopping 2 Comments →

Are you ready for Black Friday? Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving, traditionally the day for the biggest sales, especially the Early Bird specials. People line up at 3 or 4 in the morning, or sometimes overnight, to get the best, limited deals. Last year we got a Hitachi 51″ rear projection TV with true high-def. We could have gotten a very nice b RCA 52″ rear projection… Continue reading | 2 Comments

Something Big Needs Moved? Try the Shoulder Dolly!

October 21, 2007 By: smmellott Category: shopping, tips No Comments →

Before I get back to my regularly scheduled posts, more typically on Web 2.0 tools, I have one more generally useful tip/trick for you.

Yesterday, we had a refrigerator delivered by Sears and once again, I saw that they were using a really interesting system to move the fridge. They each had harnesses on and they took a strap and put it under the fridge and hooked it to… Continue reading

Library Genius 2.0 Shirts are now Available!!!

August 19, 2007 By: smmellott Category: ACPL, learning 2.0, library 2.0, shopping No Comments →

In my post of August 8, I wrote about the very cool Library Genius 2.0 t-shirts that Kay Gregg and Sean Robinson of the Allen County Public Library created for the Learning 2.0 program for the library staff that the ACPL is going to kick off on Sept 19 when Stephen Abrams, VP of Innovation at SirsiDynix comes to speak on Library 2.0 at the ACPL. By the way, this… Continue reading

Cool stuff to buy if you love to read

July 18, 2007 By: smmellott Category: ala, libraries, shopping No Comments →

As you know, I am playing with my 2 blogs and trying widgets and code and whatnot. So I was playing around with the various page elements on my Google Blogger blog and found one called Newsreel that let me search for certain keywords in the news and display news about them.

I put in Web 2.0, Library 2.0 and Learning 2.0. Then I went to my page to see what… Continue reading


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