If I'm fortunate enough to watch a Smack Shopping Deal of Day, I'm usually cringing as the price drops, wishing I was allowed to buy one. My body is at ease today, because I already own one of these…and I absolutely love it.

Today's Smack is an Edge DiskGo! 250GB Portable Hard Drive. It's USB 2.0 connection makes it a fast, convenient way to backup files, store those gazillion pictures of your kids, or save your oodles of legally downloaded MP3's. With 250GB of space and transfer rates up to 480MB/sec, you could back up your entire computer in a matter of minutes.

If you don't already own one, today is your lucky day!

Did you notice an "s" in the title? It wouldn't be Smack Shopping if we didn't keep all of our faithful Smackers on their toes.

Smack Daddy himself (or herself, as many of you keep guessing) just informed me that we are doing something a little different today. Our regular Smack Shopping Deal of the Day has received all kinds of praise. That is, until we ran 24 hours of Smack Friday, followed by 6 hours of Cyber Monday Speed Smack, and came back to the little old Deal of the Day on Tuesday.

Many of you whined about didn't particularly enjoy Speed Smack. And yesterday, many of asked that we go back to Speed Smack. Personally, I think some of you are the same people. Well Smackers, today you can have your cake and eat it too! I don't need to explain any more. I think you'll see what I mean.

Without further adieu, I bring you today's first Smack.

Today's first Smack is the Apple Cinema 23" Flat Panel Display. This is a very high end monitor! It has a 1900 x 1200 resolution, 400cd/m2 brightness, 700:1 contrast ratio, 14ms response time and more. This is a fantastic monitor that can be used for a Mac or a Windows PC.

In case I haven't dropped enough hints - you might want to stick around after this one is over.

It's been a wild last couple of Smack Shopping days! Following up 24 hours of deals on Smack Friday, yesterday's Cyber Monday Speed Smack featured 26 deals (including a Rubber Chicken) over a period of nearly 6 hours. Smack Daddy's encore performance was a 42" Hitachi Plasma TV for 35.56%!

I'm excited to report that Smack Daddy is still alive and back today with a more typical Smack Shopping Deal of the Day.

Today's Smack is a Kingston 2GB USB 2.0 Data Traveler II Flash Drive. It's a mouthful to say, but an easy way to carry around up to 2GB of data.

For those of you that aren't familiar with flash drives, you simply plug this little item into your computer's USB drive and transfer files to/from this device. It offers read speeds up to 19MB/sec and write speeds up to 13MB/sec. What better way to carry around that spreadsheet for work, your saved game file, or the calendar for your kid's extracurricular activities!

Like always, it will start at 1:00pm EST today and continue to drop in price via cash back until the limited quantity is gone. Enjoy!

After a brutally long very successful 24 hours of Smack Friday deals, Smack Daddy mustered up enough energy for a spectacular Cyber Monday promotion. Today, I introduce to you Speed Smack.

Cyber Monday is known as the busiest online shopping day of the year. Therefore, we will attempt a new feat today - giving out as many Smack Shopping deals as possible. Our normal couple hour long insanely attractive deal will be turned into an under 30-minute lightning fast, exciting promotion.

Unlike the normal Smack Shopping Deal of the Day with a "limited quantity", you'll see only one of each product today. When it sells out, another Smack Shopping deal will start, until we run out of products or can't take it any more!

As always, it begins at 1:00pm EST. Today's first product will be an iPod Shuffle.

The world's smallest digital music player, the 1GB iPod Shuffle lets you wear up to 240 songs on your sleeve. It's a cleverly designed MP3 player and a huge improvement from previous Shuffle versions.

Now remember that there will only be one! You may want to move quickly!

This would not be the Smack Shopping blog if I didn't have the insider scoop on the hottest shopping promotion on the Internet. Ladies and gentlemen, Black Friday is now Smack Friday!

We are breaking new ground today serving up 12 different Smack Shopping deals, beginning at 6am EST, with a new deal starting every 2 hours. I'm unable to tell you about all of the products you'll see, but I can tell you that you'll be upset if you miss any of them. They are the latest and greatest items available. Let's start by discussing today's first deal.

We are kicking off Smack Friday with a Sony DSC-W100 8.1 Megapixel Cyber-shot Digital Camera. With 8.1 megapixels, a Carl Zeiss 3x optical zoom, a 2.5" LCD screen, and 64mb of internal memory, this is one of the hottest cameras on the market.

In addition to 24 hours of spectacular deals, we've hinted about giving away a few Playstation 3's. That's correct, I said, "a few".

Here's how you can win your very own, brand spanking new PS3:

1) Smack Guru - During Wednesday's Smack, you may have noticed our latest feature called Smack Guru. In this game, you get 10 minutes and one guess per Smack on the highest cash back percentage given (in other words, where the deal ends). If you take 1st place, you get 3 points, while places 2-10 get 1 point each. Today, we are turning it up a notch. We'll be keeping a running total of your points and be giving a Playstation 3 to the top 2 Smack Gurus at Smack Friday's end. That's 12 deals, 36 points maximum. Read the full details here.

2) Smack Artist - We all know Smack Daddy monitors the Smack Shopping forum. Many of you have asked who Smack Daddy is, what he looks like, and if he's single. As the 2nd Smack Friday challenge, we will be giving a Playstation 3 to the best rendition of Smack Daddy himself. You can submit, pictures, links to videos, drawings, etc… to smackdaddy@jellyfish.com. Submissions will be accepted through the weekend (11:59pm Sunday deadline) and the winner will be posted Monday. Read the full details here.

Official rules for these challenges can and should be read HERE.

Keep your eyelids open and good luck today!
 

Before our incredible Smack Friday promotion, Smack Daddy will be taking a day off for Thanksgiving. Before he goes, we are giving you an excellent opportunity to remember every 2006 T-giving moment.

Today's Smack is the Canon PIXMA iP6700D Photo Printer. As per the Canon site, this unit is a, "photo-printing powerhouse." Personally, I like anything with over 3,000 nozzles, especially when they are used to create up to 9600 x 2400 color dpi. I also enjoy its flexibility and ease of use. You can preview and fine-tune your images through the 3.5" color LCD display, print from memory cards, print directly from a PictBridge-ready digital camera, or DV camcorder, and even print wirelessly from an infrared-enabled mobile camera phone.

I'm also writing to tell you about a new Smack Shopping feature going live today. It seems that every day there is a wise guy in the crowd that is making a bold prediction on where the Smack will end. Well, wise guy, here's your chance to win something for it! Each user will have a 10-minute window to guess the final cash back percentage. Whoever is closest wins a Jellyfish T-shirt. Because we like competition, you can expect to see all-time leader boards in the not too distant future. Have fun and play nice!

I've seen several messages from our users stating that they weren't exactly looking to purchase a particular Smack Shopping deal, but it became too difficult to resist once the price was low enough. If that's you, you better clear out your credit card balance before Smack Friday. If you haven't heard, we are running a new Smack every 2 hours starting at 6:00am EST for 24 hours straight! Secondly, I am predicting that today's product will also be an irresistible deal.

Today's Smack is the Bose In-Ear Stereo Headphones. Otherwise known as "earbuds" or "earphones", these little babies fit snug in your ear to fill your head with wonderful stereo sound. The headphones come with three different sizes of silicone tips to ensure the right fit.

The headphones use Bose proprietary TriPort Acoustic Structure. It's described as a technology and innovative design that allows drivers to create deep lows while keeping the headphones small and lightweight. The result is comfortable headphones that deliver full, balanced low notes of your music. Read more on these headphones directly from the Bose site.

They are starting at $99.95 and will continue to drop until the limited quantity is sold out!