FrontPage Worthy Creditcard Deal is here!!!

Update: Deal is now dead.

Just saw on Slickdeals.net's front page deal:

Chase offers $150 Cashback when you sign up for Chase Freedom credit card and spend $500 or more in 3 months.
If you do not have too many credit cards and always pay on time.  You should jump on this now.  If you buy a tablet or note book worth $500 and in 3month you get $150 cash back.  Isn't that great?  That's at least 10% off your purchase.  Not to mention the fact you can use it to purchase anything you want.  You could use *lendingclub.com and get another 10% per year, or you could either browse through my recommended deal sites such as slickdeals.net or fatwallet.com to find things you want to buy for cheaper than normal prices using this Chase Freedom card, or you could try out the amazon gadgets at the bottom of the page to find best possible deal, and so on.  All in all, you could have saved at least 150 bucks on anything you buy.  Furthermore, you could potentially save even more money by being creative.  Last but not least you can check how much you saved through mint.com.  Fun stuffs here.
This above example shows how you can use this website to its potential.  The collection of link will help you save money and/or have more money to spend for things you want to buy.

Update: There is also $150 cb after $500 in 3 months with the Chase Sapphire Card. 

http://www.getchasesapphire.com/15/?CELL=6H90&MSC=LSBROWSEALL&AFFID=9C.eSeL3cao-URXGffemjwcp0itpI.lMdA

*Note that you can only use credit card to fund your lending only first time.  However, you can open as many lending club account as you want as long as you have multiple email accounts.

Discount Tire Direct Promotional Offers

Need tires for your car soon? Discount Tire Direct is the absolute best place to order tires online. They not only offer free shipping on orders, but also very competitive prices--to the likes of TireRack. I have personally used DTD for my own personal street and race cars. Their customer service has always been top notch.
Please click the link below to check out their current promotions:
http://www.discounttiredirect.com/direct/currentPromotions.do

These are primarily mail-in rebates for those that purchase a set of 4 eligible tires. A great deal if you were looking for tires anyway! Don't skimp out on the only things keeping your car on the ground!

If you have any questions, feel free to contact me for any clarification.

Automotive Deals Section Added!

Hi, my name is Lon and I will be in charge of HDA's automotive sector. I am a car enthusiast with over 5-years experience in the field modifying street cars and building race cars for the track. I'm an active member on car forums so I'm always up to date with the latest news. I can bring valuable automotive-related info to the public as well as giving feedback to those who wish to comment in the automotive section or forum of HDA.

Acethegr8t (Dave) will be joining our staff here @ HDA as well to help out with all of your Automotive needs =]

Market Days Ahead, Joys or Woes?

Hi, this is Tom and I will be helping Ken with investment and personal finance tips, news, and deals section.

As evident in the stock markets the past one week, investors have reacted strongly, in a negative way, to the global unrest in Egypt, bolstered by a handful of disappointing earnings reports, e.g. F5 Networks, Amazon Inc., Ford Motors.

However, I believe that the market will continue in an upward trend as we near the beginning of February, though a few bumps along the ride are expected, as the Egypt situation eases and a whole new slate of earnings reports are unveiled.  If you have any shares in hand and trying to decide whether to sell then you should hold off a bit and probably even buy more of the stocks that fell due to over reacting.  We'll see what happens next week and we can probably take the chance to pick up some more undervalued stocks.

Stay tuned for stock tips and advice for next week.

Gadget of the Month: Notion Ink Adam Part I

Who is Notion Ink? What is Notion Ink Adam?

Notion Ink is a company in India which faced several issues trying to turn their dream concept into an actual product. It took them about 2-3 years to convert their concept to reality and finally was able to provide pre-order of their first tablet product called Notion Ink Adam. On December 9th, 2010, a limited number of devices were released for pre-order globally on the official website and very soon it was all sold out.  After the pre-order the CEO of Notion Ink posted several unofficial videos on the Adam tablet user interface (UI) called Eden UI.

The Adam Tablet runs on a customized version of android with addition of muti-pane user interface to improve multitasking experience. A cool feature of Adam is that we have an option to to choose Pixel Qi screen instead of the standard LCD screen. Pixel Qi is a low-power, dual-mode display that can switch between an e-ink ebook reader like screen and the normal LCD screen. In addition it is one of several tablets coming out beginning this year to include the powerful dual-core Nvidia Tegra 2 processor.  From Notion Ink site(not available anymore after pre-order was sold out), we find that Notion Ink offers a range of Adam tablets with different options:

LCD and WiFi: $375.33
LCD, WiFi, and 3G: $425.33
Pixel Qi and Wifi: $499.45
Pixel Qi, Wifi, and 3G $549.99

A more detailed list of technical specifications is listed on the official Notion Ink website.  For more information about Notion Ink Adam, you can also check out NotionInk FAQ Wiki the community created.

Albeit various disappointments and negative news.  The product finally made its appearance in CES 2011 and was captured in several first hands on reviews from tech news/review sites.  One of the better review videos I found is from Engadget (http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/05/notion-ink-adam-hands-on-preview-video/) and the comments were mostly positive.

Recent reviews:

• http://goodereader.com/blog/tablet-slates/notion-ink-adam-hands-on-review/
• http://www.tested.com/forums/tablets/19/notion-ink-adam-tablet-preliminary-impressions-and-review/5751/

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Reasons why Adam tablet is a good buy:

1. Avid community. Check out the following websites and  you'll see what I mean: http://www.notioninkfan.com/, http://www.notionaddicts.com/forums/forum.php, http://notionink.wordpress.com/, http://notioninkhacks.com/, http://www.adamtabletnews.com/, and http://www.notioninkusers.blogspot.com/
2. Fun device (swivel camera, Pixel Qi screen, RF radio, Eden UI, etc.)
3. Feature to cost ratio is really good compare to alternatives (starts from $375 for the none-Pixel Qi, wifi only version- the one I got).  Xoom (not available yet) would cost at least $200 more and maybe require contract.
4. Can be used every where (mobility, varieties of tasks it can do)
5. Can be used for people of all ages (very light and size is big enough to read ebooks and surfing online without eye strain)
6. Appearance is different from typical tablets (economical design)
7. Xda forum support(hacker's dream tablet)
8. Battery life is long ( typical use is ~6-12hours according to some users in the forum) 
9. Potential Honeycomb update.
10. You would be supporting a company that has potential to do big things in the future.

Issues to be awared of:

The community forums seems to overreact to everything that didn't go their way and was skeptical about the health of the company.  The device was not without fault.  There were people reporting that they received units with bad Pixel Qi screen.  The customer support of Notion Ink as of now is really poor, slow reply due to small company with little man power.

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Intro video taken from official Notion Ink website:

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MY UNBOXING VIDEO & REVIEW VIDEO
I am waiting for Notion Ink to ship the product.  It's estimated to ship by Jan 29th from China factory and I assume it will arrive to me by mid-February.  I will post the video as soon as possible.

Update:  The shipment is delayed due to the short supply of LCD screens.  Now the estimated shipping date is Feb 14th now.


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COMMUNITY VIDEOS
From what I see, NotionInkFan.com makes the best unboxing videos and review videos all around.  There are many more and you can search on youtube but they'll be more of less the same or worst in quality and content.  Here it is:


Video taken from Notion Ink Fan Website - Greg's unboxing video

Update: 


Video taken from Notion Ink Fan Website - Greg's 2 part review videos

Video taken from Notion Ink Fan Website - bonus review video that Mike (vector66) created about one of the Adam tablet alternatives, ViewSonic G-Tablet(have similar hardware and software platform), and then compares the specification of ViewSonic G-Tablet with Adam