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$5 Increase for GCI

So, have you taken a look at your latest bill from GCI? No? Well, if you are like me and spend a bundle on GCI for cable and internet, your bill is going up on August 1st.

So, what do we get for our $5? 

For us geeks, higher Internet download speeds  mine went from 3 Mbps to 4 Mbps on Wednesday - a nice bump - I did confirm the speed increase with Speakeasy - always a good souce (GCI technicians recommend it).

Other speed increases include 6 to 8, 7 to 10, and 10 to 12Mbps (and the low end speeds doubled also).

And, there are also new HD channels being added to the package - click here to read GCI's announcement.

Enjoy the faster speed.

 

 

iPhone - if not now - when?

Dear IT Doc,

Are the new iPhones really better? My husband gave me mine in Dec. 2007. I like it fine. Do I need to update? How much faster would it be? I don't store music; what size would I want to get? Does Apple plan to improve the OS shortly? Should I wait until December?

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Cheap & Great Software!

From Erik comes this alert:

I thought you might like to know -- Macupdate is running a software bundle for the next two weeks -- 11 os x apps for $50

Highlights are:

Parallels Desktop 4
TechToolPro 5
DVD Remaster Pro 5
MoneyWell
NetBarrier X5
Notebook 3

The entire bundle is half the price of Parallels street price, so if you were looking at picking it up or upgrading this might be a good time to do it!

www.mupromo.com

There you have it folks - be sure to check out this bundle - remember Parallels only runs on Intel based Macs, but TechtoolPro runs all all types of Macs - and is cheap at $50!

Enjoy