Hasta La Gadget!

This article was written on December 14, 2005 by CyberNet.

Print this coupon and bring it to a Best Buy? store near you.

10% off any single item

Offer valid through December 18, 2005 in these select categories

TVs & Accessories: TVs $399 and up; DVD players and recorders $99 and up; TiVo? and DIRECTV? hardware; receivers, speakers and home theater systems; video and audio accessories; furniture $179 and up.

Computer Accessories: DVD-RW drives; flash and external hard drives; notebook accessories; printers $149 and up; scanners $99 and up; computer networking; computer speakers, mice and keyboards; PC cameras; PC gaming controllers; digital recorders $99 and up; surge

protectors; computer flash memory; computer cables; graphic and sound cards; computer software $19.99 and up; blank digital media; blank video media; ink cartridges; printer docks; paper.

Cameras & Accessories: digital cameras $299 and up; digital camcorders $299 and up; digital camera accessories; fi lm SLR, 35mm, APS and instant point-and-shoot cameras; film and one-time-use cameras.

Music Players & Accessories: MP3 players and accessories; shelf systems; car audio; satellite radio hardware; musical instruments; CD/DVD storage.

Phones & Accessories: phone cards; cordless phones; answering machines; landline phone accessories.

More: mobile electronics; major and small appliances; shavers; vacuums; microwaves; 2-way radios; batteries.

Markdowns taken from regular prices.

Excludes Bose? and KEF? audio products; DIRECTV service; digital SLR cameras; Apple? products; satellite radio service; Cinema Systems; video game hardware; advertised and new-release DVDs; Dyson DC14; pay-as-you-go phones; wireless phones and accessories; Whirlpool? Duet?; Calypso? and LHW0050PQ products; GE Profile Harmony? washers and dryers; Magnolia Home Theater products: Fujitsu?, Mitsubishi Medallion, Primare, REL, Sonos, Vienna Acoustics, SpeakerCraft?, Boston Avidea and MartinLogan; HP ink and paper; prior purchases and special order, clearance, demo and open-box items.

Selection varies by store. Limit 1 coupon per household. Not good in combination with any other coupons or offers. Valid only at Best Buy stores in the U.S.A. Valid on instock

items only. No rainchecks. No dealers. Coupon must be presented at time of purchase. Cash value is 1/100th of 1 cent. Coupon valid 12/13/05 ? 12/18/05.

Cashier Instructions: Scan 10% UPC. Scan qualifying product UPC. Scan all other product(s) being sold.

Press ?Total.? Write ?VOID? on coupon and place in register coupon media file.

? 2005 Best Buy

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This article was written on December 08, 2006 by CyberNet.

Okay…so the party is over and we have a winner for our $100 Amazon gift certificate that we are giving away for our 1-year anniversary celebration. To pick the winner you would think that we would do something technology/computer related like write a quick program to generate a random number between 1 and 73 (the number of comments). Heck, we could have even used one of the several online random number generators but that just isn’t random enough for us.

So we developed our own concoction to ensure that it was as random as possible. Yep, we printed off numbers 1 to 73, cut them out, and drew the number out of a hat.

The number that we drew out…32 which was a comment by “Old Man Death.” Congratulations and you should be receiving a quick email as a confirmation before we email you the $100 gift certificate!

Just for fun we pulled out second and third place to taunt you. Unfortunately those people won’t receive anything (except our thanks, as always) but they were comments 14 (Matt) and 64 (nogg3r5). Shucks…you guys were so close.

Thanks to everyone who participated in the contest and we really enjoyed hearing about your favorite articles. Hopefully you’ll continue to read us as we venture into our second year.

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One of the questions we get asked most frequently in emails from our readers is, “what is your schedule usually like working on the site full-time?” Apparently some of you are curious what we spend our time doing, so today we thought that just for fun, we’d share what a typical day for us is like. Some people think bloggers work in their pajamas all day long while watching TV and writing at the same time.  For serious full-time bloggers like ourselves, we can tell you that’s definitely not the case!

• 6:00 AM – The alarm goes off and like some of you, on occasion, the snooze button does get pressed once or twice. Especially on the bitterly cold days that we’ve been experiencing lately!
• 6:20 AM – Walk across the street to the gym (yes, it’s rather convenient) for a workout.
• 7:15 AM – Come home from the gym, shower, and begin working

Usually we spend the first two hours of the day searching through about 500 different feeds and around 10,000-20,000 feed items looking for what we feel is the best news, or the news that would appeal to our readers the most. Surprisingly, there are many days that after going through all of the news, we find little to nothing that catches our attention that’s worth writing about.

• 9:00 AM- Around this time we start the actual writing. Ryan starts with the Daily Download article (which he manually puts together every day) while I usually start with the first “news” article.
• 10:00 AM – Our first article usually posts around this time, and then we go back to the feeds or our email to check for breaking news. From this time until around noon, we continue working on the daily articles.
• 12:00 PM – Lunch! We got into the bad habit of working while we eat lunch, so it’s no real break here.
• Until 3:00 PM – this is usually the time we’re done writing the daily articles for the site, but our day isn’t over quite yet!

Depending on the day, different things happen at 3:00:

• Mondays: we perform general maintenance to the site, go over advertising opportunities, catch up with email, etc.
• Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays: This is the time that we write our CyberNotes Articles for the following week. On Tuesdays Ryan does his Time-Saving Tuesday article for the following week while I work on the Fun Friday Article.  On Wednesday’s Ryan works on the Web-Browser Wednesday article (again, for the following week) while I work on the Weekend Website article.  On Thursdays, Ryan completes the Tutorial Thursday article while I work on the Microsoft Monday article.
• Fridays: This is the day that we write the extra articles that are posted on the weekend so that we can have weekends mainly off.

We’re usually done with those tasks from anywhere between 5:00 PM and 7:00 PM. At this point we stop working, eat dinner, and relax for an hour or two, and then around 9 or 10 PM right before we go to bed, we’ll go back and reply to comments that readers have left on the site and in the forum, and visit and comment on other sites as well. Some days we get done earlier than others, it just depends on what’s going on in the news that day and how long our CyberNote’s articles take us.

So there you have it, a typical CyberNet workday.  It’s fun, challenging, and busy, but we are enjoying it!

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This article was written on December 03, 2005 by CyberNet.

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Tutorial Thursday

Windows; Mac
One of the things that Apple hasn’t made easy for iPhone owners is providing a way to create custom ringtones in Windows. If you’re a Mac owner you can use GarageBand, but Apple doesn’t provide that application on Windows. Instead what they expect you to do is purchase a song for $0.99, and then convert it to a ringtone for another $0.99.

As it turns out in a few steps you can actually convert a DRM-free song into a ringtone using only iTunes in Windows. The trick also works for Mac users, but using GarageBand is a lot simpler so we’re focusing primarily on the Windows side.

Here’s what you need to do:

1. Start iTunes and find the [DRM-free] song you want to convert to a ringtone. Right-click on it and select the Get Info option.
   
2. On the Options tab locate the Start Time and End Time options. This is where you want to specify the portion of the song you wanted converted into a ringtone. Check both of the boxes, and make sure your ringtone is under 30-seconds. Press OK when finished.
   
3. Right-click on the song you just modified, and choose the Convert to AAC option. If you don’t see this in the context menu navigate to Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Importing, and make sure the AAC Encoder is selected in the Import Using menu.
   
4. Once the song has finished being converted to the new format it will appear in your music list, and the “Time” should reflect the correct duration of the ringtone (which should be less than 30-seconds). Now navigate to your iTunes music folder to find the converted song. Here’s an example of where my Green Day ringtone was located:
   
5. Make sure you’re able to see the file’s extension (.M4A) like in the screenshot above. If you don’t see the extension go to Tools -> Folder Options -> View (Organize -> Folder and Search Options on Vista), and uncheck the Hide extensions for known file types box. Then click OK.
6. Copy the music file (with the .M4A extension) to your desktop. Once you’ve done that rename the file’s extension to .M4R which will make iTunes recognize it as a ringtone. Make sure there are no symbols (underscores, hyphens, etc…) in the file name.
   
7. In iTunes go to File -> Add File to Library, and then browse for the file from step 6. Once you’ve selected it press the Open button. iTunes will place the ringtone in the respective section in your library:
   
8. Sync your iPhone with iTunes and your newly created ringtone should get transferred over. If it doesn’t be sure to check the Ringtones tab in the iPhone configuration section of iTunes to verify that it is setup to sync your ringtones.

–What is DRM?–

I’ve been getting all kinds of questions and emails from people asking what DRM is. An anonymous commenter below did a great job answering the question. Here is his response:

DRM stands for Digital Rights Management. In a nutshell, a song with DRM is meant to keep you from giving it to someone else. If you’re using Windows XP (and I’m sure there’s some equivalent for Vista), you can right-click on a song file, and choose Properties. Under the Summary tab, click the Advanced >> button if it’s there. Under the Origin heading, you will see an entry named ‘Protected’. If it says No, then the song does not have a DRM. If it says Yes, well, you may be able to pay Apple money to convert the song to an iTunes Plus track, which will be DRM-free. Hope this helps, best of luck!

That’s all there is to it. Now you can save yourself a bunch of money on ringtones. A big thanks to the Apple Blog who assembled the original instructions on how to do this for the Mac!

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