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Your personal computer, combined with an Internet connection, is the ultimate information appliance.  I’ll show you 8 ways you can use the technology you already have to save some money, whether you’re looking to be more frugal in general or are planning a big purchase in the near future. Regardless, I bet you’ll find at least one tip in this list that you can implement today to save a bit of scratch tomorrow.

Shop Online and Compare Prices

Nearly every business that sells a product has a web site these days, and most at least list their products and prices online if they don’t offer a way to purchase directly.  It’s worth your time to do a bit of comparison shopping to get the best price on an item.  Where to start?

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RSS and the 21st Century Web

by Nik on May 2, 2009 · 1 comment

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RSS, which stands for “Really Simple Syndication,” is one of the transformative Internet technologies of the 21st century, and if you use the World Wide Web (as you are now, reading this) you should consider making RSS a part of your routine.  Before using RSS feeds, I had a collection of bookmarks for sites that I read regularly.  I’d click on each one in turn to check if any new content had appeared since I last looked.  If I was really bored, I might go through them a second time.  This process was tedious and I often visited pages that were unchanged since my last visit.

That all changed when I started using RSS.

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