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Although a bit late for xmas now (or is it), I threw together a brief, 1-page, tech geeks gift list a while back which can be found here. Hopefully it is not modded away into oblivion as being too link-whoreish!

I feel that I have to whore out my computer price comparison site. It operates with a similar range of data to pricewatch but has a few differences. It is international (UK, US, Canada at the moment with more coming soon), and only deals with reputable shops (so the strange ones that pricewatch use quite often are not going to pollute the results with bait and switch tactics). The advanced search options allow filtering by Linux or Mac compatibility as well as windows, though this is still a work in progress so there are only about 3000 linux flagged products in the system at the moment. The site also tries to automatically figure out the best value products to save hunting for the price/performance sweet spot, so will figure out hard drives to the best value per GB for instance. Check it out anyway, and feel free to post any comments in my /. journal as feedback is very much welcome. It is nearing the end of the beta phase now, with more stores being added over the next few months.

Especially now that firefox is so popular. Firefox makes up 10% of users on the general Internet (as counter by thecounter.com), with IE at 85%. My own tech related site has 76.4% of users using firefox, with just 10.1% on IE, and my other more casual site has 23.1% firefox and 64% IE (the rest being safari, opera, konq, etc.)