Alt+Save weekends: Money-saving headlines and contests

September 13th, 2008, 12:13 pm · Post a Comment · posted by Gadgetress

For those of you checking out this blog because it purports to save money, time and the earth through tech, I’m still trying to offer that service. But I’ve been distracted recently with an experiment to cover more local cable and Internet services, cell phones and some all around cool gadgets. This blog is always evolving in order to report on useful tech for Orange County readers and beyond. Since saving money and time continues to be useful, I’ll keep the Alt+Save idea for now and post wrapups on weekends. At least until this blog evolves again. Enjoy:

Headlines that can save you money

Power Plug Meters Help Save Money, Energy (PC World)
NBC returns to iTunes; Offering free downloads from top TV show (MacBlorge)
Yahoo OneConnect Brings Free SMS to Your iPhone (LifeHacker)
Senator examining rising text messaging rates (Associated Press)
Price Cut Boosts Xbox Sales: But is it Enough? (PC World)
Save money: Turn off the computer (The Daily Star in New York)
Fire prevention technology can save money, lives (Bradenton Herald)
How to save money on buying laptops (American Chronicle)

Contests

Casting call for YouTubers: $25k for green ideas (CNET)
Use Twitter or FriendFeed and win a new Seagate Drive (Scoble)
Enter to win The Power of IP Video book (Network World)
Update: IBM and ACM-ICPC Announce Global “Battle of the Brains” Software Competition (CNN)

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