By benjamindsearle(view all posts by benjamindsearle)
at 6:57AM Monday January 2, 2012
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Money Saving Tips
I read the news this fall about the floods in Thailand with about
the same level of interest that I suspect you all gave it. Natural
disasters always make me sad for the victims, but unless I knew
someone in the area it usually slips from my brain pretty quickly
afterward. The thing that I failed to realize was that Thailand is
a major manufacturing center for a lot of products that come
straight here to the US to be sold.
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By Rick.BroidaGuest Blogger(view all posts by Rick.Broida)
at 11:52AM Thursday November 17, 2011
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Newsworthy
Unintentionally hilarious photo courtesy of Backify's Web siteAbout a month ago I told you about
Backify, a new Web service offering a whopping 512 gigabytes of cloud storage absolutely free.
It sounded too good to be true, especially considering that established services like Dropbox and SugarSync limit their freebie accounts to 2GB and 5GB, respectively. Even Microsoft's Windows Live SkyDrive tops out at a comparatively anemic 25GB.
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By Rick.BroidaGuest Blogger(view all posts by Rick.Broida)
at 9:58AM Tuesday November 15, 2011
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Freebies
Pogoplug is getting into the cloud business.
In case the name doesn't ring a bell, the company makes
cool gizmos that let you plug ordinary USB hard drives and flash drives into your router, thereby turning them into network- and Web-accessible storage.
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