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Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Save 15% Printing a Photo Book with Poyomi

Posted by Jason Dunn in "Digital Home Printing" @ 03:00 PM

http://www.poyomi.com/coupon/dht2011

I haven't tried Poyomi yet, but talk about an affordable way of getting a photo book made! At a mere $4.99 for a 20 page book, you can't get any photo book anywhere for that cheap as far as I know. That's with the 15% coupon dht2011 already applied by going to this link of course. Seems like this is an easy and fast way to make a photo book. Have any Digital Home Thoughts readers tried it? If so, what did you think?


Friday, July 23, 2010

Get $2 Off Your XO Skins Order

Posted by Jeff Campbell in "Apple iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad" @ 04:54 PM

We did a Quick Look of the XO Skins for iPhone 4 over at Apple Thoughts, and the XO Skins folks were generous enough to give us a code for $2.00 USD off their products. XO Skins makes protective covers for a wide variety of products (not just Apple stuff), so if you want to partake, use the code APPLETHOUGHTS2OFF. I believe the code will work on any of the products they sell at XO Skins, and is good until 12/31/2010.


Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Photo Book Printing Discount Coupon Codes

Posted by Jason Dunn in "Digital Home Printing" @ 03:15 PM

Looking to print a photo book, and want to save some money on it? After I published my photo book review article, I contacted each of the companies involved and asked them if they'd like to provide discount coupons for my readers. A few agreed to, so here are the discounts I've collected so far:

  • Treasure-Book: DHTDC15 will get you 15% off your order, valid until June 30th, 2010.
  • Inkubook: HOMEFREE10 will get you a buy one, get one free promotion. This coupon is limited to one per customer, and is valid until October 31st, 2010.
  • ArtsCow: 30PBOOK1199 will get you an 8" x 8" photo book, 30 pages in length, for $11.99 each, with free shipping (expires December 31st, 2011). 30PBOOK2499 will get you a 12" x 12" photo book, 30 pages in length, for $24.99 each, with free shipping (expires December 31st, 2011).
  • Photobook Canada: until October 31st, you can get 45% off your entire order (not including shipping and taxes) using the coupon code DIGITAL45.


Thursday, September 17, 2009

Students Can Get Windows 7 as a Digital Download for $29.99

Posted by Jason Dunn in "Digital Home Events" @ 03:00 PM

http://www.notebooks.com/2009/09/17...ents-for-29-99/

"Microsoft is cutting students a big break on Windows 7. Anyone with .EDU email address can order Windows 7 Home Premium for just $29.99 through January 3, 2010. Here's the interesting part- This deal is being run through Digital River, a company that sells DOWNLOADABLE software. That's right. It appears you can download a final production copy of Windows 7 right now."

Wow - and I thought the 50% off pre-order price for Windows 7 was cheap. Not a bad deal at all if you're a student. I've been using Windows 7 more heavily now, having installed it on my main laptop, and it's a solid OS. I cringe when I have to use XP now...OK, well, I cringed using XP when Vista was out. ;-)


Friday, June 26, 2009

Pre-Order Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade for $49.99, Limited Time Offer

Posted by Jason Dunn in "Digital Home Software" @ 09:37 AM

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...ASIN=B002DHLUWK

You'll have to excuse the network-wide broadcast (well, except Apple Thoughts of course), but I thought this was something that everyone would want to know about: Microsoft is offering the forthcoming Windows 7 at a steep discount, but only for a limited time. Until July 11th, you can purchase Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade for $49.99 USD (that's an Amazon affiliate link, so your purchase helps support Thoughts Media). The normal price of Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade is $119.99 USD, so that's a very significant level of savings ($70 to be precise). You can also pick up Windows 7 Business Upgrade for $99 if you want that version. When Windows 7 is released on October 22nd, Amazon will ship you the software.

The Windows 7 upgrade will work on a computer with Windows Vista or Windows XP installed. If you have an older computer, you may want to run the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor to make sure your computer is ready for Windows 7, but in general any computer built in the past four years should be able to run it just fine. Windows 7 is lighter on resources and works well across a broad spectrum of hardware.

Got a netbook? Then you'll want to take advantage of this offer as well - I'm running the Windows 7 Release Candidate on an MSI Wind, and an HP Mini 1000, and it works really well on both of them. I think Windows Vista is a fine operating system, but Windows 7 is even better - it addresses many of the concerns that people had with Windows Vista and adds a degree of polish that means everything is easier to use.

Unfortunately, this offer is only valid in the USA and Canada (Canadians can order from Amazon.ca, Future Shop, and Best Buy). as far as I can tell. Europe is getting a different version of Windows 7 due to the lawsuits Microsoft is undergoing there.


Thursday, June 25, 2009

Microsoft to Sell Windows 7 for 8% Less Than Vista

Posted by Jason Dunn in "Digital Home News" @ 09:38 AM

http://www.iii.co.uk/news/?type=afx...&action=article

I was looking at Microsoft's stock price on Google Finance (oh, the irony), and saw this little line that caught my attention:

"Microsoft Corp on Thursday said it will sell the standard home-user version of its new Windows 7 operating system for 8 percent less than the comparable version of its Vista system, as the global downturn hits spending on technology."

This is the first I've heard of any pricing information about Windows 7 - this 8% drop would make the approximate prices as follows based on Best Buy pricing today for Windows Vista:

  • Windows 7 Home Premium Full: $220 USD
  • Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade: $119 USD
  • Windows 7 Ultimate Full: $294 USD

That's just a theoretical price though of course - because today you can buy Windows Vista Home Premium Upgrade from Amazon.com for $83.57 USD, far less than the $129.99 USD Best Buy is charging. In the XP to Vista transition era, the vast majority of computer users didn't upgrade their operating systems. Most people getting Vista bought a new PC. Windows 7, however, is going to be a different beast - if someone has a reasonable Vista-era computer, they'll have all they need to run Windows 7. So if Microsoft wants those people to upgrade to Windows 7, the upgrade pricing has to be reasonable. I'm not sure 8% is going to cut it. What do you think?

UPDATE: Looks like the pricing details on Windows 7 are now public. $119.99 (Home Premium), $199.99 (Business), or $219.99 (Ultimate) are the upgrade prices for XP or Vista users. Those fall in line with the prices I estimated above. That strikes me as too expensive, especially in this belt-tightening economy we're in. I think $89 USD would have been a much more attractive upgrade price. There's going to be a limited Window of pre-order pricing at $49 USD for the Home Premium upgrade, starting on the 26th of June, but how many people are going to take advantage of that? I'll post more news about that when I find out details.


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