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If you celebrate Christmas, then you most likely love Christmas lights and their beautiful colors. I know I do. They’re pretty much a tradition and make the holidays glow with happiness. But if you’re using the average, incandescent lights, then you’re really missing out on something a lot better!

LED Christmas lights use 90% less energy, have around a 50,000 hour bulb life, are better for the environment, are safer because they don’t get as hot, and are very durable and not as easily broken. They are also less costly and save you extra money because they take a load off your electric bill as opposed to using incandescent lights.

If you’re using the average Christmas lights, you might want to consider switching this season. You can get any of the LED Christmas lights you will ever need at HolidayLEDs.com and for such a decent price, too! I’m all for helping saving money and the environment at the same time, and I’m sure you are too. It’s time to update to something new and better.

Happy early holidays!

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Since the holidays are quickly approaching, I thought I’d take a break from the norm and tell you all about some great flameless candles from FlamelessCandles.net. For my family, Thanksgiving and Christmas are a time for everyone to get together. But with little kids and pets running all over the place, a candle could easily be knocked over and catch fire.

However, there’s an easy solution. You can get all sorts of different kinds of candles, including a flameless window candle, and never have to worry about accidents. FlamelessCandles.net sells candles that are battery operated (batteries are inserted easily through the bottom). However, a lot of these candles are made with 100% real wax and most have scents, so they’re completely realistic-seeming. On some of them you even have adjustable settings for light intensity on the bottom too, so you can create the perfect mood for any event.

Some candles I found on FlamelessCandles.net that I really like include the beeswax drip candle and swirl champagne candle.

These flameless candles have wicks and lighting that mimic the look of a real candle, but they are free of messes and accidents. They can be used outdoors and in buildings where open flame is not permitted. If you want to set a nice atmosphere for the holidays but you don’t want to worry, FlamelessCandles.net might just have what you are looking for!

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Maybe at TechBargains.com!

Upon arriving at TechBargains.com, a site that claims to target the best deals in tech, the first thing I noticed was the design. TechBargains likes to think they have an easy navigable layout and seamless look, but when I arrived at the site I didn’t even know where to go first. There was a lot of clutter and a lot of ads that weren’t too well placed. Luckily, there is a search tab at the top of the site!

But once you get past all of that, the site can be quite nice and helpful. You can get iPods, memory cards, digital cameras, GPS navigation systems, games, even discount computers. If you find it hard to find what you’re looking for, TechBargains.com offers plenty of ways to get the information you want delivered to you. You can sign up for email newsletters which consolidate the best deals of the week, you can get deal alerts customized to what you want, and you can easily sign up to their RSS feeds.

The site is up 24/7 and using it you can get deals and exclusive offers, coupons and rebates. Knowing that the readers of this blog are more computer and tech focused than most, TechBargains.com could be a site you’re interested in. If you’re looking to get some technology without having to pay a sky-high price, then TechBargains.com might have what you’re looking for!

Sponsored by Tech Bargains.

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Guess what? Halloween is tomorrow! And what better to celebrate by letting you know about an awesome Halloween company with some pretty cool costumes and accessories?

Halloween Express has the best halloween costumes around. They have been in business since the 1990’s and own more than 200 seasonal stores across the United States and the UK (one of them is here where I live, and it’s a pretty awesome place). However, their website does operate year-round so their great selections can be accessed anytime!

I’ve been in the store and they have some cool costumes like Darth Vader, Harry Potter, and fairies. However, there are the much more unique things as well such as plumbers, a box of cereal, and that dude from the movie Napoleon Dynamite. Halloween Express claims to beat out all their competitors and in my opinion, they definitely do.

The only downfall of Halloween Express is their prices. In the store things cost twice as much as they would anywhere else - but the website is a bit cheaper overall. But if you’re looking for a more unique costume or you can’t find what you want, try Halloween Express - they’ll probably have it!

If you want to be a ninja for Halloween, I found a pretty cool ninja costume on their website you should look at!

All in all, Halloween Express is pretty cool. I love going to their store and browsing the website. I hope everyone has a very happy Halloween tomorrow!

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Recently I have learned about about a cool site called Data-Drop.com. The about page reveals that the author, Michael, is a full time network administrator who uses technology everyday. He writes tech reviews and how-to documents, and you know you can trust what he has to say. The author of Data-Drop.com is also very open-minded and loves to hear your ideas. He likes learning more than one way to do something and welcomes your own opinions with open arms - as long as you return that favor. This is the perfect way to run a blog! Make it your own, but also make your readers feel very included.

The Design

Upon visiting Data-Drop.com the first thing I noticed was the clean, three-column design. The theme is mostly red and black with the page’s background being white. An organized-looking layout is always a must. Visiting a site and having it please the eye is what I like.

One thing I think could be improved about the blog’s general look, however, is the amount of items in the sidebars. While the sidebars look great and are very organized, there are a few extras that could be done without. I think Data-Drop.com would look better if the archives, calendar, BlogRush widget, and the buttons at the bottom of the right sidebar were removed. There are also an amount of banners, Adsense, etc. which could later on be replaced with direct advertising (directly selling text link ads, banners, etc.) once the blog gains more popularity.

The Content

More importantly though, Data-Drop.com is a place where you can find some great content. It isn’t one of those blogs where the author reads information on other sites and just rewrites it - this guy really knows what he is talking about. He has experience on what he writes about and is very hands-on. What he writes can be very helpful to you. These are some of the articles that have stood out to me:

1. What to do with a dreaded disk failure

2. Free Antivirus for everyone

3. Adding Video to your Wordpress Blog

4. Tips to enhance your blog

5. PC Maintenane the good, the bad, the ugly

Suggested Improvements

While Data-Drop.com offers some great technology how-to’s and reviews, I’ve also found some errors within and throughout these articles. When there are spelling and grammar errors, the impact of the post is greatly reduced. Looking through the site I have found several post titles with mispelled words, which automatically causes a bad first impression. Another thing about the titles I have noticed is that they are often not capitalized proplerly. The first, last, and all words of importance in a title should be capitalized. In order to have a great post, you need to take the time to reread it at least TWICE before publishing so you can catch the little mistakes - when I was a new blogger, I never proofread and that was my biggest daily mistake.

Some of the posts are also one huge chunk of text, and that is a strain to read. In fact, most people might skip over that. It is always very important to divide up an article into readable paragraphs.

Another thing I noticed is Data-Drop.com’s permalink system. In the individual post URL, each one ends in something like p=13, which is the default system for Wordpress. All this tells us is the number of the post. A better permalink system would have included the post’s title and, if the author wanted, the date (see the URL for this post as an example). A post URL that includes the article’s title is better for SEO reasons especially and also for the readers. If the author wanted to change the permalinks, he would need to use a redirect plugin in order to not lose any search engine results or backlinks he might already have for those articles.

Summing It Up

All in all, Data-Drop.com is a great site with helpful, unique content. The blog’s theme is a nice one and the author also does a good job at promoting his StumbleUpon and feed subscriptions at the top of the sidebar, which is a great place for that to be. You’ll find many great technology reads at Data-Drop.com that you won’t find anywhere else!

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