BOB BUYS INK, REAL CHEAP

Bob was more than mildly astonished when he went to our local office supply store and found that a set of four refill cartridges for his Canon color inkjet printer cost $60. Instead of buying, he went home, went on the Internet, and ordered a set for $15 from an unauthorized supplier.  He just picked the first supplier on the list that had good customer comments. A few days later he got two full sets of ink cartridges in the mail – eight in all. Let’s work this out: That was the equivalent of two $60 sets from Canon, which would have cost $120. So the $15 for two sets from an outside supplier cost just one-eighth as much, or12 […]

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WEAR YOUR OWN JEWELRY CREATIONS

Design your own jewelry, then order it.

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GAMERS CAN TALK

Imvox.com has a new way for Windows game players to talk to each other.

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MEDICAL TOURISM AND FIX-IT SITES

Medicaltourismmag.com, eHealthMedicare.com and Ifixit.com to fix what ails you.

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SCANNING YOUR PHOTOS

GoClickFree.com and Verbatim have photo DVDs that automatically back up digital photos. Canon has an easy to use scanner for turning regular prints into digital ones.

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IT CAME FROM THE WEB

Clicker.com is a free service for finding any of thousands of TV programs, movies and lectures out on the web.

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THE LITL ENGINE THAT COULD

The Litl strikes us as the right computer for newbies. And it puts the fun back into the computing experience for old timers, since there’s nothing to go wrong.

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FREE GOOGLE TURN-BY-TURN DIRECTIONS

You can get free, spoken directions on the T-Mobile G1, the myTouch 3G phone, the new Motorola Droid, and coming soon, the Google Nexus One.

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CLASSIC GAMES, AVATARS AND DISCOUNTS

Atari.com has free classic games, Oddcast.com and onyoursideline.com lets you put your own face into animations, Fatwallet is a good place for discounts.

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FLEXIBLE SCANNER

Visioneer scanner can be either a desktop or portable unit.

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