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Spotify Premium for Students with Hulu AND Showtime for $5 This is where I will introduce you to my favorite electronics bargain of the day, focusing on three online retailers each with their own specific advantage: Newegg with their wide selection of components and serious deals if you look close enough (and are willing to return mail-in rebates), Amazon and their two-day delivery service that many people subscribe to, and Best Buy due to always-available price-matching and their stellar return policy - aided even further by the fact that many people live close enough to a brick-and-mortar location that returns can be done in-store. If you're not already, make sure to subscribe to Newegg's email deals , as their discount codes require email enrollment. Best Buy's college student deals are also necessary if you are a student as well as joining their My Best Buy program . WARNING: The items presented in my Daily Deals will always be things that I want to purc...

Amazon just revamped a lot of their products, including the Fire TV which appears to be dialed way back from the previous model - but that means they've removed features most people don't use (removed microSD and Ethernet ports and replaced USB-A with what appears to be a micro USB port) and dropped the price dramatically. In fact, now you can get the Fire TV and an Echo Dot for only $79.99 - less than a last generation Fire TV cost. And it still supports 4K, now with added HDR (high dynamic range) support, plus they upgraded Alexa capabilities, making your TV into a baby Echo. If you have a 4K TV, or do a lot of streaming and have only a stick-type device, it's worth upgrading to the full-power Fire TV for $69.99 - but for only $10 more you can add on an Echo Dot. I already have one Fire TV, but have been looking at getting a Roku for the second TV. Now that Amazon is giving me an option with 4K and voice remote (which I use all the time) for way less than the Roku ...

Today Best Buy has the Asus 27" FHD VZ279H Monitor with IPS panel for only $149.99! Guys, I bought this monitor last week for $199.99 and thought it was a pretty good deal. $149.99 is a no-brainer. I'm even considering buying a second one while it's still on sale. It's not a 4k gaming monitor or anything, but it's spectacular for this price. Response time of 5ms is great for a monitor this size at this price, and it has built-in speakers. (Note monitor speakers are never going to be sufficient for listening to music or watching movies, but they're fine for notification sounds or the occasional YouTube video.) Luckily, Best Buy is amazing and refunded me the difference because of their Price match guarantee. More on that later. 

Let me just start by saying that I love this phone, and even though I already had a Galaxy S7 edge, the Note 8 feels like a real upgrade. TL;DR: The battery is great, the camera is great, the pen is great but Samsung Notes is confusing and mostly worthless, and Bixby is a-whole-nother story. First of all, I want to talk about the battery life, which everyone is worried about because Samsung scaled way back on battery size after the Note 7 debacle. But my battery life is amazing. Way better than it was on my S7, even though the Note is brand new and I have been using it for hours every day since I bought it. I'm putting the phone on the charger late each night, usually with battery to spare. Maybe only 10-15% but that only leads me to another thing. That last 15% burned up so fast with my S7, but now it'll get me at least an hour of active use. Probably closer to two. I put it on the wireless charger a couple nights ago under 5%, and only realized that it wasn't seated ...

TL;DR: If you want the Note 8 on AT&T, and your current phone is paid off, you can probably trade it in for $300 off your Note 8 purchase, even if it's not worth much, plus get either a free wireless charger and 128GB microSD or a cool gear 360 camera toy if you order by September 24th. If your phone isn't paid off, but you have paid enough to trade it in, you can go to Wal*Mart and buy a Moto e4 for $40, and trade both phones in for $300 off the purchase, plus the aforementioned freebies. If you aren't yet eligible for a trade in, just hold onto your phone for now. Prices will drop in a couple months for the Christmas rush anyway. YMMV, as always. Let's talk about the elephant in the room. If the room is my head and the elephant is a big grey phone with two cameras and a stylus. If you haven't figured it out by now, I'm talking about the Samsung Galaxy Note 8. A year ago, my husband and I both upgraded our phones. I to the newish Gal...

*Tech speak is mostly eliminated or translated, except where used ironically, so please read ahead if you want to know what all the fuss is about, even if computers are not generally your thing.* I have a yen to build another computer. Building custom PCs is one of my favorite activities, but it's an expensive hobby, so since I started in 2005, I've only done it four times, and two of those were for other people. The easiest way to keep costs down is to cannibalize another computer for parts. The last one I built was a Christmas present two years ago from me to my husband and vice-versa. His part of the present was a gaming computer, and mine was getting to buy and build a new computer. We named it GAMEMURDER, which isn't terribly accurate, but we're not especially demanding since we play a lot of older games, and we're not trying to push 120+ fps to a 4K monitor. We're more like Skyrim from the couch using a game controller instead of keyboard/mouse kind ...

UPDATE 2: They have now removed the discounts that were previously being advertised for the Kids Editions, so I removed the links to those tablets. UPDATE: The discount on the Kids Editions may not be accurate. Amazon is still advertising them both as discounted on the Fire Tablets Family page, but I could not get the discount to actually show up through the checkout process. The discounts on the Fire 7 and HD 8 are still good though. Discount will show up when you "Proceed with Checkout" So this is what Amazon was doing while Newegg was discounting their Echo Show. Amazon has the Kindle Fire 7 for $34.99 , Kindle Fire HD 8 for $54.99 , Kindle Fire 7 Kids Edition for $79.99, and Kindle Fire HD 8 Kids Edition for $99.99. The difference between the regular versions and kid versions are primarily a big cushy case and a no-questions-asked warranty. These prices are not as low as Prime Day prices, when I bought a 7" Fire for $20 after a $10 rebate for using voice order...

This is a fun one. Today's Deal probably doesn't come from the seller you expect. Amazon hasn't put it on sale since its release, unless you want to buy two, but through 9/16/17, Newegg has the Echo Show on sale for $209.99 - 8% off what Amazon is selling it for. Perfect for those of us who want to try the Echo Show but haven't been willing to shell out $360 for Amazon's offer of $100 off when you buy two.

I absolutely love designing and building custom PCs, but it's a hobby that gets expensive fast. So I want to offer my services to anyone who wants a nice, new desktop, but for whatever reason prefers not to build it on their own. And I want to do it for free. No, really. It's win-win. You get your custom-built computer paying only for parts and shipping. I get to practice my hobby, and content for my blog as I document the process. Hit me up if you're interested! Since I also love picking components and shopping, I'm also happy to help with any assistance you need in that area, even if you want to assemble yourself. Just let me know your computer needs (big or small, browsing or gaming, budget or BUDGET) and we'll figure out the perfect PC for you.