Last week Ashley discussed two free services that would monitor your website for downtime and Pingdom is similar to both of those.

Today is Cyber Monday and that means it is time for you to get some great deals on the Internet. The Google Blog just announced the special deal that they are doing with select merchants where you can receive $20 off if you purchase more than $50 in products and you pay using Google Checkout. It is undoubtedly a great deal but I was only able to find Buy.com and Starbucks offering that discount.

Google is planning on creating their own shopping fiasco except they aren't targeting this Friday (known as Black Friday). Instead, they are going to offer $10 off of a $30 purchase or $20 off of more than $50 on Monday of next week (called Cyber Monday) for those people who use the Google Checkout service.

Newegg is currently offering Windows XP Media Center Edition for just $110 which sounds like a lot of money but it really isn't when you put it into perspective. For purchasing that you will receive an upgrade to Windows Vista Home Premium when it is released in early 2007.

Another holiday season is approaching us and there is nothing like the mobs of people that go shopping on the day after Thanksgiving. That day is typically referred to Black Friday and it earned its name because that is the one day where most retail stores are guaranteed not to be in the red (a.k.a. guaranteed to make money).

Wow, we all thought it was going to be some kind of cheap coffee but it looks like you can get a 16oz Iced Coffee for "setting Yahoo as your homepage." I decided to give it a shot so I opened IE7 to do it (didn't want it to mess with my Firefox homepages). I saw the little advertisement on Yahoo.com that is pictured above so I clicked on it.

Expires: September 23, 2006

We all know Windows Vista is going to be coming out early next year but if you, or someone you know, is still stuck in the days of Windows 98 then this deal can't be beat. I found that you can get the Windows XP Home Edition SP2 (Upgrade Version) for just $10 from Office Depot online. Shipping is free but $70 of the savings is a mail-in rebate.

I know, I was just as surprised to see a cell phone company providing something to users for free. I read it twice, no three times, then jogged around the block and took a cold shower. After that I came back to read it again and I don't actually think my eyes are lying:

Here's a deal of the day for you. Check out Amazon.com for an awesome deal on the MacBook pro. They typically sell it for $200 less than Apple. On top of it they're adding a $150 mail in rebate which gives you a total of $350 in savings! The MacBook MA463LL/A is a notebook PC (1.83 GHz Intel Core Duo, 523 MB Ram, 80 GB Hard Drive, and SuperDrive) with a 15.4" screen.

Best Buy is currently offering 15% off of open box desktops, notebooks, monitors and projectors. This discount is in addition to the already discounted prices that they have on the open box merchandise. Just print off the coupon and take it to your local Best Buy.

DeepDiscountDVD.com is offering their large 20% discount again, and there are three different coupon codes that will work for it:dvdtalk usatoday nytimes

Right now you can get a FREE song from Buy.com but you have to do this before 5/17/2006. There is no catch or gimmicks and all you have to do is click the link below to redeem your coupon. Once you have redeemed it you can go ahead and select your song from their music store. When you go to complete the checkout you will notice that the coupon has been added to your cart.

NewEgg.com currently has a 2GB PNY flash drive for $47.99 and a $10 rebate. This flash drive sells for $108 at Best Buy and $100 at Staples. This is definitely one of the best deals I have ever seen on a 2GB flash drive.