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It’s the time of year when we’re all trying to get all our Christmas presents for friends and family.  Last year we did our 12 Days of Christmas Shopping and we thought it would be good to remind you of some great places to purchase gifts online!

1. Apple
2. 123-Reg
3. Dell
4. Amazon
5. AVG
6. Misco
7. CD WOW
8. Dabs
9. HMV
10. PC World
11. The Carphone Warehouse
12. I Want One Of Those

We hope you find this helpful for ideas!

Our fourth recommended retailer for Christmas presents is Amazon.co.uk! You name it, Amazon sell it! Amazon have a wide range of products available for very reasonable prices! Products vary from Books to DVDs to Cd’s to Games Accessories to Garden Equipment to Jewelry and much more! A great way to get your last minute presents is their voucher system where you can choose to either email, print off or have your vouchers posted to the recipient.

Check it out!

Searchme is a Search Engine like no other.  The physical search is the same but the style in which the results are presented is completely different.  The results are shown in what I can only describe as like a cover flow view similar to iTunes.  You can search the web, videos, images and music.  To make your web searches more specific you can type in what you wish to search and a genre for that search.

The Music Search is something we really like, you can listen to full length  songs for free, and if you really like the tune there is a link to the song on iTunes and Amazon.  The Video Search searches the web (in particular YouTube) for videos specific to your search.  You can then either watch the video direct from the original website or through Searchme.  With having the flow for pictures it is much easier to view images and choose one right for you.

Another cool site which is similar to this is Viewzi.  However, we have found Viewzi slow and to not have delivered as good results as Searchme.  The reason Viewzi is slower is because it searches through other websites search engines.

What do you think of Searchme?  Know any other cool ways to search the web?

For me, buying online is like second nature, in fact I probably spend more online these days that I do in the high-street. It is just more convenient as well as the fact that online prices are usually cheaper. But what about squeezing out a little bit more?

Many people will be familiar with store reward schemes, Tesco Clubcard for example, but the one I want to recommend today is Nectar. Nectar is often thought of as the Sainsburys “clubcard”. But you can collect points at so many more stores, BP for example. But the best bit is that you can collect points online from hundreds if not thousands of retailers including Amazon.co.uk, Play.com, ebookers.com and Dell.co.uk. Which makes collecting points even easier! Nectar.com is the place to start for a full list of those retailers taking part!

If you shop online then this is certainly something to consider, I saved a lot of money in Argos the other day spending nectar points. I bought a plane ticket the other day from ebookers and for every pound the plane ticket cost I got 2 nectar points! That is a common thing 2 points per pound, but there are often offers on. For example, earlier this week I got an offer from Dell of triple points, so that is 6 points per pound, not bad when I just spent over £1000 with Dell!

Some people think it is a bit sad collecting points like this, but for very little effort you can collect something that is going to save you money on something in the future! I saved around £70 in Argos, admittedly I had around 16000 points but as I have just shown you, if you take advantage of the offers then you can save those points pretty quick!

Give it a go, nectar.com also lists the places you can spend your points, both online and on the high-street.