Jason Steele
This post brought to you by Carbonite. All opinions are 100% mine.
Any Star Wars fan can vividly remember the scene in The Empire Strikes Back when Han Solo is “frozen in carbonite” for his delivery to Jabba the Hutt.
The mythical substance is also the namesake of an innovative online backup service that stores the important contents of your computer in the event that it is lost, stolen, or damaged.
How Carbonite Works
Users start by downloading an application that scans the irreplaceable files on your computer. Those files are then sent over the Internet to the servers hosted by Carbonite. As you continue to create, receive, and modify files, Carbonite will continuously update them in the background.
While it is thrilling to whip out your new smartphone and gain access to a world of information, that exhilaration can be replaced with a terrible, sinking feeling when your phone is damaged or lost. Mobile service providers sell insurance plans to allow their customers to receive a new phone in the event of loss, damage, or theft.
As a residential customer, you used to be lucky just to have access to broadband Internet access from any one provider. Now, many households can choose from a few different companies.
Especially if you’re on a tight budget, it’s tough to shop for gifts for men. Since you’ll be looking for a low-price gift, chances are that if he wants it, he already bought it. The trick? Find something he wouldn’t have gotten on his own.
When people fall on hard times, they react to their new reality by taking a far more cautious approach to their personal finances, which includes turning towards other methods of payment for their daily spending. Although many people rely on credit cards, research points to decreased credit card use. The reasons why someone might discontinue using credit cards varies, but prolonged debt, and surplus of information about credit card interest rates can contribute to the decline in credit card usage. 
When I was younger, I tried to close my unused credit card accounts to boost my credit score. I never carried a balance, but I thought if I had too many credit cards, I wouldn’t be eligible for new lines of credit. Years later, I discovered this belief was misguided, and that the truth was far more complicated.
As technology continues to improve at increasingly rapid speeds, new phones hit the market on a seemingly daily basis. Smartphones, iPhones in particular, have been dominating the market so strongly, and new releases come out so quickly, that one starts to think about what to do with an “old” iPhone after just three months.
