RichC | April 10, 2024
We have been using the economical Wyze Cams to monitor things around home for a few years now, along with leftover Canary Cams … and our old school original wired security system. I do like the way these inexpensive cameras have held up and are improving, but the speed and notification tweaking of their Wyze […]
Category: Financial, Misc, Technology, Video |
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Tags: Cam, cameras, canary, complant, gripe, inflation, monitoring, pricing, security, timelapse, video, wyze
RichC | September 29, 2023
Decades ago when I was in graduate school, I taught classes at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio as a GT, I continued to stay connected to the university. As a student I was given an alumni email address (an alias at the time forwarded to another email address) and as part time faculty was granted […]
Category: Cloud, Computer, Financial, Technology |
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Tags: backup, cloud, drive, google, idrive, miami university, microsoft, onedrive, pricing, storage, tech friday, techfriday, workspace
RichC | June 26, 2020
Besides Google’s less intuitive cloud storage, Dropbox was the first cloud service that I gravitated to “back in the day.” I’ve posted about them before on TechFriday (2015 comparison) and they are still one of the best cloud storage services for the way I work on computers and devices. Unfortunately over the last few years […]
Category: Advice, Business, Computer, Technology |
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Tags: amazon, cloud, Computer, Dropbox, google, microsoft, odrive, office, pricing, services, storage, tech friday, techfriday, Technology
RichC | March 26, 2017
Two years ago, Intuit’s Turbo Tax software tried their "money grab" in attempted to strong-arming their long-time and new customers into paying substantial more to use their software to file their 2014 taxes. The CEO took to the Internet and made an apology and stepped up to Intuit’s greedy "mistake." One would think that competitors […]
Category: Business, Financial, Marketing, Software |
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Tags: filing, income, intuit, irs, pricing, Software, taxact, taxes, turbotax
RichC | May 17, 2014
I’m usually pretty good at noticing price verse packaging size when it comes to items we regularly purchase … but I missed this one until opening the package at home. My Old Spice Deodorant that once was in a standard package size of 3.25 oz is priced the same but now packaged with 8% less […]
Category: Business, Marketing, Misc, Shopping |
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Tags: deodorant, Marketing, old spice, packaging, pricing
RichC | October 14, 2013
Since I’m looking to bring my son home from North Dakota over Christmas, I figured it might be time to archive a list of shopping tips I copied and saved in a document a few years ago … can’t remember where I found them? I can’t vouch for the current accuracy, but I’m using the […]
Category: Archive, Shopping, Travel |
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Tags: airfare, flights, matrix, pricing, tickets