Threadless is having another $10 t-shirt sale, just in time for the holidays. They will be releasing shirts representing their past (classic old designs), present (reprinted favorites), and future (new designs). Each Monday for the next 3 weeks they will be releasing a new batch of these new shirts. This week there are 18 of them, and some of them look great (this one, this one, this one, and this one).
So head on over with this link so I can get some free shirts off the backs of my visitors.
On Black Friday (Nov 23) Amazon.com will have a bunch of great deals to help you get holiday shopping done for less. This year they’ve created a Black Friday page for holiday shoppers at www.amazon.com/blackfriday.
Amazon.com will be offering hourly deals from 6am to 6pm PST (9am to 9pm EST) along with thousands of products on sale for a limited time. Also, customers will get gift wrapping for $.99 per item. I have put Amazon’s special deal widget here so on Black Friday it will pull in the latest deals. Or you can go directly to their Black Friday Deals page here.
Amazon Customers Vote is back for 2007. Each round of Customers Vote lets you vote for the deal you’d most like to have. Voting begins on Thursday, November 15th and continues through Monday, November 26th. There will be six rounds of voting this year with three products in each round. Beginning Thursday, November 22nd, each day the new winning product will be announced, and randomly selected customers will have the opportunity to purchase the item for which they voted at a great discount. Products this year will include:
1,000 Nintendo Wii Game Systems (see prices on Customers Vote page)
500 Panasonic 7.5MP Digital SLR Cameras, $499 (*normally $1,149.95)
1,000 Razor E100 Electric Scooters for $29 (*normally $89.99)
500 TiVo HD Digital Video Recorders, $89 (*normally $253.48)
500 Magellan Maestro 3140 Portable Auto GPS Systems, $99 (*normally $247.00)
200 Samsung 46” 1080p LCD HDTVs, $719 (*normally $1,899.98)
So what are you waiting for? Go vote and then check the Amazon site each day from Nov. 22 until the last day to see if you can buy the item you wanted at the discounted price. The top voted item each day is offered at the price they show, but if you voted on an item that didn’t win you can still get offered it at a lower price.
You can only get offered the item you voted for, so choose wisely.
Adobe is working on a tool (Thermo) for designers that will let them convert designs into working applications. The level of programming needed is up to them, and they can work with developers because the framework is compatible with Flex Builder.
Adobe announced “Thermo” at MAX Chicago 2007. Applications created in Thermo are Flex applications that can be loaded directly into Flex Builder, providing a way for designers to collaborate with developers. “The designer’s work can be incorporated directly into the production application with no loss of fidelity, and designers can continue to refine the design throughout the iterative development process.” The tool will let designers create Rich Internet Applications in a very visual manner. They can convert artwork into working components with a single click. Hopefully this won’t put any developers out of work. I know I would love to start using it, since I design mostly in Photoshop first anyway and then convert my designs into working apps. Thermo will be compatible with a large chunk of Adobe’s suite of tools. Take a look at the demo video. It’s in 3 parts. And the Thermo wiki has a lot more info and pictures.
Thermo Sneak Peek at MAX Chicago 2007 Day 2 Keynote
The $25 Drobo discount has been extended through December 31, 2007 due to high demand. I absolutely love my Drobo, so why don’t you have one yet? A Drobo and a few SATA hard drives lets you store all the data you could possibly need. Just use the code EVJASONS at the Drobo Store to get $25 off.
Want $25 off the price of a Drobo? Go to the Drobo Store, add a Drobo to your shopping cart, and then use the coupon code EVJASONS
Amazon recently unveiled Amazon MP3. They have 2 million songs, and popular songs are discounted from $0.99 to $0.89. Unfortunately they do not accept Amazon.com gift certificates to buy those songs. This is a major flaw and one that they will hopefully fix in time. Usually 1-click ordering lets you choose to use a gift certificate, but with Amazon MP3 you can only pay for your songs with a credit card.
But it is beta so they could be holding off on it for a while. It also took iTunes a while to offer gift certificates, so it could be a legal issue. But Randy reminds me that you can’t buy Amazon gift certificates with a gift certificate balance, so it could be a flaw in their system design. I find I have a lot more Amazon certificates than iTunes, so it would be a perfect solution to be able to use them.
The way fresh water is supplied to disaster-hit regions could be revolutionized after a businessman invented a $400 bottle that makes foul-smelling water drinkable in seconds.
Michael Pritchard hopes that the bottle could be a life-saver for refugees in disaster regions where access to clean drinking water is vital. Four hours after Mr Pritchard launched his new “Life Saver” bottle at the DESI defense show in London Wednesday, he sold out his entire 1,000 stock.
The bottles, which can distill either 4,000 liters or 6,000 liters without changing the filter, will have huge benefits for soldiers who hate drinking iodine-flavored water.
Conventional filters can cut out bacteria measuring more than 200 nanometers but not viruses, which typically are 25 nanometers long. The Life Saver bottle can clean up any water using a filter that cuts out anything longer than 15 nanometers, which means that viruses can be filtered out without the use of chemicals.
I just noticed that Amazon.com has been redesigned. They made it easier to find the shopping department you want with a left-side navigation menu that displays a submenu when you hover over a main category. And they made it so much easier to find someone’s wishlist. Also, when you are in a section you can see the other sections of the department and easily switch to them. It might actually make Amazon.com more usable for many people.
I know I have always had a difficult time in the Account section trying to find the right place for the information I needed (such as gift certificate balance or how to rate one of my recent purchases). Unfortunately the account section now focuses on highlighting purchases recommended for you, and the account options are crammed into a right-side navigation menu. So that still needs some work.
I like a simple and uncluttered design because I know how to handle a site. But the nice submenu display on each page that shows you others sections of the current department adds a lot of height to the top of the page and pushes content lower down (at least with my font display size set to 16pt). The design is being tested and you may or may not see it when you visit Amazon.
Below is an image they posted on their demo site explaining the site design features. What are your thoughts on the new design?
The Threadless $10 back to school sale is back. So go grab yourself some shirts. If you don’t see the shirts you like in stock keep checking back because they add more all the time. The sale ends Monday, September 3rd. So head to the Threadless $10 Sale.
Adobe is working on a tool (
I thought I would post a few more SATA hard drive deals since they seem to go over well.
