drag2share: Use Amazon WebPay to Meet Rewards Card Minimum Spending Requirements [Money]

Source: http://lifehacker.com/5835072/use-amazon-webpay-to-meet-rewards-card-minimum-spending-requirements

Many upper level rewards credit cards have minimum monthly spending requirements, such as the AMEX Business Gold with it's $2,000 minimum. If you live a frugal lifestyle and don't have a mortgage it can be difficult to ensure you spend that much every month. You can always buy gift cards, but even easier is using fee-free Amazon Webpay to transfer money from your card to a spouse, family member, or business partner.

Amazon provides the Webpay service at no charge; since many people will spend payments received at Amazon immediately rather than withdrawing the funds to their bank, Amazon retains enough of the payments to make it worth their while. The minimum to withdraw to a bank from Amazon payments is $10, but you can send Amazon gift certificates for amounts as little as $1.

Say you've only spent $1500 for the month and your minimum spending limit is $2,000—as long as you have a spouse, family member, friend, or business partner you trust, you can send them $500 which they can then almost immediately send back to you. This can really help if you still haven't met your minimum limit after charging your groceries, gas, utilities, and other expenses to your card.

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drag2share: OWC Mercury Electra 6G SSD lineup updated with smaller 60GB option for $130

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/08/28/owc-mercury-electra-6g-ssd-lineup-updated-with-smaller-60gb-opti/

Looking for a peppy SSD to turbo charge your workflow and don't need a whole lot of storage capacity? Back in June, Other World Computing introduced its speedy SandForce-endowed Mercury Electra 6G SSDs with a base model priced at $230 for 120GB. Now the company's added a cheaper option to keep things fast and your wallet happy. Those wanting a taste of its 556MB/s read and 523MB/s write speeds can now opt for a 60GB variation, priced at just $130. Sure, it may not be ideal for saving your entire Queen back catalog, but it could be a nifty route for faster boot-up and load times, right? It's available now from OWC. Zip past the break for the full PR.

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OWC Mercury Electra 6G SSD lineup updated with smaller 60GB option for $130 originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 28 Aug 2011 03:06:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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drag2share: Digital Projection debuts new native ultrawidescreen projector

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/08/27/digital-projection-debuts-new-native-ultrawidescreen-projector/

1080p projectors and displays are sweet, but since movie lovers are watching content in ratios closer to 2.35:1 than the 16:9 layout of tradition HD projectors and PJs and wasting precious pixels Digital Projection International's latest beamer is set up to be all about ultrawidescreen. The dVision Scope 1080p is 2560 x 1080 out of the box, no anamorphic lens necessary. its custom firmware automatically detects and resizes when the letterbox black bars to fill the 1080p field by increasing the number of horizontal pixels. Check the specs and explanation in the press release after the break, we'll find out more about this and probably many other projectors at CEDIA 2011 in September.

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Digital Projection debuts new native ultrawidescreen projector originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 27 Aug 2011 21:16:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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During hurricane, use SMS instead - a 1 min voice call is 720KB, 461,000% larger than a single text (0.156KB) via @gizmodo

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drag2share: Here's Why You Shouldn't Make Phone Calls During the Hurricane [Hurricane Irene]

Source: http://gizmodo.com/5834873/heres-why-you-shouldnt-make-phone-calls-during-the-hurricane

Want to know why cell networks got clogged and choked during the earthquake? A one minute phone call is 460,800% larger than a single text. So with our next natural disaster this week, use SMS. For everyone's sake.

Simple math: its 720 KB for a minute of calling, and 0.15625 KB for a text.

MAJOR CAVEAT: if you're experiencing an emergency, absolutely use a telephone to get in touch with the appropriate authorities. But those "omg can you believe it's raining?" thoughts floating in your head? Try transcribing them instead of talking them out.

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