I was browsing the web for a new computer and stumbled along compusa.com. When Compusa filed for bankruptcy I figured that the whole company went down but not according to the website. The website states that compusa was bought out by Systemax and also joined by TigerDirect. I started to browse through Compusa and I was really surprised by their low prices. I have purchased many items from compusa.com and am really happy with their prices and customer service. The first item purchased was a 1GB USB thumb drive for $7.99 which was the lowest price I found on the Internet. The second item I bought from was a 28inch I-INC LCD Monitor for $299.99 which was also the lowest price on the Internet that I found.

I would recommend signing up to the email newsletter because compusa has great weekly specials. Compusa.com also has another great feature that you can buy packages of computer parts containing motherboard, CPU, hard drive, case, and ram memory in order to build your computer. If you are considering buying some new electronics check out compusa in your search for the best bargains.

I was searching the internet for firefox plugins when I came accross a website Gadget Advisor.  They have an article about Best Extentions for Firefox.  This list is massive and comes with a description of all the plugins, although some of these plugins I already knew about such as Adblock Plus and Download Status Bar, but then there are many that are useful that I didn’t know about such as IE View Lite, which allows the user to enter a website in firefox, but under IE mode, because some sites only work on IE, and vice versa, and this add-on makes it really easy to switch.  So I sticked around on the site to see other posts and read about the MSI x58 Eclipse Motherboard, and another post about the Blaze Media Pro review.  What I am trying to say is that how you can stumble upon to a great website by just searching for one small thing and find a great blog, I will definitely be adding Gadget Advisor to my RSS reader.

Firefox 2.0 Tutorial - Add new RSS readers or change the default feed reader in Firefox 2.
Foxit PDF reader v2.0 released - A great, light-weight alternative to Adobe’s PDF reader.
Every Web 2.0 company on one page - Easy to find information for all the Web 2.0 websites
Use IE 7 as a standalone browser - Good article if you don’t want to ditch IE 6 just yet, but want to test out IE 7.
Temporary email address with Spambox - Great for using when you don’t want to share your email with every website you sign up for.
Nintendo Wii Launch Details - Some useful information for anyone wanting to know what the Nintendo Wii will have to offer.

Take some time to look over those articles, and don’t forget to share your favorites with us in the comments. If you want some more of “best of the week” check out my best of the week post on my personal blog.

Helicoptor - Last as long as you can flying through a cave without hitting the roof, floor or obstacles in your way.

Crimson Room - You are trapped in a room. Can you figure out how to get out?

Board Dots - A logical puzzle game

Waste Basketball - Throw garbage into a garbage can with a little wind.

Parking Perfection 2 - Try to park the car in the allotted time

Drivers Ed - Take a drivers ed course and then take the drivers test.

Climbing Game - A chinese game, climb on top of people to get to a helicoptor.

Blue Print - Design a unique solution to get a ball to the target using various tools.

And if you have any you would like to suggest just leave a comment, and hopefully I will spend hours playing these addictive games.

Akismet - Is a spam filter that checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they are spam or not, also checks the trackbacks for spam.

Ultimate Tag Warrior - Best Tag system for WordPress. You can use categories and tag system on one website which is very cool.

Exec-PHP - Execute PHP code in posts or static pages. When this plugin is on you can add php code to static pages or even posts.

Google Sitemaps - This generator will create a Google compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog.

No Ping Wait - Speeds up posting by moving generic pings to execute-pings.php.

PXS Mail Form - Creates a mail form with multipart verification, various messages and an auto redirect on successful send. It is much more easy to contact with website author.

Super Archive - Implements a dynamic archive, the best archives system i know.

SRG Clean Archives - Super clean archive. Very simple and useful.

WP lightbox 2 - Overlay images on the current page for WordPress. You can turn it on and all images are now working with it.

fQuick - Sidenotes, short notes for WordPress. You can place it for example in sidebar.

CG-FlashyTitles - Implementation of sIFR 2.0 Flash-based - Nice graphical flash titles for WP. Very easy to install.

flickrRSS - Integrate the photos from a flickr rss feed into your site. Show flickr photos on your website.

Feedburner Feed Replacement - Forwards all feed traffic to Feedburner while creating a randomized feed for Feedburner to pull from.

Gravatars - Adds a nice looking graphic next to the persons comments.

Get Recent Comments - Display the most recent comments or trackbacks with your own formatting in the sidebar or where you want.

WP Paginate - Create pagination for pages. It is the best plugin for that makes navigation easy with many static pages.

wp-notable - Add social bookmark links such as digg or del.icio.us to each blog entry

Adsense-Deluxe - Support for AdSense ads and allows you to add ads to posts.

WP-ContactForm - A way for people to contact you without actually emailing you, saves time, and great way to avoid spam.

PodPress - Got a podcast? PodPress makes it really easy to post podcasts, also includes an inline media player.

Related Posts - Link to related posts on your blog, which is based on the content of the post.

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WP-Cache - An extremely efficient WordPress page caching system to make your site much faster and responsive. It works by caching Worpress pages and storing them in a static file for serving future requests.

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A lot of people look for work at home opportunities to earn some money. If you have wireless high speed internet you can easily avail work at home opportunity. Many companies that are doing work at home business are usually offering work for home business internet marketing. Normally these companies employ professional hosting and prefer linux hosting to host there site. Furthermore, these companies when buy or sell domain make sure the hosting company takes regular computer backup to avoid any data loss.

Goggles - The Goggles flight simulator utilizes images from Google’s mapping service and implements it into a game like environment where you get to fly around in a plane around New York, and other cities like London.

Google Sitemap Creator - This site lets you create a free XML sitemap of your website, so you can see how Google is indexing your site, through the sitemaps.

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When I took the test my download speed was 4785kbps, and upload was 360 kbps, which is pretty good for a cable modem.

The second thing Apple announced was that their new OS Leopard will come out in the Spring of 07, and is now available to preview on there web site. Some of the cool new features of OS X Leopard is the “Time Machine”, which is kind of like Microsoft’s System Restore, where if you accidentally delete an important file you can go back to the state in which everything worked fine and that file was still on your system. To check out all the new features of the new Mac OS X Leopard, go to the apple website, and more on the new Mac Pro Workstation.

Bullet Time - A game that I found on digg, you have to test your reflex and see how long it takes you to catch a bullet, when the gun is fired. Addictive game.

Messy network cables - This is also something I found on digg, it is a bunch of pictures of very, very messy network cables, I mean its crazy, just check it out.

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Population - One Person is One Pixel

Google Suggest - As you type, Google will offer suggestions

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Top 10 open source OSX apps - Has a great list of the top 10 open source apps for the great Mac OSX, recently I also had a list of the “Top 10 open source programs”

Orderedlist.com - This is a great blog, but the reason I chose this link is because for those of you using wordpress blogging program, he has a great admin theme, which makes have more eye candy when you’re writing up your posts.  The theme is called wp-tiger admin.

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But first make sure you have all the new updates and fixes, there is a great post over at TAZ forums of how to achieve the tip-top version of ubuntu linux 6.06.

If you still have the old version I think its time for an upgrade, check out all the new features in my post “Ubuntu for Dummies” written a while back about all the great new features Ubuntu 6.06 has updated.

Learn how to take the perfect photograph of fireworks.

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payperpost.com is a new site that promotes other blogs, it also pays you to review other site, doesn’t have to be a positive or a negative review.  The amount they pay you depends on the type of post. I think this is a great way to create a buzz about other sites and even your own, through the word of mouth, well in this case word of blog. And you get paid to do it, although some people might not like to make money promoting other people’s blogs on their own blog, it doesn’t even have to be a positive post, not that I’m sure of, it could be negative and still will get visitors, because of the talk over it.

Final thoughts
I think that this is great for everyone, because the advertisers get popularity and the bloggers get money, although keep your posts honest, and make your point across about the blog. Great site worth a click.

silktide.com - This is a very useful site that ranks your website, telling you about how to improve your site, and the features, and ranks it on a scale of 1 - 10 on all aspects of your site.

eyesoncreativity.com - This is a great blog about all things on creativity, and great links to some cool photoshop tutorials, and visual effects, great blog that has “news and reviews from all things creative.”

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