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Tips for using the net while traveling abroad

The last thing you want to come home to after a once-in-a lifetime family vacation abroad is a $2,000 phone bill. We’ve all heard the nightmare stories of people who travel internationally and then get a ridiculous cell phone bill upon their return. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Here’s some advice on using your smartphone while traveling …

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A musician’s take on the analog

A whole lot of words have been written about the differences in sound between analog and digitally recorded music, but Damon Krukowski’s approach in his new book “The New Analog: Listening and Reconnecting in a Digital World” feels different, possibly because he was a drummer who played in Galaxie 500, one of my favorite indie bands of the late 1980s. Steve …

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