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Microsoft DreamSpark is giving away free software unique licenses to students all around the world. DreamSpark is a service from Microsoft to offer computer software free to students all around the world. They had offered Windows Server 2003 a while back, but has recently released Windows Server 2008. This software itself is worth $999.99 at retail, and is available for free! The pricing list is located here. DreamSpark also offers software free for students such as SQL Server 2008, and Visual Student 2008.

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Well here is the story of how I retrieved $10 back from one my purchases, as well as a free gift from Newegg! The free gift was simple, I was on live chat support and asked them to send me an email transcript of the chat. I was sent a personal email of what I requested, as well as an optional link to provide them feedback. The link also stated ‘Please reply if you’ve left feedback so we can thank you appropriately‘. I also received the $10 back, because I ordered an item, which was later featured in a daily promotion a few days later. I actually contacted them to request credit, or have my product returned, so I can purchase the new item with the discounted price. Newegg, unlike Circuit City, does not offer a price guarantee. Circuit city offers a 30day price lock guarantee. This is a quote from NewEgg’s website FAQ:

The price of an item I purchased has dropped prior to shipment. Is it possible to get a refund of the difference?

NewEgg.com does not offer any price guarantee, because industry prices change too often and too fast. If your order has not shipped, you can cancel the order online and re-order to take advantage of the new prices. All prices are as posted at the time of purchase.

That’s too bad. But if you contact them about it; they may honor the price guarantee! That’s what they did to me, they also gave me a free gift! Read on for my experience and pictures of the free gift!

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Are you an owner of a GeForce 8800GS from XFX? I certainly am. I ordered the videocard when I first bought this computer, and it works great. The only problem with the 8800GS is that the card itself is really loud and noisy. You can turn on your computer and hear the fan, and it really does get annoying. The fan is 100% on with no temperature control, and will never be any quieter without the fan controller. I read on some reviews on the fan, that people have called in and received an adaptor to reduce the sound of the fan. I’ve looked at places for where to find the fan adaptor, little did I know, you couldn’t buy it anywhere. You can get it for free.

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As I have mentioned in my previous post, I was to receive a free t-shirt from FatWallet. After only a week of anticipation, I received my shirt! Thank you FatWallet! Originally, a thread at FatWallet offers one free t-shirt to the first 1000 deals that are posted with at least a positive average rating. They may not have even gone through 1000 yet! The one day I was at FatWallet was the day the offer came up. As I really didn’t mind a free t-shirt, I went through bargain sites such as SlickDeals.net and xpBargains.com, to find that deal that hasn’t yet been found on FatWallet search. After I posted around 4-5 deals, I had about 3 with positive rating of at least 5. I got sent an email as well as 4 FatWallet private messages, congratulating me that I am selected to receive a free t-shirt. There were actually two shirts that people could have got, one was if they posted a positive deal which didn’t have cash back, and a better one, the ‘revolution’ shirt for deals that’s been posted with a cash back. I think most of my eligible posts had FatCash, but I wouldn’t mind neither shirt. I just wish I had seen the other shirt in person.

Update 08.01.08: Around 300 more shirts available until promotion ends.
Read on for the pictures!

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Microsoft has launched a new service called Microsoft Office Live Small Business. When I first heard the service was free, I told my self, ‘Great! I can finally get Microsoft Office for free!’. This is NOT Microsoft Office, this is Microsoft Office Live. Instead of a text editor, Microsoft Office Live offers Free Web Hosting, FREE email, Free E-commerce services, Free web templates, Free template editors, Free website promotion tools, and best of all, a FREE DOMAIN NAME. This is the perfect opportunity to start your first website, whether you’re a small business, or young entrepreneur.

Please read more for more information, or join now!

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