Chase 5% Credit Card Cash Back Calendar 2012

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Here’ s hoping your 2012 is off to a great start 🙂 and to help you save some money this year, make sure to signup for your cashback via this link: https://creditcards.chase.com/freedom/Activate.aspx To help you remember where and when to save, here are ALL the Chase Freedom credit card 5% cashback reward categories for 2012: January – February – March Gas stations Amazon.com Activation starting: December 15, 2011 April – May – June Grocery stores Movie theaters Activation starting: March 15, 2012 July –

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Wow, FileSonic stops file sharing! MegaUpload arrests to blame

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Wow, FileSonic just disabled their file sharing features! I guess this should not come as a surprise after the MegaUpload arrests. But wow, this really makes FileSonic almost useless. Now they only do online storage. Unfortunately, they pale in comparisonto the bigger and more feature rich competitors like DropBox, Amazon cloud services, etc. they My understanding is that you cannot even use FileSonic for basic file/document sharing between colleagues now (i.e. I upload a spreadsheet and product images, Bob cannot access those files

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Some cloud syncing options

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A short list of file syncing options, most related to syncing to the ‘cloud’… Windows Live Essentials: Other Programs – Get startedhttp://explore.live.com/windows-live-essentials-other-programs?T1=t4&os=otherWith Windows Live Mesh and the Devices website, you can keep up-to-date copies of documents, photos, and other files on all of your computers, whether PC or Mac. Sync your… How to Set Up a File-Syncing Dropbox Clone You Controlhttp://lifehacker.com/5821145/how-to-set-up-a-file+syncing-dropbox-clone-you-control[…] SparkleShare – Sharing work made easyhttp://sparkleshare.org/get started Setting up your own host to work with SparkleShare is relatively easy. We’ve

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Download the Amazon App Store for Android [instructions]

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After returning my Kindle Fire, I still wanted to used the Amazon App Store for Android… So I had to install the app on my Acer A100 tablet. The Amazon website seemed to be having issues tonight so it took me forever to get the email from Amazon containing the download instructions. To save you the same potential hassle, here’s a verbatim copy of that installation instructions email: Download the Amazon Appstore app immediately by clicking https://www.amazon.com/app-email from your Android

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Initial HughesNet HN9000 satellite internet speed test

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Our new HughesNet install was completed on Thursday morning. We started with the Express 200 plan and  were very pleased with it. Today we called to have our plan upgraded to the Express 300 and it is even better 😉 Here are some speedtest results* *these results were done on an Android smartphone over a 1/2 mile wifi bridge that then connected to the internet via via HughesNet satellite internet [using an HN9000 modem, .98m dish and “Express 300” plan]

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How much bandwidth does NetFlix streaming use? [DEFINITIVE ANSWER]

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Q. Hello, I am in US and have netflix and want to stream movies but i also have a sucky monthly bandwidth cap of 12.5GB. I want to make sure I don’t go over my monthly limit. Can you tell me how much bandwidth netflix streaming takes like per hourly?! Thx in advance!!! -PaulT from MN A. Great question Paul! Bandwidth caps are quite a bummer and you are wise to be aware of your usage. I can tell you

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SMA-Male to N-Female coax adapter (for use w/Wilson Sleek)

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I recently purchased a Wilson Sleek cell phone amplifier. It does a great job but it comes with a relatively dinky magnetic mount antenna. Thankfully the Sleek also has a SMA-Female antenna connector. Therefore, to use a bigger antenna I bought a SMA-Male to N-Female coax adapter as pictured here: I went from no signal to 2-3 bars after using this adapter and a directional antenna attached to the top of a 30ft pole. 🙂

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List of sites protesting SOPA/PIPA

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What a wonderful thing, sites from all of the country (and world) banding together to protest again SOPA/PIPA. For reference here is a partial list of sites that are protesting SOPA/PIPA: http://google.com/ [blacked out logo] BONUS: https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/ http://fark.com/ [they are ‘promoting’ the legislation since ;-)] http://wikipedia.com/ [one of the first and largest to commit to blacking out http://reddit.com http://cheezburger.com http://weblogs.us/ [my site] http://sarachipps.com http://girldevelopit.com http://elizabethandclarke.com http://aujsproduction.com http://michaellaplante.com http://codeimpossible.com http://happymonster.co http://johnnycode.com http://aliciaj.com http://seriouspanda.org http://mikeavello.com/ http://spong.org http://johanydemarco.com http://cbrody.com http://peaceblog.org http://zzzen.com [if you

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