Author: cjtrowbridge
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I’m Paying $10/month for Unlimited Everything
I am paying just $10 a month for truly unlimited calls, texts, and data; and they mean it. A couple years ago I switched to T-Mobile primarily because they had the Nexus 5 and Verizon didn’t. I got lots of perks along the way like a free $180 router and no-interest financing for lots of…
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Moving My Phone Number to The Cloud with Google Voice
Recently, I was sitting in a cafe in St Thomas and I was very frustrated to learn that even though I could browse the internet on their fast, free wifi, I was not able to call or text without spending huge amounts of money because I was outside the continental US. This struck me as…
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How I Got a Free $180 Asus RT-AC68U Router
Last year, I switched to T-Mobile; a choice which has come with lots of perks. One of them was that they gave me a free router. This router supports the 802.11ac standard which means it forms very good connections to devices because of new nanotech in the antennas that allow “beam-forming” to focus the energy…
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Installing Debian on a Mac Mini G4
This post is part of a larger series about Building a Cloud at Home For Free as part of building scalable web applications from the ground up. Here we are focusing specifically on installing Debian an old G4 Mac Mini. If you are trying to setup Debian in a virtual server inside Windows, check out…