I thought I’d already gotten this, likely from a previous holiday giveaway. But mine was a different set, looks like it’s from a couple of other BSO Christmas albums, though there’s some overlap too. I’m glad I took a look!
SlimTim
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RE: Free The Brian Setzer Orchestra Holiday Album Download
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RE: Free $1 Amazon Kindle Ebook Credit
MrVietnam, the ‘win’ was about a book giveaway. After that, I was given one more link to click to claim the $1 credit.
The credit expires Jan 1, 2018.
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RE: Free $1 Amazon Kindle Ebook Credit
My lucky day! $1 credit and I didn’t have to add a Dan Brown book to my collection - woohoo!
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RE: Free Neil Young's Entire Catalog in Hi-Res on Stream
Did you mean on “Stream”? That’s what it looks like is offered, though I wondered if this was a promo for some kind of new music service from the game distribution platform Steam.
Parts weren’t very clear to me. It looks like you have to sign up to get any site access. I used a (unique, as usual) email account and got right in, with a welcome email that has important information too:
“Between now and June 30, you’ll have free access to the entire Neil Young Archives with unlimited streaming. So have at it! (And don’t worry; once your trial is up, you’ll be able to sign up for a subscription at a very modest cost.)”So that’s quite a while, though it won’t stay free forever. There are “buy” options all over, with either a ‘high quality’ option from a vendor I didn’t recognize or links to standard Amazon pages for the albums. I don’t see any intended way to save media now.
Once signed up, the site overuses a stupid “file cabinet” metaphor that mostly obscures navigation and options. But most clicks seem to lead to music listings.
I had to disable my Disable HTML5 Autoplay chrome add-in to get playback to work - that’s not too unusual, I have to do that to preview MP3s on other sites too.
I thought I had a lot of Neil Young music. I’m a casual fan like anyone sensible and my age, but also got a free copy of the collection also named “Neil Young Archives” via a FW link a couple years ago. But it looks like there’s a ton here I don’t have, most of it I’ve not heard of.
I’m kind of an anti-audiophile. I am far too cheap to understand how much some people spend on equipment, and remember scoffing at Neil’s promotion of a new portable player a few years ago that supports some crazy bitrate and fidelity. And he’s continuing the audio quality crusade here. I’m playing back with default settings, which I think mostly means a high bitrate MP3.
I have to admit, the quality is excellent. I’ll have to compare some of the same songs I’ve ripped from CD. I may have a holiday project to re-rip them all with better rates.
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RE: Free pc game "Worms Reloaded" @ Gamesessions until 12/28
It sounds like this version supports “up to four player offline multi-player”, which sounds like it means the lan multi-player.
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RE: HDHomeRun - Connect Quatro Tuner - Black $99.99 @Best Buy
Your link didn’t work for me, not sure if bestbuy redecorated or there’s an issue with the link redirection. Here’s where I find it now: https://www.bestbuy.com/site/hdhomerun-connect-quatro-tuner-black/6079602.p?skuId=6079602
I’ve got a couple of HDHomeRun devices already, but think I’d have taken this over my 2 tuner ota model. Once in a while, there’s an overload on viewing, and sometimes what seems to be a false complaint that might be avoided with a bigger pool of tuners like this. But the device is great - I use NextPVR on windows to record a couple of late night shows I like, and watch those back with VLC media player. Next PVR plays back too, but was a little flaky for me. For live viewing, I use Next PVR - gives access where we don’t have a tv, or the HDHomerun has better tuning than the tv, and allows for DVR pausing, rewinding, jumping ahead.
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RE: Free Audiobook w/ Audible trial - Anne of Green Gables (Narrated by: Rachel McAdams)
Shows as free with Audible trial for me. Amazon has always been easy to deal with free trials for me in the past, but this will require a small bit of followup unless they hook you on subscribing.
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RE: Free pc game "Bloop Reloaded" (Steam key) @ Indiegala
Seems to be expired now.
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RE: Plants vs Zombies GOTY (Origin) is free "On the House"
I think they’ve done this one before too, but it is a great game. Mind-boggling that they didn’t name it Lawn of the Dead though!
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RE: Dunkin Donuts: $5 bonus when you reload with Masterpass, plus PERKS weeks specials all week.
Getting the $5 bonus was a little unclear to me, but pretty simple. I already have a DD account, their app, and a card with some credit on it.
First issue was getting Masterpass set up. I pulled an inactive Citi Mastercard that looked good, but it was rejected from setup via masterpass.com. The message was crazy, because as I read it, it told me only Citi Mastercards were eligible, and that if I had a Citi Visa or Amex I could sign up with that instead. Either I or that error page missed some words, maybe my flavor of Mastercard was not eligible. So then I thought to try my Visa daily spender (Alliant) and Masterpass took it.
Getting a new card via the desktop seemed to have a $5 minimum, but via the app only $2. So I signed up there, and it immediately reflected the bonus amount. Merged the cards, DD app crashed and restarted itself, and it had merged my balances onto one card correctly.