Get the most for your gear-buying dollar

27.11.2009
It's as inevitable as the turkey hangover the day after Thanksgiving: There's a hot new camera, game system or MP3 player everyone wants for the holidays, and that demand causes the price to stay high. What's a budget-minded technophile to do? There are a few things you can do to keep your tech budget in check--and nearly all of them involve the Internet.

As part of our , we've rounded up some tips to help you get the most out of your gift-buying dollar this holiday season.

Use your RSS reader to keep on top of retailers' best tech deals. There are two handy categories of bargain-hunting sites you can follow: deal aggregators, which collect sales notices across the Web, and deal-a-day sites, which offer one item on sale daily, so long as supplies last.

Some of the most useful deal aggregators are:

And the deal-a-day sites you'll want to follow include: